{"id":313,"date":"2007-07-24T07:07:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T14:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/?p=313"},"modified":"2007-07-24T07:07:27","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T14:07:27","slug":"assorted-random-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/2007\/07\/24\/assorted-random-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"assorted random thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s ride home: wet.<br \/>\nMoving to Netherlands paperwork: Officially DONE! I picked up my Dutch driver&#8217;s license yesterday.<br \/>\nMoving to Taiwan paperwork: We have our first meeting Friday.<br \/>\nLooking forward to: rowing tonight, getting Rudder back tomorrow.<br \/>\nWishing: that more Taiwan flats for rent were online. Maybe they&#8217;re there but in Chinese &#8211; I just wish I could start looking at some! It looks like we may be able to get a 3BR\/2Ba, as opposed to the 2\/1.5 we have here.<br \/>\nThinking: It might be nice to get an unfurnished place and buy our own furniture. Mostly, I just want to be able to pick out my own bed &#8211; I&#8217;m getting very sick of our current mushy waterbed. I don&#8217;t think it would be too horribly expensive if we stick with IKEA-level stuff, with maybe a nicer sofa because ours back in storage is crap.<\/p>\n<p>Random book-related comments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know what L.M. Montgomery was thinking when she wrote the Pat of Silver Bush series. I&#8217;ve written before about Pat&#8217;s bizarre attachment to her house and the crippling neuroses that leave her completely inable to deal with any change whatsoever, but it&#8217;s even in the little things. I know perceptions of color change over time but how can an author think that her pale, brown-eyed, brown-haired heroine looks washed out in green and &#8220;like a dancing buttercup&#8221; in yellow? I fit that description myself and while I can wear any green from forest to neon, yellow makes me look like like I have jaundice.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of color perceptions, I was reading Oliver Sacks&#8217; <i>Island of the Colorblind<\/i> last week while waiting for HP7, and was honestly relieved when he wrote that a coloblind scientist had asked him whether he perceived indigo as a separate stripe in the rainbow, noting that for many people it&#8217;s just an intermediary shade between blue and violet. I&#8217;m one of those people and used to be baffled by indigo&#8217;s inclusion as a separate color. As I got older I read about how people&#8217;s color perception can vary by individual or color &#8211; for instance, orange has not always been perceived as a separate color &#8211; but never thought to apply this to indigo.<\/li>\n<p>A few more Deathly Hallows comments below the cut:<!--more--><\/p>\n<li>I am totally convinced Ron and Hermione were sleeping together in Grimmauld Place in Deathly Hallows. However, whether that phrase ought to be taken literally or as its usual implication, I do not know.<\/li>\n<li>On this rereading, I&#8217;m pleased to notice that JKR answered a couple of questions I&#8217;d thought she missed &#8211; like why H\/R\/H don&#8217;t summon Kreacher to cook for them or carry messages while they&#8217;re camping out.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t really imagine Harry or Ron becoming Aurors after HP7, though I have no idea what else they&#8217;d be. I can imagine Hermione taking SPEW farther, hopefully rechristening it with a better name like The Dobby Society or The Free Elf Foundation. Or the Civil Rights movement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s ride home: wet. Moving to Netherlands paperwork: Officially DONE! I picked up my Dutch driver&#8217;s license yesterday. Moving to Taiwan paperwork: We have our first meeting Friday. Looking forward to: rowing tonight, getting Rudder back tomorrow. 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