Daily posting
Feb. 4th, 2014 11:55 amI really enjoyed the experiment of filling your prompts every day in January. Thank you all for coming up with such a good set of questions and topics.
( looking back )
( looking back )
January Journal: Polyamory
Jan. 31st, 2014 05:50 pmWow, I can't believe I've posted every day in January! Final prompt is from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
angelofthenorth who asked about
( relationship noodling )
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angelofthenorth who asked about polyamory.
( relationship noodling )
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January Journal: Music
Jan. 30th, 2014 11:26 pmceb asked: What kinds of music do you enjoy and what do you get out of them?
( music musings )
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January Journal: Bodies and health
Jan. 29th, 2014 09:09 pmMy excellent brother gave me a challenging prompt:
( bodies and body image )
Not at all sure if this is what Screwy was after; I'll either follow up with more detail or I'll write an entirely different post if I've got the wrong end of the stick.
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can we have a post about Charlotte Cooper's criticisms of the body as a locus of health, and the way even fat activism focuses on health issues. That's assuming you have thought about her stuff. I figured it might be interesting to hear a biologist respond.The problem is that I'm not at all familiar with Charlotte Cooper. Furthermore, between my trying to make daily posts and the fact that Screwy is buried in the very final stretch of writing up his PhD thesis, we haven't managed to find time for a conversation clarifying what exactly he wants me to talk about. I can talk a bit about fat activism being fixated on (a narrow definition of) health, and follow up with a more detailed post once I've had time to do the reading.
( bodies and body image )
Not at all sure if this is what Screwy was after; I'll either follow up with more detail or I'll write an entirely different post if I've got the wrong end of the stick.
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January Journal: Childhood foods
Jan. 28th, 2014 11:50 pmephemera wanted me to talk about childhood memories of food. If there's one thing I've learnt from this meme it's that I'm not cut out to be a food blogger, but I'll have a go.
( fooooood )
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January Journal: New years
Jan. 27th, 2014 09:19 pmmathcathy offered a very thought-provoking prompt: Reflections on the beginning of a new year, both calendar and Jewish - compare and contrast.
( ring in the new )
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January Journal: Non DW blogs
Jan. 26th, 2014 09:12 pmzhelana asked me about Non DW blogs I read. So let's see.
( vestigial blogroll )
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January Journal: Jewish history
Jan. 25th, 2014 09:59 pmangelofthenorth asked me about Jewish history that resonates the most. This is going to be a short post, partly because I'm away for
nou's Croydon Fun Weekend and haven't got much time online. Also partly because I really don't know very much history; my history is anecdotes and stuff I happen to have read popular books or historical fiction about. ( the golden age )
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wychwood asked about books that I wish more people in my circle would read. She originally asked for ten, and I'm not sure I'm going to come up with quite that many, but let's see how far I get.
( bookies )
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January Journal: Social causes
Jan. 23rd, 2014 10:12 pmzhelana filled the last lonely-looking gap in my January list by asking about social Causes I work towards
( not an activist )
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January Journal: God
Jan. 22nd, 2014 05:21 pmjack asked me to write about God, knowing that the stereotype that Jewish people don't really like to talk about God too much is rather applicable to me. But I said I would fill prompts, so I'll give this a go.( theology )
I don't know if that actually gives you any new information about me, or if it's just a muddle, but it's an attempt, anyway.
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January Journal: UK places
Jan. 21st, 2014 10:16 pmmathcathy asked for my favourite 3 places in the UK
( I love this country )
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January Journal: Food experiences
Jan. 20th, 2014 11:19 pm![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
rysmiel asked me for some reasonable number of most memorable positive food experiences.
rysmiel is a great person to give me this prompt since when we spend time together is things like this happen. So, food experiences that haven't been in rysmiel's company:( tasty )
I realize I don't have a tag for eating out, even though recording dining experiences is something I do use this journal for. I shall make one, though I suspect part of the reason is that I often go out for nice meals when I'm also seeing friends, so lots of the relevant posts are tagged 'friends'.
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January Journal: Single-sex education
Jan. 19th, 2014 10:22 pmshreena asked for my views on single-sex education (schools/colleges/universities). I like this prompt, it gives me an excuse to pontificate on a topic I don't get into too often.
( views, I have them )
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January Journal: Ambitions
Jan. 18th, 2014 02:43 pmceb asked me about ambitions, continuing her trend of coming up with excellent prompts.( when I grow up )
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January Journal: Art on display
Jan. 17th, 2014 06:25 pmAnother excellent prompt from ephemera:
( pretties )
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ephemera: What sorts of art you do you have on display in your space?
( pretties )
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January Journal: Trees
Jan. 16th, 2014 10:49 pmforestofglory pointed out that 16th January corresponds to the 15th Shevat in the Jewish calendar. This date is mentioned in the Talmud as being the new year for trees, and in modern times it's become the festival of Tu biShevat in which we celebrate all things tree and nature. The middle of January is kind of a ridiculous time to be celebrating the first signs of spring growth in England, though we're told that almond trees come into blossom at this time of year in Israel. kerrypolka celebrated with fruit cocktails, and forestofglory herself had a fruit party. Anyway, my last minute attempt to mark the festival is by filling forestofglory's prompt to talk about trees that matter to me.
( trees )
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January Journal: e-books and paper books
Jan. 16th, 2014 12:15 amsyderia asked me about e-books and paper books. It's possible everything there is to say about this topic has already been said, but let's give it a go.
( yay living in the future )
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January Journal: Living abroad
Jan. 14th, 2014 10:42 pmceb is another person who's given me several really excellent prompts for this meme. Today's is What was different about living abroad and would you like to do it again? (if so, where?)
( distant climes )
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January Journal: Where do you go?
Jan. 13th, 2014 10:33 pmI am really enjoying this daily prompt meme, and one of the reasons is because ephemera has come up with several really excellently thinky prompts. This is particularly great because ephemera's DW schedule is just enough out of synch with mine that I quite often don't get to her comments, but the longer time scale of putting up a post soliciting prompts a couple of weeks ahead of filling them has worked really well. Anyway, one of ephemera's excellent suggestions was:
( imaginary voyage )
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ephemera has come up with several really excellently thinky prompts. This is particularly great because ephemera's DW schedule is just enough out of synch with mine that I quite often don't get to her comments, but the longer time scale of putting up a post soliciting prompts a couple of weeks ahead of filling them has worked really well. Anyway, one of ephemera's excellent suggestions was: you have a month of leave and an unlimited travel budget - where do you go?
( imaginary voyage )
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