Thursday Memage ...
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shadowkatRead through correspondence list. So just to let you know? I read, I just don't tend to comment - because, I can't think of anything to say outside of - oh, that's interesting, thanks for sharing.
What is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to list or talk about.
1. Re-watching Buffy
2. Kate Daniels Magic Series Graphic Audio Dramatization
3. The Rook by Daniel O'Malley is entertaining me on the train
4. My new bookshelf
5. Gregory's Coffee - has great Matcha Latte's unsweetened and Decafe Cappuccinos.
6. Revising my novel and fixing plot bunnies
7. Flowers
8. The trees and sky outside my living room window
9. Working at the tip of Manhattan near Battery Park and the Piers, with various places to get food from nearby
10. Podcasts by Schmactors, interviews with actors, and various actors on the process of acting, the latest is Katee Sackoff (Starbuck from BSG). [I love listening to the process of acting and putting together a stage play, film, or television show - I love to live vicariously through them, mainly because it's a path I chose not to follow for good reasons and I don't regret that choice - but I love listening to them discuss the process of acting, how they approach a role, etc - I'm not interested in the personal stuff. I love listening to people discuss their work or their hobbies or what they do - because let's face it that's what we spend most of our time doing. It makes me happy.)
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I've thought about it? If I were in charge? I'd arrange for teachers to be paid for the entire year including the summer, with the caveat that they either do summer school for one month or a course or tutoring. They get at least one month off paid vacation. Paid for Spring Break and Christmas.
And have some latitude on materials. And smaller class room sizes.
Allow for creativity. And provide a housing stipend, also pay for transportation. Of course I want this for everyone.
Why can't I have a world where folks have equal access to health care, housing, food, entertainment, work, and love? I'm tired of the Selfish Entitled Assholes Ruling the world - can the Universe kill them off already? [Rhetorical questions - mileage may vary on this - and if it does, I'd rather not know?]
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July Question a Day Meme
14. Do you enjoy mocktails/cocktails? What’s your favourite?
Not really. Sugar is involved. I avoid sugar. Alcohol will burn off the sugar - but you know, alcohol - which causes other health related issues and drug interactions. So, I don't drink cocktails or mocktails at all any longer.
15. When was the last time you saw any bees?
About two days ago - on the flowers? I've not been walking around the flowers recently as much - because it's been really hot. Today it was 92F/32C.
16. Do you know any sign language? Have you heard of Makaton?
Not really. No.
17. If you enjoy tea, how do you make it – with a teabag, with loose-leaf tea, in a mug or in a teapot?
Usually a teabag, loose leaf requires more work. In a mug, since again teapot is work and mess, and I like easy. Also as far as I can tell there's not a lot of difference. I do have a tea infuser. I take black tea and matcha with milk (usually unsweetened oat or almond/coconut milk). Herbal without.
Right now, I'm into Matcha Lattes, which isn't a tea so much as a powder.
Stronger than green tea, with more curative power.
18. Are you good at arranging cut flowers? Have you ever tried Ikebana?
No, I suck at it. I don't know what Ikebana is? I looked it up HERE - and no. I've not tried it.
I know people who are amazing at it - a co-worker is a floral arranger and florist - she raises her own flowers, and buys cut flowers and creates amazing arrangements, with dyes and everything.
But, I get cut flowers, and I screw it up - I can't figure out the slant, have no patience, and I don't handle plants well? Also I'm allergic to flowers slightly? So I don't tend to get cut flowers that often? And mold really - allergic? And no room for them?
I can photograph and draw and paint them, though?
See?
What is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to list or talk about.
1. Re-watching Buffy
2. Kate Daniels Magic Series Graphic Audio Dramatization
3. The Rook by Daniel O'Malley is entertaining me on the train
4. My new bookshelf
5. Gregory's Coffee - has great Matcha Latte's unsweetened and Decafe Cappuccinos.
6. Revising my novel and fixing plot bunnies
7. Flowers
8. The trees and sky outside my living room window
9. Working at the tip of Manhattan near Battery Park and the Piers, with various places to get food from nearby
10. Podcasts by Schmactors, interviews with actors, and various actors on the process of acting, the latest is Katee Sackoff (Starbuck from BSG). [I love listening to the process of acting and putting together a stage play, film, or television show - I love to live vicariously through them, mainly because it's a path I chose not to follow for good reasons and I don't regret that choice - but I love listening to them discuss the process of acting, how they approach a role, etc - I'm not interested in the personal stuff. I love listening to people discuss their work or their hobbies or what they do - because let's face it that's what we spend most of our time doing. It makes me happy.)
***
I've thought about it? If I were in charge? I'd arrange for teachers to be paid for the entire year including the summer, with the caveat that they either do summer school for one month or a course or tutoring. They get at least one month off paid vacation. Paid for Spring Break and Christmas.
And have some latitude on materials. And smaller class room sizes.
Allow for creativity. And provide a housing stipend, also pay for transportation. Of course I want this for everyone.
Why can't I have a world where folks have equal access to health care, housing, food, entertainment, work, and love? I'm tired of the Selfish Entitled Assholes Ruling the world - can the Universe kill them off already? [Rhetorical questions - mileage may vary on this - and if it does, I'd rather not know?]
***
July Question a Day Meme
14. Do you enjoy mocktails/cocktails? What’s your favourite?
Not really. Sugar is involved. I avoid sugar. Alcohol will burn off the sugar - but you know, alcohol - which causes other health related issues and drug interactions. So, I don't drink cocktails or mocktails at all any longer.
15. When was the last time you saw any bees?
About two days ago - on the flowers? I've not been walking around the flowers recently as much - because it's been really hot. Today it was 92F/32C.
16. Do you know any sign language? Have you heard of Makaton?
Not really. No.
17. If you enjoy tea, how do you make it – with a teabag, with loose-leaf tea, in a mug or in a teapot?
Usually a teabag, loose leaf requires more work. In a mug, since again teapot is work and mess, and I like easy. Also as far as I can tell there's not a lot of difference. I do have a tea infuser. I take black tea and matcha with milk (usually unsweetened oat or almond/coconut milk). Herbal without.
Right now, I'm into Matcha Lattes, which isn't a tea so much as a powder.
Stronger than green tea, with more curative power.
18. Are you good at arranging cut flowers? Have you ever tried Ikebana?
No, I suck at it. I don't know what Ikebana is? I looked it up HERE - and no. I've not tried it.
I know people who are amazing at it - a co-worker is a floral arranger and florist - she raises her own flowers, and buys cut flowers and creates amazing arrangements, with dyes and everything.
But, I get cut flowers, and I screw it up - I can't figure out the slant, have no patience, and I don't handle plants well? Also I'm allergic to flowers slightly? So I don't tend to get cut flowers that often? And mold really - allergic? And no room for them?
I can photograph and draw and paint them, though?
See?