Zelly

I'll throw in Cowboy Bebop as a classic, it stills holds up and is just so good. And I'll second Baccano! It's pacing and character introductions can be odd, but it....escalates quickly and ends up being great. Mushishi is very chill. A wanderer helps people whose lives have been affected by Mushi, which are like primordial spirit things. Each episode is a stand alone.

I love takoyaki (a place that makes 'em finally opened in my city, woo), but I was completely freaked out by the bonito flakes moving when I first ordered it and had to google it. Mmmm though.....grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup. Simple, classic, creamy, carby, with just a hint of acidity from the soup. Also tiny pastry appetizers filled with almost anything.

Rosie learns to knit.

My dog is named Rosie too!

So I happened to be on YouTube when Brandon was doing one of his live ask-me-questions-to-pass-the-time-while-I-sign-things-sessions, and I really enjoyed it. Are these scheduled at all, or given any sort of warning beforehand?

Virginia schools are now closed for the rest of the school year. This hit me like truck. Do we still get paid? Are students going to be ready for next year? What about students that I know aren't ready? Should I take down my room and starting cleaning? Are kids coming back in the summer? Do I get to say goodbye to my students?

My perfect child.

I had to look this up (you're not alone) to listen to it. I learned how to pick locks as a teenager (in innocent geek fashion, nothing sketchy). It's a useful, but weird and suspicious skill, so I don't share with people actually I know. Also I discovered that my state is 1 of 3 where simply owning lock picks is a crime. Also I can juggle. Once upon a time my saintly patient parents paid for me to go to a very, very nice summer camp in the hope that I would ride horses and sail. I did those things, but I also signed up for a juggling class. Man, my childhood was a lot more interesting than adulthood.

Welp. We're diving into Coronavirus land here in Virginia, having closed all schools statewide. My school district (I teach kindergarten) had been frantically making plans for a couple days ahead of time and I'm honestly impressed with the plan they came up with and how quickly it was rolled into action. Teachers only are rolling into tomorrow to learn more details. *crosses fingers* I worry about my students education, but.....well honestly I'm proud of my class and think they've learned a lot. This is about the time of year that standardized tests begin for the older kids and school life in general starts to disintegrate. But this whole thing is bizarre. It's like summer....only not. A vacation, but it's unpleasant. I've got a laundry room full of canned fruits and veggies and no lesson plans to make. Nothing bad has happened to me or my family. But the disruption of daily life and the removal of things that people have assumed as something constant or stable.....it's created this tension like nothing else I've seen. People in my area tend to overstock groceries when snow is expected. But now....people in the grocery store are tense, curt, and eyeing each other sideways. It's quiet in an unfriendly way that I can't quite describe.

Update #1: What's good! Well, I'm good at getting enough sleep and drinking water. My lunches and dinners were prepped, calorie counted, filling, and delicious, so yay. What's...so-so! So some exercise has been accomplished. One strength workout and one yoga workout (yoga is crazy ya'll, I had sore muscles I didn't know existed). And went running! What's not so good! There is junk food everywhere. Helped out at church Sunday night, they provided pizza for dinner. Only had one slice and no dessert, so I was okay with it. Went to work on Monday, they had a potluck lunch. I shouldn't have even gone to the room where it was, I had no reason to go there. I told myself I was only going to look (my own lies are so ridiculous, why do I believe them???). Didn't do too bad, had a few cheese cubes and veggies. Then today. Today there were boxes of free donuts at work. I broke bad, ate not one, but two. *mad at self *

Intro/Disclaimer - Read me first - About me - Why?... Goals and Plans (as of 2/13/20) Here's hoping to successfully check back in about a week.

Sharp, stompy boots.

Gonna give a hearty recommendation for Spellslinger by Sebastien de Castell. It's book 1 out of a 6+ series, so yay. The first half moves pretty slowly, but then you meet the giant incredibly bloodthirsty flying squirrel who is a "business partner", not a familiar. It's good stuff.

