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Sep. 16th, 2022 07:32 pm・The Guardian wishlist fest happened (thank you, trobadora and china_shop!) and I got two gorgeous fics, a gentle quasi-fixit for The Rebel by elenothar and a lovely Guo Changcheng-and-language drabble by Amedia, along with all the other amazing things posted. I wrote about 10K-odd spread over a handful of fics and had a lot of fun doing so, as well as trying out a translation of a (C-subtitled) interview with some help from presumenothing. (Conclusion: Bai Yu likes to begin almost every sentence with 就 and end it with 嘛.)
・One of my wishlist fics focused on (the aftereffects of) Shen Wei kneeling in the rain, and I belatedly found the perfect epigraph for it while reading this week's Shakespeare with yaaurens and company: "Who cannot feel nor see the rain, being in ’t,/Knows neither wet nor dry."
・Listening to a couple of favorites on the radio. Jenůfa is still breathtaking. The Strauss oboe concerto is delightful, and always takes me back to hearing it for the first time at a summer concert in high school with my crush of the time, an oboe player himself (I have a long history of falling for oboists lol).
・Speaking of double reeds, I had my first bassoon lesson! Now I have a reed to toot on and a fiendishly complicated fingering chart to do my best to memorize before the next one. I discovered that the standard bassoonist's chest/shoulder harness (just like Lin Nansheng's shoulder holster, only not such nice leather) is not designed for, um, well-endowed female figures, and if I do decide to get my own instrument I'm gonna have to work something out. But it's neat to actually make sounds on it. I've learned, what, all told about 2.8 foreign languages, I should be able to memorize some fingerings?
・Rereading: the diaries of Jean Lucey Pratt, unfulfilled and lonely and sometimes, poor lady, a bit sentimental and tiresome, but not without humor. "I am an idle, vain, pea-brained, vacillating, silly wench, and have eaten too much sweet cake." Too close to home! "I hunger and thirst for an encouraging comment [on her newly published book] from a reputable quarter." Just like us upon posting fics etc.... "To every one of my friends I give what I can, but with each individual...I withhold some part of myself," a phrase that interests me in its Venn diagram of friendships.
Also Stephanie Wellen Levine on Brooklyn Lubavitcher girls, a non-fiction book that reads like a gorgeously vivid set of linked short stories, recommended for anyone interested in women and Judaism.
・Photos: one zillion photos today, mostly because of a visit Y and I made to the wind chime temple this week, where we listened to the glass chimes sing in the wind and visited their tearoom, he had shaved ice and I drank rose juice. Note the little frog (painted) and the camouflaged turtle (alive). Also various sky and light scenes, a nice voluptuous building, and the living room pothos in the sun.
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Be safe and well.
・One of my wishlist fics focused on (the aftereffects of) Shen Wei kneeling in the rain, and I belatedly found the perfect epigraph for it while reading this week's Shakespeare with yaaurens and company: "Who cannot feel nor see the rain, being in ’t,/Knows neither wet nor dry."
・Listening to a couple of favorites on the radio. Jenůfa is still breathtaking. The Strauss oboe concerto is delightful, and always takes me back to hearing it for the first time at a summer concert in high school with my crush of the time, an oboe player himself (I have a long history of falling for oboists lol).
・Speaking of double reeds, I had my first bassoon lesson! Now I have a reed to toot on and a fiendishly complicated fingering chart to do my best to memorize before the next one. I discovered that the standard bassoonist's chest/shoulder harness (just like Lin Nansheng's shoulder holster, only not such nice leather) is not designed for, um, well-endowed female figures, and if I do decide to get my own instrument I'm gonna have to work something out. But it's neat to actually make sounds on it. I've learned, what, all told about 2.8 foreign languages, I should be able to memorize some fingerings?
・Rereading: the diaries of Jean Lucey Pratt, unfulfilled and lonely and sometimes, poor lady, a bit sentimental and tiresome, but not without humor. "I am an idle, vain, pea-brained, vacillating, silly wench, and have eaten too much sweet cake." Too close to home! "I hunger and thirst for an encouraging comment [on her newly published book] from a reputable quarter." Just like us upon posting fics etc.... "To every one of my friends I give what I can, but with each individual...I withhold some part of myself," a phrase that interests me in its Venn diagram of friendships.
Also Stephanie Wellen Levine on Brooklyn Lubavitcher girls, a non-fiction book that reads like a gorgeously vivid set of linked short stories, recommended for anyone interested in women and Judaism.
・Photos: one zillion photos today, mostly because of a visit Y and I made to the wind chime temple this week, where we listened to the glass chimes sing in the wind and visited their tearoom, he had shaved ice and I drank rose juice. Note the little frog (painted) and the camouflaged turtle (alive). Also various sky and light scenes, a nice voluptuous building, and the living room pothos in the sun.
( Read more... )
Be safe and well.
