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Jul. 3rd, 2020 12:15 amSome more disconnected updates:
1. This past weekend I participated in a cake decorating challenge among friends, for fun and zero profit.
( cake pictures under the cut )
Not all entries into the challenge have been shared online, but the ones that have include![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
genarti's offensively impressive Dark is Rising cake, aberration's beautiful Star Wars Life Day cake, and shati's incredibly romantic mashed potatoes, each and every one a winner in its own way.
2. Two days ago I went to the most local protest I've ever been to -- a "Back the Blue" rally had been planned for the police station half a mile away, so the neighborhood organized a counter-protest. In the end, the pro-police rally never actually happened because the community was NOT into it, while the counter-protest had several hundred people, so that's something!
I was a little worried I was going to miss this one because it was the same day I had to be at my office to load 4800 video tapes into a truck to go off and be digitized -- a task that was accomplished last time around with the cooperation of seven or eight people, and this time, because of the pandemic and wanting to minimize human contact, was undertaken with only three -- but I just barely managed to make it before the group began to move towards the police station, where various hyper-local statistics about police brutality and discrimination were read, followed by a die-in. I'm really glad I was able to make it; I've been to a lot of protests at this point, but never one that marched literally down my own streets, half a block from my house. (Admittedly if I still lived in several of the places I used to live in New York I would almost certainly have had this experience several months ago already. But it still felt meaningful!)
3. Today I have accomplished absolutely nothing because Shannon Kao made an unbelievably gorgeous piece of fanart for my short story in Consolation Songs and I'm still screaming internally about it!!!
1. This past weekend I participated in a cake decorating challenge among friends, for fun and zero profit.
( cake pictures under the cut )Not all entries into the challenge have been shared online, but the ones that have include
genarti's offensively impressive Dark is Rising cake, aberration's beautiful Star Wars Life Day cake, and shati's incredibly romantic mashed potatoes, each and every one a winner in its own way. 2. Two days ago I went to the most local protest I've ever been to -- a "Back the Blue" rally had been planned for the police station half a mile away, so the neighborhood organized a counter-protest. In the end, the pro-police rally never actually happened because the community was NOT into it, while the counter-protest had several hundred people, so that's something!
I was a little worried I was going to miss this one because it was the same day I had to be at my office to load 4800 video tapes into a truck to go off and be digitized -- a task that was accomplished last time around with the cooperation of seven or eight people, and this time, because of the pandemic and wanting to minimize human contact, was undertaken with only three -- but I just barely managed to make it before the group began to move towards the police station, where various hyper-local statistics about police brutality and discrimination were read, followed by a die-in. I'm really glad I was able to make it; I've been to a lot of protests at this point, but never one that marched literally down my own streets, half a block from my house. (Admittedly if I still lived in several of the places I used to live in New York I would almost certainly have had this experience several months ago already. But it still felt meaningful!)
3. Today I have accomplished absolutely nothing because Shannon Kao made an unbelievably gorgeous piece of fanart for my short story in Consolation Songs and I'm still screaming internally about it!!!
