Enthusiastically Ambiverted Hopepunk
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Day 206: We spent much of the day taking down fall decorations and putting up our Christmas decorations (colored lights out front instead of the orange lights we’ve had for the past month, swapping out the fall gnomes by the front door for Santa, a snowman, and Christmas gnomes, and putting up the Christmas tree inside). We also wrapped a bunch of presents for a family for the annual giving tree program at work, something we enjoy doing every year.
Day 205: Happy Thanksgiving, or Friendsgiving, or stuff-your-face-giving, or if nothing else, happy Thursday! We had a nice day of cooking all the usual goodies, and now we’re stuffed full of food and it’s time to spend the rest of the evening moving as little as possible.
65/2023 – ⭐️⭐️
Possibly could have been an interesting take on the Preservers, or a fun TNG-crew-in-a-medieval-society romp, but was marred by bad character decisions (we must stay undercover in a medieval human society, so Geordi and Worf obviously can’t come, but sure, bring the Bajoran Ro and the android Data, that totally makes sense) and overly unfortunately stereotypical plotting decisions (Ro, of course, is nearly immediately stripped naked and placed in jeopardy of sexual assault, and Troi is later threatened with the same, because what other peril would women face?). Even the titular dragons barely make an appearance. Any interesting bits are far overshadowed by the rest.
Day 204: Every week we pick up a little bit of food from Highline’s food pantry to make available for our students in Access Services. Our student employee who usually makes the run was out for the holiday weekend, so today was my turn.
Day 203: When one or the other of the two elevators is regularly out of service, and this latest outage has gone on for close to two weeks now, you really start to consider taking the stairs more often. At the same time, I haven’t gotten stuck in one of the elevators (yet…I hear it’s something of a rite of passage while working in this building), and I have gotten stuck in the stairwell (the other rite of passage), so…either way, it’s a risk I have to take.
Day 202: We’ve had the fall-themed gnomes out front since just after Halloween, but this weekend they were joined by a new figurine — a new gnome who is a little more excited about the next major holiday following Thanksgiving.
Day 201: As with many Sundays, an uneventful day at home, so here’s a fuller view of the wall of my home office that often appears behind me in photos. From left to right, the bookcases are: comics, graphic novels, nonfiction and non-genre fiction; two cases of Star Trek (with my Star Trek video collection stored on top); and two cases of non-Trek science fiction and fantasy. The skeleton is a Halloween decoration that will eventually get tucked away, but for now sits in that chair and startles me every time I walk into the room.
64/2023 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Standouts in this issue for me were James Van Pelt’s “The Long Mural” and Louise Hughes’s “The Parts That Make Me”.
Day 200: Science still hasn’t determined the cause of the occasional craving for the tasty tasty cardboard goodness of a Totino’s Party Pizza, but when it hits, it hits.
Day 199: We actually made it home while the sun was still up today! It wasn’t a bad week, but it was a long one, and we’re both happy to be at the weekend and looking forward to the long weekend next week.