I have a playlist called "Yassss". Always has 5-10 random songs I'm currently obsessed with and listening to on repeat. At the moment it has: Crossing Field - Lisa The Violence - Rise Against It Ain't Me - Kygo & Selena Gomez Into the Unknown - Idina Menzel & AURORA She's Kerosene - The Interrupters

I'm at the point where I'm also getting super suspicious of everything. Re-reading Oathbringer. During her wedding prep scene, Shallan is uncomfortable with all the attention and thinks to herself, "At least she wasn't going to end up as queen." And I mean....yikes. Yikes. Yikes. Tell me that doesn't smell of foreshadowing.

Hey there folks. I'm not having a bad day myself, but I thought I'd share something with you if you're going through some dark times. https://www.futureme.org/ Write an email to yourself.....but you won't receive it for years. I've been using this for awhile now (usually when I'm in a sad place and have a lot of questions about who I am and what I'm doing). It's nice now because journaling and dumping my thoughts in writing helps me vent and focus. It's nice in the future because, wow, things.......things change. Not everything. And maybe not what you want. But....it blows my mind the things that were different just a year or two ago, let alone 5-10. Wants, needs, priorities, people.....life is weird. Anyway, try it out. Also I recommend reading the public letters that people let be posted anonymously. They are a beautiful mess of us all being beautiful messes. You're not alone.

Urithiru awakens. Jasnah just killing it as Queen, although I do worry about her potential for extreme, efficient, ruthlessness. The Ghostbloods overall motivation/creed. Hoid. An expedition on the Wandersail. Dunno what for. Finding the Origin, Aimia, etc Information about Rall Elorim. It's one of the few cities we really have so little information about.....except mysterious, creepy sounding fragments. Cooperative Heralds. I don't see it happening, but kinda hoping for it.

Mmmm those color choices *nods nods*

Mmmm an arms race... Remember the two ardents doing flame spren measuring experiments? I think we could see them again, or at least the results of their research. I'm also really hoping for some of Navani's airships (played too much Final Fantasy growing up). Since it talks about new technology I'm guessing it's not about the Honorblades or Dawnshards. Although I think that was used to stab Jezrien must be something recently made, else why not kill the heralds ages ago? (Unless it's all part of some looooong game of Odium's....*puts down tin foil hat*) Edit: Ugh, Nov 17th will be on a Tuesday. My work week will be in shambles.

Brandon's foreshadowing is what I talk about when people ask me why I should read the books I am passive aggressively pushing on them. His foreshadowing is almost cheeky. It's casually dropped in conversations or hidden in a metaphor used as a physical description. Makes the rereads fantastic, however. It's pretty unusual to like a 2nd read through more than the first. Dalinar having a vision of Odium's nine shadowed champion and thinking that there is something terribly familiar about him. It's not subtle, but it's also so subtle. It's like....foreshadowing misdirection. "Who could it be? Well it's someone familiar to him that he knows really well.... HMMMM". I didn't get it at all. XD

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JJtJhHwpKdow01n2-bsT3scVvqJd6lZh4uvpNwcslv8/edit#gid=0 This thing's not rock solid, but by its estimates its been ~130 years between Warbreaker and Way of Kings.

*incoherent happy burbling noises*

So a little story setup: Kindergarten classes took a field trip to this Santa Storyteller thing....honestly it was extremely underwhelming. Santa was looking rustic and pretty neat, but for entertainment he told long disjointed deadpan stories ("Holly the green nosed reindeer" ??? I think he was making stuff up on the spot) and then would play parts of Christmas songs on his guitar, but the words weren't the same that everyone knew so kids were confused. So we've got like 75+ kids looking intrigued but also a little weirded out. The reason I put this story in this thread: At one part he's talking and holds up a small jar with red glitter in it. He says something like, "This is my sparkly love jar. Do you know what I put in this jar? It's something very important, and it lives in your heart." And he pauses for an answer. And into the silence one boy says, in this awed hushed whisper, "It's blood." And Santa turns and looks at him with this concerned look. And there I am frantically trying to smother the giggles.

But they're different things, I think? (math, music, and/or physics are so not my skill set). I don't even know what questions to ask that make sense.... Are cymatics and sets related? Waves? Functions? (wave function is a thing, right?)

So we know the overall map landscape of Roshar is related to Julia sets, making it all......spiral-ish. I'm wondering if that has carried over to other aspects of Roshar, such as marbled skin patterns on the Parshendi/Fused or the ever spiraling symmetry of Cryptic heads. The Cryptics in particular I could understand, with their interest in math principles.