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Another hobby added to the mix.

I attended a workshop a few week back reintroducing copper foil method of stained glass. The last time I indulged was back in high school when I specialized in using my art times to experiment with novel methods of interaction (insisting on experimentation with fusing glass before foiling) that took more time than my teachers wanted to spend ratther than colouring by numbers and producing a quick product. It was nice to complete something over a weekend, but I still felt a bit rushed doing it in someone else's space. A few weeks later, I've acquired the materials to attempt at home.

Things I didn't think hard enough about: Grinding glass is loud. I am not very coordinated, which translates into many cuts on my hands that interfere with music practice. After some additional thought, safety gloves were sourced and that is less of an issue. The loud grinding is still problematic. Changed out to a larger drill bit to get it done faster, and am working on correct skill level beginning pieces rather than a lot of smaller bits that require a lot of grinding to get to a usable shape.

First at home project: a non-binary heart. Simple enough, and good to assess whether I had all supplies needed for basic concept success.

I've sourced two different types of solder: a 60/40 no name and a 60/40 artists brand. I'm using the HAKKO601 as recommended by my intro class and the Gryffon budget grinder. Grinding is messy and loud. I may be repeating myself but ugh. Glass is simply from the internet at this point. Cork board is being used as a working surface, and I'm still figuring out how to prevent

Second at home project: attempt to make a raven and moon window hanger at half size from the purchased pattern. This was too big of a step. Halving the size changed the angle of the cuts enough to push them beyond my skill and resulted in broken glass bits rather than shaped glass. Assess, reapproach perhaps at full size at a later time.

Third at home project: Prepretente, the transformed goat from Dungeon Crawler Carl series in a traditional stained glass iconic form. I love how they have very clearly different paths for nonhuman characters translated into humanoid companions. Prep was one of many of a goat herd that was transformed during the plot using an intelligence booster. He tries so hard and has all the fact based book smarts, but just cannot connect to humans in the way he wants/needs from his missing herd. After much tragedy, he turns to human soda pop as a solace. I'm making it larger to allow smaller cut angles and so far so good? It's a LOT of grinding and I'm tackling maybe a section every few days. I'm taking a progress picture every week to show that yes, I am progressing, but it's a big higher of a commitment than a simple five piece run.

Current Mood: artistic

Farmer's market is just around the corner. White storage containers have started popping up all around the city, eggs with infrastructure inside.

Soon that lovely stroll will be accessible again. I'll be using it a lot for vegetables this summer. We used to go with a specific farm share that used city volunteered backyards for growing space. I liked the idea of using extremely local to me space, but that urban farming group decided to disband this year.

Brain moment - Being brave today. There is a new latte flavour at the coffee shop that theoretically has a few profiles that I would enjoy. I've been eying it for a month. I managed to take one sip before deciding it was Not For Me. Way, way too complex and strong. Notes of raspberry and citrus, rich mich, a punch in the face with brown sugar used as the sweetener, chaser of microbubbles. Too sweet. Too much entirely. I feel wasteful stopping at one sip, but I cannot make myself endure that again. I wonder if I ask them to use a quarter of the syrups or flavourings they normally work if it would work. That's how I enjoy peppermint latte season, a reasonable and very obviously present amount of taste. "A pretend pump" of 1/8th is better, much less slap in face.

It's comically funny to me how attempting to widen my palate is so much harder to me than enduring pain. My hands currently have around 20 blisters on them again. They itch, they cause hand use issues, patches come and go. Random autoimmune chronic thing. When it proceeds to my hands being 3/4 covered, work is impossible. Music is impossible. Full use of multiple medications in progress, and I've avoided getting to the mummy wrap point again this week, but laughable. Can you tell I masked a lot when I was younger? Yet another checkbox of being neurodiverse big tick. (vague autoimmune or chronic condition from not addressing actual brain needs and instead shoving it down to fit in).

A few new tunes this season. MacLeod's Farewell, Lynn's Lilt, Road to Kitsilano. Peerie's Air. Moderns reflecting some of the community's elders as we move into another year. Vague suspicions that this may mean they are stepping away from community or thinking seriously they may pass in the next few years. Introducing modern composers to the mix is a legacy move that they have stayed away from for decades despite also composing. Making the effort to learn them and learn them well, how they want them to be bowed and played, to ensure both honouring their involvement and to reflect their involvement in my musical growth. I wonder if other traditions do the same thing. I know there is a very clear tradition in most musics of stating where you learned a specific tune if it's from an honoured player or elder and taught in person session rather than from youtube etc, when introducing it to a new group. Clear attributation of ornamentation or bowing choices is an honourable act.

