01 july 2024
Books
I finished Books and Broadswords, by Jessie Mihalik. I didn't know these were actually two novellas in the same universe (with a cross-over in the epilogues), which would have been great... except I liked the first one more than the second one. Still, it was a fun read, and managed to get my head out of gesticulates wildly things last night - not bad!
Next on the list is Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, by Hwang Bo-Reum.
Went for another 22-minute run this morning to ACTUALLY DO THE RUN that I had to interrupt on Friday. It went well, and at no point did I actually feel out of breath. Which, on the one hand, may be a sign that I don't push enough (and my Garmin with its "unproductive" flag tends to agree - fuck you Garmin), but on the other hand, well, I'll take "not feeling like I'm dying", thank you very much. And it's also a large sign of progress that I am able to actually run without feeling out of breath, even if I'm slow as fuck. This was absolutely not the case a few months ago, even at the slowest pace I could manage.
I was somewhat dissociated during the whole run, but a/ it actually makes things easier b/ I can detect it and snap out of it when I'm back home, so I'm going to say I don't see the harm in that.
Pierre came with me again today, which was nice!
Writever
I decided I'm going to try to do July Writever this month, starting with the first word today "Psy" (the list is translated from French, and both lists are subtly different... which I like :). Without further ado:
Psy (noun): unit of measurement of mental pressure. 1 psy is equal to 6,895 xaviers.
Etymology: from psychic; wordplay on psi, equal to 6,895 pascals.
I'll put these on my Scribbles at some
point, but it seems like it also belongs in feels, so there it is.
Went to choir this evening - the mix of "a bunch of new pieces" and "my voice is currently fucked" was NOT a pleasant one. But it was nice seeing the people, at least :)
I posted on AlphabeticalZürich for the first time in what feels like ages - yay! Also, they updated the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons, and now the wikidata/structured data information is input in the same tab as the rest of the info. And I like that a lot better!