Too Fast, Too Black, Too African: On Caster Semenya
she ran smack into the global matrices of power … for being too fast, too quick … how does it become permissible to forcibly strip an 18 year old girl in front of “experts” who will determine, for her, her own gender?
Sasha update: she’s staying at the vet’s overnight for observation with a saline drip for dehydration, and blood work. Bloods have already come back OK. Between cats & dogs, routine and special, that’s 6 vet visits in 5 weeks. The cost of older pets. 🐈 🐶 💲
It’s been a bit miserable today, what with the lack of sleep and also being a bit unwell. It’s been a worse day for Sasha though who produced messy poop while I was at a workshop all morning and then huge amounts of vomit while I was at the doctor this afternoon.
It’s nearly 4 am. I should be asleep. Instead I’ve been woken every hour or so by Sasha the dog needing to go out. I’ve cleaned up two lots of dog poop from where I haven’t got up. Given in and made a cup of tea.
With a swell of up to 2.5 metres, high tide and sunset coinciding, I biked down to the beach with my camera. These photos straight from the camera.
Recommended reading: the extremely interesting and superbly written This is our story: A qualitative research report on living with dementia.
tells the story of diverse lives and experiences of New Zealanders living with dementia, explores what it means to them to live well.
Last night we watched and enjoyed Wine Country:
When a group of longtime girlfriends goes to Napa for the weekend to celebrate their friend’s 50th birthday, tensions from the past boil over.
My Netatmo outdoor module is on the fritz. Because I’m in New Zealand I can’t buy a replacement module but have to buy a new station. Tonight, in the pouring rain, the rain gauge shows zero rainfall! What next?
Ate a delicious dinner with long-time friends at Thistle Inn in Thorndon for one friend’s 70th birthday.
Entree: Crumbed eggplant, roast red pepper pesto & grilled haloumi.
Main: Oven baked Mudfish, crushed potato, spinach mushrooms, capers & butter sauce.
Someone on Micro.Blog recently mentioned ToDoist. After a few days use I’m finding it helpful for getting on with useful stuff in my day.
Bloke takes dogs for a swim in the river, finds moa prints:
fossilised moa footprints millions of years old.
Seven clear footprints were found, each about 30cm by 30cm, and an action, preservation and excavation plan for the footprints was immediately prepared.
What it means to live in NZ. In the last 24 hours…
- batteries ordered from a .co.nz site can’t be shipped to NZ.
- Netatmo replacement module isn’t sold in NZ.
- Kindle book available in US doesn’t exist for NZ.
Sasha enjoys chasing the ball on the beach. The thing is, her eyesight isn’t the best, so I have to be careful how I roll the ball. Even then, she can lose track. It’s what comes next that cracks me up. See the diagram. 🐶
My favourite sci-fi author, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is doing a special Kickstarter for her next novel in the Diving Universe. Dive in.
I’m learning lots about Māori from Taringa!. In Episode 36 of Taringa!, at ~ 23' 30" in, there’s an interesting 3 minute discussion about how Māori kept fire going: embers in a buried log.
Ares after a couple of days at the vet hospital for observation— he’s lost 500 grams since last July, and after his sister died unexpectedly I thought he should have a checkup. Possible early kidney or liver problems. I’m not really choking him, just making sure he was facing out. 🐈
“But the proof is in the pudding” — I try not to be pedantic about such things these days, but this one always bugs me a bit. Puts me in mind of when I was a kid and the Christmas Pudding had threepenny bits in it… (and a drop of ?% proof brandy).
The Brain-Eating Amoebas of Kerosene Creek — a 4 minute video from Tom Scott that features Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles.
Kerosene Creek is a natural hot spring near Rotorua. Warning: don’t put your head under water…”brain-eating amoebas", naegleria fowleri, are real…
We’re still enjoying the last of the produce from our tunnelhouse: capsicum, aubergine, chili.
The sea today was the pale grey of a glacier-fed river.