Sun is out today - it's bright but novel. Night shift makes these full sun moments very intermittent.

Tucked in a coffee shop, feeling part of the whole of humanity without needing to interact at all. This is good. Being able to enjoy the angle of the sunlight, the taste of the coffee interspersed with ice cold water sips, the cold of brick on my elbow as a perch in the corner. If the music was softer this would be perfect.

Speaking of novels, there is so much to read these days.

I'm listening my way through Matt Dinnimans' epic of Carl and Donut (Dungeon Crawler Carl Series). Currently on Book Six. I'm enjoying the SoundIt's got a surprising amount of how the world is mundane terrible built in. Perhaps this is to balance out the also mundanely acceptable capitalist and settler plot point of the world being ended since aliens find it more valuable as resources rather than seeing them as equal sentients with value. The shock the characters display when their rights are negated after misuse of legal process, when their culture is written off as too backward to care and assimiliation is suggested as the best avenue of survival, an option only available IF they prove entertaining and useful enough to the settler culture. Otherwise the options are death, starvation, or literal use of their bodies as fuel for entertainment. At one point, as 'part of the game', the settlers allow free access to addictive drugs and a "the most dangerous game" of the settlers hunting down the humans for sport and infecting them with novel disease.

No parrellels to indigenous history here. Nope. I do appreciate the narrative focus on the protagonist's growing rage and how reasonable it is to feel that sense of injustice; also how he attempts to address it. I'm hoping that there will be more obvious tie ins to actual history in future books.

While the quips and social narrative framing a man and his sentient cat as the protagonists are relatable, I am more enjoying the longer plot point of valueing human life and the idea that human life is meaningless without connection with other humans. That's the fantasy part, not the dungeon crawl.

It's an interesting take, considering that the main character has the emotional processing skills of a carrot. Despite his extreme hero complex, his main bonding is with his sentient cat, which I can get behind.

Patient Care Self Service Improvement. The BC Health Care Portal now allows you to see consolidated records and visit summaries for:

The BC Health Connect Registry (for those looking for a local family doctor)

Lab Results

COVID 19 Test Results

Immunization Records

Hospital Visit Summaries

Special Authority Request Approvals

Imaging Reports

Organ Donor Registry Status

You need to have registered for your online BC Services Card ID to access. This is really helpful in both accessibility and allowing patients to follow up with doctors or manage their own longer term health issues with insurance or walk in doctors while travelling. This is also helpful to follow up when tests may be cancelled due to say, patient ate before a fasting test, and your doctor forgets to reorder them.

For straight up lab tests, Lifelabs (if you tested at Lifelabs) still is better as you can chart and compare specific values. The province only keeps records of health visits for six years, so download them annually if you need to be able to backtrack and know exactly which doctor/date you saw them on. Upon exploration, I found a lot of my lab results but not all my imaging results or records from >20 years ago.

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/managing-your-health/health-gateway

Health Gateway

Health Gateway provides British Columbians with secure access to a single view of their health information, including COVID-19 test results.

Current Mood: excited

Over the last year or so, I've taken university level courses on film analysis and on analysis of video and board games historical hot takes. Diving into horror, sci fi and fantasy movies on a less blockbuster basic has been highly entertaining. To continue this trend, I've volunteered as a indie film festival judge on the west coast, and may chatter about <not submitted for judgement but not as common videos I'm watching] here.

Latest horror watch: ABIGAIL (2024).
To Sum Up: Vampire Ballerina Horror with a side of satire.

Flash back to Cabin in the Woods in 2011 and all the horror tropes and supernatural legends prancing out of their various holding cells. Remember the sugar plum fairies [ballerina's with lamprey teeth]?

Yep, someone fleshed out that idea after crossing it with several other common tropes to form a delightful heist/escape/vampire horror movie. Not only did the child star do most of the dancing herself, the vampire stopping to do complex dance steps between flesh rending was just *chef's kiss* such an original take on the vampire genre. Not all the internal movie logic tracked, but eh, horror.

