daily update, Sunday March 15
Mar. 15th, 2020 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingThings done today:
1. Slept in absurdly late, because I could.
2. Changed my linens.
3. Laundry, ugh. Did not fold or put any of it away, because I just could not be bothered. That is a task for future!Liz.
4. Phone call with Nick circa 3pm.
5. Phone call with Cat circa 8:30pm.
6. Wrote ~300 words of the Narnia/Naruto crossover. These are still mostly in "and then, and then, and then" format -- at least the narration stuff is -- but I think several portions of dialogue will survive the transition to proper text largely intact.
7. Continued posting various Three Sentence Ficathon stories to AO3. Current status is 17 of 66 successfully crossposted.
8. Completed my 2020 census questionnaire online, using the code I received in the mail a couple days ago. (I was a bit taken aback by the "origins" part of the race question. I just went with "miscellaneous European" because A) I don't like the political implications of the question and found it dangerously intrusive, and B) it would be difficult to answer even if I wanted to bother, because 1) my relatives are from many different countries, insofar as we can track them -- and also were not necessarily of the dominant ethnic group in some of those countries, e.g. they'd lived in Belarus for generations but were ethnically German, and 2) my dad is adopted and you could quite literally drop him into any country from Ireland to Iran and people would stop him on the street to ask directions -- I have seen this in action, and it's hilarious when he doesn't speak the local language -- so who even knows what my genetic heritage might be.)
And now, to bed. :)
1. Slept in absurdly late, because I could.
2. Changed my linens.
3. Laundry, ugh. Did not fold or put any of it away, because I just could not be bothered. That is a task for future!Liz.
4. Phone call with Nick circa 3pm.
5. Phone call with Cat circa 8:30pm.
6. Wrote ~300 words of the Narnia/Naruto crossover. These are still mostly in "and then, and then, and then" format -- at least the narration stuff is -- but I think several portions of dialogue will survive the transition to proper text largely intact.
7. Continued posting various Three Sentence Ficathon stories to AO3. Current status is 17 of 66 successfully crossposted.
8. Completed my 2020 census questionnaire online, using the code I received in the mail a couple days ago. (I was a bit taken aback by the "origins" part of the race question. I just went with "miscellaneous European" because A) I don't like the political implications of the question and found it dangerously intrusive, and B) it would be difficult to answer even if I wanted to bother, because 1) my relatives are from many different countries, insofar as we can track them -- and also were not necessarily of the dominant ethnic group in some of those countries, e.g. they'd lived in Belarus for generations but were ethnically German, and 2) my dad is adopted and you could quite literally drop him into any country from Ireland to Iran and people would stop him on the street to ask directions -- I have seen this in action, and it's hilarious when he doesn't speak the local language -- so who even knows what my genetic heritage might be.)
And now, to bed. :)
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Date: 2020-03-16 11:16 am (UTC)(Czech census so far has included just two Czech terms, "citizenship" - "which state are you a citizen of", and "nationality" which really in Czech usage roughly translates to "which ethnicity/nationality do you feel part of" - which means in the second question you can be as vague or as specific as you please. You can go from "Czech" - which can be both simply synonymous with your citizenship and vaguely all-encompasing, or more regional with regards to Bohemia, and no one can tell in Czech - to, say, "Silesian" - which is a cultural and regional definition of ethnicity. I go with "Czech" myself because I, too, am a mix, though on a smaller scale, with ancestors from both Bohemia and Moravia and possibly some German and Jewish ancestry somewhere down the line... and "Czech" is nicely all-encompassing.)
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Date: 2020-03-16 11:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2020-03-16 03:27 pm (UTC)My uncle, who spent his entire adult life working for the Census Bureau's geographical/mapping division, would have have strongly disapproved of that question. I am kind of pissed off on his behalf that the place he worked for and believed in has been dragged into ugly waters. :(
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Date: 2020-03-16 03:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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