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My Reading in 2020
[Originally Posted: 2020.12.31]
[Last Updated: 2026.01.03]
For 2020 I’m keeping a running log of my reading here on my personal website. You can find all my updates on this page, going from newest to oldest.
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''autumneternal''
[Originally Posted: 2020.09.08]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.16]
Did I somehow call forth the winds and fires by listening to this album so fervently last week?
I was just excited about fall, and autumnal black metal…
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A Horse Called Dreamer
[Originally Posted: 2020.08.05]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
The school district received a herd of ponies. I was supposed to catalog them, barcode them, and figure out a good protocol for checking them out to students.
They were all in an old corral out in the desert, and seemed wild and restless, as if perhaps they had just been captured and swept in from that desert and we hadn’t exactly been told the truth about their (lack of) training. Also, it didn’t seem like anyone was taking care of them out there so it was maybe going to fall to me to feed them, scrape out their hooves, and do whatever else needs to be done for horses. I don’t know anything about horses.
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On Whether To Share Things
[Originally Posted: 2020.07.27]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
I’ve been here before. It’s a cycle for me. The compulsion to exist on social media, followed soon after by silence.
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Books Read in June-July 2020
[Originally Posted: 2020.07.25]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.16]
For nearly the past two months I’ve been tracking all my reading updates just in a OneNote page. Transferring it here for transparency/accountability, or just some form of conspicuousness. Think I’m about to go onto Goodreads and log all of this, get caught up, be a social human of some sort, &c. Maybe I’ll post specific things about some of these books on here as well if I have time and inclination.
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Reading: Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
[Originally Posted: 2020.07.12]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.16]
My kids and I have been casually talking about turning our yard into an orchard, and re-reading this book in my backyard today inspires me to get completely serious about it. Impossible to read these poems and not want to start growing stuff.
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The Opposite of Curation Isn't A Mess But Silence
[Originally Posted: 2020.06.22]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
Been thinking a lot about curation, both professionally and personally. Where, when, how, whether to do it. I’ve been in a holding pattern about sharing things for a long time now - I have digital and physical notebooks full of things to potentially share (good and helpful things, I believe), but it seems too big a deal to share them.
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Working Conditions
[Originally Posted: 2020.05.03]
[Last Updated: 2022.02.21]
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mlp:qim
[Originally Posted: 2020.05.03]
[Last Updated: 2022.02.21]
Arrangement by William Whiting. Photo by me.
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It's a Moot Point
[Originally Posted: 2020.04.18]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.16]
I had a dream that I listened to this song on a different streaming platform and the guitar solos were missing from the track. I feverishly scoured the internet trying to find the original version with the guitar solos and figure out what was happening. Tabs kept closing on me and websites glitched into oblivion. I wasn’t sure if the streaming platform or record label had demanded their removal, or if she had somehow become ashamed of them and self-censored, or if it was the Mandela effect, or some other kind of weird conspiracy, but I was going to somehow get to the bottom of this cosmic scandal against musicianship and bring the lost guitar solos back to light.
The next day I had to listen to the song several times on different platforms just to be reassured that the guitar solos had not actually disappeared, but still remained on the track in their fulness.