2020-May-12, Tuesday

Timeless Space quiz

2020-May-12, Tuesday 09:23
dorchadas: (Dreams are older)
  • I Feel: amused
  • I Hear: The Dust Collective - 'Guile'
No, not the Sluggy Freelance arc.

Found this quiz on Tumblr last night and while usually I take them and just let them go--my Dragon-Blooded aspect is Wood, for whatever it matters--this one stuck with me enough that I wanted to preserve it. So here's the What Type of Timeless Space Are You? quiz. Here's my answer:
stepping outside of the house during a party
You step out into the night sky. It's sometime between 1am and 4am. The door closes and the music is muffled, bleeding into the silent night. A tipsy smile on your face, a reoccurring feeling that you have to remember this moment, you have to remember the feeling of the blush on your face, of the bacardi on your lips, of the blurred twinkling of the stars, of the muffled ABBA song playing from your best friend's Bluetooth speaker. Some day this will be a memory, some day when you are old and grey, this will be a memory and you will smile for the feelings you once had and mourn the loss of them. Appreciate the slowness of time, it is slowing so you can appreciate it properly. Is it working? Things are going to change whether that is a comfort or not, and time will not be so kind, but for now you are here. Your feet are firm on the ground and it is all you can do to appreciate the time you've been given, it's yours to spend, it's yours to make memories with, and it is your responsibility to gift these memories to yourself. So full of life, so young, time does not stop for you, but it is slowing right now. Remember this moment, when you're surrounded by friends. You sit under the stars for hours. When you go back inside, the ABBA song reaches its final verse.
Some of my best party moments have been when I stepped outside to chat with the people who were gathered around a fire or huddled under a light or out of the wind.

We're all in timeless space so often now--find out what version of it you are.
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Laser B'Omer and Cemetery Walks

2020-May-12, Tuesday 12:32
dorchadas: (Warcraft Moonkin Moonfire)
  • I Feel: chipper
  • I Hear: Anamanaguchi - Up to You
Happy Lag B'Omer, the holiday where Jews light bonfires, remember the students of Rabbi Akiva who were killed in a plague which may or may not be a metaphor for remembering the people who died in the Bar Kochka Rebellion of 132 CE, hold weddings, play with archery, cut our hair, and emerge from our caves and turn our laser eyes on those who are too concerned with worldly matters rather than the eternal study of Torah.

Rashbi Laser Eyes
You think I'm joking?

Obviously, during the Plague Year all we can do is use our laser eyes, so watch out. Emoji Awesomeface Cylon

Just got another email from work, saying that work from home is extending into June, but they can't say for how long. We're stuck in germ jail at least through the end of the month, and they rightly point out that some people might not be comfortable riding mass transit or being in the office if they're vulnerable to coronavirus or live with someone who does. I don't, and I don't have any comorbidities that I know of other than having had pneumonia when I was a teenager, so I would actually be fine going into work and riding the L if they did reopen the office. But I'm not going to complain if I get to sit on the couch with my laptop for longer, like I'm doing right now.

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I'd been walking in the cemetery nearby, and that tradition continues. Since that post I've gone a couple more times, with [twitter.com profile] worldbshiny and with [instagram.com profile] britshlez, and last time I went I took pictures! Here's a few:

( Memento Mori )

It's sunny today, but still a bit chilly (13 °C), but that's not why I won't go on a long walk today. I'm waiting for a delivery from Takara Sake, which is currently out for delivery. It's mostly cooking mirin, which thanks to American liquor laws I still have to be present to sign for it, but since I already had to be present to sign for it anyway I went ahead and ordered a bunch of sake too. I don't drink by myself, but by the time we're out of germ jail, my liquor cabinet is going to be extremely well-stocked.

And now, lunch time. 🧇
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