"Friday" Five
15 Apr 2018 19:44![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
extrapenguinSurely it must be Friday still in some timezone, right? Right? Questions from ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
thefridayfive.
1) Has the weather where you are finally started acting like spring is here?
Well, yeah. It's t-shirt weather when it's sunny, and the snowbanks have started to melt, leading to spring: the temperature is comfortable, but the ground is made of mud and gravel from winter anti-slip measures, and also lots of dust. It's the ugliest season. I'd say I can't wait for it to be over, but then comes summer, the season with wholly unreasonable temperatures. What can I say? In this, I am a delicate ice sculpture.
2) Do you have any special spring activities or outings planned?
A friend and I shall be making sima soon! Vappu (May Day) is the great grand party of Finnish student life, and one really should celebrate at least a bit. A bit more walking about, once the last of the ice has melted from the shade and some of the gravel has been cleared up.
3) Have you started wearing different clothing appropriate to spring?
I have ditched my wool coat and go out in t-shirts only now! If it's raining or cloudy or cooler, my cotton trench coat imitator. Also put my winter boots in storage and taken out my summer shoes! Plus I can use my jaunty hats now.
4) What signs of spring are manifesting around you?
Mud flats, temporary river systems carving their way through the ice, way too much sunlight. Birds who are morning fetishists. Dust.
5) Are there special foods you enjoy preparing and/or eating in the spring?
See above re: sima! Also trying to figure out some sort of eat-cold food for summer. Does anyone has recs? Must be simple to make and leftovers compatible; I make a food and then eat the same thing for a week until it runs out.
space_swap has work reveals on Wednesday! AO3 collection. As a thing that's been ongoing since Christmas, I've gotten into a bunch of online translations of Chinese web novels (and incidentally discovered that my aversion to fantasy is mostly to the pseudo-medieval/Tolkien ripoff setting and the common tropes of it). I'll make a recs post sometime this month. The Hugo Awards finalists have been announced; let's see if I have the time to do it this year. List and links to those available for free online here. I'll probably read the short stories and other available-online ones and see if there's anything I where I would be enraged if if won/didn't win a Hugo. Decisions.
thefridayfive.1) Has the weather where you are finally started acting like spring is here?
Well, yeah. It's t-shirt weather when it's sunny, and the snowbanks have started to melt, leading to spring: the temperature is comfortable, but the ground is made of mud and gravel from winter anti-slip measures, and also lots of dust. It's the ugliest season. I'd say I can't wait for it to be over, but then comes summer, the season with wholly unreasonable temperatures. What can I say? In this, I am a delicate ice sculpture.
2) Do you have any special spring activities or outings planned?
A friend and I shall be making sima soon! Vappu (May Day) is the great grand party of Finnish student life, and one really should celebrate at least a bit. A bit more walking about, once the last of the ice has melted from the shade and some of the gravel has been cleared up.
3) Have you started wearing different clothing appropriate to spring?
I have ditched my wool coat and go out in t-shirts only now! If it's raining or cloudy or cooler, my cotton trench coat imitator. Also put my winter boots in storage and taken out my summer shoes! Plus I can use my jaunty hats now.
4) What signs of spring are manifesting around you?
Mud flats, temporary river systems carving their way through the ice, way too much sunlight. Birds who are morning fetishists. Dust.
5) Are there special foods you enjoy preparing and/or eating in the spring?
See above re: sima! Also trying to figure out some sort of eat-cold food for summer. Does anyone has recs? Must be simple to make and leftovers compatible; I make a food and then eat the same thing for a week until it runs out.
space_swap has work reveals on Wednesday! AO3 collection. As a thing that's been ongoing since Christmas, I've gotten into a bunch of online translations of Chinese web novels (and incidentally discovered that my aversion to fantasy is mostly to the pseudo-medieval/Tolkien ripoff setting and the common tropes of it). I'll make a recs post sometime this month. The Hugo Awards finalists have been announced; let's see if I have the time to do it this year. List and links to those available for free online here. I'll probably read the short stories and other available-online ones and see if there's anything I where I would be enraged if if won/didn't win a Hugo. Decisions.
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Date: 2018-04-15 19:09 (UTC)And in the other countries where I've lived early spring was a lot lovelier. The first week of April is downright magical in Japan.