The Vertigo Project: new work!

Nov. 23rd, 2025 09:08 pm
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I've mentioned here before that one of my big projects this year is my involvement with The Vertigo Project, which now has a webpage so the rest of you can see what we've been doing. Earlier today I facilitated the first creative therapy-style writing workshop through that group, and it was really lovely--and is just the tip of the iceberg on what this group is doing.

Specifically, you can now read all the new work they've commissioned from me! Friends, it's a lot. It's journaling prompts for people who would like to use writing to process some of their own vertigo experiences. But also it's the following stories and poems:

Advice for Wormhole Travelers (story), safe conduct through strange new worlds

Club Planet Vertigo (poem), this is not the dance I wanted to do

Greetings from Innerspace (poem), my orbits are eccentric

The Nature of Nemesis (poem), me and Clark Kent know what's what

On the Way Down (poem), falling hard

Preparation (poem), sometimes we're just literal, okay

She Wavers But She Does Not Weaken (story), when the waves hit you even on dry land, it's good to have someone who's willing to swim against the current for you

The Torn Map (story), rewriting the pieces of the former world into something new

The main page also has links to some of the other aspects of the project, which includes a nonfiction book, dance, puppetry, a podcast with a physical therapist, and more. Please feel welcome to explore it all.

Hello! I'm Diana. :)

Nov. 23rd, 2025 03:49 pm
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Name: Diana

Age: 40

I mostly post about: trying to build a gentler life, small daily victories and struggles, mental health, and job-hunting reflections

My hobbies are: walking in quiet neighborhoods, beginner yoga, journaling, solo dining adventures, reading nonfiction, and classical guitar.

I'm looking to meet people who: are kind, nonjudgmental, gentle, and thoughtful. People who understand being in transition and trying to build a life that feels more like their own.

My posting schedule tends to be: more or less daily.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: cruelty, judgment, political hostility, and unsolicited advice.

Before adding me, you should know: I live with bipolar disorder and write openly about managing it while working full-time. I would love to meet other neurodivergent folks. 

The dusty light, the final hour

Nov. 23rd, 2025 03:22 pm
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My ability to get any sleep has deranged like a spiderweb on LSD, but just a moment ago in the street it was thinly but distinctly snowing. I turned on WHRB and got Michael Tippett's A Child of Our Time (1944). I still can't believe Opera Boston folded right before they would have staged the Mozart-out-of-Eliot Hermetic crack of The Midsummer Marriage (1955). I can't believe in impending Thanksgiving.

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Nov. 23rd, 2025 10:25 am
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Name: Misty

 



Age: 16



I mostly post about: my dreams and random things that happened in my day, I may post pics from my Flickr at some point



My hobbies are: making music n playing guitar



My fandoms are: none 😭 I like music theory n rock tho



I'm looking to meet people who: like music n wanna be mutuals



My posting schedule tends to be: sporadic



When I add people, my dealbreakers are: if they're 13 or younger (15+ preferred)



Before adding me, you should know: I'm a closeted t girl (irl)

A place to keep books

Nov. 23rd, 2025 03:59 pm
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Ushaw is a former Catholic seminary and subsequently part of Durham University which is currently remodelling itself as a historic house. The seminary's Great Library is still there, and although it is not as fully open to visitors as the rest of the building, every now and then you can book a ticket which gives you half an hour's access. That's what we did on Friday.

The Great Library


[personal profile] durham_rambler told me that although parts of the building are by Pugin, his design for the library were rejected as not big enough. I am charmed by this reversal of my usual assumptions (Thing big, Augustus! Really?) but can't find any evidence for it. [personal profile] durham_rambler thinks he may have read it on one of the information boards lining the approach to the library; the nearest I can find on the internet is a FaceBook post saying "The library building was constructed between 1849 and 1851 to plans by architects Joseph and Charles Hansom. It was designed to mirror A.W.N Pugin’s St Cuthbert’s Chapel on the other side of Main House."

