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Did lightbird sign up for yet another bingo card

when she hasn't even started working on the first one she signed up for?

Yes she did.

College / University / Education	The Early Hours before Dawn	When I'm 64: Future	Vignette	Left Brain / Right Brain
Race Against Time	Summertime (and the Livin' is Easy)	Music	Season of Mists (Autumn Colours, Sensations, Activities and Festivals)	Hey, it's that guy: Minor characters
Speech-deprived	Diaries and Journals	Wild Card	Nightwear	Implacable
Water	Introspection	Canon Themes	Trousers (Pants)	Stream of Consciousness
Cooking	Protectiveness	Mistaken Identity	Eclipses and other Astronomical Events	Closets, caves and other tight spaces

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The Friday Five

From

thefridayfive:

1. If you had to participate in one Olympic event, what would it be and why?

Well, considering I would absolutely lose any Olympic event, I have to base this on how fun it looks. Slalom kayak looks fun and unhinged. No idea what's going on when I watch it, but I'd have a good time.

2. What is the one song you always sing along to?

It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine), the slalom kayak of songs.

3. Do you wear a seatbelt in the car?

Of course.

4. Car, SUV or truck and why?

Kayak. Cooler. Zero emissions. Super fun. Granted, not convenient for commuting or going to the grocery store though.

5. Are you a good/bad driver? Explain.

Good. Not sure what there is to explain. I pay attention and obey traffic rules. I do not treat the roads like I'm in the slalom kayak event at the Olympics.

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Thank you for being here

As this US Thanksgiving weekend draws to a close, I'd like to tell you, my Dreamwidth community, how very thankful I am for you. ♥

You are my fannish air and breath. You are a refuge. You are a delight. I look forward to what you share with me. I love what DW gives us, this text-driven, words-rich, open world of connections we choose.

I wish there were more of us. I wish we all had more time and spoons to play here with each other. I wish fandom still practiced certain customs that it doesn't seem to anymore.

But that's okay. I have you. And I'm truly grateful.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Exhibitions

After a rather soggy parkrun and the necessary showering and changing afterwards, I set out to London to see the Secret Maps exhibition at the British Library. Lots of interesting exhibits. But with many things on display that invited you to linger, I don't think the exhibition layout really suited that. People kept getting bunched up at certain points. And I left the exhibition feeling I could have done with more of a narrative, or more obvious themes. There clearly were some, but arranged across the exhibition space in a way that I couldn't follow.

The weather had helpfully cleared up so I walked to the British Museum and braved the crowds to go see the Nordic noir: works on paper from Edvard Munch to Mamma Andersson in the print room. It was really wonderful, plenty of interesting, thought-provoking, and beautiful things to see.

I was thinking of going to browse some books afterwards but I was feeling tired enough not to fancy it, so that and a detour to Scandi Kitchen was enough for today.

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Wednesday reading

Finished since the last reading post
The Instrumentalist, which I liked very much, although the protagonist kept annoying me at times by being so blinkered in her ambition.

Currently reading
Not much progress with The Alignment Problem. Reading Death of a Scholar by Susanna Gregory and have less than 50 pages to go, and I still have no idea how it's going to play out at the end.

Reading next
I have another library book lined up, beyond that I'm not sure