Flashing back again to CitW, they had a full cast of virgin, scholar, athlete, whole, and fool. Abigail takes the same cast as the rat pack crew: the have the virgin (mary/mother version), the scholar (know it all leader), athlete (the muscle), hacker (the sell out) and fool (the driver). They use the traditional offing pattern and use the scenery well in the storytelling, and one could quietly pretend that a full team of scientists were plotting beneath the ground arranging this. Gothic background: check.

I expected silliness and got it, but also a pretty tribute to the trope histories they were weaving together.

This got me poking around other recent vampire takes, and led me to the BBC Dracula series, featuring the quote "I'm a vampire. Why does my cell have a toilet?" 0.0

Will keep posted once I find it to watch.

Current Mood: chipper

I've been doing mega research about dog breeding and where to source Next Dog. I'm kind of annoyed, because I had sourced a breeder and all looked perfect for scheduling, but now the breeder had decided they no longer wish to breed Biewers and and concentrating on their breed of first love instead. Five months went from "countdown to next 2025 litter after AKC placements!" to website now defunct, facebook updates nil. DISLIKE. Must start research again.

I want a dog that is portable; hypoallergenic; people focused; smart enough or trainable enough to do agility, scent-work, some type of active human-dog activity of equal interest. I want a healthy dog, or best chances of healthy I can get, knowing just how expensive vet work can get. I expect huge expenses at end of life no matter where I get dog - I just want best chances of solid health for known conditions I can find. B lived for 16 years; hoping to meet or exceed that with next dog(s).

Unpopular opinion: The majority of registered "Best Practice" dog breeders are not actively useful for people looking for dogs. They are ensconced in their hobby space, and sell the dogs that they don't want to keep as part of their breeding program as cast off consequences.

There are four solid reasons dog breeders give to buy from them instead of back yard breeders, rescues, or the pound.

1. "You know what you are getting with a purebred for health/temperament".

This is rationalized by "Good" dog breeders demonstrate this by both health testing and winning conformation titles with their breeding pair.
Thus a dog must be trainable, meet breed standards, and have tested DNA to be bred. I like and approve of this.

The health guarantees mentioned in contract are all suuuper weak though. They are are mealy mouthed as anything, and usually start with offering a replacement dog only if you give back the dog with the health condition. If you have bonded with a dog that has a health condition that was guaranteed against, they should just give you the second dog. What are they going to do with the first dog? Euthanize it? The money or replacement dog is for the heartache your poor breeding program just put the family though, after going through a purebred breeder to avoid it. So many have stupid clauses in them that you must continue to feed your dog some MLM dog food for the guarantee to remain in effect.

2. "Dog breeders breed to better the breed"

OK. Another way of saying this is they breed to choose the best of the litter to continue the line. This means there "pick of of the litter" won't be an open option for anyone who is NOT a breeder. Taking two dogs that meet breed standard will not always produce more dogs that do. You have to deal with recessives and other faults coming out from further back breeding lines. So even having a sire and bitch with clean health testing doesn't necessarily mean your dogs health testing will be solid -- but it's a better chance. I will note that EVERY website lists this as their goal in breeding, most without specifying exactly how they are trying to better the breed. This is one of the questions I ask breeders, and frankly few have any good answer. None have specific goals of breeding on their websites, just "bettering the breed".

3. " Dog breeders don't make money on breeding"

This one is PR as far as I can tell, at least after the first litter. Showing their dogs is frankly a hobby. It's a hobby that builds into breeding, but it's a hobby that lets them travel, socialize, and compete. First vaccines and worming for puppies is a couple hundred of the three thousand plus charged; yes, time spent socializing puppies and cleaning is also billable, and the extended time with mom to three months does cost more. Does it cost 30k more? Not unless that's your business, and by definition, you are making money from your business. All of the breeders that I have looked at charge more for dogs with confirmed proper conformation coloring as well. It's not a set price per effort per puppy, nor is it assumed that all the puppies will have the traits bred for and the faulty puppies listed as discount. It's upcharge, upcharge, upcharge. At least until no one buys the puppies after 16 weeks, then it's discount, discount, discount.

4. You can complete and show with your purebred AKC registered dogs...

Most purebred breeders won't issue you actual papers for your puppies until you spay/neuter and agree not to compete. Many also charge more for non-breed standard smalls rather than charging less and changing their breeding practices to avoid this. Another common practice even in the "AKC or breed recommended" breeders. Except most breeders have contracts saying that you... can't? Because they don't want their kennel to be associated with your showing efforts. It's so weird! If you want to start say, rally, or scent work, you need an AKC registered dog to officially compete in more events. But most breeders have in contract that you won't, unless you pay them additional money? Amounts ranging into ridiculous. So that lowers the requirement to buy from an approved AKC breeder. Go IBC instead and then cross register. Ditto for breeding. All have weird contracts that say they are for the good of the dog, in aggressive fashion. Like... instead of "If you need to rehome your dog, call us instead and we will take the dog back". its... "If you rehome this dog not to us, you must give us $2000 in damages". None of the contracts I've seen are dog focused.

