I should be sewing, but it's very hot and I just got back from a short and unnecessary walk, so

[chocolatepot]

Ugh, and I pulled the boba out of the cupboard to make bubble tea and found that the potato in there had rotted and oozed all over the bottom of the boba bag, as well as the box of matzoh meal. Fortunately the bag is plastic. Cleaned up the immediate mess, but there's still a black residue around the edges and it smells foul. It's smelled bad for a while and I couldn't figure out what was wrong. :( Now the whole apartment smells like rotten potato. :( :( :(

Had a good weekend hanging out at home - Dad and I went to Old Sturbridge Village to see Big River (which was very good) and then there was really nothing else on the schedule. It's just as hot down there but less humid and the house gets a good cross-breeze, so I was much more comfortable. I decided, after the conversation with Dad on the way there and back, that since I'm so overwhelmed trying to figure out what to do with my career (or if I should go into something else before I get too old to switch, I'd rather deal with that at 29 than 39) I've got to find a mentor. Went looking to see how other people have handled that, and lots of them say they stayed in touch with professors, which makes no sense to me unless they're adjuncts who also work in museums - but I did find out that the AAM is trying to connect mentors and mentees in collections stewardship, so I filled out their form and will hopefully hear back! Lately nobody is responding to my emails. So hopefully I'll be put in touch with a curator/CM in a prosperous historic house or a living history site or an actual costume collection who can advise me about what I should be doing online to look better to employers, if I do need to be fixated on academic publishing, etc. and I can stop crying about it here.

Um, what's this, did I actually enjoy a DW finale? That hasn't happened in a while, I don't think, and I'd attribute it here to the finale just being a solid two-parter rather than an extravaganza, with the only "CAN YOU TOP THIS???" factor being Missy plus Simm!Master together (much better than bringing together multiple villain species or destroying all life on Earth or whatever).

Peal Mackie did a really good job (and let's give Nick Briggs some credit as well, I guess), and while I didn't ... entirely understand what happened to her at the end, I'm glad she gets a happy ending. Interesting that both she and Clara are traveling the universe (with a companion - didn't Clara get one as well?), which I have to say is something I like but also think could lose its power if it happens often enough.

I'm sure this isn't the end for the Master but I would have really rather seen Missy stick around, especially if the Doctor might be female sometime in the near future. (I'd like to think that Twelve's explicit endorsement of the future being "all female" is Moffat's way of saying he doesn't stand by his previous statements about female Doctors. Which does not mean much in effect, but I do/would appreciate it.)

I miss Grandpa Twelve already. :(

I've reread KoA and CoK now - CoK is so much more appealing to me following TaT, I remember when I first read it being like, "but Gen is hardly in this??" and now that I'm reading it for the story of the whole series (and after having read a story with about 1% Gen), I can enjoy it more. I'd completely forgotten what a badass Sophos turned out to be. Think I will sign up for the Hamiathes Gift exchange!

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[author_by_night]

I love Sturbridge Village!

... except it seems you went for something specific and not (necessarily?) historical. #awkwardnerdmoment

I know this may sound phony, but I really am sorry you're having difficulty with your job, and hope you figure something out. *Hugs*

[chocolatepot]

Yeah, we did kind of sneak in for a bit (we got there at about 4, 4:30 and they close at 5, so) and talked to some interpreters - my dad is a GREAT companion for farm-village museums, evidently, because he's gotten so much agricultural knowledge through his job as an appraiser that he asks these intensely detailed question I wouldn't think to - but the musical was not really connected to OSV, I think someone else runs the theater on their property. I really want to go back, though! The only other time I've been, it was April and they didn't really have all of the interpretation ready yet. It's better than Williamsburg, imo.

It doesn't sound phony, thank you so much. I think I'm heading into a 1/3-life crisis, which is irritating as my quarter-life crisis only finished a couple of years ago.