Yeah, the first book is rather different than the later books and starts at a bad point to introduce the reader. It is a rough start, although the sense of the series starts coming through late in the first book.
Granted, I have not read the whole series to be able to say whether it comes to a satisfying conclusion, but having read most of it, the journey so far has been worthwhile.
How have kids today not heard of Candlejack? That's probably safer but
I'm sad the kids today will never know about Candlejack. When you talk about early memes that one was a classic but, like the show that spawned it, I fear that it
I almost forgot to mention: this woman came into the penguin enclosure with a KESTREL??? I said “oh my god is that an American Kestrel?” and she said “Yes! She was outside doing raptor education for the kids, but she doesn’t like to get rained on.”
Every time I look at news headlines or the front page of Reddit, I see dozens of people re-enacting this article from 2015. Every single day, like Sideshow Bob walking through a lawn full of rakes, today's news will finally be what takes down Trump forever.
Weights: painfully sore for the first month or two then settles into comfortably exerted.
Maybe cardio would become less unpleasant if I stuck with it consistently as I can with weights. Maybe I just need to find the right sort of exercise activity that includes cardio. And maybe includes socialization for that other form of consistent reps!
a thing that i've learned about consistent exercise is that it never gets any easier, you do cardio 3-4 times a week every week and it's acutely painful every single time and it sucks and you hate it and you keep on hating it from now until the moment you die. and yet somehow the alternative is worse, in the long term; do no cardio at all for long enough and that starts feeling pretty bad too. i'm starting to think that most things are like this. i don't really enjoy talking to people; there've been 6mo spans of my life where i've been able to entirely avoid any form of human interation in the same way there's been 6mo spans of my life in which i didn't feel like working out so i didn't. but it's probably not optimal, in the long run. plausibly the correct thing to do is to make sure i get my socializing reps in at least a few times a week every week for the rest of my life and every single time it'll suck and i'll hate it and i'll be acutely miserable and it'll never get any better and yet. and yet. plausibly the best way to live is in such a way that when you're on your deathbed your only thought is oh thank god that that's over with. never again.