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This year, however, as [part of my resolution to read more](https://cassie.ink/week-notes/015/), I was at my local bookshop and spotted a copy of *Return of the King*.[^12] I added it to my bag, started the book in probably May of this year, and finally finished it this week.[^13]
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I will plant my flag and say that I think *Return of the King* the finest in the series; Tolkien beautifully weaves the interlaced narrative together here, which has enough tension and intersection to bear me through his purple prose about nature and unflagging world building with only minor grumbling. What especially struck me, however, was Frodo and Sam's harrowing journey across Mordor — it was here that Tolkien's penchant for detail clicked for me, as the reader is treated to an arduous accounting of every drop of water, every crumb of bread that Sam rations (and goes without) across the ashy wastelands of Mordor. By comparison, the destruction of the Ring seems to pas with relatively little fanfare. The movies portray it (and all) with bombastic melodrama (affectionate), from Sam's protestation that he will carry Frodo the rest of the way up the mountain to his rescue of Frodo as he dangles bloodily from a cliff above the fires of Mount Doom. The book instead centers Sam's limited view of the events: he enters the cavern well after Frodo and sees only Frodo slip on the Ring — none of his hesitation to destroy it. The affair unfolds briskly from there, or perhaps it seems so when juxtaposed with the otherwise overwrought nature of Tolkien's prose to that point. Indeed, the destruction of the Ring is communicated to the reader in just a few short sentences after Gollum bites off Frodo's finger:
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I will plant my flag and say that I think *Return of the King* the finest in the series; Tolkien beautifully weaves the interlaced narrative together here, which has enough tension and intersection to bear me through his purple prose about nature and unflagging world building with only minor grumbling. What especially struck me, however, was Frodo and Sam's harrowing journey across Mordor — it was here that Tolkien's penchant for detail clicked for me, as the reader is treated to an arduous accounting of every drop of water, every crumb of bread that Sam rations (and goes without) across the ashy wastelands of Mordor. By comparison, the destruction of the Ring seems to pass with relatively little fanfare. The movies portray it (and all) with bombastic melodrama (affectionate), from Sam's protestation that he will carry Frodo the rest of the way up the mountain to his rescue of Frodo as he dangles bloodily from a cliff above the fires of Mount Doom. The book instead centers Sam's limited view of the events: he enters the cavern well after Frodo and sees only Frodo slip on the Ring — none of his hesitation to destroy it. The affair unfolds briskly from there, or perhaps it seems so when juxtaposed with the otherwise overwrought nature of Tolkien's prose to that point. Indeed, the destruction of the Ring is communicated to the reader in just a few short sentences after Gollum bites off Frodo's finger:
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> 'Precious, precious, precious!' Gollum cried. 'My Precious! O my Precious!' And with that, even as his eyes were lifted up to gloat on his prize, he stepped too far, toppled, wavered for a moment on the brink, and then with a shriek he fell. Out of the depths came his last wail *Precious*, and he was gone.
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title: FX chains by the utterly inept
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date: 2025-07-24
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Once upon a time ago (and a time, and a time), I had a podcast. I miss podcasting dearly and think about going back often — otherwise, what am I to do with a partial, flawed understanding of normalizing to a target loudness and editing around the disgusting noises my mouth makes? Well, share it with others, of course.[^1]
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In case it was not clear, I am not a professional. I am a blockhead who likes to tinker and who has watched a lot of YouTube videos. These are the FX chains I use for my voice, which may or may not be helpful to other people who do not have my voice. This is also not an exhaustive audio guide or overview of *how* I edit my audio. Maybe another time.
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Currently, I use a RØDE Procaster as my microphone and a MOTU M2 as my interface. I have a Fethead between the two because otherwise people complain I am too quiet on Discord. I bought a pop filter designed for the RØDE Podmic; it fits on my Procaster and works, but it looks a little ridiculous, so sometimes I get risqué and take it off. I paid several hundred dollars for this setup so that I can capture my two dollar voice with fidelity.
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Back when I was podcasting with a co-host over long distances, I swore by [Ennuicaster](https://ecastr.com/) for recording because I admired the creator's pedantic approach to audio and hostility toward their end user.[^2] Ennuicaster is clunky and temperamental, but the pricing model is fair and the audio it spits out is top-notch. It is also the only recording application that I know of with a prominently featured weasel mascot. If I'm recording just myself, or something in person, I record straight into [Reaper](https://www.reaper.fm/), which I also use to edit.
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I have a project template set up to automatically open in Reaper with my FX chains. Theoretically, they are specific to my voice, but I imagine you can steal a lot of this for yourself. I'll do my best to explain what each step does and provide an audio sample for A/B comparison.[^3]
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Here is the raw audio I'll work with, with no editing aside from when I fucked up the second sentence of my favorite book.
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{{<audio src="https://cdn.cassie.ink/audio/2025/fxchainexample-1.mp3" caption="Raw Audio" >}}
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## Individual Track Chain
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I start by normalizing the track to -23 LUFS. It's important to normalize as if it's one long item — I made cuts where I messed up, and if I normalized each item individually, there would be weird modulations in volume mid-sentence. Our final target volume will be -19 LUFS (for a mono podcast); I start with -23 to give me some headroom — I'll boost later in the chain.
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{{<audio src="https://cdn.cassie.ink/audio/2025/fxchainexample-2.mp3" caption="Audio after normalization" >}}
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Now I start adding FX to my individual track (not the master). I have collected many paid VSTs over the years; you can almost certainly copy their exact effects into Reaper's free (and excellent) equivalents. I start with **FabFilter's Pro-DS**, which removes some of the harsh sibilance.[^4] I believe this is almost entirely the "Female Wide Band" preset. The settings are pretty conservative; I used to really hammer them down and produced many podcast episodes where I sounded as though I had a lisp.[^5]
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Mode: Single Vocal
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Threshold: -36 dB
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Band Processing: Wide Band
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I like Pro-DS because it has a nice display of what it is and isn't attenuating. You could easily achieve this with a free de-esser or an EQ curve.
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{{<audio src="https://cdn.cassie.ink/audio/2025/fxchainexample-3-ds.mp3" caption="Audio after de-essing" >}}
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I incidentally picked a great passage to read — there are a lot of *s* sounds. Can you notice a difference? Probably not, but they are ever-so-slightly softer.
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The next step is **Mouth De-click** from iZotope. If you spend money on *any* VST, I really recommend this one. It gets rid of the disgusting wet mouth sounds. If you ever want to vomit, check the box that says "Output clicks only" and listen through to your audio. I am almost certainly using a preset here, too.
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Sensitivity: 4.00
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{{<audio src="https://cdn.cassie.ink/audio/2025/fxchainexample-4.mp3" caption="Audio after Mouth De-click" >}}
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Next, I use **ReaGate** as to reduce noise and breaths, which I believe I copied [almost entirely from this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBKoC1sPtWs). I tend to inhale sharply when I laugh, and I am in general not very good at breathing, so the gate cleans that up a little.
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Threshold: -27 dB
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I believe the video goes into this, but there's a mix of "wet" (the processed audio) and "dry" (the raw audio) going on here to make the effect a little more smooth: I'm not removing *all* of the breath, just attenuating it. I like to think of it like lowering the opacity for a breathing layer in Photoshop. I have no recollection of how I arrived at these numbers, but I like them. In the example below, pay attention to the word "neighborhood" — the breath after it is way less noticeable.
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Sometimes the gate can make certain words or laughs sound funny, in which case I use a bypass envelope.
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Now it's time for an EQ, which is perhaps the part of this chain most specific to my voice. I spent a lot of time playing with curves and settings (and, again, watching YouTube videos) until I found something I liked for my nasally voice. I am using FabFilter's **Pro-Q 4**, but again, you can just copy my curve into whatever EQ VST that you have.
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I've found this curve preserves a faithful representation of my voice but makes it a little more warm.
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Now, I add a second EQ curve — this time to tamp down the remaining sibilance, which may have been amplified by my previous EQ curve. The next step is compression where I don't want to further accentuate my whistly *s* sounds. This curve is again specific to my voice — I swept for the frequency that I found harsh and attenuated it.
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There will still be whistle in here — I'm working with the voice that I have — but it's a little bit smoother.
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Now it's time to compress! A compressor helps to even out the difference between loud speech and quieter speech. The example audio that I'm using here is pretty even to begin with, but when I'm talking to another human, I tend to be less monotone. I'm again using a FabFilter VST — **Pro-C 2** — but you can copy these settings into any compressor.
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Threshold: -12 dB
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Knee: +18.00 dB
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Attack: 1.000 ms
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This step boosts the overall loudness of the track, so the example audio should seem a bit boosted compared to the previous ones.
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{{<audio src="https://cdn.cassie.ink/audio/2025/fxchainexample-8.mp3" caption="Audio after compressing" >}}
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This next step is entirely optional, but I use Slate's [**Fresh Air**](https://slatedigital.com/fresh-air-2/) to add a little bit of presence to my voice and get a touch of that NPR sound. It is very easy to overdo this effect, so take a tempered hand with it. The plug-in is free if you give them your email address.
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Finally, for my individual track, I apply a limiter (**ReaLimit**) just to knock down any remaining peaks. Again, this is a fairly monotone clip, and I'm conservative with my levels, so it doesn't kick in much at all here — it's more of a safety.
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Threshold: -2.00 dB
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{{<audio src="https://cdn.cassie.ink/audio/2025/fxchainexample-10.mp3" caption="Audio after limiting" >}}
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That's the end of the processing I do on my individual track. A co-host or guest's chain would be fairly similar, but I would tweak the EQ curve and de-essers to suit their voice and possibly add some more aggressive noise removal depending on their recording conditions.
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To recap, here is the chain for my *individual* track:
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1. Normalize entire track to -23 LUFS (treat as one item)
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2. De-ess
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This latest example is peaking at -1.00 dB (thanks to the limiter), and the LUFS-I measure is -15.8. That's a little too loud for a podcast, but we'll take care of that on the master track.
