Enthusiastically Ambiverted Hopepunk
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Day 146: Mondays are my work-from-home days, which don’t always lend themselves to terribly interesting “here’s what I did today” photos. So, well, here’s what you’d see if you were hanging out in my home office watching me work. Except for the times when I’m turning around, looking at you quizzically, and asking what the heck you’re doing in my home.
Day 145: Got lots of chores and housework done, and still managed to spend a very pleasant amount of my day curled up with a good book. Great way to spend a rainy fall day.
53/2023 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This series continues to surprise and satisfy me. Lots of adventure that’s somehow both ridiculously improbable and entirely believable within the story, and characters that feel much more real than in many other books. There’s an underlying humor throughout, but also manages to handle resolving one troubled character’s fate in a way that respects their past and the present they had built. I’m increasingly glad my Hugo reading project started me reading these books.
Day 144: Munching on some of the candy we brought back from England. These are Squashies, raspberry-flavored marshmallow chewy things. Pretty tasty!
Day 143: My part of the last day of opening week: campus cleanup duty! Last year, my most interesting find was what appeared to be a full suitcase’s worth of women’s clothing. This year, it was a full dozen 22-oz. Heineken beer bottles in the same basic spot; apparently someone in the apartment building on the other side of the fence has a pretty serious “drink it dry and chuck it over the fence” habit going on.
Day 142: Stopping by my wife’s office in one of Highline’s older buildings. While it’s in poor shape and is scheduled to be demolished and replaced in the next few years, I really do like these funky old ’60s buildings. It’s definitely ready to go, and not worth trying to renovate to modern standards, but I’ll be a little sad to see some of the old character of the campus disappear.
52/2023 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A better-than-average Romulan villain and a quest for a mysterious quarantined planet make this one quite enjoyable. Wraps up a bit quickly at the end, but even so, does so while bringing in some fun threads that could lead to more stories down the line (though I have no idea if the author wrote more Trek or followed up on any of those threads).
Day 141: Nothing particularly fancy today. We had more opening week stuff at work, but this was more straightforward work planning things and not so much photogenic fun and games. So it’s yet another “me on the couch in the living room in the evening” shot.
Day 140: Next week is the beginning of fall quarter classes at Highline, so this week is our opening week for faculty and staff. We started with a big welcome event, then followed that with a “Highline Bingo” activity that had us going around campus to visit various services and departments, learning a bit about them, and getting our bingo card marked to try to win prizes. I got a Highline lanyard!
Day 139: Continuing to work on processing vacation photos. So far I’ve made it through the Seattle to NYC train journey, our days in NYC, and the NYC to London ocean voyage. Now I’m working on our days in London. Lots of these to go through, so this part will take a few days!