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Somerville bookstore to host ‘wedding marathon’ as Supreme Court weighs overturning marriage equality


"All She Wrote Books, which describes itself as an intersectional feminist and queer bookstore, is hosting a “wedding marathon” for LGBTQIA+ couples Aug. 30. Complete with treats and a wedding photographer, the package gives couples an hour-long ceremony in a simple and beautiful setting, the owner said."

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Sometimes I think about "Earl Grey, hot."

When TNG was airing, I wasn't drinking or ordering tea yet. Now that I do, I find myself having to make clarifications about tea that I wouldn't usually expect, like clarifying that I want a chai latte in the morning to be hot, even if it's summer. But I mostly think about it, because when I make tea for Psyche, she does not want it hot, just warm.

The electric kettle heats the water to a good steeping point, just below boiling, and after a few minutes that's where I expect it too be. It's probably too hot for my own good, but I still take a few sips, quickly, to get the first taste. Then as I work, and periodically forget it, it cools more and more, and my sips get larger and larger. If I get absorbed too much, and it reaches near room temperature, I usually just shotgun the remainder so I can make another cup.

Psyche will wait for the tea to cool down to warm before she starts drinking. And that can take a while. I've taken to steeping her tea a little short of ideal, then dropping some ice after removing the leaves, so that she can get a head start.

In Star Trek's future, I imagine that tea is replicated the way Psyche likes it. Imagine it brewed hot, but then already cooled down to a pleasant warmth, for easy drinking. By default, then Starfleet officers are picking up their cups of tea brewed several minutes before it was even desired.

Picard doesn't brew his own tea (where we regularly see him onscreen), but he clearly already has a history with tea that starts too hot to drink. Why else would anyone think to order their tea hotter than drinkable, in a time where pizza never burns the roof of your mouth either? It suggests some of the family history, that in his past, at least, he was party to the manual steeping of tea and still moves to its rhythms.
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Various:

--compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting (substack post) - an interesting commentary about the trend of summarizing and drilling things down to "five actionable points," etc. Not sure I agree in every context but hey, that's what context is for.

--Went out with some friends recently to try my first ever lobster roll. Yes, I have lived up here for many years, shut up. Excitingly, I have learned a cool fact! Which is that I do not like lobster rolls. A good time was had nonetheless.

--Have had to remind myself once again, as I periodically do, that I am allowed to get into a cool idea for a week and then drop it. I am not obligated to remain fixated on any of the things that I fixate on for three days. Things can be fun and then end.

--My office building does these periodic activities (I want to call them enrichment) where they give out beach towels and sunscreen for the summer, or have a 'make your own spice mix' event, or whatever. No idea why. Anyway, they had one the other day which was labeled "Farmer's Market," which I assumed would be an indoor farmer's... market? But I stuck my head in at the tail end of it to discover that it was actually free veggies, and since this was the end of things they really wanted it all to go away and there were no limits anymore. So I came home with, uh. A lot, but mostly carrots. Next week's dinners will be heavy on carrots. Roasted. Soup. Mmmmmmm.

--Today A took me on a whale watching tour and it was absolutely marvelous. Only one juvenile whale, but he was flopping all around and breaching and doing all the fancy whale stuff. Genuinely thrilling!

--Many other interesting/fun things have happened but if I try to post about them all I will keep writing this entry until eternity.

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