Sigh. I'm just frustrated. The only approved BC Biewer breeder has just opted out of breeding, so it will either be out of province or an IBC registered breeder instead. It was so perfect! The previous breeder had good lines, good form, and was on the way to my parents house for pick up ease to avoid flying. US breeders of good repute are complicated now by the border rules, and the fast tanking exchange rate. Back to the drawing boards.

Lighter Topics:

Reading:

Yesterday I read Finding Mr Write, by Kelley Armstrong.

Things I liked:

Strong female protagonist, Yukon architect who had purchased her own house, had her own dog, and needed no one.
Geeky love interest, cosplaying as a Himbo. Had firm boundaries of not just yes/no sex acts, but how he wanted to relate to the protagonist and if that wasn't a go, he wasn't going to engage romantically.
The main antagonists being insecurity, past relationship baggage, misogyny, and miscommunication.

Things I didn't like:

The sex scenes were limpid - a bunch of teasing without pacing, a bunch of off screen public space sex, no real build-up. Maybe this was due to too much of a focus on descriptors rather than engagement/action/reaction description? Unclear.

Their story demonstrated that different people view different actions as supportive or unsupportive, and the biggest mistake you can make is not having curiousity without presumption on what someone was trying to say by initiating a talk. That I liked.

Other things I have read this week and liked:

Final Girls - Seanan McGuire - A book about a new type of therapy - one that throws you into a horror movie to show you what really matters.
Under The Whispering Door - TJ Klune - A romance about one asshole's journey through a type of purgatory -- a tea house variety there-of.

Fiction. Takes you places, indeed.

( Pet Loss Grief )

This has sparked some interesting conversations about consumption of media. Specifically, the intersection of fast reading and aphantasia. I hadn't really thought about how most people synthesize their experience of narrative in books. I am almost completely aphantasic - I do not see pictures in my head when I talk about things - with extreme effort I can fleetingly summon a millisecond geometry of outline of say, "apple", but then it slips away. When I think of "apple", I hear, taste, and experience the 'crunch' in my head, with a side dictionary table of types/definitions/connections (green/red/mealy/baking/etc). Versus someone else, perhaps being able to see an apple in two or three D, needing description in the book on which apple they should be picturing.

When one applies this difference to reading, it explains why I can read so much faster than many, without "speed-reading", or skipping reading all but the first sentence of a book. All of the visual character description, so necessary for visual readers to feel like a novel is not self insert, is completely useless to me. Authors spending pages on descriptions of vast landscapes bores. If I read it fast enough that the table definitions of connections associated with the words (mountain scene: general concept: OC, description of internal landscapes, sensations, of thrist/tiredness/heat) I engage more, but the purely visual descriptions yield simply a blob labelled OC in my head that is much more weighted with their narrative/actions/cultural background than any visual description, and a flash or two of the described scene (characters in hayloft, then gone; focus moves to the connections and interactions between characters instead; described sensation, mismatched expectations, etc. This preference absolutely changes the writing styles that I like to read.

If I don't read fast enough or with enough focus, the words just don't come together.

Audio books are a different way of engaging with the story, but don't always work either, as they don't always read out the "she said suspiciously" etc, relying on my interpretation of their version of suspicious tonality. This is a Bad Choice with my interpretation skills. The lack of the written word availability to be chewed on can complicate, and the pacing feels incredibly slow, as I read at a speed of at least 3x audio speed to knit the story together in my mind.

Videos with subtitles are best, as you get both the text and someone doing the hard work of picturing things for you. Perhaps that is why I like the audiovisual studies thing so much.

How does this engagement method work with non-fiction? I have almost no interest in non-fiction when not doing specific research into issues that I am interested in. Non-fiction is approached with several read throughs of each short paragraph, systemically identifying tiers of information importance and then working to memorize what's needed, or find the elusive core concepts of the chapter, followed by immediate application of ideas until I retain. This lack of internal visual systems explains why learning chemistry was so hard for me -- it requires the ability to hold and rotate molecules in your mind to thrive - I needed to use a software application to even approach this skill.

