Traveling can be stressful, so the #tinydinosaur recommends the occasional ice cream break.
People watching with the #tinydinosaur at SeaTac airport.
Book two of 2016: Windows on a Lost World, by V. E. Mitchell. ⭐️⭐️ #startrek #tos
Just saw a cute group of international students playing on the frozen irrigation canal that runs through the #CWU campus. They’re braver than I am! 😃 #cwupride @cwupride
Book one of 2017: Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture, edited by Stephen H. Segal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Good Riddance, 2016
As with many people out there, I’m very ready for this year to finally be over.
I had high hopes for 2016. Instead, we’ve dealt with blow after blow as childhood idols of stage, screen, and song died, and as fear, bigotry, racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and hatred resulted in the least qualified presidential candidate in living memory to be elected to office. Throughout the year, it felt like blow after blow, like every moment of optimism was swiftly met with a swift and severe backlash, and as if the world just got successively darker each day.
This year has been filled with tragedy on scales both large and small, and has frequently been difficult to deal with. But, of course, that’s what we do, and as the cliché goes, what doesn’t kill me gives me a dark sense of humor and unhealthy coping mechanisms (okay, so that version might actually be a Facebook meme), and it’s time to give this year a swift kick in the ass on its way out the door.
2017 is here in just a few hours (for me, at least), and we’ve got a lot of work to do. It’s said that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice — and I believe this, but I also think it’s obvious that we need to do what we can to help it along. We’ve had a hard year, we’ve weathered some pretty serious blows, and lost a number of allies. But there are still many of us here, willing and able to fight for what’s right, for ourselves, for those we love, and for those who cannot fight for themselves.
2016 is done. 2017 is here. Let’s make it ours.
My #2016bestnine – very #Lego-centric! Let’s see…me in my #geek #coexist shirt, me in my little #goth Lego boy costume, my Lego goth couple, my @cardsagainsthumanity Trump bug-out bag (which was funnier pre-election), Lego minifigs, the Lego #StarWars carbon freezing chamber, another shot of my costume, my mother-in-law using a real paper map, and the Lego portapotty. Yep, definitely a bit of a theme there. ;)
Book sixty of 2016: Ancillary Mercy, by Ann Leckie. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (366/366)
This also marks the culmination of my silly little selfie-a-day project for the year! I considered trying to come up with something particularly creative or silly for the final photo, but in the end, decided that just another of the usual photos would be just fine. Me with a book. As is often the case.
While I’ve (mostly) enjoyed this selfie-a-day project, I won’t be continuing it on into 2017. Not that I’ll be disappearing, of course. Just going back to using Instagram as and when the impulse strikes, like normal people. ;)
A bath and a book…not a bad way to spend some time in the afternoon. Trying to see if I can get one more book finished by the end of the year! (365/366)
Though the original plan was to work through the Alien/Predator films, we decided that was a bit bleak for this week. Instead, we’ve been binging on classic comedies and classic and modern musicals. Chicago, How to Steal A Million, Royal Wedding, Hairspray, How to Marry A Millionaire, and others. Much easier to deal with right now. (364/366)