More pictures... )

Serendipitously, [personal profile] boybear sent me this link to the 'Idiom' book tower in the Prague Municipal Library: "You've probably already seen it," he said, but I hadn't, although now I come to look, it is all over the interenet, mostly on really irritating sites which are long on advertising but short on information. It sets out to be massively instagrammable, and it succeeds, but has a certain appeal despite that (not really a practical way of storing your books, though). Appropriately, the Library's own website has a good picture.

It reminded me of Simulacrum, a sculpture on Hadrian's Wall which we visited ten years ago...

Events of note

Nov. 23rd, 2025 10:35 am
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bullet points for October & November
yeah it's 99% ice hockey )

And that brings me to this week! In which I got a cold on Wednesday and therefore skipped training Wed and Fri and worked from home Thu and Fri. I did shake off the cold enough to play my first game for Huskies last night (in Gosport, against Southampton Spitfires), and later today I'll be playing for Kodiaks 2 against Lee Valley Vampires. I am especially looking forward to this one, I love playing against teams full of friends.

Next weekend Kodiaks 2 have a double-header weekend of home games in Peterborough: Saturday night against Lee Valley Vampires and Sunday night against MK Falcons 2. And that wraps up 2025 for Kodiaks 2: after 6 games in 5 weekends in November, we have zero games in December.

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Saw this, blew my mind, thought I'd share. Behold, Lençóis Maranhenses:



2025 Oct 28: PBS Terra [pbsterra on YT]: It Looks Like a Desert. But It Has Thousands of Lakes

When I heard in the video how big it was, I turned on satellite view in Google Maps and popped "Lençóis Maranhenses" into the search bar:

Image below cut. Content advisory: trypophobes avoid )

Pluribus 1.04

Nov. 23rd, 2025 09:31 am
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In which Carol gets pro active, and because this is a Gilligan show, this promptly comes with a moral dilemma.

Spoilers reveal the truth about a couple of things )

Usual Saturday

Nov. 22nd, 2025 10:18 pm
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I got up at 9:00 and had breakfast and coffee, showered and dressed, and went to my Al-anon meeting. I was a few minutes late but only a few.

The meeting was very good, and I went to the diner afterward, driven by S. Took the bus home, and went to the Starsky and Hutch episode watch and chat. They were very late in starting the wpisode, so I got to see it all! The episode was Losing Streak, and I enjoyed it a lot.

The chat went on for quite a long time, after 7:00. Unfortunately I was having technical difficulties the whole time, though I did manage to see the episode without serious glitches. But after that, Zoom keep kicking me out. Or rather, this damn computer did.

[personal profile] mashfanficchick called and we talked plans for tomorrow.

After we ended I Teamed the FWiB. We didn't talk as long as usual because we started late. But we had a good time.

L from Friday texted me and that was nice.

After I got off with the FWiB I puttered around. It is very hot in here, I have my box fan going to make it livable in the living room, and I opened the bedroom window a smidge and put up my little fan on the sill.

At 10:00 I fed the pets. Christie ate a little. Oreo isn't eating well either, I assume because of the heat in here.

The Kid texted me, her boyfriend's parents would like to meet in January. Finally!

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. My meetings and the people there.

3. My box fan and the little fan.

4. Got to see the episode today.

5. Friends.

6. Finally getting to meet the boyfriend's parents.

Saturday Links Round-Up

Nov. 22nd, 2025 04:09 pm
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Not much to report here personally. I think someone else in our neighbourhood must’ve watched Frankenstein (2025)

NPR’s latest Tiny Desk Concert: Robert Plant and Saving Grace. If you enjoy folk-type music, this might be for you.

Speaking of music legends who’ve still got it: Gonzo, singing “I’m Going to Go Back There Someday.”

Twelfth Night on Great Performances, streaming till NYE 2025. Peter Dinklage really understands the “cross-gartered in yellow stockings” assignment.

The Friday Five for November 14, 2025

Nov. 14th, 2025 01:22 pm
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Questions from [community profile] thefridayfive.

1. What's one of the nicest things a friend has ever done for you?
My sister took me to see our favorite band (Pulp)!

2. What's one of the nicest things a stranger has ever done for you?
Bought me cigarettes when I was short on money.

3. What is a trait in another person that you instantly admire, and that draws you to them?
Authenticity.

4. What is a trait in another person that instantly repels you, and prevents you from forming a close relationship with them?
Vanity.

