four good things on a Tuesday

[alchimie]

Inspired by the gratitude posts kass sometimes makes --

1. The Good Place podcast, which I am listening to on Spotify, lifts my mood every time I hear it. It is hosted by Mark Evan Jackson, who plays Shawn, and features different people involved with the show every week -- not just actors and writers, but directors, editors, costume designers, music composers, the head of visual effects... I am learning so much about all the different moving parts which must come together to make even a single episode of a television show and finding it both fascinating and funny.
   
   
2. Studying Japanese last night on DuoLingo I actually 'read' a kanji (Japanese character), by which I mean I had an experience of finding the correct one that was felt like reading in English rather than my more typical use of mnemonics (ie: the older sister has strong arms, thus the correct kanji is 姉). An excellent feeling and it inspired me to spend more of my free time today practising.
   
   
3. Dinner tonight included a salad of cucumber, shallot, baby bell peppers, feta cheese which was dressed with muscat champagne vinegar and olive oil. It was tart and slightly sweet, mostly crunchy but with little soft bites of the feta, and there is none leftover.
   
   
4. WisCon online over the weekend, which gave me a chance to be just myself rather than myself-as-mother/volunteer/Girl Scout leader/homemaker/spouse. I attended some of the programming, but mostly I flung myself into birds-of-a-feather conversations about my (our, really, many people were involved) various interests, and had a delightful time talking about books and recommending various anime and doing a first pass at figuring out the difference between wuxia and xianxia.

Comments

[muccamukk]

I'd love to read meta about the difference between wuxia and xianxia, if you ever have time for it.

[alchimie]

Thank you! I will see what I can do -- I'm just starting watching xianxia after many years watching wuxia, so my thoughts are very much in the early stages.

[graydon]

I would like to second this!

[kass]

Aw yay for gratitudes! Also, that podcast sounds neat and that salad sounds glorious.

[alchimie]

Thanks! It is so hot here, I want to eat summer salads all the time.