Hey, you can grab a pack of our Becker Tarot cards from the Morbid Anatomy shop!
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Hey, you can grab a pack of our Becker Tarot cards from the Morbid Anatomy shop!
Yes! It was so fun to spend time in them. :)
It DOES look fun!
Worksheet titled: "Evolving from Eel-less Language" and it includes a column titled "Instead of" with a red X, and a column titled "Say this" with a green checkmark. The "Instead of" column includes sayings like "You're doing it wrong" and "Look at those used condoms in the water!" The "Say this" column includes sayings like, "You're grabbing an eel by the tail" and "Hey! Manhattan eels!" I don't have the space here to list all of them. But each expression in the "Say this" column is a bonafide (read that in a Wharvey Gal's accent) historical eel metaphor. We'd all be better off if we talked more about eels.
We're all trying to be careful with our language, so as not to offend, or not to lose federal funding for talking about paragraph transitions.
To help you out, here's a worksheet to guide you in swapping out troublesome phrases for real, historical eel expressions.
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Special collections is up on the top floor of our building, which means great views….and occasionally seeing a peregrine falcon snatch a pigeon and take it up to the roof to feast, with the Feathers of the Slain drifting down past our office windows like snow.
This Natsume is insanely gorgeous and I having such a hard time not buying it.
„Come, Mistress Cat, sing me a song of your kind.“
I WAS LIKE DENETHOR DEVOURING HIS FEAST.
I picked up some quail from the farmer‘s market on a bit of a whim and cooked it up for dinner last night. They are small enough that the most effective way to eat them is to really just pick up the whole bird and gnaw away. It made me feel like a medieval king.
Goals.
I also have an uncharitable heart, apparently.
So, today a caller called me uncharitable and demanded to speak to my supervisor because I would not give them a duplicate book that we have listed for sale as a freebie. It was quite a conversation.
Isn’t it, though?!?!?
Okay, my “no new fountain pens” goal lasted about a year. Sailor got me again. But how could I resist the seasonal waka line?
I slipped an AirTag into my travel backpack on this last trip, and it fell out somewhere in IST. It lives there now. I don’t want to deactivate it because I am curious to see if it goes on adventures.
Yes! I was most pleased that they didn’t even ask to see them and so I didn’t have to pull apart my extremely careful jenga packing.
(Some Buddhist cymbals got me in trouble in the Ulaanbaatar airport, though; I had to unpack everything in a special inspection room.)
Customs Agents: What do you mean you’re bringing sheep bones back?
Me: Oh yeah, it’s this traditional Mongolian form of fortune telling that uses the ankle bones of sheep and I so I picked up a set.
Agents: Um, okay.
Did I deliberately opt for a super long layover in Istanbul just so I could go to a hamami? Maaaaaaybe.
Our final morning in the Gobi.
Some scenes from the Ten Thousand Camels Festival in Mongolia. They honestly are gorgeous animals.
Yes, it is often cold AF, but Mongolia in winter is beautiful.
We saw the Takhi in Mongolia’s Hustei National Park. They are the only true wild horses.
Arrived safely in Ulaanbaatar, ready to experience some Mongolian winter!
What is it?!?!?
Ah, for Ye Olde Steamer Trunk full of books…
TOO LONG!!!
I had to get a sleeping bag rated for -40. 😹
MONGOLIA.
All right, we’re in for a 30 hour travel day, how many books can I finish.
Today I learned from a talk by Lydia Kang that we have Sylvester Stallone’s mother to thank for rumpology.