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lebateleur) wrote2025-06-29 10:14 pm
lebateleur) wrote2025-06-29 10:14 pm
We try to host Sustained Silent Reading at least once a month...
...with June's falling on this weekend. It was grand. There were four of us at final count; we sat down to read at 11:30 and didn't stop until 6:15 pm. The only time anyone spoke was when one of us got up to get more tea and asked if anyone else wanted any, too. I love that I can do this, and that I know multiple people who are also happy to spend their weekends doing this. (And it's even better now because having those other people with me means that when I sit down to read a book, I actually read the book, instead of pushing through a page or two and then picking up my phone "for just a minute" and doomscrolling updates about things I have no ability to affect for hours on end.)
I finished Kara Cooney's When Women Ruled the World, which was an incredibly frustrating book and Maggie O'Farrel's Hamnet, which was an incredibly good one (but which left me as melancholy as if I had doomscrolled the news for hours on end).
Afterwards we popped over to Near BBQ and introduced one of the SSRers to one of the employees, a Geek BBQ alum whom we hadn't seen in ages and with whom it was great to catch up. Then we walked SSRer A to the metro, with a short interlude to kill 30+ lanternfly nymphs on the way.
"What are you doing?" asked a rando passing by as we stood there thwacking the things with our shoes.
"Killing lanternflies."
"Don't do that!"
"They're an invasive species," explained A.
"Humans..." (the rando paused for dramatic effect) "are an invasive species."
Which, sure. But given my strong doubt that this person sings the same tune when she finds a cockroach in her house or a rat in a restaurant where she's eating, it didn't land as hard as she probably wanted it to.
"We just killed a bunch of them too," said another rando passing by with his friends, thus ending that exchange. We dropped A off, finished our walk, and reported the lanternflies (as well as some others I'd seen elsewhere on earlier walks during the day) to UFD.
All in all, a pretty good weekend.
これで以上です。
I finished Kara Cooney's When Women Ruled the World, which was an incredibly frustrating book and Maggie O'Farrel's Hamnet, which was an incredibly good one (but which left me as melancholy as if I had doomscrolled the news for hours on end).
Afterwards we popped over to Near BBQ and introduced one of the SSRers to one of the employees, a Geek BBQ alum whom we hadn't seen in ages and with whom it was great to catch up. Then we walked SSRer A to the metro, with a short interlude to kill 30+ lanternfly nymphs on the way.
"What are you doing?" asked a rando passing by as we stood there thwacking the things with our shoes.
"Killing lanternflies."
"Don't do that!"
"They're an invasive species," explained A.
"Humans..." (the rando paused for dramatic effect) "are an invasive species."
Which, sure. But given my strong doubt that this person sings the same tune when she finds a cockroach in her house or a rat in a restaurant where she's eating, it didn't land as hard as she probably wanted it to.
"We just killed a bunch of them too," said another rando passing by with his friends, thus ending that exchange. We dropped A off, finished our walk, and reported the lanternflies (as well as some others I'd seen elsewhere on earlier walks during the day) to UFD.
All in all, a pretty good weekend.
これで以上です。
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Yup, this tbh.
That's the dream!!!
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I know, right? Now, if only capitalism would agree this is something worth paying me to do. XD
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