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Nov. 19th, 2023 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedanther* Hi! So, it's been a while since I've done a proper post. A big part of that is that I was priced out of the place I was renting, and I've been occupied with the process of finding and moving into somewhere with rent I can afford. There's a funny story about how I found the place I'm living now, or rather how it was found for me, but I don't think I can do it justice without including too many identifying details.
* At the Rep Club, we're currently rehearsing for the Christmas Show. It's going well; it's one of those fortunate productions where everybody gets along and things are progressing fairly smoothly. We might even achieve the rare feat of doing a full run-through more than a week before the show opens.
* I did end up bailing on Dracula Daily and Re: Dracula, shortly after I last posted about them, as part of a general recognition that I was trying to keep up with too many different things on Tumblr. I've stuck with most of the other similar things I was signed up for (am enjoying Kidnapped Weekly, and increasingly convinced that I never have actually read Kidnapped before), but I'm trying to avoid getting sucked into any new ones. Most recently, I managed to resist the temptation to get involved in a readalong of Journey to the West – something I would love to share with people under other circumstances, but right now too much of a commitment to take on.
* The reading challenge for September was "a book with a one-word title"; I read Blitzkrieg by Len Deighton. The reading challenge for October was "a book about people wearing masks, hiding, or masquerading as something they are not"; I read The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie (and a whole lot of comic books where Scooby-Doo and friends team up with Batman and friends). The reading challenge for November is "a book by, about or telling the story of an indigenous population"; I wasn't sure a Bony novel would really count, but I decided it was time to try the next one anyway – it was Bushranger of the Skies, and I wouldn't have been comfortable counting it for that prompt but fortunately it did definitely fit the alternate prompt for November, which was "a book about families".
* I've been watching Pluto on Netflix. I could write a post about the experience, but it would be pretty much exactly the post I wrote about the experience of watching The Sandman on Netflix with a few proper nouns changed.
* At the Rep Club, we're currently rehearsing for the Christmas Show. It's going well; it's one of those fortunate productions where everybody gets along and things are progressing fairly smoothly. We might even achieve the rare feat of doing a full run-through more than a week before the show opens.
* I did end up bailing on Dracula Daily and Re: Dracula, shortly after I last posted about them, as part of a general recognition that I was trying to keep up with too many different things on Tumblr. I've stuck with most of the other similar things I was signed up for (am enjoying Kidnapped Weekly, and increasingly convinced that I never have actually read Kidnapped before), but I'm trying to avoid getting sucked into any new ones. Most recently, I managed to resist the temptation to get involved in a readalong of Journey to the West – something I would love to share with people under other circumstances, but right now too much of a commitment to take on.
* The reading challenge for September was "a book with a one-word title"; I read Blitzkrieg by Len Deighton. The reading challenge for October was "a book about people wearing masks, hiding, or masquerading as something they are not"; I read The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie (and a whole lot of comic books where Scooby-Doo and friends team up with Batman and friends). The reading challenge for November is "a book by, about or telling the story of an indigenous population"; I wasn't sure a Bony novel would really count, but I decided it was time to try the next one anyway – it was Bushranger of the Skies, and I wouldn't have been comfortable counting it for that prompt but fortunately it did definitely fit the alternate prompt for November, which was "a book about families".
* I've been watching Pluto on Netflix. I could write a post about the experience, but it would be pretty much exactly the post I wrote about the experience of watching The Sandman on Netflix with a few proper nouns changed.
