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nineveh_uk) wrote2023-11-06 06:06 pm
nineveh_uk) wrote2023-11-06 06:06 pm
Monday, Monday
I have had today off work, as my parents are here for the long weekend. I cannot overstate the pleasure of waking up this morning with the autoreply on email and knowing that I had the day off. It's been a long term, and we're only a month in. Normally, if I have a 3 day weekend I take the Friday, but mundane as this is, I'm enjoying a revelation. Admittedly, what we did with it was go to the tip and plant an apple tree, but hey, it was still nice.
I am reading The Stasi Poetry Circle by Philip Oltermann. The subject matter is extremely interesting, and I grant that I have read it under less than ideal conditions (being knackered), but I have to admit that I think a livelier writer could have made more of it. It's the Stasi, you hardly expect it to be funny, but there is an inherent, if dark, absurdity to the premise that feels lacking in the telling, and I think a more skillful writer could have made something more powerful of it.
In other news, it looks like the Reykjanes peninsula may be gearing up for another eruption, possibly a more inconvenient one. I am also tremendously enjoying the small flush of new She Who Became the Sun fic.
I am reading The Stasi Poetry Circle by Philip Oltermann. The subject matter is extremely interesting, and I grant that I have read it under less than ideal conditions (being knackered), but I have to admit that I think a livelier writer could have made more of it. It's the Stasi, you hardly expect it to be funny, but there is an inherent, if dark, absurdity to the premise that feels lacking in the telling, and I think a more skillful writer could have made something more powerful of it.
In other news, it looks like the Reykjanes peninsula may be gearing up for another eruption, possibly a more inconvenient one. I am also tremendously enjoying the small flush of new She Who Became the Sun fic.
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Planting an apple tree is a lovely thing to have done with your bonus day off. Visiting the tip perhaps less so, but I'm sure it was very useful. Sometimes, as Marie Kondo says, things spark joy because of their utility.
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The tip was rendered necessary by dad's replacing the manhole cover (which had a hole in it) on Sunday, saving me finding and paying someone to do it, and giving him the satisfaction that he could still manage it, so that did spark joy in its way. I've been meaning to go for ages and chucked other things from the garage in the car, so it was very useful. We also felt that the manhole itself had been very well constructed and practically looked like new, so that too would have pleased Kondo - the cover is what happens when cast iron is under a bush for more than a decade,
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The serendipity of the manhole cover and the tip sounds very joy-sparking in a humble way. I always feel more gratified than is probably objectively justified when I take stuff to the dump.
I've now finished Blue Eye Samurai and immediately started a rewatch. Verdict: it isn't perfect but it's very good. I rather regret that it isn't at least 48 episodes long so they could really lean into all the character interaction.
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