In retrospect, these last few paragraphs have been a solid example of application of logic and intellect to distance myself from my feelings and how much it sucks to not be able to retreat from them when I am not actively giving space to engage with them at home. It's damned inconvenient to have so many of them that they can't stay in their lane of "home safe ok to process now" space.

Things are starting to ramp up again as the Fall season gets more firmly settled in. It's interesting to see how transparency has slowly became opaque in the last year or so, from official channels.

TLDR: There are clinics that you can get your COVID and FLU shots right now. Do it ASAP, before you get COVID this season and no longer qualify for a booster. Log on to the BC "Get Vaccinated" Page and book your appointment now.

( COVID Graphs, chatter behind the cut. )

Current Mood: calm

One of the things that I love is sipping a well made flat white while enjoying an inspired bakery item in a cafe with good vibes. I like observing people between reading my book chapters, feeling all the other life narratives that are going on around me, the focus and hum of city life.

In Victoria, that cafe was the Loft and Ladder by the RCM. The Loft and Ladder had a lovely selection of food and drink at reasonable prices, and the vibe was very family. Sara and Brett remembered your name, your drink, and invited you into their circle of small rituals. Regulars often volunteered to go grab whipping cream from the store when it was busy, bussed the tables, or entertained their inquisitive coffee shop little; they made space for others to contribute as they willed, or didn't will. I liked it.

In Vancouver, this cafe used to be the Elysian on Broadway. I spent more days than not getting a coffee there during my work breaks, quietly listening to the good willed banter of the barista's. Not only was the coffee good, they had a lending library, a secluded dog friendly garden, table service, and house made food. Unfortunately, the pandemic seems to have cycled through the staff entirely. The prices are way up, the lending library is gone as is the table service, the demeanor and detail mindedness of the staff have dropped, and the vibe no longer suits. That made me sad to learn, so I've been using some of this funemployment time to review other shops.

Kafka's (main and broadway): Closed - Reboot has moved now to Emily Carr district.

Monks Coffee and Bar (Kits) - closed. Now a brunch place, LoCal. This was a sad, as I had used this as a steady meet up place for folks in decades past. I loved their open mic nights.

Aphrodite's Pies: Switched management/sold to new owner last year.

Our Town: Closed (and Closed again after second mod reboot)

Mount Pleasant Coffee Shops:

Kranky's Cafe:

Hours: limited - closes at 5pm.
Selection: limited - good quality coffee/latte basics, but not many custom or signature drinks up my alley. Bakery items all in house. Talked with the owner and custom drinks are more of a Fall thing. They have line ups and summer custom drinks are all cold things.
Price: OK for 2023.
Nice seating area outdoors, limited indoor. Cheerful vibes.

The Paper Crane:

Hours: very limited - closes at 3pm some days.
Selection: limited - OK coffee/latte basics, some house made bakery items.
Nice seating area outdoors, chill vibe.

Starbucks:

Hours: Extensive.
You get what you expect.
Few outdoor tables - frenetic vibe, right next to a busy bus stop on and an intersection set that has almost accidents every few minutes.

Gene:

Hours: Open until 7pm.
Seating: very tight, but lots of outlets inside, and lots of benches without tables outside.
Selection: Limited. Barista's not very familiar with coffee drinks outside of latte and cortado. Expensive.
Vibe: very business.

Bean Around The World

Hours: Open until midnight
Seating: Extensive, good for studying. Limited outdoor (two small tables)
Selection: OK coffee selection, french pastries surprisingly high selection of things to nom on.
Vibe: quiet feel, semi relational.

Nemesis:

Hours: Limited. 8-4 pm, definitely student centred.
Seating: Extensive, indoors and out. Assigned seating -- the coffee shop seats you after ordering, which is a choice.
Selection: Nemesis makes good coffee, but I wasn't impressed with the pricing or the vibe. The music is extra loud to discourage people from attempting to study there, and the seating is crowded together, with the pressure to move on quickly post drink from the assigned seating. Vibe: Trying for hip and trendy with their flower shaped coffee hut. Busy. Not appealing. Impersonal.

Cafe Artigiano:

Hours: 6:30 am -6:30 pm
Seating: Extensive
Selection: Standardized, but good service. No problems with table service, warming up pastries, or butter. Well done coffee pour.
Vibe: airy connective. Best vibe so far - the staff like each other and like their job.

