highlyeccentric

In today's Coptic homework I've been translating from the Constantine of Assyut's (almost certainly pseudonymous) second Encomium for Athanasius, and came across this absolute gem.

ⲡⲥⲛⲥⲓⲱⲧ ⲙⲉⲛ ⲁⲑⲁⲛⲁⲥⲓⲟⲥ ⲁϥϯ ⲛⲧⲇⲓⲕⲁⲓⲟⲥⲩⲛⲏ ϩⲓⲱⲱϥ ϩⲛ ⲟⲩϩⲃⲥⲱ ⲙⲙⲛⲧⲟⲩⲏⲏⲃ. ⲛⲉⲕⲗⲏⲣⲓⲕⲟⲥ ϩⲱⲟⲩ ⲙⲡⲉⲓⲕⲁⲓⲣⲟⲥ ϯϯ ⲥⲟ ⲉϫⲟⲟⲥ ϫⲉ ⲁⲩϯ ⲛⲧⲙⲛⲧⲣⲉϥϯϩⲉ ϩⲓⲱⲟⲩ ϩⲛ ⲟⲩϩⲃⲥⲱ ⲉⲥⲗⲁⲁⲙ ⲏ ⲛⲑⲉ ⲛϩⲉⲛⲧⲟⲉⲓⲥ ⲛϣⲣⲱ.

"Indeed, the most holy Athanasius clothed himself in righteousness with a priestly garment. As for the clerics of this age themselves, I refrain from saying that they clothed themselves in drunkenness with a filthy garment, like menstrual rags."

And my dude, my dude, that is an abject failure on your part to refrain from saying what you clearly desperately wanted to say.

sabotabby

This has been the longest and coldest winter ever but today was Peak Cherry Weekend at High Park so

ioplokon and I did the thing.

( cut for people who don't want to see more cherry blossoms and a cool duck )

nanila

Do you like to spend time outdoors?

Yes! I like walking, hiking and swimming outside. I don’t get to do any of those things often enough, but when I do, they make me very happy.
What is your favorite flower?

Whichever ones are currently in bloom. Right now it’s the tulips, and an iris just opened so for a few days it will be them as they're ephemeral. The roses are getting ready to go as well, and all of our rose bushes are bursting with buds this year which is nice to see.
Any favourite warm weather activities?

Gardening for hours, and then sitting on the lawn afterward with a refreshing cold beverage, admiring my handiwork and planning what to do next.
Have you ever kept a garden? If so, what did you grow?

Yes! I’m not really the architect of our garden. The layout is all the bloke’s handiwork. I like weeding, trimming, and helping out the flowering plants and veg he chooses.
Do you know how to swim?

Yes, but not particularly well. I do wish I’d had proper swimming lessons as a child. Both my children swim very well because of their lessons, and Humuhumu has done lifesaving courses too.

soricel

Random Community of the day:

swbookclub

This is a community for people who want to read and talk about Star Wars books. They seem to have covered a *lot* of SW books over the years! It looks like they do a poll to choose each month's book, divide the books up into four chunks, and have discussion posts on weekends. That seems like a cool way to do a book club on here, actually...makes me wonder if there are any communities doing something similar!

rmc28

I have slept so much this week. Both Wednesday and Thursday evening I had a miraculous lack of commitments, and both evenings I thought "I could get a bunch of things done now" and instead ... went to sleep. And re-read Ocean's Echo because I needed a comfort reread, apparently.

Anyway, I had Friday off work and Monday is a bank holiday, and I spent my day off going to Woking and back to buy new ice hockey skates from the place my friend works. She's only been telling me since last July I will benefit from new skates, and I have finally reached a point of "ok FINE I will SPEND MONEY then". (In April I bought a new chestpad and a new pair of shorts, both from Bauer's women's range, both on visits to Puckstop opposite iceSheffield when I was there for Nationals, both providing this weird feeling of stuff actually fitting as opposed to simply covering the relevant body areas.) I had a lovely time picking out new skates with friend L: they are very pretty and fit amazingly, but also I am having to relearn how to skate in them and it feels very odd.

Today and Sunday I have the last two Kodiaks 2 "home" games of the season in Peterborough (we have one last game next weekend, away at Coventry). I'm going to keep using my old skates for these games because I'm not solid enough in the new ones yet. On Monday evening I have CUIHC full club formal hall, and a pretty green velvet dress to wear to it, thanks to a charity shop run at the end of January.

nanila posting in

awesomeers

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

olivermoss

Coach Jess Campbell is not resigning with Seattle.

