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Finally got to watch this, which turns out to have been worth all the hype. Also, good for Sandra Hüller getting/continuing her international career!

( How many American high school teachers are thwarted scientific geniuses anyway? )

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I saw a thing on instagram that is likely false, but it was a post that some guy had been arrested for being a fake tour guide and telling people completely fake histories of paintings, and that is the most Ilya Rozanov coded thing ever. I can 100% see bb!Shane at some museum and getting in an argument with fake!guard Ilya. It would be hilarious. Extra points if Kip's there and trying to get the cops called on Rozanov. He and Shane can go on the lam so Ilya doesn't get arrested.

I did my exercise this week and one of the days I used my walking pad. Friends. Friends. I was apparently walking too fast or something and I stepped on the main part at the top, not the conveyor belt part, and fell. I thought I broke my pinkie but it was just sore and bruised - maybe misaligned? I don't know. It hurt for a couple of days. I also managed to scrape my knee and the heel of one hand, knock a table leg off the coffee table, and bruise my boob. I still managed to walk 2 miles though, so it's 100% a win. The second day I did half elliptical/half bike. I think I have a way to do the walking pad that won't result in me face-down on the rug, so I'll try that next time. I like walking better than the elliptical. I don't know why. Might switch it up every other time though. Another week of 2x a week and then might try for 3. anything is possible, I guess.

Still haven't figured out when there will be road tripping. I might go up to my mom's early and do some local stuff near her. I've got a bunch of things on a list. I shall see. I need to find out what her plans are.

It has somehow gone from 6pm to 11:30 pm and I'm not sure how that happened, but I'm pretty sure it means I should go to bed.
I finished the book "Myra, Beyond Saddleworth" and it was ok. Continued to be not what I wanted, but not bad for what it was. I also just finished another book - "The 7th Day" - and that was pretty good. I was hoping to do more reading this summer, but it doesn't seem like that's happening.

I would say "happy 250th anniversary of tax dodging" except the Orange One has even ruined the tax dodging jokes, so, onto tv:

Star City 1.07: In which the devil you know turns out to be better than the devil you don't, sort, kinda?

( Spoilers introduce the new regime )

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12. Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar – Hm! This was a fun ride (helped along by knowing that

cafemassolit had enjoyed it a lot), and an ambitious debut novel, just in terms of sheer scope and density of plot twists, but while I enjoyed reading it basically at all points and stayed up so I could finish the last 100+ pages in one go, I don’t think it’s a Hugo-caliber work (although a few things about it did reach that level for me). So, this was a good time, and I will probably pick up the sequel (even though where it seems to be headed is less interesting to me than where this book has been), but I don’t see putting it at, or maybe even near (depends on how many books I manage to read, LOL), the top of my ballot.

I’m not sure how to talk about it, either, because this book has a LOT of stuff going on. Maybe in my occasional good/mixed/not-good format? Yeah, let’s try that. ( With spoilers )

The book is up for Best Novel, where I’m definitely ranking it below The Incandescent (also flawed, but more unusual and more coherent, despite its flaws), and Hodgson is up for Astounding, where I think I’ll also be ranking her below H.H.Pak, who was working on much smaller scale but to greater effect, IMO. But I won’t be mad if Hodgson wins Astounding, because I do think there’s ambition and talent there, and I won’t even be mad if the book wins Best Novel, I don’t think.

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Taskmaster Australia s5e08 – Anisa looks fabulous in her neon pink suit, and I’m also liking Celia’s pink and brown knit top. ( Spoilers )

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More people are posting and it makes me so fucking gleeful. Hello my friends! I have missed you!

Things:

1 - Two of my boys got drafted. One by New Jersey and one by Philly and they're both so far away. I have sad about this. I was hoping one would go to the Kraken so he could play with one of our other guys on the same line (like they currently do for us), but alas. It is not to be.

2 - Apparently a guy who just signed with the Silvertips got drafted too, so that's exciting!

3 - I am currently reading a book that keeps being not what I want it to be. It's called "Myra, Beyond Saddleworth" and it's about Myra Hindley who was a serial killer along with her boyfriend. It's fictional about her being let out of prison and her life then, and I just... I don't know. It's not a bad book, just not what I want/expect I guess.

4 - I actually managed to do stuff on Thursday, and I did my two days of exercise this week, so I know I've done things. It just doesn't feel like I'm doing anything. It's been a week and a half of vacation and I'm still doing the same thing I did when it started.

5 - There has been a little bit of progress on typing up the finished HR fic I have. I think it's ok? I think I like it? I made a comment on someone else's fic and it led to thoughts of a firefighter/EMT AU, and I have an idea for a centuries spanning AU, and potentially a satyr/angel AU, and I don't know. Many thoughts zero writing.

6 - I want to do a mini-road trip, but I have no idea when to fit it in. I was thinking a week, but now I'm thinking three days. I have a huge list of stuff to do where I want to go, and I know it's not all possible, but better to do some than nothing. Maybe if I do all the stuff that's currently on my to-do list, I can arrange it for the beginning of next week.

7 - The end of next week is up at my mom's for her annual "no, it's the last one, I mean it" garage sale. I like doing it, though some of my mom's friends that participate drive me a little bonkers. They talk. All. The. Time. In some ways, I wish it was just me and my mom hanging out.

8 - Today is the never ending cycle of laundry, this week including sheets and towels. It's noon, so I should get started. And then plan to do something that isn't just sitting around.

9 - I keep thinking I should go back to school - not for a degree, but just for fun. It would give me structure, which I like. But money and time play into it, and there's never enough of either.

I was going for 10 things, but I can't think of anything else. Which means it's time for laundry whether I want it to be or not.

In space, no one can hear you scream, indeed.

( Spoilers don't want their engineers to become executioners )

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Hugo homework: The Raven Scholar and Taskmaster Oz

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