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kathleen_dailey) wrote2023-06-11 06:04 am
kathleen_dailey) wrote2023-06-11 06:04 am
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Five things, plus one
1. I recently discovered that my down-the-hall neighbours, whom I've known well for almost 10 years and whose cats I look after when the humans are out of town, are Star Trek fans--specifically, SNW fans, and more specifically Pike fans. There was much rejoicing when we (first shyly, then squeeingly) disclosed our shared fannishness. Viewing parties are in the works.
2. The Village is definitely perking up now that Pride month is here. It's true that a lot of old-favourite bars and clubs and restaurants have vanished under the unending onslaught of posh condo development, but looking out my living room window I can still see street life of all types at all hours (including participants in this event).
3. Are beta readers a thing of the past for fanfic writers? I've been reading a lot of stories on AO3 recently, and for a surprising (to me, anyway) number of them it's clear that no one was asked to beta. Some of the stories were interesting enough that I could read past the most obvious oopsies (muddled tenses; POV slippage; internal contradictions; and errors in grammar, spelling, and syntax). Others weren't, and I couldn't.
4. My friend K., who has been travelling in Italy for the past few months, will be coming home in time to host her annual Ferragosto party in August. Her enchanted garden is the perfect setting for the mid-August lunch.
5. We managed to summon up energy and motivation to do a thorough housecleaning, which mostly means a temporary defeat of pervasive downtown dust (and, lately, soot from the wildfire smoke). It's pretty easy to keep things tidy, but almost impossible to keep them dust-free. Go us, for now at least.
6. We rewatched Auntie Mame the other night. I'm more convinced than ever that Gillian Holroyd (Bell, Book and Candle) and (the elder) Mame Dennis exist in the same universe and spacetime. I feel certain that there's a story to be told--if only I could find my way into it. Must keep trying!
2. The Village is definitely perking up now that Pride month is here. It's true that a lot of old-favourite bars and clubs and restaurants have vanished under the unending onslaught of posh condo development, but looking out my living room window I can still see street life of all types at all hours (including participants in this event).
3. Are beta readers a thing of the past for fanfic writers? I've been reading a lot of stories on AO3 recently, and for a surprising (to me, anyway) number of them it's clear that no one was asked to beta. Some of the stories were interesting enough that I could read past the most obvious oopsies (muddled tenses; POV slippage; internal contradictions; and errors in grammar, spelling, and syntax). Others weren't, and I couldn't.
4. My friend K., who has been travelling in Italy for the past few months, will be coming home in time to host her annual Ferragosto party in August. Her enchanted garden is the perfect setting for the mid-August lunch.
5. We managed to summon up energy and motivation to do a thorough housecleaning, which mostly means a temporary defeat of pervasive downtown dust (and, lately, soot from the wildfire smoke). It's pretty easy to keep things tidy, but almost impossible to keep them dust-free. Go us, for now at least.
6. We rewatched Auntie Mame the other night. I'm more convinced than ever that Gillian Holroyd (Bell, Book and Candle) and (the elder) Mame Dennis exist in the same universe and spacetime. I feel certain that there's a story to be told--if only I could find my way into it. Must keep trying!
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5. My place has SO MUCH DUST it's unreal. My house backs on to the railroad tracks and Metrolinx has cut down all the trees that used to be a sound/particulate barrier. Add the renos and there is a thick layer on anything all the time. I admit I am slack about cleaning it because it feels like a losing battle at least until the construction is done.
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5. Oh, god, Metrolinx--the social and environmental devastation it's causing is apparently unstoppable. When the trees at Osgoode Hall were cut down, I pretty much gave up hope. I figured that if the members of the Law Society--all those high-powered lawyers and judges with their immense clout--couldn't make an injunction stick, nothing and no one could. (Certainly not the residents of the Moss Park neighbourhood, who lost 60+ trees at the same time as Osgoode Hall.) And now almost 3,000 trees in the Don Valley are evidently doomed. You (and the birds and critters that probably enjoyed and depended on the railroad-embankment trees behind your house) have my complete sympathy and empathy.