5. Time to vent: tell us about something rotten someone has done to you.
I'm not in the mood to vent, but there's been plenty!
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My mother referred earlier this evening to the state of my health as farshlimmert, which definitely sounds classier than my saying it's gone down the tubes. On the other hand, I do not apparently have TB, so we can hold off on the consumptive poet jokes a little while longer yet.

As a reworking of Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971) is trashtacular even beyond the whipsawing of its trans reading when it mixes the novella's Gothic horrors with historical ones—scrunching about six decades in the penny-dreadful process of folding in not only the Whitechapel murders but Burke and Hare, even without throwing in an allusion to Sweeney Todd or a street singer straight out of Val Lewton—but it dovetailed unexpectedly well with an article sent me by [personal profile] selkie about the obtrusiveness of AI-generation in art because it contains an in-camera effect so good that I stopped the film to gush about it to [personal profile] spatch. It's the emergence of the so-called Mrs. Hyde. One-shot, Jekyll wrenched with the effects of his absinthe-green potion buries his face in his hands, slowly straightens to perceive, in the cheval glass where a moment ago he was convulsing, a woman as severely dark-haired, night-pale and shocked as himself, who she is. It's not a trick of double exposures or duplicate sets or dissolves. While the camera tightly pivots behind the hunched protagonist, it looks as though a slight adjustment to the angle of the mirror allows an otherwise offscreen Martine Beswick to reflect beyond the identically dressed shoulder of Ralph Bates, their breath heaving in time, their hands slowly unmasking their shared face. It's very simple and uncannily effective. In some ways I find it more impressive than the red-filter transformation of Fredric March in the 1931 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde because it's all sightlines. He's never out of shot and she's suddenly in it. Especially to an eye distracted from consideration of the sets or the cinematography by the switch of actors in the glass, it looks impossible. And someone had to think of it, or at least translate it from a stage illusion. It has never broken a film for me to see how a practical effect is done, which feels different from the suspicion of how much of an image is AI-slopped.

The almost talking blues whose first two lines I missed tonight on WERS turned out to be Lucinda Williams' "The World's Gone Wrong" (2025).

P.S. And a random thirty seconds of Clive Francis mixed in with the bleak London ultraviolence of Villain (1971), why not?

in the middle of our street

Nov. 21st, 2025 11:32 pm
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Did not hear from engineer today. Fingers crossed for next week.

Visiting dad got put off until tomorrow so that meant I got to spend some more time sorting out the basement bathroom. I got the caulking done and... boy, I am not good at that. I was thinking if I got the hang of it I would also add some to the kitchen tiles where the contractor missed it but... no. I have gained many new skills during this phase of dealing with the house, but this is definitely not one of them. It looks like I put it on drunk.

Big stack o' paper has been sorted out and divided into things I am keeping for tax purposes, things I am keeping for insurance purposes, things I am keeping for grant purposes, and things I just threw onto the stack because I didn't know what else to do with it. I'll do the actual scanning and uploading on erm, maybe Sunday.

I also spent some time going through my credit card statements last night looking for proof I had paid a couple of bills and in the process I discovered that I have some charges I don't recognize. They're for small amounts which is why I didn't spot them earlier, but there are a bunch of them. Two different small companies in the US and when I looked at their websites they use the exact same templates. Everything is identical except for the text and the photos. I sent one of them a 'hey, who are you' email and got an immediate auto-response saying if I was disputing a charge I should list all my email addresses and my credit card number so they can look it up.

(Also? One of the websites sold makeup. I think the last time I wore makeup was 2010.)

So. That card got cancelled. I put in a fraud claim and hopefully I get the money back.

***

Physio is going really really well. I've stopped using the cane for short walks and so far my foot is holding up great. I cannot tell you how fantastic it is to be able to move normally again, even if just for short distances.

Every time I go to the physiotherapist we go over the exercises I'm doing and she adds a slight modification that makes it slightly more difficult and apparently my body really likes being challenged because it's making a huge difference. And then she spends 20 minutes doing what she calls "deep tissue work" which is code for finding every single sensitive spot in my foot and lower calf and using it as a platform to balance her entire body weight on her elbow.