Other Mentions:

Craft Coffee in NWest has a good drink menu and a soft social vibe. Love their Mexican Mocha.

Platform 7 in Kitsilano put some work into their deco, also have a good pour system with many options on how to make your coffee. Vibe is mixed.

The best thing I can say about Only Coffee in Kits was that their Spotify list was very well selected for a chill focused vibe, and that their décor was minimalist. Coffee itself was disappointing, way too much milk for a flat white.

Convivial Coffee in Stamps Landing had a delightful selection of home baked goods. Their scones reminded me of Ireland, and the family feel was embued in every choice they had made about seating and decor. Coffee? Eh. So far, the best candidate for tucking in with a book in the Fall though. Family feel, definitely a community hub, hosts small concerts throughout the year.

Current Mood: chipper
Current Location: YVR

Today I gave a thing and I received a thing, and my heart is full due to both.

I was able to gift my very vintage and well loved skirt that I wore to my original prom to a lovely two spirit student I have had the privilege of getting to know this year. Seeing the joy on their face and watching them spin around and marvel at the understated sparkle was the perfect way to pass an item on that gave me such joy.

I also was very very unexpectedly Blanketed for my volunteer work this year. I was floored, and am holding this honour so close to my heart. [Context: First Nations Blanketing Ceremony, similar idea link found here: https://students.dartmouth.edu/nap/news/2022/06/blanketing-ceremony-2022

Some days I just feel extra autistic.

What do I mean by that? It just feels like I'm some other species, like social assumptions/expectations don't land and I'm furiously taking notes, having feelings about things, and taking more notes.

Thoughts in no particular order, possibly bullshit, but just stream of consciousness about this.

For instance, the expectation that "it takes a village to raise a child" has been a really interesting deep dive this week.
( Read more... )What mostly generates undertones of surprise is just how righteous everyone acts from all these angles. Indignation that they are expected to help/won't help/won't help in the way idealized. Pushing and pulling and attempts at narrating ideal ways of connection and support when rarely the narrator even bothers to see things from the other angles. Exhausting, fascinating, usually with none of the above discussing desires, extrapolations, or really anything with any of the others involved beyond labels of "rudeness/selfishness" all around.

A bit of media consumption this last few weeks, and also a goal: There is a list of books with different types of representation in protagonist characters, not just side characters (below); I'm going to work on reading through this and reviewing them a bit.

https://lgbtqreads.com/representation/disability-neurodivergence/

Books:

Favorite this sennight is "A Psalm for the Wild-Built".

This was a short, good book. I'm not usually a fan of books where chapters are essentially using the characters as hand puppets to have Existential Conversations about things, but it was integrated well enough/broken up with segments and symbiology of rich and evocative text that I overall enjoyed this. Protag is a genderless monk in a utopia society who undergoes a type of first contact with robots. https://us.macmillan.com/series/monkrobot

Scythe - Neal Shusterman - premise: what if we conquered all causes of death with technology but people still needed to die? YA dystopic.

The Spare - Miranda Dubner premise: Gay Prince Harry - amusingly very simular to Prince Harry's biopic title, to the point that I mistakenly downloaded it.

Unwind - Neal Shusterman - a YA dystopic about bodily rights

UnWholly - Neal Shusterman - YA dystopic about bodily rights, sequel

Everything is Fucked - A Book about Hope - Mark Mans

The Golden Enclaves - Trilogy - Naomi Novik - Fantasy Realistic Hogwarts

Lost in the Moment and Found - Seanan McGuire - Fantasy Fairy Tale

Field of Dreams (movie) - this has been on the watch with partner list for a while, as a formative memory thing for them.

School:
1. Film: Eastern Promises
2. Film: Goldeneye

Starting a tag to track my media consumption.

So far in 2023:

Books:

Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
Lost in the Moment and Found - Seanan McGuire
Sweep of the Heart - Ilona Andrews
One Fell Sweep - Ilona Andrews
Sweep of the Blade - Ilona Andrews
Sweep in Peace - Ilona Andrews
Blood Scion - Deborah Falaye
A Christmas Message - Debbie Macomber

Research:

Inventing Eastern Europe - Wolff - Introduction/Chapter 1
Analytical Chemistry - Skoog - Chapter Six

TV:

Criminal Minds - Season 13 - First episode

Other:

Podcast - Han and Matt (polyamorous relationship AskAuntie)