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Tuesday, May 27th, 2025 04:01 pm
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1. I participated in Science! This involved an MRI of my right calf while at rest and before, during, and after doing a minute of movement. I got paid, and used part of it to finally buy the Shape Note song book a college friend (from choir) worked on. The next step is to try and make at least a few of the monthly sings in my neighborhood this summer, while I'm off from regular choir.

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Some links of interest

Friday, May 23rd, 2025 12:24 pm
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Dumping links here!



Things I want to post about but do not quite have the brainspace to yet: My Michigan trip to do a round of goodbyes and gather gossip from academia, me side-eyeing the Love and Deepspace fandom a lot, packing up to leave the country (thoughts and feelings).

Maybe I'll get to some of these, but these days, even getting out of bed takes forever because I am suddenly hit by emotions. Blegh.

California Zephyr was an Experience

Saturday, May 17th, 2025 07:06 pm
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I've mentioned somewhere (I think) that I went on a three day solo train trip. That train trip was on the California Zephyr route that starts from Emeryville, California and ends at Chicago, Illinois, crossing in a sorta straight path across the middle of the U.S. from the west to the east. I took it all the way (three days!), and it was amazing. I briefly considered settling with just coach seats, but look, I am not a spry young adult anymore, so I splurged on the cheapest private room for myself. The room comes with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and they are all substantial meals with unlimited non-alcoholic beverages (and one alcoholic beverage per dinner). The sleeper rooms are also in separate carriages that have their own toilets and a bathroom. Totally didn't regret it.

That's my tiny room! And my feet and bags.


The rest of the photos and my experience under the cut (image heavy) )

All in all, 100% would recommend anyone who has the time and the money to spare to do this trip! This leg of the trip cost me around USD1400 (I added another train ticket to my next destination from Chicago, so I paid a little bit more than that).

Do it while you still can! (Amtrak had a reduction in force on the second day of my trip... so this is half "haha, just joking" but also half not)

MURDERBOT!!!

Friday, May 16th, 2025 10:21 pm
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After a glitch with my Apple account, their very helpful (!) customer service got me fixed up and I managed to sneak in the first episode of Murderbot before dress rehearsal, and the second one when I got home. I just finished it and am ready for more. It's a good adaptation. I never feel like adaptations replace books because there's no way to capture narrative voice in the same way in a visual medium, but there are other advantages books don't have. I love seeing actors interpret characters; it's a sort of fanfiction. The actors are all great.

Maybe I will also finally watch Ted Lasso. Severance sounds too depressing for me right now.

Wednesday Reading on Thursday

Thursday, May 15th, 2025 01:47 pm
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I returned to the AU soulmark series An Ever-Fixed Mark by AMarguerite for the second and third installments, which I enjoyed as much as the first.

That Looks on Tempests explores what might have happened if Colonel Fitzwilliam had survived Waterloo. A Dalliance with the Duke tries a different path, in which widowed Lizzy takes up with the Duke of Wellington instead of her cousin-by-marriage Darcy; this one gets a bit spicy!

For those who are not fanfiction readers, a "soulmark" story generally posits that people are born with, or attain at adolescence, a mark somewhere on their body, usually a name or a line of dialogue, that indicates one's soulmate/true love/most significant person. The best of these stories, I feel, interrogate the concept and its societal and personal implications, which the author does in this series.

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