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1. Well I sure haven't been around much lately, have I? Does that even count as a thing, or is it just making an observation? Well, anyway, hello. I feel like I am only just now digging myself out of the pit that the flu dug for me. I started coughing on Sunday, 1/21, came home early from work the next day, and didn't leave the house again until Saturday. It was about another week and a half before I started feeling even vaguely close to my normal energy levels again. I'm close enough to entirely recovered now, but I still got very behind on life, and I sort of despair of ever catching up. Can we call a flier on the last four weeks and start over?
2. Olympics time! I kind of wish the Olympics had been two weeks ago because then I would have at least had something to do while I was lying on the couch all day. Anyway, I don't really understand this team figure skating event thing (I found this explanation from Deadspin helpful, but that doesn't tell me why they decided to do it, unless it was NBC going to the IOC and saying "figure skating brings in the best ratings, figure out a way to give us more of it")https://deadspin.com/how-seriously-should-we-take-figure-skatings-team-event-1822840248/amp, but there are worse ways to spend a couple of weekend days than watching a lot of pretty people do pretty things on ice. The Canadian ice dancers, Virtue and Moir, were like a level up to everyone else -- I loved everything about their act, from the choreography to the music choices to their attitudes. It was also pretty amazing to witness not just watch Mirai Nagasu hit her triple axel, but the reaction of the commentators, the crowd, and her fellow figure skaters to the feat. Secretly, though, I think my favorite performance of the team competition was the Italian figure skating pair, Valentina Marchei and Ondrej Hotarek. They absolutely nailed their performance, and they knew it, too. I'm sure a publicly available video will go up some day, and I hope I remember to post a link when it does.
3. However, I won't get to watch as much Olympics as usual this year, because on Thursday, T and I are heading off for a week! We'll be driving down to Los Angeles to visit museums and see a couple of his friends. Then we'll take a slightly longer drive back, stopping overnight in Paso Robles and doing some sightseeing along the way. I love road trips, so I'm happy to even be getting a mini one.
4. I neglected to mention here that the![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
ladybusiness Hugo recommendation list went up last week. If you're interested in what several of the editors are planning to put on our nomination ballots, check it out! Unfortunately, it's too late to sign up to nominate (the WSFS changed the rules and you now have to register by the end of the year, a change that was not well publicized), but if you want to vote on the final ballot, you can still join in.
5. I just discovered that TPR, one of my favorite game music remix artists, recently (well, not quite a year ago) put out an album of music inspired by Kingdom Hearts. It has been my companion for the last few days, along with some of his other collections. Definitely worth checking out his work if you enjoy downbeat and dreamy takes on game music. You will never think of the Shoopuf theme from FFX the same way again.
2. Olympics time! I kind of wish the Olympics had been two weeks ago because then I would have at least had something to do while I was lying on the couch all day. Anyway, I don't really understand this team figure skating event thing (I found this explanation from Deadspin helpful, but that doesn't tell me why they decided to do it, unless it was NBC going to the IOC and saying "figure skating brings in the best ratings, figure out a way to give us more of it")https://deadspin.com/how-seriously-should-we-take-figure-skatings-team-event-1822840248/amp, but there are worse ways to spend a couple of weekend days than watching a lot of pretty people do pretty things on ice. The Canadian ice dancers, Virtue and Moir, were like a level up to everyone else -- I loved everything about their act, from the choreography to the music choices to their attitudes. It was also pretty amazing to witness not just watch Mirai Nagasu hit her triple axel, but the reaction of the commentators, the crowd, and her fellow figure skaters to the feat. Secretly, though, I think my favorite performance of the team competition was the Italian figure skating pair, Valentina Marchei and Ondrej Hotarek. They absolutely nailed their performance, and they knew it, too. I'm sure a publicly available video will go up some day, and I hope I remember to post a link when it does.
3. However, I won't get to watch as much Olympics as usual this year, because on Thursday, T and I are heading off for a week! We'll be driving down to Los Angeles to visit museums and see a couple of his friends. Then we'll take a slightly longer drive back, stopping overnight in Paso Robles and doing some sightseeing along the way. I love road trips, so I'm happy to even be getting a mini one.
4. I neglected to mention here that the
ladybusiness Hugo recommendation list went up last week. If you're interested in what several of the editors are planning to put on our nomination ballots, check it out! Unfortunately, it's too late to sign up to nominate (the WSFS changed the rules and you now have to register by the end of the year, a change that was not well publicized), but if you want to vote on the final ballot, you can still join in.5. I just discovered that TPR, one of my favorite game music remix artists, recently (well, not quite a year ago) put out an album of music inspired by Kingdom Hearts. It has been my companion for the last few days, along with some of his other collections. Definitely worth checking out his work if you enjoy downbeat and dreamy takes on game music. You will never think of the Shoopuf theme from FFX the same way again.
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