I cried a little watching this. I adore Moulin Rouge. It shaped my aesthetic more than anything had since Beetlejuice. I saw it with W. It came out when we had been together about three years  and were in that phase of our relationship that clingy homebodies like me love: early deep familiarity. There are many other beautiful phases of a romance (in my experience, there’s nothing like watching your partner parent to make you fall in love all over again), but I have an extra soft spot for that one, and Moulin Rouge as a whole and “Come What May” in particular will always hold a wistful beauty for me. Cost means I’ll wait for this one to go on tour  but I am so looking forward to a soundtrack full of Broadway stars singing these songs.

A little over a year ago, I wrote about how a post by Vicki Boykis and a comment by Chris Aldrich had inspired me to do my part to fix the internet. Since that time, I’ve worked hard to get my WordPress site set up so that I can write content here, send it out to other places where people who want to follow me can see it, and get their responses here. I have, for the past six weeks or so, really succeeded at Vicki’s first mandate:

...write your own blog on your own platform.

In that original post, I talked some about her other suggestions, but I haven't followed through as successfully on those. I think I'm going to take on her second one next:

Share good content.

There are several things I'm implementing to help me do that. With respect to sharing in WordPress on mobile with Android, Chris has generously shared one way to do that. I have tried it, and while it works, I'm now content to simply copy and paste a URL from the thing I'm sharing into the relevant field in my WordPress post editor. I keep my New Post page bookmarked, and I'm good to go. (My current setup is enabled by the Post Kinds plugin and made easier by the External URL Featured Image plugin, both of which I am aware of thanks to Chris.)

But of course, to share good content, I also need to consume good content. I do this by following blogs and subscribing to newsletters. I use Feedly for subscribing to blogs and Pocket for saving articles linked from newsletters for later reading. (Chris has written a great post about another WordPress plugin, PressForward, that can replace both of these services, but my current web hosting plan doesn’t give me the power I need to use it for the amount of content I’m taking in.)

I’m working on a following page to share what blogs and newsletters I’m subscribing to. (I have one but it isn’t displaying like I want it to, so it’s in draft mode until I figure it out.)

But I want to fix the internet in other ways, too, which is why I’m going to dust off my recollections of HTML5 and CSS3, learn PHP, and dig into WordPress so I can do things like build my own themes and create plugins that give WordPress the functionality I’m missing from it.

Would you like to join me in fixing the internet?

You have 40 minutes before your childcare ends. Do you:

A) ? take a shower

B) ? take a nap

C) ? take a bath and ? read

D)? put away clean laundry

E) ?start a new load of laundry

F) ? watch TV?

Reading this book in the car while the toddler naps. I started this book on Monday. It’s a very engaging read. It uses second person effectively to pop the reader right into the middle action. It includes what seems to me to be a straightforward and sensitive handling of gender identity, especially non-binary gender identity. Not finished yet, but so far, highly recommended.

I’ve been awaiting this book since it was announced. Now it’s here and I’m going to devour it! I’ve neglected true self-care most of my life. In the months before I got pregnant, I was finally taking better care of myself. But since M. was born, I have once again let it slide. I’ve claimed it in little ways here and there, but it’s time to devote myself to it more fully for a while. I’m doing the prep work now and starting the actual 21-day program May 14. Let me know if you want to join me and we can do daily check-ins. (If there’s a bunch of us, we can even maybe do a GroupMe!) #pcosdiva #pcos #bookstagram #amreading

Probably going to write a series of fics in which Giles just has to do normal school librarian stuff.

Thanks to Saturday Night Live’s Lobster Les Mis, Clawsette and Epawnine are now in the running for future cat names. (Meowrius is also a possibility.)

How Children Learn by John Holt

Marked to-read 04/28/18.

If you got me one of these, it would arrive just in time for my birthday in mid-July! I like the teal one. $12