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damkiannaSo Saturday was awesome. I walked stilts for so long that I actually kind of hurt my left foot a little bit; I think I made the foot-strap a little too tight, because the side of my foot, the place where the strap crossed around, was all weird and achy. I was anxious about the kids - and people in general, really, as I am good with neither - but it was like I was possessed, or something. People asked me questions, and I answered them! In a kind and friendly manner! \o/ I'm always particularly afraid of what to do when a kid says something I can't understand, or something kind of silly - like, one of them seemed to be having serious trouble grasping the entire structure of the stilts, and kept asking me what the wood was for - but it actually wasn't half bad.
Turns out that being on stilts brings the same set of questions to everybody's mind: how tall are you, how do you get up there, how did you learn, and is it hard. Plus, I have never had so many people try out the "How's the weather up there?" thing on me in my life.
The rest of the weekend was rather unremarkable in comparison. I find myself weirdly enjoying grocery shopping; there was a phase in between when I got to ride on the cart and now when I thought it was the most boring thing in the world, but that seems to be coming to an end.
Today was more weeding - no particularly good stories, sadly, although I do think I managed to make friends with both of Mary's cats - and also a marathon of The Closer. I kind of love The Closer; Brenda is adorable and strong and flawed and brilliant, and in a linguistics major kind of way, it pleases me to have a main character with a Southern accent. I have trouble figuring out who my favorite people on the team are, most days. Sanchez breaks my heart (especially today, they showed some eps that were very wrenching for him); Tao is so wonderfully geeky (a bag of cell phone chargers! Also, I love that Provenza's assumption that he speaks Chinese is incorrect); Provenza and Flynn are snarky and yet lovable (they are my Cranky Older Guy OTP, no lie); Gabriel is earnest and yet capable of whipping out the rageface (♥♥♥♥♥); and Daniels is so sharp and competent (I wish there were more of her, she is so awesome).
Generally speaking, I also love the way it deals with things. They've done at least a few episodes involving rape that were both disturbing and (I think) relatively well done. I haven't seen every single episode of The Closer that there is, but most of the time, they seem to deal well with touchy issues. The episode in which Sanchez's brother becomes a victim of gang violence is awful and terrible and very good and makes me cry; another episode dealing with a murdered teenage boy (who may have been a sociopath) involved his best friend revealing at least bicuriosity almost as a side note - it was a part of the case, not a gigantic shocking scandalous reveal, and nobody treated the kid oddly for it. I'm actually typing this during spare moments of the season premiere, which, so far? Awesome.
I used my memories to collect a couple recent posts - specifically, cereta's post on men and rape, and a reaction to it. Reading it and the comments to it has been painfully illuminating; I'd call it a valuable experience for me, except that makes it sound like I'm okay with the pain some of the commenters have gone through because it taught ~*~me~*~ something, which, hell no.
Turns out that being on stilts brings the same set of questions to everybody's mind: how tall are you, how do you get up there, how did you learn, and is it hard. Plus, I have never had so many people try out the "How's the weather up there?" thing on me in my life.
The rest of the weekend was rather unremarkable in comparison. I find myself weirdly enjoying grocery shopping; there was a phase in between when I got to ride on the cart and now when I thought it was the most boring thing in the world, but that seems to be coming to an end.
Today was more weeding - no particularly good stories, sadly, although I do think I managed to make friends with both of Mary's cats - and also a marathon of The Closer. I kind of love The Closer; Brenda is adorable and strong and flawed and brilliant, and in a linguistics major kind of way, it pleases me to have a main character with a Southern accent. I have trouble figuring out who my favorite people on the team are, most days. Sanchez breaks my heart (especially today, they showed some eps that were very wrenching for him); Tao is so wonderfully geeky (a bag of cell phone chargers! Also, I love that Provenza's assumption that he speaks Chinese is incorrect); Provenza and Flynn are snarky and yet lovable (they are my Cranky Older Guy OTP, no lie); Gabriel is earnest and yet capable of whipping out the rageface (♥♥♥♥♥); and Daniels is so sharp and competent (I wish there were more of her, she is so awesome).
Generally speaking, I also love the way it deals with things. They've done at least a few episodes involving rape that were both disturbing and (I think) relatively well done. I haven't seen every single episode of The Closer that there is, but most of the time, they seem to deal well with touchy issues. The episode in which Sanchez's brother becomes a victim of gang violence is awful and terrible and very good and makes me cry; another episode dealing with a murdered teenage boy (who may have been a sociopath) involved his best friend revealing at least bicuriosity almost as a side note - it was a part of the case, not a gigantic shocking scandalous reveal, and nobody treated the kid oddly for it. I'm actually typing this during spare moments of the season premiere, which, so far? Awesome.
I used my memories to collect a couple recent posts - specifically, cereta's post on men and rape, and a reaction to it. Reading it and the comments to it has been painfully illuminating; I'd call it a valuable experience for me, except that makes it sound like I'm okay with the pain some of the commenters have gone through because it taught ~*~me~*~ something, which, hell no.
