{"id":953,"date":"2019-12-13T12:52:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=953"},"modified":"2019-12-13T12:52:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:52:15","slug":"a-week-in-the-life-december-13-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"A Week in the Life: December 13, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two house drama sagas were resolved this week: the ants and the shower. To be fair, the ants were resolved on the day they started. My duct tape barricade was effective, for the most part, but what really finished the job was the rain, which made it impossible for the ants to maintain their trail to the house. Kirk found the crack in the wall they were using to enter and patched it with a line of caulking, which also helped. As to the shower, it has been “done” for a month, but we were waiting on our final permit inspection, which finally happened yesterday (after a fair bit of harassing the contractor). The inspector approved everything, the contractor came out for a final walkthrough, and we sent the last of the money. FINALLY OVER. I look forward to never remodeling a shower again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consuming<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here are some things I read, watched, or bought this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I read some interesting books this week! One, Threads of Life: A History of the World through the Eye of a Needle<\/a> is a combination of a social history of needlecraft and memoir. I enjoyed reading about something that we don’t have a lot of documented (well, written) history about because it’s often disregarded as unimportant since it’s “women’s work.” I’ve said before that knitting has really taught me how much work goes into making textiles and this book is another entry into my personal syllabus. Side note: I borrowed this book from the library, but the library bought it because I asked them too, which is pretty boss. Sacramento Public Library lets you put in up to 30 materials requests annually!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second book, You Have the Right to Remain Fat: A Manifesto<\/a> is pretty well what it sounds like. This book is, in a word, refreshing. It’s good to have a plainly written reminder that you are under no obligation to be thin. You can take up as much space as you want. Two bits that stuck with me are the phrase “In the future, I’m fat” and an anecdote about how, in certain cultures, fat is prized over thinness. The part that particularly stood out is that women in these cultures will pile clothes on before being weighed at the doctor instead of taking them off, which is what I tend to do. It just emphasizes that this is all made up. You don’t have to be any kind of way. Be how you want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n