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## Master Track Chain
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The example audio I've been using only has one speaker, and if I was a solo podcaster, I could just put this chain at the end of the other chain. But if you have multiple hosts, or you use sound effects, you need to make sure that the audio is balanced — like if two people are talking at the same time (which you should generally avoid anyway). Additionally, we want to hit a target of or around -19 LUFS. I don't fully understand LUFS but I'm going to try to explain it nonetheless: LUFS is a measure of the *average perceived loudness* of audio. There may be spikes or some quieter portions, but on *average* we want our podcast to hit -19 LUFS (a broadcast standard for mono audio). If all podcasts do this — which they should — it will mean that you can listen to an episode of one show then switch to a different show without having to adjust your device's volume. Ideally, dynamically inserted ads would also hit -19.0 LUFS and therefore be at the same perceived loudness as the regular episode, too. This has not been my experience with even professional shows.
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Now, LUFS isn't the only measure we care about, because we could reach an average but still have a wide dynamic range. We've already taken care of that, though, with our compression on the individual tracks.
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I use only one effect on the master track. It is **Waves PlaylistRider Mono,** which takes care of the loudness targeting for me through some wizardry. [TriLeveler 2](https://plugins4free.com/plugin/2753/) is a great free alternative that has way more buttons and sliders, but PlaylistRider works well for a knucklehead like me.
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(I also have a Loudness Meter on the master track, but that's just for measuring.)
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{{<audio src="https://cdn.cassie.ink/audio/2025/fxchainexample-11.mp3" caption="Final processed audio" >}}
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And here's the raw audio again, just for the sake of comparison:
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This last export measures at -18.8 LUFS with a peak of -1.0 dB and an LRA of 3.6. Nobody is going to cry about ± 0.2 LUFS, so I'm happy with what I have. However, if you want to be really sure, you can use the **Normalize/fade** option when you render your final export in Reaper; after Reaper finishes processing the export, it will apply a final boost to get to your target LUFS. In my experience, this works fine, but I'd rather do the loudness targeting on my own.
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# Please be aware that I have absolutely no fucking clue what I'm doing, ever.
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I am sure there are audio snobs reading this and laughing at my incompetence. I hope I have made clear that I'm a dunce who has watched a lot of YouTube tutorials, so you can spare me the elitist bullshit: it's on you for expecting me to speak with any kind of authority. Of course, if you have genuine, well-meaning corrections, advice, or just ideas for me to play with, I'd love to hear that! I love to tinker; I take pride in audio that I produce (despite appearances) and enjoy learning more. At this point, I'm happy with the audio I spit out, even though it's far from perfect — but I hope what *I've* learned can help other jackasses like me.
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To anyone podcasting, or thinking about podcasting, please *just start.* I have fallen into the gear acquisition syndrome trap too many times and told myself I need a $200 microphone and dozens of VSTs to get great sound. You don't, and you don't *need* great sound, either. There's a level of "good enough" audio that will please your listeners who are probably smashing episodes through their $12 dirty buds, anyway. Focus on having fun and making shit that makes you smile. That's all we have in the end.[^6]
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[^1]: I believe the internet should be a platform for sharing information freely and openly. Unfortunately, I also believe I have two fundamental rights: (1) to be full of shit and (2) to have internet access. I hope that, as a critical thinker and consumer, you can discern that I have zero (0) fucking credibility
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[^2]: Not really, but who else would design a UI like that?
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[^3]: I'm exporting these audio files to 128kbps CBR mono MP3s, which is what my final export would look like for a podcast episode.
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[^4]: I find that my voice has a lot of natural sibilance; my s's whistle. I have considered dental surgery to correct this (not really), but I fear a monkey's paw-esque repercussion and have instead decided to resign myself to my lot in life (being really fucking annoying)
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[^5]: Please still podcast if you have a lisp. I do not have a lisp, and, again, my goal is to accurately capture my shitty voice, so I will not add a lisp in post.
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[^6]: I didn't intend for this post to end on a nihilistic note, but [quoth Mac Miller](https://genius.com/7983884): "I don’t know why all my albums end in death. I guess because that’s what happens in life."
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* **_Best Buds_, Mom Jeans** - I had high hopes for this group based on the band name and that they are often mentioned in the same breath as Joyce Manor. _Best Buds_ was a disappointment; the only song I found somewhat tolerable was "Edward 40hands," but the rest is plagued by cloyingly nasal vocals that drag down some pleasant guitar licks.
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last.fm listening report: [https://cdn.cassie.land/lastfm/lastfm-2024-01.png](https://cdn.cassie.land/lastfm/lastfm-2024-01.png)
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last.fm listening report: [https://cdn.cassie.ink/lastfm/lastfm-2024-01.png](https://cdn.cassie.ink/lastfm/lastfm-2024-01.png)
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# Movies
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* **_Fast X_** - an enjoyable entry in the _Fast_ series, and I can officially say that I'm caught up (aside from _Hobbes & Shaw_; maybe that will feature later on this list). It's by far not the best _Fast_ movie (I think that's still _Fast Five_), and I don't really care for Jason Momoa as a villain. There's something tired and a little problematic about the "wacky sociopath" trope, but the flair for drama and action is alive and well in this film. It's definitely the best of the post-7 films, but I can see how some might be turned off by the copious fan service and many celebrity cameos. Personally, I come to these films for cheap thrills and excess; I know what I'm in for and don't begrudge them for indulging that.
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Easy enough, right? I've been tinkering with and building PCs for over ten years now. I'm at a stage where I can put one together and confidently turn it on on the first try. There was a bit of an adjustment period to a proper server case (particularly the drive cages — I like the idea of them, but the screwless design is a proper pain in the ass), but for the most part, this was smooth sailing — at least in the context of what was to come.
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I'm normally better at straightening up the cables, but with a non-modular PSU, I don't have a lot of options. I'll replace it one day...
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Putting together the rack was easy enough: there were a lot of screws, which is fine, but the assembly was straightforward.
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We then took out the rails (iStarUSA TC-RAIL-26) to affix them to the rack and I discovered my error: I ordered 26" rails when I probably needed 20". Ah well — I ordered them from eBay and wasn't interested in going through the return process.
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We continued through and, with just a little trouble, were able to mount the chassis within the rack and have it slide out properly. I'm indebted to [SPX Labs's YouTube video](https://youtu.be/IkILNUa4HaY?si=-l90v5gEK_ojk_n1) showing assembly of rails and a chassis just slightly different than mine, which was a great reference. The rack does tip when the chassis is fully extended, but that's workable for now and will resolve when I fill the rack with other equipment.
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Finally, we decided we were committed for the evening and turned to routing ethernet into the basement. The room I've designated to be the home of the rack is the former location of our oil tank; shortly after we moved in, we had the tank replaced, as it was around 60 years old and filled with sludge. We also relocated the tank because its vent and fill caps were in the garage. The tank predated the garage — the previous owners added it on. Moving the tank left this room empty, so we now have a basement storage room that's conveniently right under our office, where our router is also currently located.
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One day, I'd love to wire the whole house up with ethernet, but today is not that day. We got creative (or sloppy, as I'm sure any professional network folks reading this will say): there are a bunch of unused vents throughout the house. It used to have a central fan system and, for some inexplicable reason, a previous owner ripped it out and left all the vents but not the ducts.[^1] Many of these vents run straight through into the basement,[^2] including one on the floor of the office, hidden by some built-in bookcases. Joe cleverly used some string for a string trimmer to pull the cable through the vent and into the basement room through a pre-existing hole.
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With ethernet pulled down, the rack was ready to hook up. Right now I have the world's shittiest surge protector down there, but I have a rack mounted surge protector en route to me. The ethernet is dangling, but again, down the line, I'll get a proper network setup.
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For now, I've accomplished the goal of getting the rack established and getting the server off the floor of my living spaces. I'm hopeful the cooler basement will improve the temperatures inside the chassis, too.
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# Doing
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Unfortunately I haven't been able to exercise much; partly, this is because I haven't been making the time for it, but I also tweaked my right shoulder somehow and it's been quite painful to use in every day tasks. _Ring Fit_ is therefore off the table. The trouble is that I genuinely don't know what I did to it! This week is my last before our holiday break, and I'm hoping to get back on the horse over the course of my 16 (!!) days off.
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I briefly contemplated [spending far too much money on a print of Martha Rich's "Stop Talking,"](https://20x200.com/products/stop-talking?variant=10674962884) but I'm far too poor and cheap, even though it expertly captures how I feel lately after work (or interacting with anyone).
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title: i'm falling down with shit caked on my shoes (week notes 25)
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## Doing
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Joe and I visited some of his family with a lake house this week where my farmer's tan became more and more pronounced. I also "worked" two days this week: I had committee meetings on Thursday and then a joint meeting to coordinate middle school/high school/college GSAs in my area.
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## Reading
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I finished reading *Return of the King* this week, completing a long-standing personal mission to read *The Lord of the Rings*. I [wrote up a big long post](https://git.32bit.cafe/cassie/cassiedotink.git) with my history with the series and my thoughts.
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Originally, I planned to read *Perdido Street Station* by China Miéville next, but I wanted something breezy after the *RotK* gauntlet, so I picked up *Ghost Boys* by Jewell Parker Rhodes and burned through it in a day. It was amazing. I'm adjuncting at my local college in the fall — it's a course for future English teachers about young adult literature. I'm considering offering students a choice of this or *All American Boys*. Both deal with a similar subject matter, but *Ghost Boys* is better suited for middle school. I'd love to teach the book to my middle schoolers, too, but I think that will be an uphill battle...[^1]
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My next read is *Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist* by Liz Pelly. I'm about 100 pages in and really enjoying it — I'm not usually one for non-fiction, but I also am a noted Spotify hater (and have been for a long time), so this felt like a good way to dip my toe in. Highly recommend!
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## Watching
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I've been rewatching *Downton Abbey*. I'm in season two right now; I'm debating whether to finish the series (I never watched past season five, I think) or if I'll stop when they kill off some major characters in season three. I am glad to confirm that I was always right: Mary is the main character and the best character. I am noticing more and more the ridiculous plotlines, however — I maintained for years that seasons one and two were actually good and after that it descended into soap opera melodrama, but I am older and wiser now. I think I'd still recommend the first season, but stop there.
