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1. 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.
3. Destiel is real! Potentially one-sided, but real. I am flooded with affection for this show I haven't watched in years.
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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.
3. Destiel is real! Potentially one-sided, but real. I am flooded with affection for this show I haven't watched in years.
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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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Second, I am soooo thoroughly surprised by what is going on in Georgia right now. It is some much needed light in all of the darkness.
Third, SPN!!!!! I can't believe that we got a love confession from Castiel! I had to get out of my seat during that scene I was so full of emotion. Again, some much needed light in all of this darkness.
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I am so proud of my state. I think we are proof of the change that is coming.
I am amazed at SPN! I hope he doesn't stay dead. That would be a shame. But there's still two more episodes.
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And it seems like those two senator seats could flip if everyone really pushes to get out the vote. Fingers crossed!
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I am crossing my fingers about flipping those seats. As soon as we can vote in the runoff, I'll be there.
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You would think that any lab could run tests for mono. Years ago I don't remember it being so tough to figure it out when my brother got it. Maybe the doctors just don't have the knowledge these days or lack the country doctor education they used to get years ago? When my brother got it he was diagnosed by our old country doctor! He's dead now but just saying...
Yes for the unexpected timely money though.
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I am so grateful to my parents. Such kindness.
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2) So surprising yet awesome! I envy y'all. I really thought we might pull that off this time, too. But no.
3) That was so startling, and I think I'm mostly happy about it. Except you know what happened to him right after, which feels kind of like a throwback to the old 80s trope. (I am trying to be oblique to avoid spoilers here, just in case.)
4) Oh, I love "Happy Endings." I taught it a couple of times when I did intro lit classes, and yeah, students always responded well to it.
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I'm holding out hope that he isn't Gone gone; there's still a couple more eps to go. *crosses fingers*
Another of hers that students respond really well to is this poem:
You Fit into Me
you fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye
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And yay Georgia! I've been so disappointed at how many Americans looked at the trash fire of the past four years and signed on for more. But the shift in Georgia, the empowerment of younger voters and voters of color, I think is who we're becoming.
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I am so grateful to my parents. They have been extremely financially generous to us over the past twenty years.
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