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soc_puppetWelp, I just got my Listening assignment back. You know, the one that I kinda phoned in?
I got 100%.
This is important information for me on how hard I need to work on future assignments.
Up next is our informative speech. I'm contemplating topics (to be discussed in class tomorrow evening), and am leaning towards either Apopo or Esperanto. We'll see how my classmates feel about rats.
In Philosophy news, the remaining class periods are going to be dedicated to gearing up for the final exam, and then actually taking the final exam. The teacher has assured us that any classwork in the remaining days will be bonus points, and also that he's dropping the lowest score of the three exams in class, so if we're happy with our grades, we don't have to continue to show up. We're certainly welcome to do so! But not obligated.
I got 100% in both Philosophy exams, and have been participating like heck in class discussions and such. I feel very confident in my grade. As such, I'm planning to skip six thirty minute drives and stay home instead.
I got 100%.
This is important information for me on how hard I need to work on future assignments.
Up next is our informative speech. I'm contemplating topics (to be discussed in class tomorrow evening), and am leaning towards either Apopo or Esperanto. We'll see how my classmates feel about rats.
In Philosophy news, the remaining class periods are going to be dedicated to gearing up for the final exam, and then actually taking the final exam. The teacher has assured us that any classwork in the remaining days will be bonus points, and also that he's dropping the lowest score of the three exams in class, so if we're happy with our grades, we don't have to continue to show up. We're certainly welcome to do so! But not obligated.
I got 100% in both Philosophy exams, and have been participating like heck in class discussions and such. I feel very confident in my grade. As such, I'm planning to skip six thirty minute drives and stay home instead.
[livre] La licorne qui n'aimait pas les paillettes
Jun. 24th, 2025 02:05 pmmaluretteTitre : La licorne qui n'aimait pas les paillettes
Auteures : Séverine de la Croix & Pauline Roland
Langue : français
Type : album jeunesse
Genre : aime-toi toi-même ?
1ère parution : 2021
Édition : Splash!
Format : carré,
(c'était en vitrine de ma nouvelle librairie habituelle - entre autres - pour la Pride ; c'était coloré et ça avait l'air rigolo)
Viviane la licorne prend soin de la forêt, elle aime son boulot et les autres créatures magiques, mais elle déteste semer des paillettes à chaque émotion alors elle cherche une façon de s'en débarrasser...
Oui c'est rigolo. Peut-être pas transcendant mais du coup j'ai envie d'en lire quelques autres de cette collection ?
Imagine you're a unicorn and you hate shedding sparkles whenever you feel emotions what would you do? (no, not a Kohlinar, that's not that kind of book)
Auteures : Séverine de la Croix & Pauline Roland
Langue : français
Type : album jeunesse
Genre : aime-toi toi-même ?
1ère parution : 2021
Édition : Splash!
Format : carré,
(c'était en vitrine de ma nouvelle librairie habituelle - entre autres - pour la Pride ; c'était coloré et ça avait l'air rigolo)
Viviane la licorne prend soin de la forêt, elle aime son boulot et les autres créatures magiques, mais elle déteste semer des paillettes à chaque émotion alors elle cherche une façon de s'en débarrasser...
Oui c'est rigolo. Peut-être pas transcendant mais du coup j'ai envie d'en lire quelques autres de cette collection ?
Imagine you're a unicorn and you hate shedding sparkles whenever you feel emotions what would you do? (no, not a Kohlinar, that's not that kind of book)
[courts] Princes et princesses
Jun. 23rd, 2025 04:43 pmmaluretteTitre : Princes et princesses
Réalisation : Michel Ocelot
Langue : français
Type : animation (2D/papier découpé)
Genre : contes
1ère sortie : 2000
Durée : 1h04/six court-métrage
Où ? sur Mubi
Un petit garçon une petite fille et un vieux projectionniste avec des machines à costumer futuristes dans un vieux cinéma de quartier abandonné (?) se racontent des histoires
"et si j'étais..?" "et si je faisais..?"
et les mettent en scène.
J'avais déjà lu il y a longtemps le conte sur lequel se base l'histoire avec les figues, mais j'avais oublié la cruauté de la figure royale. Par curiosité j'aimerais bien lire aussi celui sur lequel se base l'histoire avec la reine cruelle transposée en l'an 3000 ? Et le dernier m'a tellement fait rire !!
C'est très joli !
Six cute short movies in which two children play out fairytales in an old movie theater.
Réalisation : Michel Ocelot
Langue : français
Type : animation (2D/papier découpé)
Genre : contes
1ère sortie : 2000
Durée : 1h04/six court-métrage
Où ? sur Mubi
Un petit garçon une petite fille et un vieux projectionniste avec des machines à costumer futuristes dans un vieux cinéma de quartier abandonné (?) se racontent des histoires
"et si j'étais..?" "et si je faisais..?"
et les mettent en scène.