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Joe and I have been burning through a lot of *Survivor* seasons to prepare for 50. Mostly, they're rewatches for me, which I don't mind. We haven't been going in any particular order.
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## Playing
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I'm big into *Fields of Mistria* lately. The developers just put out another update — I'm really impressed with how the game is coming along. I love *Stardew Valley* and have sunk hundreds of hours into it, but lately, I don't know how I could go back — *Mistria* has so many convenience and quality of life features that make *Stardew* feel old and clunky by comparison.
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## Listening
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I've been spending a lot of time at my computer, which means I've been listening to a lot of music!
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I've been listening to a lot of **Rainbow Kitten Surprise** lately as a lead up to seeing them in concert. I really enjoy them — when I last mentioned them, I think I'd only listened to *RKS*, on a friend's recommendation; I've since rounded out their discography. Here is my slipshod and unscientific personal ranking of their discography:
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|
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1. *RKS* - their best and most consistent; this is an *album*, an entire vibe, worth listening through in one sitting. Listen to "Cold Love" and "Wasted."
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2. *Seven + Mary* - a rough sketch of what they would eventually realize on *RKS,* but I like it — I think I have a lot of 2013 nostalgia. Listen to "First Class" and "American Hero."
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||||
3. *How to: Friend, Love, Freefall* - Great moments and some real stand out tracks, but it gets too same-y for me in places. Listen to "Moody Orange" (maybe my favorite song by them) and "Fever Pitch" (add in "Possum Queen" if you want a weird one that will stick in your head)
|
||||
4. *Love Hate Music Box* - I've had a lot of ups and downs with this one: I think it has too many songs and the good ones maybe didn't get to bake long enough. But the more I sit with it and take the songs as they are, the more I like it. Listen to "Lucky" and "Sickset."
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|
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I listened through to [*EELS* by **Being Dead**](https://beingdead.bandcamp.com/album/eels) as well, which is a real rad vibe all throughout. "Love Machine" might be my favorite song I've heard this year; "Van Goes" also has big "Bela Lugosi's Dead" vibes.
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I also, for some reason, thought about the band **The Madrigals** for the first time in a long time, which I'm sure I discovered on MySpace or last.fm or some other defunct platform. There's very little remaining about them online, but I have a few MP3s of theirs that I probably downloaded from one of the aforementioned sites. There's a [cool as fuck old radio archive website that mentions them](https://dandelionradio.com/tracklists/2008-04/index.htm) (and has a radio show with one of their songs still archived!), and I [stumbled on a music blog from 2011](http://thestreetlampdoesntcast.blogspot.com/2011/02/griff-says-land-ahoy-its-columbus.html) that mentioned some of the members' later bands, which led to me downloading [*Horizon* by **Trash Kit**](https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/horizon). I gave it a listen through — there are some great, skittery guitars in here, and the vocals remind me a lot of **Ponytail**. It gets a little too jam band for me in places, and the songs are quite same-y. I really like "Happy Sad," though.
|
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|
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Plexamp recommended *Random Spirit Lover* and then *Dragonslayer* by* **Sunset Rubdown** as a similar album after I finished listening through to *Horizon*. I've had both in my library for ages — I think I downloaded Sunset Rubdown's entire discography at some point because I like a few of their songs. I didn't particularly like either as whole albums, but I have loved (and continue to love) "You Go on Ahead (Trumpet Trumpet II)."
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[^1]: But one worth climbing
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---
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title: (week notes 25)
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date: 2025-07-18
|
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tags:
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- week-notes
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draft: true
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## Doing
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|
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## Reading
|
||||
I finished reading *Return of the King* this week, completing a long-standing personal mission to read *The Lord of the Rings*. I [wrote up a big long post](https://git.32bit.cafe/cassie/cassiedotink.git) with my history with the series and my thoughts.
|
||||
|
||||
Originally, I planned to read *Perdido Street Station* next, but I wanted something breezy after the *RotK* gauntlet, so I picked up *Ghost Boys* by Jewell Parker Rhodes and burned through it in a day. It was amazing. I'm adjuncting at my local college in the fall — it's a course for future English teachers about young adult literature. I'm considering offering students a choice of this or *All American Boys*. Both deal with a similar subject matter, but *Ghost Boys* is better suited for middle school. I'd love to teach the book to my middle schoolers, too, but I think that will be an uphill battle...[^1]
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|
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## Watching
|
||||
|
||||
I've been rewatching *Downton Abbey*. I'm in season two right now; I'm debating whether to finish the series (I never watched past season five, I think) or if I'll stop when they kill off some major characters in season three. I am glad to confirm that I was always right: Mary is the main character and the best character.
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## Playing
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## Listening
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[^1]: But one worth climbing
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|
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My relationship with my bisexuality has been fraught. I can pinpoint in specificity where I feel it started: in the sixth grade (for me, 2005 or 2006), reading the sex ed chapter in my science textbook, I was presented with the three sexualities — heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality. I had, by that point, already started puberty and experienced low-level attraction. I’d been confused that that attraction never seemed to have a distinct target: I liked boys and I liked girls. I remember an immediate sense of comfort and belonging in the term. That’s allowed?, I thought. Reading it in a textbook made it seem so simple. Then surely that’s the way to be.
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<p>Joe and I visited some of his family with a lake house this week where my farmer’s tan became more and more pronounced. I also “worked” two days this week: I had committee meetings on Thursday and then a joint meeting to coordinate middle school/high school/college GSAs in my area.</p>
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<p>I finished reading <em>Return of the King</em> this week, completing a long-standing personal mission to read <em>The Lord of the Rings</em>. I <a href="https://git.32bit.cafe/cassie/cassiedotink.git">wrote up a big long post</a> with my history with the series and my thoughts.</p>
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<p>Once upon a time ago (and a time, and a time), I had a podcast. I miss podcasting dearly and think about going back often — otherwise, what am I to do with a partial, flawed understanding of normalizing to a target loudness and editing around the disgusting noises my mouth makes? Well, share it with others, of course.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup></p>
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<p>In case it was not clear, I am not a professional. I am a blockhead who likes to tinker and who has watched a lot of YouTube videos. These are the FX chains I use for my voice, which may or may not be helpful to other people who do not have my voice. This is also not an exhaustive audio guide or overview of <em>how</em> I edit my audio. Maybe another time.</p>
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<h2><a href="/finished-lord-of-the-rings/">Climbing my personal Mount Doom (I finished reading Lord of the Rings)</a></h2>
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<p>Peter Jackson’s <em>The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring</em> released in 2001 when I was seven years old. At the time, my media diet consisted mostly of <em>The Powerpuff Girls</em> and obsessively reading and re-reading the first four <em>Harry Potter</em> books.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> I would like to say that my father was thoughtful and felt that I would have enjoyed another fantasy series with wizards and magic but knew that a three-plus-hour theater experience was tall ask for a seven year old. Unfortunately, I know him, and I think it more likely that he is cheap and thought the movie looked cool, so when <em>Fellowship</em> released on home media, we trucked to the neighborhood knock-off and rented it on VHS. That night, I crowded with my two older siblings around a (by today’s standards) laughably small tube TV. We tucked in with no expectations or understanding of what the movie would be about.</p>
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<p><em>And Then? And Then? What Else?</em> has become a slog, but I press on nonetheless. There’s little here to amuse or excite; even devout Lemony Snicket fans will be disappointed I think by the lack of new information or even commentary concerning the books. Handler confirms that the Baudelaires are named for the poet, that the melodrama of the books is inspired by Edvard Gorey, and that he openly disdains the film — hardly revelations by any means. Most egregiously, he seriously downplays the accusations of sexual inappropriateness against him and attempts to use his own childhood sexual assault as a shield against them.</p>
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<p>I finished reading <em>Return of the King</em> this week, completing a long-standing personal mission to read <em>The Lord of the Rings</em>. I <a href="https://git.32bit.cafe/cassie/cassiedotink.git">wrote up a big long post</a> with my history with the series and my thoughts.</p></description>
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<p>In case it was not clear, I am not a professional. I am a blockhead who likes to tinker and who has watched a lot of YouTube videos. These are the FX chains I use for my voice, which may or may not be helpful to other people who do not have my voice. This is also not an exhaustive audio guide or overview of <em>how</em> I edit my audio. Maybe another time.</p></description>
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<p><strong><em>Best Buds</em>, Mom Jeans</strong> - I had high hopes for this group based on the band name and that they are often mentioned in the same breath as Joyce Manor. <em>Best Buds</em> was a disappointment; the only song I found somewhat tolerable was “Edward 40hands,” but the rest is plagued by cloyingly nasal vocals that drag down some pleasant guitar licks.</p>
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<p>For years, that server has lived in an old NZXT case that I had used when I built my first PC, primarily because I had the case laying around and because it still had bays for 3.5" drives (most modern PC cases only include one or two and instead provide storage for 2.5" drives). That bulky case has been shoved away in whatever corner of my apartments I could find, but now that I own a house, I have dreams of setting up a proper server rack in a closet somewhere. My home’s basement has a strange little room that housed only the oil tank and is conveniently right below my office space, so that’s the intended home. We replaced and relocated the tank and ran electrical to it, so it’s now good to go.</p>
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<p>I purchased a rack mount case (Rosewill RSV-L4500U) off of the <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/hardwareswap/">hardwareswap</a> Discord not too long ago and intended to move the server when I had some free time. Just a few days ago, I found that one of my 6TB drives was throwing errors in Unraid. I ran a SMART test, which seemed to clear, so I thought I would start by checking the physical connections — and if I was going to have to take the server down, I might as well move it into the new case.</p>
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<p>Easy enough, right? I’ve been tinkering with and building PCs for over ten years now. I’m at a stage where I can put one together and confidently turn it on on the first try. There was a bit of an adjustment period to a proper server case (particularly the drive cages — I like the idea of them, but the screwless design is a proper pain in the ass), but for the most part, this was smooth sailing — at least in the context of what was to come.</p>
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<p><img src="https://cdn.cassie.land/images/2024/02/PXL_20240219_164002815.jpg" alt="The new case" title="The new case"></p>
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<p>I’m normally better at straightening up the cables, but with a non-modular PSU, I don’t have a lot of options. I’ll replace it one day…</p>
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<p>Now, part of what I wanted to do was also replace my cache drive. I had been running it off of an <em>old</em> 120GB SSD which would fill up pretty easily. I had a 500GB SSD kicking around to swap to; I had thought I’d set my appdata folder to copy to my array so that I could just pop in the new drive, remove the old one, and be good to go. This was my fatal error.</p>
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<p>I boot up the server — first try — and see the new cache drive needs to be formatted. Great. I do so, then check my Dockers. <em>Everything is gone.</em></p>
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<meta name="description" content="I wrote a post a few months ago cataloguing moving my home server from the old NZXT case I had leftover from my old PC into a Rosewill chassis that would let me, eventually, move to a proper rack setup. This past Prime Day, I purchased a Riveco 15U rack and then some sliding rails to go along with it, with the hope of finally moving the loud and hot NAS into the basement where it belongs.
