[weather] it's the end of the world

It is 66 degrees and sunny right now. My windows are open. They were open yesterday, too, though I did eventually have to shut the office window (which was the room in which I was working - I left the living room window open a little). I think I am going to put on a jacket (not my heavy winter coat, but a jacket) and go for a walk and wash my car. I'm supposed to be working on my note proposal for the gender journal (it is due at midnight, along with some annotated sources), but I will take the break and enjoy the nice weather. I'm sure there are people outside in shorts; it is still too cold for that, but compared to what it has been, this is incredible.

(It is also awful, because winter isn't over in Michigan. I know it isn't over. I've been telling myself for two weeks that it isn't over, but my body is still adjusting to the weird sun and warmer temperatures we've been having. This means when the snow gets dumped on us, as it will, I will be even more miserable than before. But for now, oh, it looks like spring. If I had a motorcycle, I'd wear warm clothes and go for a ride right now.)

I'm sorry, body, you're being fooled, but right this second, I don't care. SUNSHINE and FRESH AIR. FINALLY.

[jewelry] Lionness has another sale

elisem is having another Shiny Sale! She always has incredible, incredible stuff.

I fell in love with a pair of earrings. Enough that I'm really thinking about whether I could pierce my ears again, whether it might actually work this time. (After all, I've managed to keep the nose piercing open and unscarred for years now.)

"And Oh, Won't That Be A Day" is jasper, glass, and sterling silver. And makes me want to write stories.

Also "Swamp Truth", which is also jasper, glass, and sterling silver, and kind of made my breath catch with the stories in it.

The named pendant "Making Maps in Dream Country" pretty much is the stone referenced in the survivors, monsters, magic, and vampires story thestalkycop and I have been writing awhile now. (This is the dodgy foursome story, too. And the adorable lesbians. And the transformation of ice princes to golden girl.) Also lovely is "I See Your Face In Dreams". Both are ocean jasper, of course.

Finally, isn't this an awesome set? Two hairsticks, sold separately or together, but together they are just amazing: "Seaweed Wreathes Her" and "She Dwells Below".

I think elisem is adding more to that list, so keep checking back. She's already updated it at least once that I saw, and probably more than that.

I don't know when I became a person who loves handmade jewelry, but I am. I need crimson_keys to either set up or link me a website for the work she and her father do, because that is amazing, and you guys should see it.

Back to work now.

[video] Evolution of Life

"The Evolution of Life in Sixty Seconds

AWESOME.