J'avais déjà lu il y a longtemps le conte sur lequel se base l'histoire avec les figues, mais j'avais oublié la cruauté de la figure royale. Par curiosité j'aimerais bien lire aussi celui sur lequel se base l'histoire avec la reine cruelle transposée en l'an 3000 ? Et le dernier m'a tellement fait rire !!
C'est très joli !
Six cute short movies in which two children play out fairytales in an old movie theater.
SVSSS Plunny time
Jun. 19th, 2025 09:07 pmsoc_puppetCurrently amusing myself with the notion of a System Failure AU, in which Shen Yuan still gets transmigrated into SQQ as usual, and has access to and can argue with the System, but someone else also has access to his System logs, and they're the one that gets to call the shots.
So it'd be a closer experience to a video game or visual novel for the other person, just that SY!SQQ has a bit more agency when it comes to getting the System to do what he wants than a player character might have.
Amusing options for which character gets control:
Ning Yingying; she gets a wakeup call about her own social fuckups, especially regarding Luo Binghe, but also gets an insight into what happened to SJ!SQQ, what he was doing to and planning for LBH, etc
Shang Qinghua; he hates dealing with his own System, and now he has a second one to contend with?! And it's somehow nicer than his own?! WTF is this bullshit! (Early Airplane reveal for extra shenanigans)
Liu Qingge; just for the sheer WTF factor involved. He would have no idea what was going on, and figuring it out, as well as everything else involved, would be... very interesting, IMO.
Yue Qingyuan; there would have to be some way of rigging it so he'd get Shen Jiu back if he managed to "help" Shen Yuan "fix" PIDW, or he'd probably find a way to be self-destructive about it and/or kill SY!SQQ or something
Luo Binghe; honestly, probably the least interesting option of the ones I listed so far. He would be better with just System chat log access, not decision making access, IMO. Still, he is an option!
Ming Fan, probably; I've already got NYY on the list, so why not? He can start learning about the consequences of bullying LBH and maybe start thinking about what it means to be a righteous cultivator
Gongyi Xiao; I mean, if I put Ming Fan on there, I may as well. He has no idea what's going on for most of this, except for a passing familiarity with the Xiu Ya sword, and is now going to get an inside look at how dysfunctional all the cultivation sects are, HHP included
Of these, I think that NYY and/or YQY are the two I'm most likely to actually write (GYX is tempting, but I've got the start of a fix-it AU thing already kinda planned for Sot69), but even then I can't imagine doing more than an outline at the moment. Still, very amusing to think about!
So it'd be a closer experience to a video game or visual novel for the other person, just that SY!SQQ has a bit more agency when it comes to getting the System to do what he wants than a player character might have.
Amusing options for which character gets control:
Of these, I think that NYY and/or YQY are the two I'm most likely to actually write (GYX is tempting, but I've got the start of a fix-it AU thing already kinda planned for Sot69), but even then I can't imagine doing more than an outline at the moment. Still, very amusing to think about!
Homework done; nap time now
Jun. 18th, 2025 01:33 pmsoc_puppetWelp, I just totally phoned in a Speech class assignment.
On the other hand, I both more-or-less completed it and turned it in, so that's a win over my ability to deal with ADHD in high school. I'll take it.
For real, tho, the assignment was bonkers to do in just one week. On top of that, my lifestyle doesn't really lend itself well to the assignment itself, so uh. Well, ( just take a look )
Anyway, I ended up trying to improve my listening strategy for Intro to Philosophy. It, uh. Well, it helped me more-or-less finish the assignment! And a finished and turned in assignment is, once again, leagues better than a completely ignored assignment that never gets turned in. So I'm taking the win.
Edit: Tonight's class included an exercise for extra credit worth 10 points, which is 2/3 of the above assignment! That should balance things out for me.
On the other hand, I both more-or-less completed it and turned it in, so that's a win over my ability to deal with ADHD in high school. I'll take it.
For real, tho, the assignment was bonkers to do in just one week. On top of that, my lifestyle doesn't really lend itself well to the assignment itself, so uh. Well, ( just take a look )
Anyway, I ended up trying to improve my listening strategy for Intro to Philosophy. It, uh. Well, it helped me more-or-less finish the assignment! And a finished and turned in assignment is, once again, leagues better than a completely ignored assignment that never gets turned in. So I'm taking the win.
Edit: Tonight's class included an exercise for extra credit worth 10 points, which is 2/3 of the above assignment! That should balance things out for me.
Catching up
Jun. 17th, 2025 09:52 pmsoc_puppetAck, how long has it been since I posted here last? Eight days? Yikes!
Okay, uh. I'm keeping up with school! Grades are so far good in both Intro to Philosophy and Speech, and I'm doing my best to keep them that way. Philosophy will end in two or three weeks, at which point I'll start Intro to Sociology, but Speech runs through the rest of summer.
