6-Question meme: S
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jesse_the_kThanks, pauraque for giving me S for this six-question meme.
Something I hate
scented shampoo, soap, or similar substances. Fragrances like these trigger coughing fits and sometimes migraines. Weirdly, I developed this sensitivity after I quit smoking 10-15 cigarettes/day.
Something I love
sencha green tea, in particular Telsaan Sencha Spring Shizuoka, tragically out of stock
Somewhere I have been
Skópun, Sandoy, Føroyar (Faroe Islands). more about that trip
In 1971, I visited my sister & her husband for two weeks. He was studying Skópun and its people for his PhD in anthropology. She was studying everything in sight. My sister wrote a novel about it and my former-brother-in-law wrote several scholarly books. I took many wild ferry rides, snacked on skerpikjøt (fermented lamb) and turranfisk (fermented fish), and admired the beauty and strangeness of these tiny islands in the middle of the Atlantic. This was decades before the first undersea roundabout connected most of the Faroe Islands with roads.
Somewhere I would like to go
Shetland Islands, Scotland or Svalbard, Norway, especially during midnight sun season.
Someone I know
sasha_feather! I introduced her to a disability rights framework at WisCon. She enthusiastically joined in and succeeded me as WisCon Access Chair. She introduced me to Stargate Atlantis thence LJ thence DW fandom. We’ve had weekly lunches almost continuously for more than a decade.
Favorite movie
I'm drawing a complete blank. I loved Miyazaki's Spirited Away when it first came out--I should rewatch and see if still shines.
Want to play? Raise your hand for a letter.
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Date: 2025-01-28 01:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-01-28 09:45 pm (UTC)How about an R?
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Date: 2025-01-28 03:09 am (UTC)It was AMAZING!
Date: 2025-01-28 10:04 pm (UTC)Although those pictures are full of sunlight, and that's so rare that everyone runs outside to take pictures.
(I attended a wedding where all were singing and dancing traditions dating back to the 1300s.)
Mostly the Faroes is like a refrigerator--between 40° and 50° F, high humidity, and overcast. That's why the grass is so green, and they can hang food outside to ferment. Another plus: no flies.
Also birds birds birds, and since the turn of this century, music festivals!
First, the G! festival, which brought a bunch of visitors, so now there's more of them
https://www.faroeislands.fo/arts-culture/music/
Back then there were exactly two flights/week to the one airport. It's different now.
Re: It was AMAZING!
Date: 2025-01-28 10:14 pm (UTC)(TIL about this cool website, thank you! ETA: except their information is, uh, possibly AI generated because it's laughably wrong in part. Durango International Airport is in Durango, Mexico.)
Re: It was AMAZING!
Date: 2025-01-28 10:55 pm (UTC)Darn … I was so pleased to find that site, and it was from a Google search and GDI I think I’m going to break down and subscribe to Kagi for a year.
As someone more clever than me said on my d-roll, AIdiocy is polluting the commons!
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Date: 2025-01-28 10:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-01-28 10:05 pm (UTC)Ooo, I'm feeling like you know so much about W.
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Date: 2025-01-28 12:57 pm (UTC)I was so lucky
Date: 2025-01-29 12:34 am (UTC)to have a chance to experience their wild yet bounded lives. Hundreds of years of tradition somehow survived these extreme landscapes and severely limited food -- there's almost no soil, so subsistence is potatoes, sheep, and lots of fish.
(Among the fish, controversially, are pilot whales. Hakai Magazine has a good story. The images are full of blood, though, so click thoughtfully if at all.)
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Date: 2025-01-28 03:26 pm (UTC)It's a birder's paradise!
Date: 2025-01-29 12:29 am (UTC)I learned about them from my then-brother-in-law. It's wild to compare how isolated they were back then with now.
There's not a lot of soil on the Faroes, just one ornamental stand of trees near the capital city, and only a handful of beaches. Subsistence is fishing*, sheep, and potatoes. Everything else is flown or shipped in.
* Among the fish, controversially, are pilot whales. Hakai Magazine has a good story. The images are full of blood, though, so click thoughtfully if at all
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Date: 2025-01-28 03:31 pm (UTC)It was memorable!
Date: 2025-01-28 10:26 pm (UTC)I was 14, traveling solo. The US ticket agent wrote down the wrong time, so I had to wait three days in Copenhagen for the other flight that week. A kind Danish woman, maybe 5 years older than me, overheard my dismay at the ticket counter, and put me up in her commune.
I tried to travel light, so I had one book to read: Ulysses. I didn't finish it :,)
Re: It was memorable!
Date: 2025-01-30 03:45 am (UTC)Re: It was memorable!
Date: 2025-01-30 11:27 pm (UTC)Traveling on my own was exciting. I did have experience. My birth was induced so I would be old enough to fly (no babies younger than 6 weeks Back Then) and our family traveled a lot. I'd already done quite a few solo train trips when I was 8, and was comfortable on DC trolleys and MTA. Come to think of it, when I went to the Faroes they didn't do the "unaccompanied minor" handoff with the airlines. My parents entered university age 16, so they had a different outlook on the boundaries of adolescence.
I did finish ULYSSES! And then I reread it in my 20s. And now that it's available via the public domain and I have an ereader, it's conceivable I'll read it again. It's pretty fucking great: lots of humor and snark and hey! it's Greek pantheon fanfic. Last chapter is told via an orgasm.
Re: It was memorable!
Date: 2025-01-30 05:04 pm (UTC)Re: It was memorable!
Date: 2025-01-30 11:27 pm (UTC)Ahhhhhh, yes.
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Date: 2025-01-28 05:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-01-28 10:11 pm (UTC)Today only, we've got a special going for T.
The thicker creams, aimed at folks with eczema and such, are all fragrance-free. My fave is CeraVe--it comes in a super thick (hold jar upside down, nothing happens) and a pump. But they're spendy.
For a basic, I want to rec Aveeno, but they change their fragrance-free formula too darn often. (Okay, I'm old.) The bottle we got 18 months ago, when fragrance-free was branded green, is fine. The current f-f is branded brown, and smells like a laundromat (without the frank perfumes, but with that concrete that's too-often-damp quality).
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Date: 2025-01-28 11:24 pm (UTC)It's the combination of the
Date: 2025-01-29 12:31 am (UTC)unearthly but true beauty I saw in the Faroes with the swooping drone shots from the BBC murder series.
The big questions is: midsummer or Hogmanay?
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Date: 2025-01-30 06:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-01-30 11:28 pm (UTC)I'm always ready to spur writing! Oooh, I have a challenging one for you: Q.
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Date: 2025-01-31 12:46 am (UTC)