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<p>I wrote a post a few months ago <a href="/moving-my-home-server-to-a-new-chassis/">cataloguing moving my home server</a> from the old NZXT case I had leftover from my old PC into a Rosewill chassis that would let me, eventually, move to a proper rack setup. This past Prime Day, I purchased a Riveco 15U rack and then some sliding rails to go along with it, with the hope of finally moving the loud and hot NAS into the basement where it belongs.</p>
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<p>Putting together the rack was easy enough: there were a lot of screws, which is fine, but the assembly was straightforward.</p>
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<p>We then took out the rails (iStarUSA TC-RAIL-26) to affix them to the rack and I discovered my error: I ordered 26" rails when I probably needed 20". Ah well — I ordered them from eBay and wasn’t interested in going through the return process.</p>
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<p>We continued through and, with just a little trouble, were able to mount the chassis within the rack and have it slide out properly. I’m indebted to <a href="https://youtu.be/IkILNUa4HaY?si=-l90v5gEK_ojk_n1">SPX Labs’s YouTube video</a> showing assembly of rails and a chassis just slightly different than mine, which was a great reference. The rack does tip when the chassis is fully extended, but that’s workable for now and will resolve when I fill the rack with other equipment.</p>
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<p>Finally, we decided we were committed for the evening and turned to routing ethernet into the basement. The room I’ve designated to be the home of the rack is the former location of our oil tank; shortly after we moved in, we had the tank replaced, as it was around 60 years old and filled with sludge. We also relocated the tank because its vent and fill caps were in the garage. The tank predated the garage — the previous owners added it on. Moving the tank left this room empty, so we now have a basement storage room that’s conveniently right under our office, where our router is also currently located.</p>
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<p>One day, I’d love to wire the whole house up with ethernet, but today is not that day. We got creative (or sloppy, as I’m sure any professional network folks reading this will say): there are a bunch of unused vents throughout the house. It used to have a central fan system and, for some inexplicable reason, a previous owner ripped it out and left all the vents but not the ducts.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> Many of these vents run straight through into the basement,<sup id="fnref:2"><a href="#fn:2" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">2</a></sup> including one on the floor of the office, hidden by some built-in bookcases. Joe cleverly used some string for a string trimmer to pull the cable through the vent and into the basement room through a pre-existing hole.</p>
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<p>With ethernet pulled down, the rack was ready to hook up. Right now I have the world’s shittiest surge protector down there, but I have a rack mounted surge protector en route to me. The ethernet is dangling, but again, down the line, I’ll get a proper network setup.</p>
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<p>For now, I’ve accomplished the goal of getting the rack established and getting the server off the floor of my living spaces. I’m hopeful the cooler basement will improve the temperatures inside the chassis, too.</p>
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<p>Once upon a time ago (and a time, and a time), I had a podcast. I miss podcasting dearly and think about going back often — otherwise, what am I to do with a partial, flawed understanding of normalizing to a target loudness and editing around the disgusting noises my mouth makes? Well, share it with others, of course.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup></p>
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<p>In case it was not clear, I am not a professional. I am a blockhead who likes to tinker and who has watched a lot of YouTube videos. These are the FX chains I use for my voice, which may or may not be helpful to other people who do not have my voice. This is also not an exhaustive audio guide or overview of <em>how</em> I edit my audio. Maybe another time.</p>
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<h2><a href="/finished-lord-of-the-rings/">Climbing my personal Mount Doom (I finished reading Lord of the Rings)</a></h2>
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<p>Peter Jackson’s <em>The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring</em> released in 2001, when I was seven years old. At the time, my media diet consisted mostly of watching <em>The Powerpuff Girls</em> and obsessively reading and re-reading the first four <em>Harry Potter</em> books.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> I would like to say that my father was thoughtful and felt that I would have enjoyed another fantasy series with wizards and magic but knew that a three-plus-hour theater experience was tall ask for a seven year old. Unfortunately, I know him, and I think it more likely that he is cheap and thought the movie looked cool, so when <em>Fellowship</em> released on home media, we trucked to the neighborhood knock-off Blockbuster and rented it on VHS. That night, I crowded with my two older siblings around a (by today’s standards) laughably small tube TV and tucked in with no expectations or understanding of what the movie would be about.</p>
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<p>Peter Jackson’s <em>The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring</em> released in 2001 when I was seven years old. At the time, my media diet consisted mostly of <em>The Powerpuff Girls</em> and obsessively reading and re-reading the first four <em>Harry Potter</em> books.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> I would like to say that my father was thoughtful and felt that I would have enjoyed another fantasy series with wizards and magic but knew that a three-plus-hour theater experience was tall ask for a seven year old. Unfortunately, I know him, and I think it more likely that he is cheap and thought the movie looked cool, so when <em>Fellowship</em> released on home media, we trucked to the neighborhood knock-off and rented it on VHS. That night, I crowded with my two older siblings around a (by today’s standards) laughably small tube TV. We tucked in with no expectations or understanding of what the movie would be about.</p>
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<p>My thirtieth birthday party, the day before my actual turn from one decade to the next, was a beautiful night. My mom, both pre-emptively staking out her territory as an Italian-American grandmother and (past but an adverb?) fulfilling regrets at never having been able to throw me a childhood party, brought too much food and snacks and love — or staying up and out past the early afternoon, which is a kind of love for us; my friends, older than me in years and with busy families and schedules, brought wisdom and comfort in growing older gracefully; and my friends closer in age drove great distances to celebrate <em>me</em> — or at least, with me.</p>
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<p>My thirtieth birthday party, the day before my actual turn from one decade to the next, was a beautiful night. My mom, both pre-emptively staking out her territory as an Italian-American grandmother and (past but an adverb?) fulfilling regrets at never having been able to throw me a childhood party, brought too much food and snacks and love — or staying up and out past the early afternoon, which is a kind of love for us; my friends, older than me in years and with busy families and schedules, brought wisdom and comfort in growing older gracefully; and my friends closer in age drove great distances to celebrate <em>me</em> — or at least, with me.</p>
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<p>I’m trying out doing blog prompts in an effort to populate this blog with more than just weekly round-ups and to get more comfortable writing about personal things.<sup id="fnref:2"><a href="#fn:2" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">2</a></sup></p>
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<p>I’m trying out doing blog prompts in an effort to populate this blog with more than just weekly round-ups and to get more comfortable writing about personal things.<sup id="fnref:2"><a href="#fn:2" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">2</a></sup></p>
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<p>@jamesmckz <a href="https://twitter.com/jamesmckz/status/1764778536244507081">shared the following challenge on X</a> earlier this month:</p>
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<p>No cheating - your Quietus style Bakers Dozen. 13 albums (off the top of your head) to know you by. Not looking for a perfect list, looking for a list that you instantly regret posting because you then remember something else.</p></blockquote>
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<p>I approached my response largely as a list of albums that have meant something to me in my life — not necessarily what I’m actively listening to at the moment. Many of these albums I’ve not listened to much in years, but I consider them pivotal, essential listening for <em>me</em>.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup></p>
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<p>No cheating - your Quietus style Bakers Dozen. 13 albums (off the top of your head) to know you by. Not looking for a perfect list, looking for a list that you instantly regret posting because you then remember something else.</p></blockquote>
|
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<p>I approached my response largely as a list of albums that have meant something to me in my life — not necessarily what I’m actively listening to at the moment. Many of these albums I’ve not listened to much in years, but I consider them pivotal, essential listening for <em>me</em>.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup></p>
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<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="icon icon-tabler icons-tabler-outline icon-tabler-tag"><path stroke="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M7.5 7.5m-1 0a1 1 0 1 0 2 0a1 1 0 1 0 -2 0" /><path d="M3 6v5.172a2 2 0 0 0 .586 1.414l7.71 7.71a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 3.408 0l5.592 -5.592a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 0 -3.408l-7.71 -7.71a2 2 0 0 0 -1.414 -.586h-5.172a3 3 0 0 0 -3 3z" /></svg>
|
||||
<a href="/tags/life/">Life</a>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
<li>
|
||||
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="icon icon-tabler icons-tabler-outline icon-tabler-tag"><path stroke="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M7.5 7.5m-1 0a1 1 0 1 0 2 0a1 1 0 1 0 -2 0" /><path d="M3 6v5.172a2 2 0 0 0 .586 1.414l7.71 7.71a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 3.408 0l5.592 -5.592a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 0 -3.408l-7.71 -7.71a2 2 0 0 0 -1.414 -.586h-5.172a3 3 0 0 0 -3 3z" /></svg>
|
||||
<a href="/tags/music/">Music</a>
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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||||
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||||
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25 February 2024
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||||
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<article>
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<time>
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||||
1 January 2024
|
||||
</time>
|
||||
<h2><a href="/my-year-in-lists/">my year in lists</a></h2>
|
||||
<div class="barcode">
|
||||
my-year-in-lists
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>I’m not a New Years Resolution person; listening to a lot of <a href="https://loscampesinos.bandcamp.com/track/my-year-in-lists-2">“My Year in Lists”</a> by Los Campesinos! as a teen made me quite cynical about the whole thing.</p>
