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All that and I forgot to say I've registered for ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
vividcon in August and Readercon in July. Readercon's guests of honor this year are Naomi Novik and Nnedi Okorafor. Looking forward to hearing about more attending authors.
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My hair is straight! For a couple of days, anyway. I went for a haircut with a new, recommended curl-savvy hairdresser who said she wanted to straighten it before cutting it to ensure the cut would be even, which is the opposite of what most people have proposed before. Now it's all swoopy and flippy and when I look in the mirror I actually feel pretty.
(Cue conflicted thoughts about societal notions of beauty and what it means that I like the result of this erasure of one visible aspect of my Eastern European/Russian Jewish heritage, but I think it's just that it frames my face really well right now.)
It hasn't been straight since my friend flat-ironed it 10+ years ago for a Halloween party where I went as Snape, so it is quite a revelation. The results are making me want to do it once in a while now for fun. Er, although I don't own a blow dryer or flat iron.
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We had a snow day this week. It seems like ages ago already. I had grand plans for watching some vid-related movies & TV but then we lost power for half the day so I read,* wrote and shoveled. 1,800 new words on an old Mary Sue story. I'm liking this trend.
*Lagoon by Okorafor; I would put it behind Binti and ahead of Akata Witch for enjoyment level.
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I did finally finish Suicide Squad tonight, which was as mediocre and eye-rollingly misogynistic/exploitative as promised, with bonus racism and overkill special effects. Even so, I did enjoy some aspects, including Will Smith, Jay Hernandez and the human Rocket Pop that was Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. But no one warned me that Adam Beach barely got one line before he was killed off, less than 5 minutes after being introduced! WTF.
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Been seeing lots of movies in the theater, and there are still many coming up that are appealing. Want to post about them properly one of these days. Like Get Out, which was so, so smart, and Logan, and the Oscar-nominated animated short films, and soon Raw, and Life, and possibly Personal Shopper...
vividcon in August and Readercon in July. Readercon's guests of honor this year are Naomi Novik and Nnedi Okorafor. Looking forward to hearing about more attending authors.*
My hair is straight! For a couple of days, anyway. I went for a haircut with a new, recommended curl-savvy hairdresser who said she wanted to straighten it before cutting it to ensure the cut would be even, which is the opposite of what most people have proposed before. Now it's all swoopy and flippy and when I look in the mirror I actually feel pretty.
(Cue conflicted thoughts about societal notions of beauty and what it means that I like the result of this erasure of one visible aspect of my Eastern European/Russian Jewish heritage, but I think it's just that it frames my face really well right now.)
It hasn't been straight since my friend flat-ironed it 10+ years ago for a Halloween party where I went as Snape, so it is quite a revelation. The results are making me want to do it once in a while now for fun. Er, although I don't own a blow dryer or flat iron.
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We had a snow day this week. It seems like ages ago already. I had grand plans for watching some vid-related movies & TV but then we lost power for half the day so I read,* wrote and shoveled. 1,800 new words on an old Mary Sue story. I'm liking this trend.
*Lagoon by Okorafor; I would put it behind Binti and ahead of Akata Witch for enjoyment level.
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I did finally finish Suicide Squad tonight, which was as mediocre and eye-rollingly misogynistic/exploitative as promised, with bonus racism and overkill special effects. Even so, I did enjoy some aspects, including Will Smith, Jay Hernandez and the human Rocket Pop that was Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. But no one warned me that Adam Beach barely got one line before he was killed off, less than 5 minutes after being introduced! WTF.
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Been seeing lots of movies in the theater, and there are still many coming up that are appealing. Want to post about them properly one of these days. Like Get Out, which was so, so smart, and Logan, and the Oscar-nominated animated short films, and soon Raw, and Life, and possibly Personal Shopper...
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Date: Mar. 17th, 2017 02:37 am (UTC)I really want to read Binti but I am so behind on all my reading. *sob* *adds to list*
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Date: Mar. 21st, 2017 01:29 am (UTC)>> I hope I'll be able to say hi to you there.
I would like that very much!
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Date: Mar. 21st, 2017 02:39 am (UTC)I'll see if I can find Binti at the library next time I'm there! :D Thin novellas = conducive to slow readers.
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Date: Mar. 18th, 2017 12:36 am (UTC)Me too on the movies. I need to post more in general.
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Date: Mar. 20th, 2017 07:19 pm (UTC)I hope you enjoy both cons! Sadly I think there will be no cons for me this year. D:
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Date: Mar. 20th, 2017 07:27 pm (UTC)I will send you a pic from last week. I couldn't quite wrap my head around it either! And in fact felt (sort of unreasonably) sad this weekend when I had to wash my hair and it went back to normal. Well, normal + this new cut, which I'm not sure I'm sold on yet.
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