Fuckit, if it's working, I'll take it.

Busy Friday

Nov. 21st, 2025 11:33 pm
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Got up at 10:00 and had a therapy session, which was good. Then breakfast and coffee. Called [personal profile] mashfanficchick and agreed to meet on the bus heading to BJs.

So I showered and dressed, and waited at the bus stop til ze said zer bus was turning the corner, and then I got on and we met up.

Got to the shopping center, and decided on the spur of the moment to have lunch at Buffalo Wild Wings. I had the lunch special three chicken pieces, and onion rings, and lemonade.

Then we went to Target so zee could use their power outlet to charge zer phone for a bit.

Then we stopped in T J Max, where I bought a new pair of winter shoes, and some dates.

Dani called [personal profile] mashfanficchick while we were checking out, and they talked for awhile before we went into BJs.

By then it was getting late if I wanted to make my meeting in the Bronx so we hurried through, and ze took my shoes and dates with zer purchases so I wouldn't have to carry them to the Bronx. Then we took the 20 bus and I got off to transfer to the 44. The stop where I got off did not have a transfer to the 44. I eventually walked back to Union Street and got on the44 there.

Got to my meeting just on time, no pizza because of the heavy Buffalo Wild Wings lunch. And M dd not get donuts tonight, apparently Dunkin' Donuts was sold out of everything, so I saved calories there. The meeting was small but good.

M drove me to the bus stop, and I got home relatively quickly. Teamed the FWiB, which was nice as always.

Fed the pets and here I am.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. The Kid, texted today.

3. Nice day out.

4. New winter shoes.

5. My meeting and the people there.

6. Christie seems better.

Random Roman Remains

Nov. 21st, 2025 06:57 pm
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The remains of Hadrian's Wall on the right snake over a rise down and then up over the next rise.  The remains of a square building abut the wall close to.
A milecastle on Hadian's Wall

Getting a head of things [gastronomy]

Nov. 21st, 2025 03:09 am
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The Bostoniensis household's last grocery order included some cucumbers but the delivery service mystifyingly substituted for them a head of cabbage. They were very apologetic when Mr B called to complain, and refunded us the price of the cabbage, so now it's a free cabbage. But it's still here taking up a remarkably large volume of space in our fridge, what with the spherical thing, and it's a week before Thanksgiving.

Cooking a cabbage was not on our plans for this week. But throwing out a perfectly good cabbage seems sad. And I have been complaining about not getting enough veggies to eat. So.

Anybody have a very delicious recipe for cabbage that conforms to the following parameters?:

• Cooked. No raw cabbage.

• Really, really low effort. I am resigned to having to chop the cabbage itself, but maybe minimal other chopping of other veggies or meats. Something where the actual cooking isn't too fussy.

• Not haluski. We love haluski. We have most of the ingredients for haluski. We do not have the time or energy for taking on a project like haluski.

• Not stuffed cabbage. The kind with ground beef and tomato sauce. Neither of us likes it. Possibly because we don't like the taste of cabbage in tomato sauce.

• Not corned beef and cabbage. We love corned beef and cabbage but omg have you seen the price of brisket.

• Relately, maybe no stewing or slow cooking? The smell of slow cooking the corned beef and cabbage is dire, and we don't want to have to flush air we paid to heat. Maybe it would be okay if more heavily seasoned.

• Gotta mostly be cabbage. We have a lot of cabbage to get through.

We like spicy, though it's not required; no cilantro, and probably no coconut. Main dish or side, with meat or without.

Edit: Okay, maybe we'll just buy more cabbages. I am very excited by this harvest of recipes.
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It did it again!!! A LONG post eaten by the computer!!!

I shall summarize.

I thought I was supposed to go to a retiree meeting today at the Adam Clayton Powell State Building. After getting up at 6:45 and taking a bus and two subways to get there, and almost taking the wrong subway from Times Square, I got there and found that the meeting was two days ago. I don't know how I did that.

Was supposed to meet [Bad username or unknown identity: mashfanficchick"] at Bryant Park at 1:00, so I killed time in Grand Central, and the main branch of the NY Public library (the one with the lions) and the Mid-Manhattan library.

