Miscellany: fic, music, gardens
Jul. 1st, 2013 08:10 amAbout to head out to the park to walk (2.4 mile loop; yesterday I did it listening to my new Health Care playlist, which is my usual mix of jazz and blues (Dinah Washington, Nat King Cole, Robert Jr. Lockwood, k.d. lang, Nina Simone, Fats Waller), personal nostalgia (Beatles, Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, Ramones), and recent alt/indie stuff my son recommended (Florence + The Machine, My Terrible Friend, Lauren O'Connell, Julia Nunes, Black Keys), plus whatever else fits the theme. Other people can do fanmixes and stuff like that; I can only do Library of Congress subject headings, but it works for me. And "Comfortably Numb" plus "I Wanna Be Sedated" at about the two-mile mark is just right. My knee is improving, slowly).
Also will pick lettuce, probably the last time since it is July now. Having the vegetable garden several miles away is a new challenge, but it is getting me to walk more (once I drive there).
My other garden (the MG demonstration one) was shown off to the public in a big way this weekend, a fun event at which I managed to not get sunburned for once, though really I prefer standing out in the middle of it all answering people's random questions to sitting at a table full of bugs in plastic containers and talking mostly about pest control. The kids' reactions to the hornworm caterpillar made it worth it, though.
New Person of Interest writer! I lured![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
pendrecarc into the fandom and she has written two lovely stories (one to my prompt) which you can check out at AO3. They are both perfect.
And I was podficced, which is a first! (I've been translated into Russian and Chinese before, but not into voice.) I have to admit my reaction is similar to what Michael Emerson said it was like watching himself kiss his wife on TV while they were pretending to be other people (squirmy) but it is also rather cool. (Probably would be less squirmy with another story; I am still a little "oh shit did I write that?" about "The Rest is Silence.")
Also, this video about the musical themes used on PoI is nice - I tend to only notice that sort of thing subconsciously, but hearing it this way I recognize them all. Especially Grace and Harold's. *sob*
And the compilation of "Mr. Reese, are you all right?" moments is also fun.
Also will pick lettuce, probably the last time since it is July now. Having the vegetable garden several miles away is a new challenge, but it is getting me to walk more (once I drive there).
My other garden (the MG demonstration one) was shown off to the public in a big way this weekend, a fun event at which I managed to not get sunburned for once, though really I prefer standing out in the middle of it all answering people's random questions to sitting at a table full of bugs in plastic containers and talking mostly about pest control. The kids' reactions to the hornworm caterpillar made it worth it, though.
New Person of Interest writer! I lured
pendrecarc into the fandom and she has written two lovely stories (one to my prompt) which you can check out at AO3. They are both perfect.And I was podficced, which is a first! (I've been translated into Russian and Chinese before, but not into voice.) I have to admit my reaction is similar to what Michael Emerson said it was like watching himself kiss his wife on TV while they were pretending to be other people (squirmy) but it is also rather cool. (Probably would be less squirmy with another story; I am still a little "oh shit did I write that?" about "The Rest is Silence.")
Also, this video about the musical themes used on PoI is nice - I tend to only notice that sort of thing subconsciously, but hearing it this way I recognize them all. Especially Grace and Harold's. *sob*
And the compilation of "Mr. Reese, are you all right?" moments is also fun.
