Slow Tuesday.

[hannah]

Hey Oscar Wilde! It's Clobberin' Time! doesn't really need an introduction. But just to be on the safe side, it's an absurdly-titled blog of different artists doing portraits and illustrations of famous authors, characters, and various scenes - everyone from Hunter S. Thompson and Jorge Luis Borges to Jane Austen and Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote and Holly Golightly, and Yossarian, Lady Macbeth and the Little Prince.

While my supervisor's gotten back from vacation, she wasn't able to see me today, which meant I went back to the house and got to doze off for a bit. I was able to manage productivity in the afternoon by reading about copyright law - it's dull, but transparent, and it's all online - plus a heavy gym visit and cooking the rest of the week's lunches.

Today's high point, though, was spending about ten minutes eating mulberries behind the ILS building on campus. The trees all over the city are getting ripe, and I need to get back there if only to take another picture of me literally caught red-handed.

I need to do a bit of writing on my copyright findings and also start my new Big Bang. In the meantime, how's everyone else tonight?

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[perspi.livejournal.com]

I had swimming lessons for two weeks every summer, and we didn't swim much otherwise, and I remember loving swimming lessons until I hit advanced beginners, where I had to master the front crawl. And I didn't, for three years, and for me, at that time, it was humiliating and I didn't know what to do with something that I wasn't immediately good at. Once I finally passed advanced beginners, I quit taking lessons, and I remember really hating swimming lessons and being resentful of my younger brother, who took lessons up until he was just shy of qualifying for lifeguard certification, and it wasn't until college and a swim-team roommate that I finally, finally figured out how to really swim.

And I don't want Z to feel that way about swimming. So we're going to do some Aqua-Tots swim lessons this summer. :)

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Your icon and comment make me want to see a fic with people swimming in Atlantis. I'd curse you, but it's such a nice image.

I got semi-private lessons with a few other kids from someone my parents knew who owned a big pool, and some general public ones in summer at one of the university's larger pools, and both of those had to be several times a week for at least a month. Outside of those, as a kid, my parents always took me and my brothers to local pools and made sure we packed our swimsuits if we went to places with water for swimming, no matter if it was a river or an ocean.

No one should feel that way about water - it should be something everyone should know how to be in. It's Talmudic Law that dictates parents should teach their children to swim, and I like to think it's not just a metaphor for navigating life. Water's just that important.

[perspi.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there's some swimming fic somewhere. I *know* there's a lovely BigBang AU with Rodney as the caretaker of Atlantis and he swims with and talks to the whales (there's lots of magic and stuff, too; Teyla paints Rodney with runes that let him spend time underwater, and Ronon has wings, and John's a mage). That one's pretty awesome. :)

I can understand how my parents really couldn't help the swimming thing--they did what they could, with the lessons every summer. But they had a farm, and six kids, so there wasn't really time or money enough to have enough experience in the water that I could really learn (and a couple weeks a year is nowhere near enough; I know that now).

But now that I enjoy swimming, and know more about how people learn to do such things, and we live in town with access to swimming lessons? It's become kind of a thing with me, that Z learn to swim. :)

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

With a fandom with that much water, there has to be.

When I went out to one of Pittsburgh's reservoirs a few weeks ago and looked at that huge expanse of water, just sitting there all still, I had to stop myself from ditching my stuff and jumping in sneakers and all. The problem with grown-up adult pools is that they're just lanes without room for splashing around - although I should just take what I can get, being a student. It's been a long time since I've been in more water than a bathtub, and I should see about fixing that.

[perspi.livejournal.com]

In our uni there's a lap pool and a diving pool--and during the open swim the diving pool is generally a 'splashing around' space. :)

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Living off-campus and not having a car means it'd be hard for me to get from my house to the university's pool, and the local gym only has lap lanes. It's mildly depressing.

I should check and see if the local parks have pools. I'm sure I can spare a few bucks for a one-time entrance fee.