|
||||
<p>However, I <em>am</em> a very goal-oriented, reflective person. In late 2022, after years of gaining weight and developing some really negative patterns of self-talk around my body image, I decided to join a gym. Of course I’d like to see the number on the scale go down, but the main goal was just to get healthier and develop healthier habits. I started running, because that’s what I used to do (not well), and eventually convinced a friend to join with me. Together, we set the goal of running a 5K, and we did our first in May of 2023, in about 41 minutes (in our defense, it was an <em>extremely</em> hilly course, but also progress, progress<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>). We ran three more as the year went by; my most recent was November, where I finished in around 36 minutes.</p>
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||||
|
||||
<div class="tags">
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li>
|
||||
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="icon icon-tabler icons-tabler-outline icon-tabler-tag"><path stroke="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M7.5 7.5m-1 0a1 1 0 1 0 2 0a1 1 0 1 0 -2 0" /><path d="M3 6v5.172a2 2 0 0 0 .586 1.414l7.71 7.71a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 3.408 0l5.592 -5.592a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 0 -3.408l-7.71 -7.71a2 2 0 0 0 -1.414 -.586h-5.172a3 3 0 0 0 -3 3z" /></svg>
|
||||
<a href="/tags/exercise/">Exercise</a>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
<li>
|
||||
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="icon icon-tabler icons-tabler-outline icon-tabler-tag"><path stroke="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M7.5 7.5m-1 0a1 1 0 1 0 2 0a1 1 0 1 0 -2 0" /><path d="M3 6v5.172a2 2 0 0 0 .586 1.414l7.71 7.71a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 3.408 0l5.592 -5.592a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 0 -3.408l-7.71 -7.71a2 2 0 0 0 -1.414 -.586h-5.172a3 3 0 0 0 -3 3z" /></svg>
|
||||
<a href="/tags/internet/">Internet</a>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
<li>
|
||||
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="icon icon-tabler icons-tabler-outline icon-tabler-tag"><path stroke="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M7.5 7.5m-1 0a1 1 0 1 0 2 0a1 1 0 1 0 -2 0" /><path d="M3 6v5.172a2 2 0 0 0 .586 1.414l7.71 7.71a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 3.408 0l5.592 -5.592a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 0 -3.408l-7.71 -7.71a2 2 0 0 0 -1.414 -.586h-5.172a3 3 0 0 0 -3 3z" /></svg>
|
||||
<a href="/tags/life/">Life</a>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
<li>
|
||||
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="icon icon-tabler icons-tabler-outline icon-tabler-tag"><path stroke="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M7.5 7.5m-1 0a1 1 0 1 0 2 0a1 1 0 1 0 -2 0" /><path d="M3 6v5.172a2 2 0 0 0 .586 1.414l7.71 7.71a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 3.408 0l5.592 -5.592a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 0 -3.408l-7.71 -7.71a2 2 0 0 0 -1.414 -.586h-5.172a3 3 0 0 0 -3 3z" /></svg>
|
||||
<a href="/tags/meta/">Meta</a>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
<li>
|
||||
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="icon icon-tabler icons-tabler-outline icon-tabler-tag"><path stroke="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M7.5 7.5m-1 0a1 1 0 1 0 2 0a1 1 0 1 0 -2 0" /><path d="M3 6v5.172a2 2 0 0 0 .586 1.414l7.71 7.71a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 3.408 0l5.592 -5.592a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 0 -3.408l-7.71 -7.71a2 2 0 0 0 -1.414 -.586h-5.172a3 3 0 0 0 -3 3z" /></svg>
|
||||
<a href="/tags/teaching/">Teaching</a>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
<head><script src="/livereload.js?mindelay=10&v=2&port=1313&path=livereload" data-no-instant defer></script>
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<meta charset="utf-8">
|
||||
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
|
||||
|
||||
<meta name="description" content="Hi, my name is Cassie. This is my personal blog and home of the esoteric bullshit that I am incomprehensibly fixated on, which includes books, video games, music, and thinking way too much about everything.">
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||||
<title>Posts | cassie.ink</title>
|
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|
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|
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||||
<article>
|
||||
<time>
|
||||
1 January 2024
|
||||
</time>
|
||||
<h2><a href="/my-year-in-lists/">my year in lists</a></h2>
|
||||
<div class="barcode">
|
||||
my-year-in-lists
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>I’m not a New Years Resolution person; listening to a lot of <a href="https://loscampesinos.bandcamp.com/track/my-year-in-lists-2">“My Year in Lists”</a> by Los Campesinos! as a teen made me quite cynical about the whole thing.</p>
|
||||
<p>However, I <em>am</em> a very goal-oriented, reflective person. In late 2022, after years of gaining weight and developing some really negative patterns of self-talk around my body image, I decided to join a gym. Of course I’d like to see the number on the scale go down, but the main goal was just to get healthier and develop healthier habits. I started running, because that’s what I used to do (not well), and eventually convinced a friend to join with me. Together, we set the goal of running a 5K, and we did our first in May of 2023, in about 41 minutes (in our defense, it was an <em>extremely</em> hilly course, but also progress, progress<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>). We ran three more as the year went by; my most recent was November, where I finished in around 36 minutes.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
<li>
|
||||
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="icon icon-tabler icons-tabler-outline icon-tabler-tag"><path stroke="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M7.5 7.5m-1 0a1 1 0 1 0 2 0a1 1 0 1 0 -2 0" /><path d="M3 6v5.172a2 2 0 0 0 .586 1.414l7.71 7.71a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 3.408 0l5.592 -5.592a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 0 -3.408l-7.71 -7.71a2 2 0 0 0 -1.414 -.586h-5.172a3 3 0 0 0 -3 3z" /></svg>
|
||||
<a href="/tags/exercise/">Exercise</a>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
<li>
|
||||
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="icon icon-tabler icons-tabler-outline icon-tabler-tag"><path stroke="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M7.5 7.5m-1 0a1 1 0 1 0 2 0a1 1 0 1 0 -2 0" /><path d="M3 6v5.172a2 2 0 0 0 .586 1.414l7.71 7.71a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 3.408 0l5.592 -5.592a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 0 -3.408l-7.71 -7.71a2 2 0 0 0 -1.414 -.586h-5.172a3 3 0 0 0 -3 3z" /></svg>
|
||||
<a href="/tags/internet/">Internet</a>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
<li>
|
||||
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="icon icon-tabler icons-tabler-outline icon-tabler-tag"><path stroke="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M7.5 7.5m-1 0a1 1 0 1 0 2 0a1 1 0 1 0 -2 0" /><path d="M3 6v5.172a2 2 0 0 0 .586 1.414l7.71 7.71a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 3.408 0l5.592 -5.592a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 0 -3.408l-7.71 -7.71a2 2 0 0 0 -1.414 -.586h-5.172a3 3 0 0 0 -3 3z" /></svg>
|
||||
<a href="/tags/life/">Life</a>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
<li>
|
||||
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="icon icon-tabler icons-tabler-outline icon-tabler-tag"><path stroke="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M7.5 7.5m-1 0a1 1 0 1 0 2 0a1 1 0 1 0 -2 0" /><path d="M3 6v5.172a2 2 0 0 0 .586 1.414l7.71 7.71a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 3.408 0l5.592 -5.592a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 0 -3.408l-7.71 -7.71a2 2 0 0 0 -1.414 -.586h-5.172a3 3 0 0 0 -3 3z" /></svg>
|
||||
<a href="/tags/meta/">Meta</a>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
<li>
|
||||
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="icon icon-tabler icons-tabler-outline icon-tabler-tag"><path stroke="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M7.5 7.5m-1 0a1 1 0 1 0 2 0a1 1 0 1 0 -2 0" /><path d="M3 6v5.172a2 2 0 0 0 .586 1.414l7.71 7.71a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 3.408 0l5.592 -5.592a2.41 2.41 0 0 0 0 -3.408l-7.71 -7.71a2 2 0 0 0 -1.414 -.586h-5.172a3 3 0 0 0 -3 3z" /></svg>
|
||||
<a href="/tags/teaching/">Teaching</a>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
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|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
||||
</article>
|
||||
|
||||
<article>
|
||||
<time>
|
||||
28 December 2023
|
||||
@ -147,28 +188,6 @@
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||||
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
<article>
|
||||
<time>
|
||||
18 August 2023
|
||||
</time>
|
||||
<h2><a href="/on-teaching/">On Teaching</a></h2>
|
||||
<div class="barcode">
|
||||
on-teaching
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>This September marks the start of my fourth year teaching.</p>
|
||||
<p>When I was a kid, I was always interested in teaching; my grandparents had an unfinished basement that, for some reason, had a little chalkboard and table. My siblings and I would play school down there, and I loved to play the role of teacher – despite being considerably younger than them.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> I loved school, too. I loved most every subject (especially grammar – I’m one of the few children who absolutely rejoiced when asked to take out my grammar workbook) and was, at the risk of conceit, <em>good</em> at academics. I also read voraciously in elementary school.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<div class="tags">
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
<a href="/tags/teaching/">Teaching</a>
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
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|
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|
||||
<time>
|
||||
18 August 2023
|
||||
</time>
|
||||
<h2><a href="/on-teaching/">On Teaching</a></h2>
|
||||
<div class="barcode">
|
||||
on-teaching
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>This September marks the start of my fourth year teaching.</p>
|
||||
<p>When I was a kid, I was always interested in teaching; my grandparents had an unfinished basement that, for some reason, had a little chalkboard and table. My siblings and I would play school down there, and I loved to play the role of teacher – despite being considerably younger than them.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> I loved school, too. I loved most every subject (especially grammar – I’m one of the few children who absolutely rejoiced when asked to take out my grammar workbook) and was, at the risk of conceit, <em>good</em> at academics. I also read voraciously in elementary school.</p>
|
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|
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|
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|
||||
<a href="/tags/teaching/">Teaching</a>
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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15 August 2023
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<meta name="description" content="2016 was the first year I was eligible to vote in a presidential election. I was away at college, so I completed an absentee ballot, and, like most, felt confident in what I thought would be the result. I was no big fan of Clinton’s — I voted for Bernie in the primaries — but the other option was laughable: I couldn’t believe that a major political party put such a clown up as their candidate, and I thought the electorate was smart enough to see him for the fraud (and fascist) he was.