Then [personal profile] mashfanficchick called me and said ze couldn't make it because ze had injured zer foot somehow. So I headed there. Got a text from Chris, who I had told I would be in the city, saying he was free after 7:00. I didn't want to spend 6 more hours killing time alone, and had already said I was heading to [personal profile] mashfanficchick so I said my plans had unfortunately changed and we could get together after Thanksgivng.

Had trouble with the E train, but got to Kew Gardens. Had a peppermint mocha latte in Dunkin' Donuts while ze called our lunch order in to a deli. I picked it up and went to zeer place.

Spent the day hanging out and doing some cleaning. Teamed the FWiB from my phone. Called Middle Brother, he had a Thanksgiving party today at someone's house and had fun.

Had sushi for dinner, made plans for tomorrow, Ubered home.

And if you think this post is long, you should have seen the one the damn computer ate.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Sushi dinner.

3. Fun day in Manhattan.

4. Heard from Chris.

5. Middle Brother had a good day.

6. Christie seems better, more active.

october booklog

Nov. 20th, 2025 09:21 pm
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Pro-tip: reading two books called "The Seven [nouns] of Evelyn [surname]" at the same time is a bad idea and will lead to confusion.

The Commonweal books 2-5 - Graydon Saunders ) A very satisfying series; I look forward to the next book when it comes out!


114. A Desolation Called Peace - Arkady Martine ) I loved the first book, but found this one a slog for slightly inexplicable reasons.


115. The Trials of Life - David Attenborough ) Entertaining as ever.


117. Nettle and Bone - T Kingfisher ) I don't know if it's me or Kingfisher who has changed, but I don't enjoy these as much as I did. This is fine! But I used to find her books better than fine.


120. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid ) This was so much better than I had anticipated; I'm definitely looking out for her Fleetwood Mac book now.


121. DallerGut Dream Department Store - Miye Lee ) I enjoyed it enough that I kept reading, but I was glad it wasn't longer.


122. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches - Sangu Mandanna ) This was very fluffy and pleasant, but had just enough depth that I enjoyed it instead of getting annoyed.


123. Rivers of London: Deadly Ever After - Ben Aaronovitch, Celeste Bronfman, Andrew Cartmel, Jose Maria Beroy, and Jordi Escuin Llorach ) Not especially memorable, but fun enough.


124. The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society - CM Waggoner ) I really enjoyed this, and the way it's messing around with genre; I think I'd like to re-read it, and see how it feels when I know where it's going.


125. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton ) I suppose this is cleverly done, but it was all so loathsome I really had to drag myself through it, and by the time we found out all the answers I didn't even really care.


126. Translation State - Ann Leckie ) I liked this more on re-read, and I liked it quite a bit the first time! Just so many nice people doing their best, and complicated politics, and it's so good.


127. England - John Lewis-Stempel ) A generally solid nature writer; I don't know if I'll read more by him, but I did enjoy the English focus.


128. Leviathan Wakes - James SA Corey ) Much less space-opera-y than I had osmosed, but this was pretty gripping, and I'll definitely be reading the next book.


129. The Feud in the Chalet School - Elinor M Brent-Dyer ) this is solid as ever.


130. Phonogram vol 1: Rue Britannia - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie ) This is clearly well done, despite my somewhat mixed feelings; I feel like it's probably a must-read for actual Britpop fans, but even outside that there's still something good in there.


131. Testimony of Mute Things - Lois McMaster Bujold ) If you like this series, you'll enjoy this; I did. And it was nice to see baby Penric again!


132. Deeds of Youth - Elizabeth Moon ) I enjoy this world, and the stories she tells in it, but ultimately I think I mostly want more about the specific characters I already know and love! But I enjoyed these anyway.


133. Batgirls: One Way or Another - Becky Cloonan, Michael W Conrad, Jorge Corona, and Sarah Stern ) I have less patience for the actual High Stakes Superheroing than I used to, but I loved watching the three Batgirls working together. Delightful.


134. Stress in the Workplace - Howard Edwards ) The failure mode of satire is dull, as this book demonstrates capably.
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