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Jun. 8th, 2025 12:08 pm
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Do any of you lovely folks track your basal body temps?
Any thermometer recommendations? I know that they're used a lot for natural family planning, but I'm just trying to watch my metabolism and it feels like there's a lot of baby juju that I don't want. What do men use? Maybe I should try that.

The Friday Five - Sleep On It

Jun. 6th, 2025 06:03 pm
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1. Have you ever been to summer camp? I went to band camp a few times in high school, but I never got to do a real "camping" type thing.

2. Have you ever made a s'more? Yes! I've made real ones over a campfire, and I've made them by toasting the marshmallows over the burner of a gas stove.

3. Have you ever slept under the stars (no tent/tarp)? Not yet but I'm planning to this fall. I want to start getting used to sleeping in a tent on the ground.

4. Have you ever had a member of the opposite sex sleep over at your house? There's one doing that tonight! XD

5. What type of bed do you have (queen, twin, bunk, etc.)? XL twin Japanese futon - on the floor.

The Book of Everything

Jun. 6th, 2025 02:27 pm
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I kept seeing images of this boxed set pop up, and I felt like it was a sign. So I finally found one for sale and it arrived yesterday.



The Bhagavad Gita is a small section of the Mahabharata and probably the bit that most Westerners are familiar with. I myself bought a copy when someone approached me on the street and said I looked like I'd recently had a mystical experience. I read it but without a lot of comprehension, as I was still in school and hadn't given a lot of attention to India, Hindu thought, or anything outside of medieval Europe, which was what I was studying. A guy I was dating at the time mocked me for reading it and said I would end up shaving my head and playing drums in the airport, which ... being armpits-deep in writing my thesis that sounded like a GREAT change of pace. Don't threaten me with a good time, hoss.


By my calculations, if I read ten pages a day, every single day, I ought to be done in January of 2027.

Anyway, I've started the first volume and while I feel a little lost, I know that this is part of the "framing" of the epic, so a lot of what I'm going through is just setup. Some king is lamenting everything that's happened, so the fact that I have no idea who these people are doesn't matter right now. I do kind of wish there was a good English language reader's guide for this, but I'll muddle along without one.

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