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<title>Reflections on elections | cassie.ink</title>
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<h2><a href="/finished-lord-of-the-rings/">Climbing my personal Mount Doom (I finished reading Lord of the Rings)</a></h2>
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<description><p>Peter Jackson&rsquo;s <em>The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring</em> released in 2001, when I was seven years old. At the time, my media diet consisted mostly of watching <em>The Powerpuff Girls</em> and obsessively reading and re-reading the first four <em>Harry Potter</em> books.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> I would like to say that my father was thoughtful and felt that I would have enjoyed another fantasy series with wizards and magic but knew that a three-plus-hour theater experience was tall ask for a seven year old. Unfortunately, I know him, and I think it more likely that he is cheap and thought the movie looked cool, so when <em>Fellowship</em> released on home media, we trucked to the neighborhood knock-off Blockbuster and rented it on VHS. That night, I crowded with my two older siblings around a (by today&rsquo;s standards) laughably small tube TV and tucked in with no expectations or understanding of what the movie would be about.</p></description>
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<p>Joe and I visited some of his family with a lake house this week where my farmer&rsquo;s tan became more and more pronounced. I also &ldquo;worked&rdquo; two days this week: I had committee meetings on Thursday and then a joint meeting to coordinate middle school/high school/college GSAs in my area.</p>
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<p>I finished reading <em>Return of the King</em> this week, completing a long-standing personal mission to read <em>The Lord of the Rings</em>. I <a href="https://git.32bit.cafe/cassie/cassiedotink.git">wrote up a big long post</a> with my history with the series and my thoughts.</p></description>
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<p><em>And Then? And Then? What Else?</em> has become a slog, but I press on nonetheless. There&rsquo;s little here to amuse or excite; even devout Lemony Snicket fans will be disappointed I think by the lack of new information or even commentary concerning the books. Handler confirms that the Baudelaires are named for the poet, that the melodrama of the books is inspired by Edvard Gorey, and that he openly disdains the film — hardly revelations by any means. Most egregiously, he seriously downplays the accusations of sexual inappropriateness against him and attempts to use his own childhood sexual assault as a shield against them.</p></description>
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<meta name="description" content="Doing School is officially back in session, so my free time is much more limited now. I’m optimistic for the year, though! Reading Death Is Not an Option by Suzanne Rivecca. Finished at last. I have not much new to say compared to last week. I felt a notable sense of relief to be done with it and free to move on. Write as you wish: a call to bring back the prose by Marisabel. I’m not a good enough writer for this to be applicable, so call this aspirational reading. back at it & social media free by kristin. I’ve pretty much dropped Twitter in the last few weeks — I really want to separate myself from toxic online spaces. Please please please please please please share your big dumb beautiful self with the world by Keenan. “What does it look like to put yourself on a page, or in a photo, or a brushstroke, or a string plucked and reverberating harmoniously out into the room? When does the screaming inside become loud enough, so all-encompassing that you open up the door to let it pour out of you?” Watching America’s Next Top Model, cycle three. Top Model is my comfort show right now. I love the first seven cycles best, but cycle three has a special place in my heart. It’s one of the first cycles I ever saw and has one of the most entertaining casts. The modelling itself is pretty poor, but that’s not really what Top Model was about. Run Button’s Star Wars Outlaws streams. I’m really interested in Outlaws based on what I’ve seen; Keith has been complaining about the stealth a lot in the streams, but I think a good amount of that has been player error. Playing Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. I’ve tried to get Joe to play KotOR for years, but he was turned off by the combat. We listened to A More Civilized Age’s coverage together, though (he’s a big Friends at the Table fan), and it got him interested in KotOR II (despite my insisting for years that it is the finest piece of Star Wars media). We’re playing through together — me with the controller but collectively making decisions. We’re still on Peragus (gross), but I’m enjoying revisiting it. This will be my first time playing it in at least ten years and my first time with the restored content mod. Listening Life’s a Riot With Spy vs Spy, Billy Bragg. I like “A New England” a whole lot; the rest was good but didn’t grab me. There’s a sparseness and intimacy that struck me when I first heard “A New England,” but the novelty had worn off for the other tracks. For Emma, Forever Ago, Bon Iver. I listened to this all the way through one night and it unfortunately really spoke to me. I know I’ve listened through it before, years ago, and I didn’t care for anything except “Skinny Love”; this time around, every track hit. “Bishop, CA” and “Wig Master,” Xiu Xiu. I swore off Xiu Xiu back in 2013 or so after listening to them heavily during a deep depression; I’m not cold turkey on them anymore, but they’re not in my regular rotation either. I’ve been thinking of these two, some of my favorites then.1 in so far as any Xiu Xiu song is a “favorite” and not “a desperate cry for help” ↩︎
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<meta name="description" content="Doing Working on getting off big corporate social media, still. I’m almost entirely off Twitter; I keep the app just because I have a few notifications set for when specific people tweet (mostly bands who tweet out tour dates), but I’m otherwise mostly on Mastodon (social.lol) and Discord. Cohost going down was sad to see even if I was never an active user and there were problems with it, but its downfall impressed on me even further the importance of owning your content — and it made me really happy to have this space for my thoughts and writing. I got my COVID booster and flu shot on Friday, which put me out of order for some time. Glad to have them done, however; one day of discomfort is worth it! The weight of being a teacher really set on me this week — not the teaching work, which I love, but the emotional weight of my students’ lives. It’s especially hard to see kids that remind me of myself at their age and wish I could impart all that I’ve learned — but knowing that there are no shortcuts and that the only way out for them is through. I can’t pluck them out; they have to live it. I can only hope to be there for them as they do. Reading No One Belongs Here More than You, Miranda July. This has been in my Amazon wishlist for I don’t know how long — long enough that I’ve forgotten where I’d found it or why I’d wanted to read it. I liked the cover a lot, I guess. Anyway, I feel this is suffering from my reading it so soon after Death Is Not an Option as I have much of the same opinion: excellent prose but turned off by all the weird sex.1 I find July’s narrators and conceits to be far more varied than Rivecca’s, but Rivecca never made me read about an old man who fantasizes about teenage girls, so I automatically like her better. Meet Lochlan O’Neil, the creator of DashCon on Garbage Day. “I had to go to extensive therapy because I was like, “oh my god, I, Lochlan O’Neil, single-handedly destroyed fandom culture?” Watching Pokémon 4Ever. Joe and I got our shit rocked by the COVID and flu shots and decided to watch this. Middling, but a surprising environmentalist message. I’m realizing how much of who Joe is goes back to Pokémon, of all things. Gilmore Girls, season five. Joe and I went back in for a few episodes in our shot stupor. Still enjoyable, but we are quickly gaining on the last of the good episodes in my opinion. Listening i,i, Bon Iver. Not bad, but I like For Emma and 22, A Million far more. Chants, The Peripheral Ones. I’ve said before that this album is perhaps the most esoteric of my bullshit; it’s a cover album of a little-known2 Myspace-era band, The Middle Ones, done by pigthe (the guitarist for Trust Fund). The album is obscure enough that it’s not on MusicBrainz (I’m aware that I could add it) and the band has 23 listeners on last.fm. I love it and go back to it often. reading these books back to back has left me wondering if I’m somehow unconsciously selecting books only written by deviants or if I’m just so vanilla that my gauge for sexual content is skewed ↩︎
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<meta name="description" content="Doing My volleyball rec league started back up! I’m awful and uncoordinated on the court, but it’s fun to play with friends, and I have learned the hard way that I’m a lot less depressed when I’m active. I’m enjoying reading ex-cohost folks on the bearblog discovery feed. The trending feed can get a little stale.1 I hope they stick around. I took a walk (and a run) with a dear friend that I’ve been trying to get together with for a while. She’s decades older than me, but we are incredibly like-minded. Kindred spirits. I appreciate her wisdom and guidance and friendship immensely as she listens to all my neuroses. On Sunday night, Joe and I went to a wedding for two of our best friends. Maybe I’ll make a longer post with all that stirs up for me — thoughts on marriage and commitment… Unfortunately, I left the wedding feeling sick. COVID test was negative so here’s hoping it’s just allergies from the changing season. Reading No One Belongs Here More than You, Miranda July. I stand by what I said last week. I think I need a break from the sexual deviants I’m apparently (and unconsciously) selecting lately. I’m glad to be done with this; I appreciated July’s occasional wit and found it Handler-esque, but those touches were few and far between, and the rest of it mostly just grossed me out. My next books will be The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, recommended by a friend and coworker, and, I think, Into the Wild, which I’ve always meant to read. It might not seem like much for an English teacher, but these past few months I’ve been reading for pleasure more than I have in years and it has me feeling so full. It’s great to rediscover that joy.2 “Linkin Park, From Zero” by n3verm0re. I’m not a Linkin Park fan by any means, but I have been interested in seeing how a group reawakens after such a tremendous loss. I really enjoyed this piece about it. Listening Green Dream in F# and Rare Birds, The Bug Club. I asked a student of mine what kind of music she listened to; she said her music was too weird and I’d probably never heard of it. I took that as a personal challenge. But it’s not that weird — although, as an (ex?) Xiu Xiu listener, my barometer is off. I liked both albums! They’re light, fun listening, and absolutely up my alley. Romance is Boring, Los Campesinos! Listening to the music students of mine like has me thinking about the music I was in love with at their age. RiB came out at the exact right time for me and holds a special place in my heart. I listen to tracks from it often, but this was the first time I’d revisited some deeper cuts, like “Who Fell Asleep In,” in years. All Hell, Los Campesinos! I’m still forming my larger thoughts on All Hell, but it was interesting to compare side-by-side with RiB. It is far more even and consistent in quality — RiB has some all-timers but also some real duds (“Plan A”) — but there is a visceral, adolescent melodrama to RiB that All Hell lacks. All Hell is instead grown up and wistfully forlorn, especially compared to juggernauts like “I Just Sighed.” Both are good and appropriate for me at different times and headspaces, but RiB holds more of hook — although I have fifteen years of relationship and baggage with it compared to All Hell. I’m thinking about a recurring theme in songs I am or have been fixated on — “Drops (reprise),” The Peripheral Ones - “I know if I don’t go now I won’t make it out” “The Whale Song,” Modest Mouse - “I guess I am a scout / so I should find a way out / so everyone can find a way out” “Ave Maria,” Mac Miller - “Have you found a way out?” & “Come Back to Earth” - “I just need a way out of my head / I’ll do anything for a way out of my head” — the idea of making it out is, of course, not a unique theme, but perhaps it’s why The House on Mango Street resonated with me: “For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot out.” I think posts don’t decay quickly enough from the feed, and the top page or two of trending posts are all by the same handful of people. There’s a handful of very active posters, which is a great thing, but I like to see variety there. ↩︎