First woman to coach a national team, first to coach at the AHL level full time, first to be a coach at the NHL level. She's advanced a lot within the Kraken franchise, but she's not going to keep progressing within the franchise currently and has had offers elsewhere. She was a skating and player development coach with us and used to run sought after off season skate clinics. She broke the glass ceiling a few times within hockey and seems to have her eyes set on continuing to progress her career.

Sharks and Blue Jackets are rumored to be in the mix for her. A team with an overall younger average age is going to want her more and use her more. Honestly, should have seen this coming, just thought she'd just stay in Seattle forever.

Lots of Torrent coaching rumors, but that's wishful thinking. She's said she's set on NHL. Her on the Torrent would solve a host of issues, but, well, she's above their pay grade.

Fuck

(If she signs with the Sharks I will cry)

conuly

After this week. Because after this week, we should have paid off the gas and electric bills, yay!

But yeah, one or two weeks of crunch is one thing, a string of them is something very different.

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( Read more... )

olivermoss

I know the difference between a graveyard and a cemetery (even if I always forget which is which). But, what do you call it it when it's... sort of a cross between a mausoleum and a series of patios?

We've got a few of these multi-crypt al fresco experiences in Portland. I'm a fan. If I did want a crypt, a patio with a view of the forest and also 4 volcanoes would be the ideal. It was a hazy day, so I saw St Helens and the others, but pictures are meh.

Also, turns out I have an older edition of the Portland Stairs book, which is why this:

107 step climb wasn't on my checklist. I might need to get a newer copy. I also hit a nearby 167 staircase.

( More graveyard, crypt and stair pics )

I am going to need to reshoot the crypts, I can do better. Man, am I... a bit rusty at certain types of shots?

kaberett

Today has been. the first time in A While that I have spent mostly horizontal and mostly asleep on account of migraine, despite drugs. I am Not A Fan.

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runpunkrun posting in

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It's that time of the year again! When it's whatever season wherever you are, and our prompt is seasonal foods.

To fill this prompt, you can:

Slide into the comments of this post and share a link to a recipe, product, or resource and why you like it.
Write up a favorite recipe and post it to the comm.
Post a review of a related product or cookbook to the comm.
Try someone's recipe and reply to their post (or comment) with any changes you made and how it turned out.

Monthly prompts are only for inspiration and not a requirement. You can post whatever you like to the comm whenever you like as long as it meets the community guidelines.

And, a reminder, you can now tag your own posts.

nanila

Watch on YouTube

This month features Trieste, Venice, Durham, and ice cream, as well as the usual dosages of children and cats.

On another note, I have just sent an e-mail to the wrong person with the same name *three* times. I think I need to step away from the keyboard for a bit.

soricel

Today's Random Community...

fanart_recs

Yeah, this is a community in which people rec fanart! I've never made fanart (well, except when I was a kid), and it's not something I've ever really sought out...though I can see the appeal. Glancing through the first few dozen entries, I saw a lot of Heated Rivalry and BTS stuff, but there are tags for a pretty wide range of other fandoms too. I got excited to see a bunch of posts for Sense8 fanart, but sadly a lot of the links are dead...I got a kick out of this one though!

Also, wow, this community has been around and seemingly pretty active since 2010!

conuly

All my responses were silent because they really weren't appropriate for the context, which is that somebody in the thread has a seriously ill relative.

Supportive poster: It's so great that so many of us will come out to support each other with prayer, we're so blessed that this team is so kind, I shall natter on religiously for a really inordinately long comment.

Me: She's being kind and supportive. This is not the time. Don't make it awkward, Connie!

Same supportive poster: Uh, I mean, of course, there are plenty of non-religious people and even atheists who are also really good and kind people too!

Me: God damn it, lady, you just made it awkward! Fuck you so much! Think before you post the first thing, then you won't find yourself making it awkward later!

sabotabby

I have had this one open in a tab most of the week so I would remember to tell you about it. Podside Picnic's "Minnesota NoICE" interviews

naomikritzer ,

lydamorehouse , Marissa Lingen, and J.R. Dawson about their experiences during ICE's occupation of the Twin Cities during Operation Metro Surge.

Look. I think these people are heroes. I think every single person who fought back against a fascist paramilitary that was abducting people from their homes and workplaces, torturing them, putting them in concentration camps, sometimes gunning them down in the streets, is a hero. Any act of resistance that throws sand in those gears is worthy of celebration, and there were a lot of those acts.

