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luzula1) I have written 250 words of Yuletide story, and am pleased with what I've written! *relieved* It's like there's some sort of Yuletide magic that makes me able to write; I've never failed to have ideas for it.
2) I went to a CPR and first aid course at work, which felt useful.
3) This weekend I am crossing off a square on my year-bingo: to attend some sort of activity/event which interests me but which I am nervous to do or which is a bit out of my comfort zone or usual interests. I've done two things:
a) going to this conference, largely attended by computer geeks but also by others. I would've not even known about it, but an acquaintance convinced me to come and do some volunteer stuff for this democratic email organization whose email I use. Doesn't this panel look super-weird? IDK, I didn't go to it. I did go to a biohacking panel where we got to mix spit, soap, pineapple juice, salt, and vodka in order to see strings of our DNA (before this I had never even heard of biohacking). Anyway, there were all sorts of interesting people there who were open to talking, so it was nice. I'm going back tomorrow.
b) I also went to some lectures about Rojava and the situation in Syria, organized by the Swedish Rojava solidarity groups. I've given a fair amount of money to them, so it felt good to learn more. I was slightly afraid that this would be lots of people who already knew each other, so I dragged a friend along. Ha, turned out there was someone I knew from the syndicalist union there, which is not surprising. Anyway, I was so impressed by the journalist Joakim Medin who is one of the few foreign journalists who have spent a lot of time in Rojava (and even been thrown in prison by Assad's forces). He was riveting as a speaker and he knew so much!
So yeah, I think both of those were successes! Be in the world more, is maybe the lesson here.
2) I went to a CPR and first aid course at work, which felt useful.
3) This weekend I am crossing off a square on my year-bingo: to attend some sort of activity/event which interests me but which I am nervous to do or which is a bit out of my comfort zone or usual interests. I've done two things:
a) going to this conference, largely attended by computer geeks but also by others. I would've not even known about it, but an acquaintance convinced me to come and do some volunteer stuff for this democratic email organization whose email I use. Doesn't this panel look super-weird? IDK, I didn't go to it. I did go to a biohacking panel where we got to mix spit, soap, pineapple juice, salt, and vodka in order to see strings of our DNA (before this I had never even heard of biohacking). Anyway, there were all sorts of interesting people there who were open to talking, so it was nice. I'm going back tomorrow.
b) I also went to some lectures about Rojava and the situation in Syria, organized by the Swedish Rojava solidarity groups. I've given a fair amount of money to them, so it felt good to learn more. I was slightly afraid that this would be lots of people who already knew each other, so I dragged a friend along. Ha, turned out there was someone I knew from the syndicalist union there, which is not surprising. Anyway, I was so impressed by the journalist Joakim Medin who is one of the few foreign journalists who have spent a lot of time in Rojava (and even been thrown in prison by Assad's forces). He was riveting as a speaker and he knew so much!
So yeah, I think both of those were successes! Be in the world more, is maybe the lesson here.
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Date: 2015-11-08 01:10 am (UTC)What is biohacking?
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Date: 2015-11-08 08:46 am (UTC)Ah no, sorry, I feel like I have drifted away from fandom too much. I mean, I do still keep in contact with fannish friends, update my journal, read fic (though not as much as before), and occasionally produce fanworks, but still. It is just not as large a part of my life as before; I don't have the same passion for it. So I can't motivate such a long trip, especially when it involves flying for such a distance.
As I really know nothing about biohacking other than the very little I learned from the panel, I'll just link to the Wikipedia page.
(ETA: I deleted your duplicate comment, btw.)
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Date: 2015-11-08 09:04 am (UTC)Glad I got to meet you IRL in 2012. That was my very first fancon ever and you were one of the fen I specifically wanted to meet. (Later this month I'm meeting up in Canada with a couple of other dS fen from Sweden -- maybe some time they'll invite me to visit Sweden and I might see you while I'm there.)