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Doing Joe and I drove back to ___ for a funeral… and then back, all in one day. Eight hours on the road, but it was nice to spend some time together, singing and talking about heavy things.1 I ran four miles in one go! Not without stopping and walking, and I’m far from my best times, but I’m trying to rebuild my endurance and speed after taking a long time off. I’m trying to get back into skin care. I’ve never had a thorough routine, but I’ve been slacking even on the meager bit I do. I looked in the mirror and saw an old person looking back at me, so I’ve been cleansing and moisturizing on a near-daily basis now. Reading The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elizabeth Tova Bailey. I’m reading this on recommendation of a friend and coworker. The writing has a beautiful directness, but I’m not exactly fascinated by (or at all interested in) snails. It is eye-opening to read something so scientific in approach that is still a work of literature, however; it leaves me to consider how our different disciplines — me as an English teacher and my coworker a Science teacher — change the way we think and look at the world. a ranking of iMac G3 colors by tulip. field notes cured my twitter addiction on The Birdhouse. A lovely ode to a notebook. Watching Gilmore Girls, season six. Joe and I have reached about the end of the season. I think six has some good moments and episodes but is, on the whole, drudgery. Luke’s character takes a bizarre turn, and I somehow have even less patience for Rory and Logan’s relationship this time around. America’s Next Top Model, cycle five. Passive rewatches while folding laundry; the actual modeling and photoshoots are a low for the UPN seasons, but the personalities make it an entertaining season. Playing Joe and I have played more of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II, which is really him watching me play and selecting dialogue options with me. He really does not care for the combat; I don’t love it either, but having played so much of this game and the first as a kid, I know my way around it much better. He doesn’t seem to like any of the characters yet; on one hand, I get that, because I think the KotOR II characters are much more complex and harder to initially like than the first game’s, but maybe the series just isn’t for him… We’ve been playing as a female Exile, but Joe was interested in the Handmaiden, and I prefer her to the Disciple, so I decided to roll back a save and use the PartySwap mod… until I realized that I have Steam Workshop mods mixed with the KotOR II Mod Build.2 Apparently, because I used the Workshop 13 years ago when I last played this game, Steam decided I definitely wanted those installed again. Ugh. The solution was to start from the beginning with cheats that will let me zip through and get back to where we were. It took the better part of five hours to re-install all the mods and play back through Peragus and Telos. That all said, I really love this game. I love the way the narrative places you in a backstory rather than the “blank slate” approach of the first game.3 The player then gets to decide the Exile’s reasons for going to war, their outlook on the Jedi, and there’s a lot of gray area to be found. Listening Mr. Anyway’s Holey Spirits Perform! One Foot in Bethlehem and Pure Particles by The Bug Club. More recommendations from a former student of mine. I’m really enjoying them! One Foot in Bethlehem very clearly has some religious satire, but I’ve not had a chance to parse for sub-text… At this point, I’m on a basal, what’s catchy level (the answer is a lot). religion, marriage, the future… the usual, at this point. I hate getting old. ↩︎
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<meta name="description" content="Doing I presented to pre-service teachers at my alma mater with a colleague! Emotionally, I still feel like I was in their spot not that long ago — and then I remember I graduated over six years ago (and into a vastly different world and job market). I’m finding myself using ellipses a lot and I do not like it. Is this growing old? Am I becoming a boomer? I’m thinking about maintaining some kind of daily log — just simple, passing notes on what I did, what I thought about. Obsidian has this feature built in and it might be a good way to start. I like the idea of it being searchable and (theoretically) infinite in size, but I also want an excuse for another notebook. I used to do daily reflections at the end of my work day. Slowly, those became every few days, then every week, then rarely. It was a good practice that I wish I had maintained, but there’s already so much I’m packing into my work day — and my goal in daily notes is to be more mindful about what I’m doing and thinking in my free time. I attended my state-wide English teacher conference; this is something like my sixth or seventh time attending and I still find it valuable. I left with a lot of great ideas on how to diversify my practice and better empower my students. Watching Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Joe and I have watched a few episodes. I liked the book fine, but the TV show has yet to grab me. It lacks Percy’s narrative voice (and personality), and while it’s good that Percy is played by an actual child, his pre-pubescent voice freaks me out. Broad City. Joe and I watched a lot of Broad City early in our relationship, but we never finished it. We are starting it over from the beginning. Still funny! Listening Charli XCX, Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat. Every re-release and new drop for brat innovates, co-exists, and complements. The features on this remix album feel like an ode to the remarkable original release and a statement of how pivotal the album has been personally and for the industry writ large. This version of “Everything is romantic” is as much a remix as an iteration; the original captures a single moment in beautiful, mimetic detail, and this one is another artist following the theme and form with their own experiences. brat is undoubtedly a project we’ll all be talking about when we discuss the music of the 2020s; I love witnessing its creation in real time. For the haters, a friend of mine said the mixing was bad and that it “just sounds like noise.” I still like her (Charli and the friend, in that order1). Foxholes, Foxholes. I found “Alligator” while going through Daytrotter archives and loved it; the rest of the album is pleasant listening, but “Alligator” is the stand out. Yung Lean, Stardust. I loved Yung Lean’s feature on Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat; imagine my surprise when I discovered that the esoteric bullshit (or so I thought) I was listening to ten+ years ago as a joke but not really went on to be a critically recognized artist. I thought it was just a weird fucking song. Stardust is a much more polished and, dare I say, coherent and digestible2 product than “Hurt”; I like it, but I’m not sure any of the songs will earn the coveted ⭐ on Plex.3 It’s music I’d have to be in a mood for — although the mumble-y nature of it makes it good background music while working. Maybe it just needs to sit with me a little more. just kidding :-) ↩︎
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Doing I turned 30. I had a big party with lots of friends — and I feel grateful to have so many folks who want to celebrate with me, including some who drove substantial distances. I still have a bunch of mixed up feelings about crossing this threshold, but I’m trying to remember the advice of a friend: it’s a gift to grow older. This maybe belongs under a playing heading, but maybe not: I picked up Ring Fit Adventure for the first time since the pandemic. It’s getting to be too cold out to run, so I need an alternate fitness option. My most reliable gym buddy moved away, so I’m seeing if I can get Ring Fit to stick again. I am definitely in way better shape than when I was playing years ago; I would feel faint after 20-30 minutes in the game, but my first session was over 30 minutes and I felt fine (albeit sweaty) after. Turning 30 feels like an inflection point where I need to get serious about losing weight. I also went to the gym for the first time in months to run on the treadmill. With snow season upon us, I need to transition to indoor running. I like it quite a bit less, but I don’t want to lose progress. We had our first big snow of the season on Friday, which meant a (much-needed) lazy snow day at home. Watching Daria, season four. I started rewatching Daria around Halloween because I dressed as her for the holiday. I still love it and I still hate Tom. Friends at the Table’s Fields of Mistria streams. I’m not a FatT fan — actual play podcasts do not appeal to me at all — but Joe is, and I otherwise like a lot of the personalities on the show. Ali is probably my favorite and Joe and I love farming games like Mistria a whole lot. Playing Pokémon Crystal Legacy. I had a hankering of Gen 2 nostalgia hit me, so I’ve been working my way through this ROM hack. I know a lot of my love for Gen 2 stems from it being my first Pokémon — and, indeed, one of the first games I really ever played — but I’m happy to report that it’s just as charming as I remember. Listening Rainbow Kitten Surprise, RKS. Listened on the recommendation of a friend; I was concerned initially because I really didn’t like the first track (my words: “Big garage vibes. Like shit you listen to while you work on your motorcycle”), but after that hump, I really loved the album. My tops are “Cold Love,” “Wasted,” “All’s Well That Ends,” and “Lady Lie.” “Cold Love” in particular has really hung around in my head. ">
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<p><em>And Then? And Then? What Else?</em> has become a slog, but I press on nonetheless. There’s little here to amuse or excite; even devout Lemony Snicket fans will be disappointed I think by the lack of new information or even commentary concerning the books. Handler confirms that the Baudelaires are named for the poet, that the melodrama of the books is inspired by Edvard Gorey, and that he openly disdains the film — hardly revelations by any means. Most egregiously, he seriously downplays the accusations of sexual inappropriateness against him and attempts to use his own childhood sexual assault as a shield against them.</p>
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<p>I don’t think myself hostile to memoirs, but this book has struck me as meandering and self-aggrandizing. Selfishly, I’m also frustrated that he finds space to talk about the Snicket books (of course), <em>Why We Broke Up,</em> and <em>The Basic Eight,</em> but there is absolutely no mention of <em>Adverbs.</em> I’m pressing on with it because it is an easy (if plodding) read.</p>
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<p>I started up <em>Final Fantasy XIV</em> again and finally reached First Serpent Lieutenant in my Grand Company, which means I’ll now be able to use my seals to get more mounts.</p>
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<p>I listened to selections from <em>Cerulean</em> and all of <em>Obsidian</em> by Baths, both albums I’ve loved at points in my life; <em>Guts</em> is out and I wanted to refresh before listening to it.</p>
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<p>Joe and I visited some of his family with a lake house this week where my farmer’s tan became more and more pronounced. I also “worked” two days this week: I had committee meetings on Thursday and then a joint meeting to coordinate middle school/high school/college GSAs in my area.</p>
