The new (white) equity specialist for my school district irritates the fuck out of me. Haven't quite worked out why. Quite miss the old one (although really happy that a competent black woman has moved up to assistant superintendent since that is great for her and great for our district, but I interact with supers a whole lot less than I did equity specialists and I genuinely miss her).
I think it's mostly that new-specialist seems very....surface level 101 basic stuff? Like, too focused on "let's learn about different holidays!" and not focused enough on "let's take action against putting cops back into our schools"? Also she routinely uses the word folx, which I find incredibly grating ((although I understand it's a word that has special connotations of inclusivity for BIPOC folk, so maybe that's why? I should research more because right now I just get super irritated every single time someone says it because _you don't have to make "folks" gender neutral!!!))
Am reading the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries. Verdicts so far:
Murder Must Advertise probably really is the best one, as da cited when he got it for me. It's sharp and a pretty good entry point, although since it's late in the series it vaguely spoils some unimportant overarching stuff.
Usual Suspects was...kindof a slog and I really didn't care about any of these rich people or their problems, especially since it's much earlier and aforementioned spoilage means some of the tension of "will this character (who is fine and thriving later) be put in jail forever?!". Has Lord Wimsey's mother for a bit, and she is fantastic. Has...a lot of Being Weird About Women, which I can forgive as being of it's time~ or whatever, but not enough to want to reread it.
Five Red Herrings is like...two thirds written with heavy Scottish accents, in a way that actually causes me to need to reread sentences, and I quite enjoyed it! I found the details of the mystery (which of the six suspects did it, and which five were red herrings) to be mostly unimportant, but I thought the prose was in finest form, and Wimsey is clearly having the time of his life, which is sorta what you want from spoiled dilettante lord solves murders. And I liked that it clearly gave you an important mystery clue in the second chapter (of twenty or so) and lets you look out for what that was up until chapter 19 or so --I didn't have the exact thing, but I made some good guesses throughout, and thought it was a nice hook.
Next up is probably Nine Tailors, which is on the late end again --I have a collection of short stories published between 5RH and 9T, but I might do novels first and then shorts? I put a bunch of holds out at the library, so I'm hoping the first of those arrive before I lose interest in the series or in the ability to PowerHour and do no-internet time each day (which is when I get reading done). It's somewhat freeing to not be worrying overmuch about the order the books are written in --usually I'm very distressed about that kind of thing.
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