Category — Microblog Mondays

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Bad smells: any and all perfume, lavender, vanilla, chamomile, flowers.

Good smells: bleach, my detergent, my soap, bookstores.

Can you tell that I just had to spend time in a too warm space with a person wearing too much perfume?  I should not be able to smell someone else’s perfume if my nose isn’t pressed up near their body.

I wish I lived back in pre-Industrial Europe when it was fashionable to carry around a scented handkerchief and press your face in it when you passed ill-scented matter on the street.

My handkerchief would be soaked in bleach (and would likely kill me, as a result).  And barring that, I would take lemon.

What are your favourite (and least favourite) smells?

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On April 11th, just a little over two months away, they’re going to be livestreaming the Quidditch World Cup.  Am I going to be watching?  Yes, I’m going to be watching.  Wearing my Ravenclaw robes.

A few months after that, the twins turn 11.  They aren’t awaiting their owls as much as they were a few years ago.  Sometimes I wonder how I would feel if it were real, if they got an acceptance letter to a magical boarding school.  Would I send them?  Would I mourn losing those years that I hadn’t counted on losing?  I mean, it’s one thing if you’re a magical family; you know it could happen.  But if you’re a Muggle, wouldn’t it be shocking and a tad upsetting to think that this child that you thought would be at home with you is suddenly far away, at a castle in Scotland, and you can only see them during winter break and the summer months?

While we all say we want to go to Hogwarts, would you really have wanted to leave home at 11 and go to boarding school unexpectedly?  I don’t know if I would.  And I would really miss the twins if they got their letter.

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Yesterday I was singing Peter Cetera’s always excellent “Glory of Love” from the hit movie soundtrack for Karate Kid II (don’t we all?), and I suddenly realized as I sang the chorus that I had no clue how he was planning to live forever.  I mean, forget how he was going to be hero; how was he going to manage immortality?  And give the object of his affection immortality, too?

And then I realized that I didn’t know how I felt about immortality.  Would I want to live forever?  And if I was going to reject immortality, could I choose a different superpower instead?

I think if I can order up my superpower, I’d take the ability to fly.  How about you?  Are you taking immortality, or are you going to request a superpower substitution?

And because I know you now want to hear it…

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When I need to cut a lot of onions… like more than two onions… I wear a snorkel mask.  I skip the snorkel and just wear the goggles which cover half my face.  They’re really tight so they leave a mark on my face when I take them off.  But that is preferable to having tears rolling down my face as I try not to slice my finger off with the onions.

It works.

I also use this Lifehacker tip to rethread a drawstring.  I clip the string onto the ballpoint pen and then slide the pen through the hole, dragging the string with it.  The drawstring is back in place in seconds.

I love hearing other people’s clever work-arounds, mostly so I can borrow them.  So what are your clever tricks?

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The Atlantic had an article last week about individual internal clocks, and how we’re not all programmed to be productive between 9 and 5.  I mean, yes, most people are good waking up in the morning and going to sleep at night, in the same way that the average body temperature is 98.6.

The article is about Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (DSPS), which afflicts 1 in 750 people, causing them to be nocturnal.  I’m certainly not nocturnal, but my natural body clock doesn’t start winding down until well after midnight (as in I’m productive at 2 am) and I don’t feel like I truly wake up until about 1 pm.  If the rest of the world wasn’t up and productive in the morning, I would shift my day to fit my natural clock.  But since the rest of the world expects me to be awake during the day, I painfully drag myself out of bed at 6:30 am (though I usually don’t get to sleep until after midnight).

How is your natural body clock set?  Skewed towards waking up early and going to bed early, or are you more of a night owl?

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