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biology is weird.
1) Interested but vaguely confused that various people I follow on lj are posting their schedules for a con I'm actually going to be at.
2) Baby wrens are very clearly not fledged after all, as they are hanging their little open mouths out the door of the birdhouse, two or three at a time. The grauwulf got me an almost-pocket-sized camera with 20x optical zoom for my half-birthday, and so now I have baby wren close-ups. Some day you may too.
3) World is still ridiculously hot and dry, but I don't appear to have killed off any more caterpillars, so that's nice; the C. regalis are even growing pretty successfully.
4) There's this thing I want to talk about so I can complain about it, but can't really do so because people have strong preconceived notions about how to react to said thing that don't have anything to do with what I want to talk about. I hate that.
5) Instead, I am going to complain about facebook, because back in the days when you needed an account to look at stuff and everyone kept linking to it, I made a dummy account under the name of Katherine Tatterskirt, which I logged into about three times, joined a group, and never actually "friended" anyone. Unfortunately, they've suddenly started sending me incessant e-mail updates without "unsubscribe" links, and I don't seem to be able to log back in and kill off the account because the password reset requires I type in my e-mail address, my name... and the name of one of my friends. Difficult, given that I never identified any. I'm starting to wonder if it would be easier to get someone else to flag the account as fake.
6) My car has got rattly clutch bearings, which I am told are a sign that some day, but not anytime soon, it will stop shifting gears when I tell it to. Investigations are in progress as to whether it is actually a really bad idea to drive to Boston without having that rebuilt first.
7) Yesterday, while sorting bugs with one of my fellow master naturalists, I was offered an Awesome Responsibility. I gave the two-sentence explanation for what secondary world fantasy was, and she confessed that she dearly loves Narnia, LOTR, and Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising series'... but doesn't know what else to read. Um... she's an entomologist, quirky, easily amused, with a 5-year-old son. Says she likes elves & dwarves & suchlike, but is not at all interested in the abusive-violence trends of newer Epic Fantasy or the vampire/werewolf urban stuff. She'd got Earthsea, and Tad Williams off some internet list, from which I thought she might like the former (if she can get through the two towers, she shouldn't have too much trouble getting into earthsea) but all I know of the latter is cats, which she wasn't interested in. I gave her DWJones, Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles, & Prydain for starters (on the grounds that these might be things that she would like & could share with her kid) but wasn't quite sure where to go with adult books. I consider bringing her my second copy of The Element of Fire, but other suggestions are welcome.
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2) Baby wrens are very clearly not fledged after all, as they are hanging their little open mouths out the door of the birdhouse, two or three at a time. The grauwulf got me an almost-pocket-sized camera with 20x optical zoom for my half-birthday, and so now I have baby wren close-ups. Some day you may too.
3) World is still ridiculously hot and dry, but I don't appear to have killed off any more caterpillars, so that's nice; the C. regalis are even growing pretty successfully.
4) There's this thing I want to talk about so I can complain about it, but can't really do so because people have strong preconceived notions about how to react to said thing that don't have anything to do with what I want to talk about. I hate that.
5) Instead, I am going to complain about facebook, because back in the days when you needed an account to look at stuff and everyone kept linking to it, I made a dummy account under the name of Katherine Tatterskirt, which I logged into about three times, joined a group, and never actually "friended" anyone. Unfortunately, they've suddenly started sending me incessant e-mail updates without "unsubscribe" links, and I don't seem to be able to log back in and kill off the account because the password reset requires I type in my e-mail address, my name... and the name of one of my friends. Difficult, given that I never identified any. I'm starting to wonder if it would be easier to get someone else to flag the account as fake.
6) My car has got rattly clutch bearings, which I am told are a sign that some day, but not anytime soon, it will stop shifting gears when I tell it to. Investigations are in progress as to whether it is actually a really bad idea to drive to Boston without having that rebuilt first.
7) Yesterday, while sorting bugs with one of my fellow master naturalists, I was offered an Awesome Responsibility. I gave the two-sentence explanation for what secondary world fantasy was, and she confessed that she dearly loves Narnia, LOTR, and Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising series'... but doesn't know what else to read. Um... she's an entomologist, quirky, easily amused, with a 5-year-old son. Says she likes elves & dwarves & suchlike, but is not at all interested in the abusive-violence trends of newer Epic Fantasy or the vampire/werewolf urban stuff. She'd got Earthsea, and Tad Williams off some internet list, from which I thought she might like the former (if she can get through the two towers, she shouldn't have too much trouble getting into earthsea) but all I know of the latter is cats, which she wasn't interested in. I gave her DWJones, Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles, & Prydain for starters (on the grounds that these might be things that she would like & could share with her kid) but wasn't quite sure where to go with adult books. I consider bringing her my second copy of The Element of Fire, but other suggestions are welcome.
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