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<p>I finished reading <em>Return of the King</em> this week, completing a long-standing personal mission to read <em>The Lord of the Rings</em>. I <a href="https://git.32bit.cafe/cassie/cassiedotink.git">wrote up a big long post</a> with my history with the series and my thoughts.</p>
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<p>Originally, I planned to read <em>Perdido Street Station</em> by China Miéville next, but I wanted something breezy after the <em>RotK</em> gauntlet, so I picked up <em>Ghost Boys</em> by Jewell Parker Rhodes and burned through it in a day. It was amazing. I’m adjuncting at my local college in the fall — it’s a course for future English teachers about young adult literature. I’m considering offering students a choice of this or <em>All American Boys</em>. Both deal with a similar subject matter, but <em>Ghost Boys</em> is better suited for middle school. I’d love to teach the book to my middle schoolers, too, but I think that will be an uphill battle…<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup></p>
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<p>My next read is <em>Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist</em> by Liz Pelly. I’m about 100 pages in and really enjoying it — I’m not usually one for non-fiction, but I also am a noted Spotify hater (and have been for a long time), so this felt like a good way to dip my toe in. Highly recommend!</p>
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<p>I’ve been rewatching <em>Downton Abbey</em>. I’m in season two right now; I’m debating whether to finish the series (I never watched past season five, I think) or if I’ll stop when they kill off some major characters in season three. I am glad to confirm that I was always right: Mary is the main character and the best character. I am noticing more and more the ridiculous plotlines, however — I maintained for years that seasons one and two were actually good and after that it descended into soap opera melodrama, but I am older and wiser now. I think I’d still recommend the first season, but stop there.</p>
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<p>I’ve been listening to a lot of <strong>Rainbow Kitten Surprise</strong> lately as a lead up to seeing them in concert. I really enjoy them — when I last mentioned them, I think I’d only listened to <em>RKS</em>, on a friend’s recommendation; I’ve since rounded out their discography. Here is my slipshod and unscientific personal ranking of their discography:</p>
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<li><em>Seven + Mary</em> - a rough sketch of what they would eventually realize on <em>RKS,</em> but I like it — I think I have a lot of 2013 nostalgia. Listen to “First Class” and “American Hero.”</li>
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<li><em>How to: Friend, Love, Freefall</em> - Great moments and some real stand out tracks, but it gets too same-y for me in places. Listen to “Moody Orange” (maybe my favorite song by them) and “Fever Pitch” (add in “Possum Queen” if you want a weird one that will stick in your head)</li>
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<li><em>Love Hate Music Box</em> - I’ve had a lot of ups and downs with this one: I think it has too many songs and the good ones maybe didn’t get to bake long enough. But the more I sit with it and take the songs as they are, the more I like it. Listen to “Lucky” and “Sickset.”</li>
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<p>I also, for some reason, thought about the band <strong>The Madrigals</strong> for the first time in a long time, which I’m sure I discovered on MySpace or last.fm or some other defunct platform. There’s very little remaining about them online, but I have a few MP3s of theirs that I probably downloaded from one of the aforementioned sites. There’s a <a href="https://dandelionradio.com/tracklists/2008-04/index.htm">cool as fuck old radio archive website that mentions them</a> (and has a radio show with one of their songs still archived!), and I <a href="http://thestreetlampdoesntcast.blogspot.com/2011/02/griff-says-land-ahoy-its-columbus.html">stumbled on a music blog from 2011</a> that mentioned some of the members’ later bands, which led to me downloading <a href="https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/horizon"><em>Horizon</em> by <strong>Trash Kit</strong></a>. I haven’t sat down to give it a good listen yet, but I will.</p>
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<p>I listened through to <a href="https://beingdead.bandcamp.com/album/eels"><em>EELS</em> by <strong>Being Dead</strong></a> as well, which is a real rad vibe all throughout. “Love Machine” might be my favorite song I’ve heard this year; “Van Goes” also has big “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” vibes.</p>
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<p>Joe and I visited some of his family with a lake house this week where my farmer’s tan became more and more pronounced. I also “worked” two days this week: I had committee meetings on Thursday and then a joint meeting to coordinate middle school/high school/college GSAs in my area.</p>
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<p>I finished reading <em>Return of the King</em> this week, completing a long-standing personal mission to read <em>The Lord of the Rings</em>. I <a href="https://git.32bit.cafe/cassie/cassiedotink.git">wrote up a big long post</a> with my history with the series and my thoughts.</p>
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<p>Originally, I planned to read <em>Perdido Street Station</em> by China Miéville next, but I wanted something breezy after the <em>RotK</em> gauntlet, so I picked up <em>Ghost Boys</em> by Jewell Parker Rhodes and burned through it in a day. It was amazing. I’m adjuncting at my local college in the fall — it’s a course for future English teachers about young adult literature. I’m considering offering students a choice of this or <em>All American Boys</em>. Both deal with a similar subject matter, but <em>Ghost Boys</em> is better suited for middle school. I’d love to teach the book to my middle schoolers, too, but I think that will be an uphill battle…<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup></p>
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<p>My next read is <em>Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist</em> by Liz Pelly. I’m about 100 pages in and really enjoying it — I’m not usually one for non-fiction, but I also am a noted Spotify hater (and have been for a long time), so this felt like a good way to dip my toe in. Highly recommend!</p>
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<p>I’ve been rewatching <em>Downton Abbey</em>. I’m in season two right now; I’m debating whether to finish the series (I never watched past season five, I think) or if I’ll stop when they kill off some major characters in season three. I am glad to confirm that I was always right: Mary is the main character and the best character. I am noticing more and more the ridiculous plotlines, however — I maintained for years that seasons one and two were actually good and after that it descended into soap opera melodrama, but I am older and wiser now. I think I’d still recommend the first season, but stop there.</p>
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<p>I’ve been listening to a lot of <strong>Rainbow Kitten Surprise</strong> lately as a lead up to seeing them in concert. I really enjoy them — when I last mentioned them, I think I’d only listened to <em>RKS</em>, on a friend’s recommendation; I’ve since rounded out their discography. Here is my slipshod and unscientific personal ranking of their discography:</p>
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<li><em>Seven + Mary</em> - a rough sketch of what they would eventually realize on <em>RKS,</em> but I like it — I think I have a lot of 2013 nostalgia. Listen to “First Class” and “American Hero.”</li>
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<li><em>How to: Friend, Love, Freefall</em> - Great moments and some real stand out tracks, but it gets too same-y for me in places. Listen to “Moody Orange” (maybe my favorite song by them) and “Fever Pitch” (add in “Possum Queen” if you want a weird one that will stick in your head)</li>
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<li><em>Love Hate Music Box</em> - I’ve had a lot of ups and downs with this one: I think it has too many songs and the good ones maybe didn’t get to bake long enough. But the more I sit with it and take the songs as they are, the more I like it. Listen to “Lucky” and “Sickset.”</li>
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<p>I also, for some reason, thought about the band <strong>The Madrigals</strong> for the first time in a long time, which I’m sure I discovered on MySpace or last.fm or some other defunct platform. There’s very little remaining about them online, but I have a few MP3s of theirs that I probably downloaded from one of the aforementioned sites. There’s a <a href="https://dandelionradio.com/tracklists/2008-04/index.htm">cool as fuck old radio archive website that mentions them</a> (and has a radio show with one of their songs still archived!), and I <a href="http://thestreetlampdoesntcast.blogspot.com/2011/02/griff-says-land-ahoy-its-columbus.html">stumbled on a music blog from 2011</a> that mentioned some of the members’ later bands, which led to me downloading <a href="https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/horizon"><em>Horizon</em> by <strong>Trash Kit</strong></a>. I haven’t sat down to give it a good listen yet, but I will.</p>
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<p>I listened through to <a href="https://beingdead.bandcamp.com/album/eels"><em>EELS</em> by <strong>Being Dead</strong></a> as well, which is a real rad vibe all throughout. “Love Machine” might be my favorite song I’ve heard this year; “Van Goes” also has big “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” vibes.</p>
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<p>Joe and I visited some of his family with a lake house this week where my farmer&rsquo;s tan became more and more pronounced. I also &ldquo;worked&rdquo; two days this week: I had committee meetings on Thursday and then a joint meeting to coordinate middle school/high school/college GSAs in my area.</p>
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<p>I finished reading <em>Return of the King</em> this week, completing a long-standing personal mission to read <em>The Lord of the Rings</em>. I <a href="https://git.32bit.cafe/cassie/cassiedotink.git">wrote up a big long post</a> with my history with the series and my thoughts.</p></description>
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<p><em>And Then? And Then? What Else?</em> has become a slog, but I press on nonetheless. There&rsquo;s little here to amuse or excite; even devout Lemony Snicket fans will be disappointed I think by the lack of new information or even commentary concerning the books. Handler confirms that the Baudelaires are named for the poet, that the melodrama of the books is inspired by Edvard Gorey, and that he openly disdains the film — hardly revelations by any means. Most egregiously, he seriously downplays the accusations of sexual inappropriateness against him and attempts to use his own childhood sexual assault as a shield against them.</p></description>
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Previously, this blog was hosted at bearblog under the domain cassie.land. Now, I’m using the SSG Hugo to create the site, which deploys to Github Pages for hosting.
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So why the move? I love bearblog and recommend it to just about anyone who wants to get into blogging and the small web — it’s dead simple for folks with no web expertise, it has an awesome community, and the discover page allows you to share your content and connect with folks also using the platform. Unfortunately, I am, at heart, a tinkerer — bearblog felt a little too easy, and a little limiting for some of the visions I have. And, ultimately, I just want to own my content and embrace new technologies and challenges.
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