The thing is as you can tell by the tagging, I know two of these heroes as people. That to me is what really blew me away listening to this episode. I am currently reading a book about resistance to the Nazis that does amazing work humanizing each and every character, but I don't know any of them personally, so it's easy to imagine that they are somehow larger than life, special people who have qualities that I can never possess. Whereas the folks interviewed in this episode are people basically like me (well, more successful in their writing careers lol) and it was genuinely empowering listening to people just describing what they did. Because it's absolutely heroic but it is heroism that required no particular special skills or background or even executive functioning. A thing needed to be done, they did the thing, they are still doing the thing. It's enough to make you weep.

You still need to do the laundry when the fascists roll in, and this is a podcast episode about that, and everyone should give it a listen.

rmc28

Books on pre-order:

Platform Decay (Murderbot 8) by Martha Wells (5 May)
Radiant Star (Imperial Radch) by Ann Leckie (12 May)
Call Me Traitor by Everina Maxwell (1 Dec)
Unrivaled (Game Changers 7) by Rachel Reid (1 Jun 2027)

Books acquired in April:

and unread:
1. Greater Good (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy 2) by Timothy Zahn
and previously read:
1. Warhorse by Timothy Zahn

Borrowed books read in April:

Like Real People Do by E.L. Massey
Like You've Nothing Left to Prove by E.L. Massey
Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan

Rereads in April:

Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell

April had a lot of ice hockey and a lot of driving (including two separate Nationals tournaments), and thus relatively little reading. One day I will actually read the Thrawn books, honest ...

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olivermoss

First part of my day went well. Did some cemetery and staircase photography. Yes, had a very Me day. Listened to Memento Mori on audiobook while photographing crypts. Knocked a 167 step staircase off of my list.

Got home, showered, got dressed, and went off to a gaming event! Then my bus was cancelled. And Lyft was like 'oh, you want to get across town at rush hour?' muahahaha. I decided to just start hoofing it and walked toward the event until the cost to get the rest of the way there hit just thirty bucks.

Ever go to a charity event and literally be the only one who showed? Besides me, who sniped a seat as soon as the event went live, someone booked *every other seat at the Extra Life gaming charity event* and then didn't show. It was me, a lady from the children's hospital and a sick kid. Yeah, that fucking sucked. Especially since this was the brewpub I game at, my gaming community, that fucked this up.

The guy running it cancelled the event. I talked to the lady a bit and headed home. The bus I typically take there was allegedly going to start running again in an hour, but that might have been a placeholder rather than a real projected. So, I took another bus, one that would need transfers. Walked to eh bus stop, the bus stop was closed. Walked to the next... closed. I eventually got to a non-closed stop and had to run flat out to catch the bus.

On the way home I just got off at a point and decided to walk the rest of the way, rather than deal with transfers. I knocked out a few more stairs on my list? Oh wait, Terry Schrunk Plaza Park Stairs aren't even on the list I am working from? ugh

I am going to sleep like the dead tonight.

Hopefully, I can edit the photos soon. I feel like one at least is going to be cool

sabotabby

maevedarcy is posting a meme a day for 3 Weeks 4 Dreamwidth and well, of course I had to.

This week I'm reading: Here Where We Live Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple

My favorite book of all time is: I don't really have one. I have favourites for different purposes, like Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy for turning me into, alas, a comedic speculative fiction writer, or Vita Nostra for rewiring my brain, or Moby-Dick for becoming my entire personality for two years, or or or.

My current favorite book (read or re-read in the last 3 months) is: The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar

The last book I bought was: It's on pre-order, but Obstetrix by

naomikritzer .

The first book I bought with my own money was: I honestly have no idea.

The first book I received as a gift was: It would have been a children's book? Maybe The Little Prince or Alice's Adventures In Wonderland or something, both of which I was always pretty obsessed with.

The last book I received as a gift was: Always On by Helena Trooperman

The last book I borrowed from the library was: Grendel by John Gardner

The book physically closest to me right now is: There are no books physically close to me because nearly everything is on ebook. The closest paper book is Wake Up! (Book Winter) by R Merey, because tRaum books are beautiful and I paid a dumb amount to get the pretty edition from Germany.

This or that
Physical book or e-book: e-book. I'm a traitor, I know.
Used or new: Library
Fiction or non-fiction: Fiction, but a good non-fiction will engross me
Read at a coffee shop or at the park: Traditionally, a coffee shop, but with covid, park.
Paperback or hardcover: E-book, but if it has to be physical, paperback.
Romance or Crime: Best when combined, not a big fan of either on their own.

Yes or no
Stream of consciousness? Fuck yes
Poetry? Yes
Memoirs? No
Philosophy? Sure
Thrillers? Nah
Chronicles? Nope
Travel logs? Big no
Dialogue heavy? Sure

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