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A Wishlist of Sorts

Hi, everyone. :)

I'm still behind the fences here, and while it isn't where I imagined I would be while celebrating my birthday, it's where I am.

I put together a small wishlist of things that I would like; it's mostly books, but one of them leads to a weird question and a strange abstraction I'll poke later.

Wishlist

  • The Body Keeps the Score, by Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk
    (I am spelling the author's name from memory; I had started reading the book on my old e-reader before my arrest, at the recommendation of the best LCSW I ever had the pleasure of working with. This one's for you, Sophie.)
  • Books 6 and later in The Expanse series.
  • Piers Anthony's Xanth series, preferably in chronological order
  • Composition Books:

Weird question!

Do they even make and sell composition books in 'college rule', or any line pitch other than 'wide rule'? I would love to see and get a college rule composition book or two! I'll gladly accept wide rule, but the curiosity makes my brain itch!

Abstraction:

I was mulling this over, sort of meditating as I walked to class this morning...

In elementary school, they start students off on paper with seriously wide lines, giving you almost 3 centimeters to form letters. As you progress, the paper line pitch comes down to 'wide rule'.
As you get to middle and high school, at least when I was going decades ago, you were uncool if you still used wide rule paper; college rule became the unofficial standard.

Also in that thought: wide rule was more forgiving of large, lazy pencil strokes. College rule required you to slow down, keep your pencil sharp (or use a fine tipped pen), and focus on writing legibly.

So... why does there not seem to be any paper with super narrow line pitches, like 0.17"? It should force people to really give thought to using their pens...

But then writing on it becomes inaccessible to people with limited vision, I also argued with myself, patting my bifocals.

Wishlist 2: The Legend Continues

Oh, right, list.

  • Lots of hard sci-fi space opera novels
    (Er, sorry, Star Wars isn't my cup of tea; Star Trek fit better for me, but there's clearly much more than that series! The name Honor Harrington keeps appearing in my head, but I cannot recall the series she was in.)
  • Anne McCaffrey's Pern series.
  • A year's subscription to BBC's Science Focus or similar magazines.

I know I would appreciate these things, just like my fellow residents appreciate something that challenges their minds.

For now, I shall consider resting, with these words:
Each day, I wake up in a bathroom with a man. But after that, I am fine.

Take care, and be bold! :)