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- I already miss having a guaranteed shot of John Oliver available four days a week on The Daily Show, but it helps that The Bugle is back from hiatus.
- After months of having no creative energy for it, I have picked up knitting again and am working on some long-overdue mitts for a friend. I have also almost finished a baby cardigan for the impending third child of my oldest friends; I just need to wash and block it and sew on the button.
- Related to the above, I've made some strides in organizing or at least consolidating my stash of yarn and my knitting tools. The needles and other tools are now jumbled in a single drawer rather than being jumbled in three mesh cubes and two hanging bags distributed around my... GirlCave really doesn't sound good, does it? I'll say Introvert's Lair. I also frogged a cardigan I'd been knitting for myself but haven't touched for about five years, having realized that I probably wouldn't wear it; it was too bulky. I've wound the yarn and added it to the stash.
- Semi-related, I join the rest of the internet in recommending unfuckyourhabitat.tumblr.com. I've been reading it for months, and while it hasn't changed my life or the household, I think it has been helping with incremental steps, and the reminder that small steps help, and are more sustainable than marathons.
- Last month, in the final week of The Tempest at the Globe in London, Colin Morgan got sick and was unable to perform for most of the week. The Globe doesn't use understudies (and has an odd note on their website blaming it on the fact that they're not subsidized, which gives me an unfamiliar twinge of HARUMPH IN THE US WE HAVE UNDERSTUDIES WITHOUT SUBSIDIES! but I digress) so when an actor is out someone from the ensemble goes on carrying the script. Given the scope and passion of CM's fanbase, this was probably more than ordinarily terrifying for the man going on, but the fans reportedly behaved beautifully and a number in fact went around to the stage door, cheered the not-understudy when he came out, and asked for his autograph. DOING IT RIGHT, folks, DOING IT RIGHT.
- In the department of Doing Fandom Wrong, allegedly some young woman called Benedict Cumberbatch's hotel room. I say allegedly because she claims to have spoken with him, and in this day and age I can't imagine someone picking up a landline if they're not expecting a call. Still, ack, secondhandembarassment ack.
- QI Series K is in progress, and available on YouTube.
- A 2.916-year-old of my acquaintance has recently learned the now-I-understand "mmHHMMMmm" noise, as I found when he trotted up as I was playing a John-Oliver-on-Mock-the-Week clip. "What him name?" "His name is John Oliver." "oooOOOOohhh."
- After months of having no creative energy for it, I have picked up knitting again and am working on some long-overdue mitts for a friend. I have also almost finished a baby cardigan for the impending third child of my oldest friends; I just need to wash and block it and sew on the button.
- Related to the above, I've made some strides in organizing or at least consolidating my stash of yarn and my knitting tools. The needles and other tools are now jumbled in a single drawer rather than being jumbled in three mesh cubes and two hanging bags distributed around my... GirlCave really doesn't sound good, does it? I'll say Introvert's Lair. I also frogged a cardigan I'd been knitting for myself but haven't touched for about five years, having realized that I probably wouldn't wear it; it was too bulky. I've wound the yarn and added it to the stash.
- Semi-related, I join the rest of the internet in recommending unfuckyourhabitat.tumblr.com. I've been reading it for months, and while it hasn't changed my life or the household, I think it has been helping with incremental steps, and the reminder that small steps help, and are more sustainable than marathons.
- Last month, in the final week of The Tempest at the Globe in London, Colin Morgan got sick and was unable to perform for most of the week. The Globe doesn't use understudies (and has an odd note on their website blaming it on the fact that they're not subsidized, which gives me an unfamiliar twinge of HARUMPH IN THE US WE HAVE UNDERSTUDIES WITHOUT SUBSIDIES! but I digress) so when an actor is out someone from the ensemble goes on carrying the script. Given the scope and passion of CM's fanbase, this was probably more than ordinarily terrifying for the man going on, but the fans reportedly behaved beautifully and a number in fact went around to the stage door, cheered the not-understudy when he came out, and asked for his autograph. DOING IT RIGHT, folks, DOING IT RIGHT.
- In the department of Doing Fandom Wrong, allegedly some young woman called Benedict Cumberbatch's hotel room. I say allegedly because she claims to have spoken with him, and in this day and age I can't imagine someone picking up a landline if they're not expecting a call. Still, ack, secondhandembarassment ack.
- QI Series K is in progress, and available on YouTube.
- A 2.916-year-old of my acquaintance has recently learned the now-I-understand "mmHHMMMmm" noise, as I found when he trotted up as I was playing a John-Oliver-on-Mock-the-Week clip. "What him name?" "His name is John Oliver." "oooOOOOohhh."
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