just a selkie in the sea

(I also go by Liz)

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JhoiraArtificer
@JhoiraArtificer

mostly because I accidentally let my books get one day overdue and then tried to renew and they'll just renew for 10 days max with no additional renewals (academic library system)

but also get hype for whatever I decide to pick up this time


JhoiraArtificer
@JhoiraArtificer

Final score:

  • ✨renewed my UW Borrower's Card for another year✨
  • The Puritan Origins of the American Self (Sacvan Bercovich, 1975)
  • The Long Argument: English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Culture, 1570-1700 (Stephen Foster, 1981)
  • Calvinism: An Interpretation of Its Basic Ideas (H. Henry Meeter, 1931)
  • How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality (multiple authors, 2013)

I also got to see the cherry blossoms in full glory on my way through campus 🌸


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in reply to @JhoiraArtificer's post:

library!!

last time I was in Seattle it was exactly this time of year and a friend and I walked through the middle of campus to go to the art museum and all of the cherry blossoms were in bloom and petals covered the pavement. it was beautiful

yesss. also I picked up a book recently upon what I thought was your recommendation (Food Politics by Marion Nestle) but I looked through your reading tag and couldn't find it, though I'm p sure based on your interests you would have read it? And if you have read it, any thoughts? Haven't started it yet

I need to get better at tagging, for one, but also I have only read part of it and I don't think I wrote about that. She is a major figure in food safety writing and I need to check it back out and finish it.

I found the first few chapters stressful because they kept brushing up against my disordered eating barriers (I don't have disordered eating, but only because I'm aware it would be very easy for me to head that way and am careful about it) and causing me food stress. She's also very "calories in, calories out" so if that's potentially stressful to you, heads up. After that it felt a bit repetitive to me on "food companies influence nutritional guidelines", so I put the book down, but if that's not something you've spent a lot of your life thinking about it might be less boring haha.

So I guess the summary is "it's probably worth reading/finishing but I didn't find it particularly groundbreaking", though the latter may well be a me problem.

I'm new to the topic but curious, so I suspect I'll get more out of it than you did considering your already-deep knowledge base. I have some occasional disordered eating habits, but that's incidental (consistent hunger cues would be nice), unrelated to my relationship to food, so while I'm not a fan of calorie thinking, it isn't a trigger either. thanks for the summary and the heads-up!