Speech is a lot of material. I feel like there could be at least another hour or two's worth of class per week for it, but it's not up to me, so I'll just keep soldiering on. Got 100% on the written part of my first of three official speeches for the class, and I think I'll find out how I did on the actual speech-giving part of it in class tomorrow.
I'm pretty well nailing Philosophy; I got 100% on the first exam, and the second one is coming up. I'm feeling pretty optimistic, especially since the online version of the test is open book.
I'm about four chapters from the end of MDZS; I'm currently listening to the first part of the last chapter of the fourth book, with the fifth book queued up and ready to go. So that's about eight hours or so, not counting extras. Normally I'd be lining TGCF up to listen to next, but Audible just listed a shit ton of light novels as "free for members", and any time they've done that recently, it's been for a limited time only. So I'll probably lean into those first. Still, it's pretty exciting to be so close to finishing this series! It's been a lot of fun to listen to, though I can't say it's giving me as many fandom feelings as SVSSS.
I think that's it for now; I've got some laundry that just finished in the dryer I need to get to.
Okay, uh. I'm keeping up with school! Grades are so far good in both Intro to Philosophy and Speech, and I'm doing my best to keep them that way. Philosophy will end in two or three weeks, at which point I'll start Intro to Sociology, but Speech runs through the rest of summer.
Speech is a lot of material. I feel like there could be at least another hour or two's worth of class per week for it, but it's not up to me, so I'll just keep soldiering on. Got 100% on the written part of my first of three official speeches for the class, and I think I'll find out how I did on the actual speech-giving part of it in class tomorrow.
I'm pretty well nailing Philosophy; I got 100% on the first exam, and the second one is coming up. I'm feeling pretty optimistic, especially since the online version of the test is open book.
I'm about four chapters from the end of MDZS; I'm currently listening to the first part of the last chapter of the fourth book, with the fifth book queued up and ready to go. So that's about eight hours or so, not counting extras. Normally I'd be lining TGCF up to listen to next, but Audible just listed a shit ton of light novels as "free for members", and any time they've done that recently, it's been for a limited time only. So I'll probably lean into those first. Still, it's pretty exciting to be so close to finishing this series! It's been a lot of fun to listen to, though I can't say it's giving me as many fandom feelings as SVSSS.
I think that's it for now; I've got some laundry that just finished in the dryer I need to get to.
[livre] Fantômette contre le hibou (to2)
Jun. 14th, 2025 10:11 ammaluretteTitre : Fantômette contre le hibou
Auteur : Georges Chaulet
Langue : français
Type : roman jeunesse
Genre : aventure/enquête
1ère parution : 1962/2006
Édition : Hachette/classiques de la rose
Format : poche souple, 185 pages
( Read more... )
Nous avons cette fois affaire à un gang qui rackette les honnêtes (ou pas) Framboisiens !
Et le twist était intéressant : yay equal opportunity!
Auteur : Georges Chaulet
Langue : français
Type : roman jeunesse
Genre : aventure/enquête
1ère parution : 1962/2006
Édition : Hachette/classiques de la rose
Format : poche souple, 185 pages
( Read more... )
Nous avons cette fois affaire à un gang qui rackette les honnêtes (ou pas) Framboisiens !
Et le twist était intéressant : yay equal opportunity!
bikeshare rant, and library stuff
Jun. 11th, 2025 08:08 pmmindstalkNothing deep here, just griping about today.
Avi and I set out to the Drexel Museum of Natural History. I took Indego ebike, to not worry about leaving my bike out locked, and to keep up with him. That was mostly okay, though my bike started making rattlings sounds on the way, and 20th has so many potholes, and manholes that are deep enough to potholes. I am once again baffled by how the US goes all-in on car dependency, yet can't keep the streets smooth.( Read more... )
To leaven the negativity: the museum was decent. Nice hall of dinosaur fossils (or their casts), and a lot of good dioramas. OTOH even making a second pass, I'd basically squeezed it dry in 2-2.5 hours, and our first pass took just 1.5 hours. Is that good value for $22 full-price ticket? I doubt. Fortunately we weren't paying full price.
Logan Square was kind of nice, with its flowering bushes and water fountain, and I finally checked out the main library of Philadelphia. Was nice to be in a big library again, and I accidentally found a shelf full of bicycling books, several of which I checked out.
But Philadelphia hasn't gone in on the sort of checkout technology where you can 'turn off' a book after checking it out, so that it doesn't set off the detector. At my branch library (which has no self-checkout), the librarian gives my books to me after I've gone through the detector. At the main library, you need to have brought your printed receipt with you; I ran into a bit of trouble because I'd actually turned in some other books I checked out, to make room in my backpack for the bike books, and didn't keep the first receipt for the remaining book from the first set. Fortunately the guard decided I probably wasn't doing an elaborate scam to steal one book.