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Sep. 5th, 2016 11:17 amI slept poorly last night. I went back and forth between too warm and too cold, and Cordelia got up several times because she couldn’t sleep, either.
The last week or so, every time I look in the mirror, I’ve been struck by how exhausted and worn down I look. I’ve got bags under my eyes, reddish ones. I’m not entirely sure what’s going on with that because I’ve been sleeping decently most nights.
I meant to run the dishwasher last night, but I forgot. I can fit some of the breakfast dishes in but not all of them. I also can’t run the dratted thing until after Scott showers, so it will be lunch time with more dirty dishes that won’t fit. It also means I can’t wash my water bottle because there’s no way that the dishwasher will be done before we leave. I’m not going without my water bottle.
We’re heading up to Scott’s parents’ house in the early afternoon. We need to stop at the store on the way up there because Scott’s mother asked us to bring some berries. Scott and I agreed that those would not be better for sitting the fridge for two days. We also need to buy bread because we’re out, and more hotdog buns because Scott’s mother asked for eight but Scott bought some fancy kind that come six to a bag. I’m pretty sure he didn’t even look at how many there were. The family is more likely to eat brats than turkey burgers, and there will be eight or nine of us. (Our nephew might or might not be there. He’s seventeen.) Scott’s mother and sister are gluten free, so they won’t eat any buns. I’m not sure how the arithmetic works out, but more buns is likely to be better than too few because Scott’s parents won’t have bread around that can be used to improvise.
The current plan is for everyone but me to go out on the boat. None of us are really expecting that to happen because, every time they’ve tried to get that to happen this summer, the weather has not cooperated. It could happen but not seems like the way to bet.
If they do go on the boat, I will likely write. I don’t know that I’ll be online because their internet isn’t so very reliable. I need to make sure I have offline copies of the documents I’ve been working on so that I can keep writing them. I very badly want to find the end of this Amber fic so that I can go on to other things. I haven’t looked very hard for a beta reader yet, and I kind of (very much) don’t want to deal with that. I think whether or not I do will depend on how I’m feeling when I finish. I might just give the story a once over for obvious errors and post it.
I was talking to a friend who doesn’t know the Amber canon last night and trying to explain the character backstories and interconnections. The main thing she got from it was that there was no way these characters wouldn’t be massively messed up, psychologically speaking. Zelazny didn’t write them that way (I suspect because that’s a thing that didn’t interest him). I also concluded that, in the Merlin books, Zelazny found Luke more interesting than Merlin. Zelazny talks very, very fast to keep Luke in the story. He’s not constantly there, but he keeps coming back, and none of the people who really ought to want to kill him even try to.
I was right— The DVDs that some helpful library employee added to my hold list are still not close captioned. They’re tagged, in the catalog, with a subject heading that claims that they are, but they are decidedly not. There are no captions in any language. Acorn Media, in my experience, never does captions. The holds came about because I complained that I couldn’t tell what was and wasn’t close captioned by looking at the online catalog. I specified three things I’d tried that didn’t have captions and that I’d been completely unable to watch as a result. I never heard back, but two of those three things somehow ended up on my holds list. I let it go because it was at least remotely possible that the library had acquired a new edition that did have captions.
I’m kind of inclined to send a second message pointing out that putting a subject heading on a DVD record that says 'Video recordings for the hearing impaired' does not, in fact, magically produce captioning on a DVD that didn’t have it before.
There are some things that I can follow fine without captions, but there are also things that I really, really can’t. My hearing is fine as far as I know, but without captions, I can only follow actors who enunciate well and only on a soundtrack that is clear. I think it has more to do with things on the screen moving too fast for me than with not hearing. If there’s more coming, I lose whatever takes too long to process. It’s why I can’t follow most vids, even for canons I know reasonably well.
The last week or so, every time I look in the mirror, I’ve been struck by how exhausted and worn down I look. I’ve got bags under my eyes, reddish ones. I’m not entirely sure what’s going on with that because I’ve been sleeping decently most nights.
I meant to run the dishwasher last night, but I forgot. I can fit some of the breakfast dishes in but not all of them. I also can’t run the dratted thing until after Scott showers, so it will be lunch time with more dirty dishes that won’t fit. It also means I can’t wash my water bottle because there’s no way that the dishwasher will be done before we leave. I’m not going without my water bottle.
We’re heading up to Scott’s parents’ house in the early afternoon. We need to stop at the store on the way up there because Scott’s mother asked us to bring some berries. Scott and I agreed that those would not be better for sitting the fridge for two days. We also need to buy bread because we’re out, and more hotdog buns because Scott’s mother asked for eight but Scott bought some fancy kind that come six to a bag. I’m pretty sure he didn’t even look at how many there were. The family is more likely to eat brats than turkey burgers, and there will be eight or nine of us. (Our nephew might or might not be there. He’s seventeen.) Scott’s mother and sister are gluten free, so they won’t eat any buns. I’m not sure how the arithmetic works out, but more buns is likely to be better than too few because Scott’s parents won’t have bread around that can be used to improvise.
The current plan is for everyone but me to go out on the boat. None of us are really expecting that to happen because, every time they’ve tried to get that to happen this summer, the weather has not cooperated. It could happen but not seems like the way to bet.
If they do go on the boat, I will likely write. I don’t know that I’ll be online because their internet isn’t so very reliable. I need to make sure I have offline copies of the documents I’ve been working on so that I can keep writing them. I very badly want to find the end of this Amber fic so that I can go on to other things. I haven’t looked very hard for a beta reader yet, and I kind of (very much) don’t want to deal with that. I think whether or not I do will depend on how I’m feeling when I finish. I might just give the story a once over for obvious errors and post it.
I was talking to a friend who doesn’t know the Amber canon last night and trying to explain the character backstories and interconnections. The main thing she got from it was that there was no way these characters wouldn’t be massively messed up, psychologically speaking. Zelazny didn’t write them that way (I suspect because that’s a thing that didn’t interest him). I also concluded that, in the Merlin books, Zelazny found Luke more interesting than Merlin. Zelazny talks very, very fast to keep Luke in the story. He’s not constantly there, but he keeps coming back, and none of the people who really ought to want to kill him even try to.
I was right— The DVDs that some helpful library employee added to my hold list are still not close captioned. They’re tagged, in the catalog, with a subject heading that claims that they are, but they are decidedly not. There are no captions in any language. Acorn Media, in my experience, never does captions. The holds came about because I complained that I couldn’t tell what was and wasn’t close captioned by looking at the online catalog. I specified three things I’d tried that didn’t have captions and that I’d been completely unable to watch as a result. I never heard back, but two of those three things somehow ended up on my holds list. I let it go because it was at least remotely possible that the library had acquired a new edition that did have captions.
I’m kind of inclined to send a second message pointing out that putting a subject heading on a DVD record that says 'Video recordings for the hearing impaired' does not, in fact, magically produce captioning on a DVD that didn’t have it before.
There are some things that I can follow fine without captions, but there are also things that I really, really can’t. My hearing is fine as far as I know, but without captions, I can only follow actors who enunciate well and only on a soundtrack that is clear. I think it has more to do with things on the screen moving too fast for me than with not hearing. If there’s more coming, I lose whatever takes too long to process. It’s why I can’t follow most vids, even for canons I know reasonably well.
