Promiseland

[knightofcups]

Re: Cael water, per Erik he also comes in to drink from both the cat fountains in here multiple times daily, and did while we were gone, so he’s has water access and gotten it. Just to reassure.

[Fetian]

Hm, if he keeps drinking at this rate it may be worth bringing it up to the vet when I can afford an appointment for him, but we'll see if it wasn't just one night first

[Fetian]

I think the air was also super dry in my room last night because of the fan, I had to lotion my hands. So maybe he was just thirsty because of that, though Oz didn't drink any more water than usual

[Fetian]

Rest day, of course -- woke up pretty early and took care of the animals and did some internetting, then took a nap for a couple hours, now I'm watching Castle in the Sky while I eat dinner. I've had an inkling for a while to watch all the Ghibli movies in order and that's the first one -- it's fun! A very good adventure movie, extremely charming, a little horrifying in the right ways (that robot!!), very funny when it needs to ease some tension. I'm about halfway through and needed a little intermission, when I'm done with some internet I'll get back to it

I think adventure movies (/stories) are due for a come back. They tried to bring them back not that long ago and it didn't work out, but it's gotta be time now, right? I feel like with the state the world is in, more classic, old-fashioned adventure movies would be very welcome.

I checked out one of Ted Chiang's short story collections from the library and started it before my nap -- he wrote the story Arrival was based on (that's the one with the squid-ish aliens that talk in ink circles, and a linguist learns the language and starts experiencing nonlinear time), and apparently he does a fair amount of speculative linguistic sci fi in his writing, so I got intrigued. I wanted to read a story in specific but it turned out to not be in that collection, nor as far as I can tell is it in any collection, so I'll need to figure out an alternative way to read it.

I did get unpacking done last night, I don't know if I mentioned, and set the steamdeck back up today, so I don't have any other post-trip things that need doing. So today's going to continue to be a day of getting nothing done, and tomorrow I can work on getting back to being a functional person. My legs are pretty sore, especially my ankles are not a fan of the whole 'bending' thing right now, but that'll all work itself out with some slow and gentle activity and stretching. Not using 'em won't help at all

Alright, back to the movie!

[Fetian]

Very good movie -- great animation, great art, great pacing, and yeah, an adventure story is exactly what I needed.

[Fetian]

Oh apparently Nausicaa isn't Ghibli? I'll have to jump back to that one before I move on to Totoro

[Fetian]

Power's out!

It's neat for the streetlights out my window to be off, and I'm glad it happened after I finished my movie

[Fetian]

Aaand power's back

[Fetian]

Quiz done! I was worried there would be some words I'm weak on, like specific majors/fields of study (I get "economics" and "engineering" mixed up a lot), but I needn't have, they were all more basic vocab. There was one tricky question ("おかさん (okasan) = mother", mother is おかあさん (okaasan)) that had me stressed it was a typo and would mark me wrong for saying it was false, but it was in fact a trick and I got 20/20

I need to record some arcadia things today, and there's some textbook pages I want to review before class tomorrow, but aside from that I don't have anything else on my plate. First next step is going to be to eat lunch

[Fetian]

Just watched the original Stepford Wives with ash, I think possibly for the first time for me? If it wasn't then it may as well have been, I didn't remember it at all. It's a good movie and very interesting to watch it now in a different era with different sensibilities, and also with an understanding of the cultural impact it had. It's kind of like reading Strange Case of Jekyll & Hyde and knowing that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person. We know what's going on with the Wives now (or, we have a close enough idea of what's going on with the Wives), but we wouldn't have at the time it was made, and it's clearly not trying to be anything more than just a suspense movie with a horrifying twist. It has elements of social commentary just by the nature of what it is, but it's not trying to say anything beyond nods to that

I need to see the new one again, I haven't seen it in years and my memories of it are fuzzy but the differences between it and the original are interesting

 
I read some more of Stories of Your Life and Others, finished off the second story in it. I also dug up some field linguistics books that I want to dig into soon, and in the process went through a bunch of resources available to me as a Los Rios student and figured out what they all were and how to use them (like the online library). Mostly stuff that's irrelevant to me as a disabled hobbyist, so I don't need like, career path advice or anything, but again, online library.

I also downloaded Phantasmagoria 2 to get around to playing hopefully soon. I still need to record things, I'll do that once the house is quiet and the cats are settled down. In the meantime, I'm not sure if I want to read some more, watch something, or maybe listen to a podcast. Maybe read for a while, and then when I'm hungry I'll eat while I watch something.