Various overdue things

Okay, I fluffed it for another week on my Mirrorverse chapter...

My forum with the Unitarians on Alfie Kohn's "No Contest" went over pretty well, and next month I volunteered to do one on Joanna Russ's "How to Suppress Women's Writing" (kicking off National Library Week, as it turns out), so we'll see how that goes.

This week we went to a big library book sale in the capitol; it was a zoo and I only got a few things, but I went in knowing that I would buy any and every book in Japanese that I could find, and I did find one, firmly in the "aspirational" category (I just like having them in a not-wholly-rational way). It's a psychology text on self-injury behaviors, "Bodies Under Siege" by Armando Favazza---who works at my alma mater and who apparently signed this Japanese copy. Out of curiosity, I looked it up on Amazon.co.jp and the cover price was like seven thousand yen, so I at least felt like I got a good deal on it.

Almost done with Kino no Tabi (just one of the movies left); undecided what to watch next.