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this is the good shit
Nov. 6th, 2020 01:34 pm1. I just got a totally unexpected card from my parents with a check for huge sum of money. Dad gave my brother his old Easy Go golf cart, bought himself a new one, and sent us a check for what he estimates to be the price of the old one he gave my brother. I am utterly floored. So generous and amazing. We spent a large chunk of our savings on the new car after the accident with the bear, and I am starting to get the bills for all the bloodwork I had done. I just got the EOB for the bloodwork the rheumatologist did in the spring; it was sent to this special lab out in Arizona, which is obviously out of network LOL, and so looks like I'm going to be on the hook for $1500 worth of labs just for that visit alone, not to mention all the doc visits + labs this fall figuring out the mono. So this is timely and deeply appreciated.
2. GA is going blue!!!!!! Even if in the end the state still goes for Trump, I am feeling heartened that it is so close. Things are changing in this state, and that is powerful.
( cut for spoilers for latest SPN episode )
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Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is my favorite Atwood short story collection (so far; I still have a couple of the most recent ones to read). It contains my two favorite short stories of hers--"Happy Endings" and "There Was Once." These are both excellent to teach; students respond really well to them.
She's so funny. The epigraph for "The Female Body" makes clear that someone has written about her work in an academic journal, saying that she's written extensively on the topic of the female body. The story begins: "I get up in the morning. My topic feels like hell." Maybe it won't translate as funny in this review, but I genuinely LOLed when I read that line.
Love these lines from "Homelanding" which remind me so much of Vandermeer's Southern Reach Trilogy: "teeth, by means of which I destroy and assimilate certain parts of my surroundings and change them into my self." (space between my and self is deliberate and lovely)
Highly recommended.
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2. GA is going blue!!!!!! Even if in the end the state still goes for Trump, I am feeling heartened that it is so close. Things are changing in this state, and that is powerful.
( cut for spoilers for latest SPN episode )
4.
Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret AtwoodMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is my favorite Atwood short story collection (so far; I still have a couple of the most recent ones to read). It contains my two favorite short stories of hers--"Happy Endings" and "There Was Once." These are both excellent to teach; students respond really well to them.
She's so funny. The epigraph for "The Female Body" makes clear that someone has written about her work in an academic journal, saying that she's written extensively on the topic of the female body. The story begins: "I get up in the morning. My topic feels like hell." Maybe it won't translate as funny in this review, but I genuinely LOLed when I read that line.
Love these lines from "Homelanding" which remind me so much of Vandermeer's Southern Reach Trilogy: "teeth, by means of which I destroy and assimilate certain parts of my surroundings and change them into my self." (space between my and self is deliberate and lovely)
Highly recommended.
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