Sick day, fundraising updates, things I’ve read recently

[bodlon]

Fevers are possibly one of my least favorite things. Fevers during the summer are especially disconcerting, because I'm never quite certain if I feel icky because I'm sick or because it's sweltering outside and I can't bring myself to drop the energy saver setting on the window units down below 78*F.

Today has been almost entirely eating and sleeping, which sounds pretty reasonable, though I've got just enough energy to be climbing the walls, so I'm scattering little usefulnesses throughout my day so that I can use those bursts of lucidity and energy and not feel like a total disaster area.

Considering the dangers inherent in making gallon batches of boiling liquid, it's probably a good thing I made the iced tea yesterday instead of today.

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So. Surgery fundraising updates. This is where I try to stay coherent while talking about big numbers.

Thus far, we've raised just over $1730 US. This isn't counting current eBay auctions or Smashwords (which only pays out quarterly). That's about 18.6% of my overall goal and 28.8% of my bare minimum goal. To say that I am staggered by the generosity of humanity does not do this feeling justice. There's still a lot of climbing to do, but being a quarter of the way there does me some good.

Speaking of eBay, I've added a couple of things today, and will be putting a handful of things up weekly until I run out of cool stuff that I think others might want to offer homes to. Considering the amount of stuff I own, and the fact that my mother has offered up some things from her own stash of various art books, I don't anticipate that happening any time soon. To give you an idea of what's up there right now, my active auctions include:

- A working vintage Brownie 8mm camera
- A neat little wizard statuette made with Cornish slate
- some Jaquard brand acid dyes
- an unopened HorrorClix AVP collector set
- a nice belt that I couldn't rock as hard as it deserved to be rocked
- a couple of kitchy eye of newt and snake tongue bottles
- some really lovely handspun silk yarn

I've got some Doctor Who and Torchwood stuff in the next couple of batches, as well as some more random things that could do with being re-homed. I do feel curiously on display with this whole eBay thing, but am trying not to let it feel as personal as it could do. Still, if I ever feel judgey at a yard sale again, feel free to mock me.

But yes. This week I'll be setting up a magical savings account of surgical joy so that this stuff is safely away from accounts from which funds are drawn, and so that it an maybe accrue a little bit of interest to help things along.

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- One of the things I love about being into paganisms that utilize reconstructionism as a tool is that I get to read articles with titles like British Iron Age Diet: Stable Isotopes and Other Evidence, and learn things I've never read elsewhere (like the fact that one of the challenges of this kind of study is that many tribes in middle Iron Age Britain may have practiced "excarnation and and secondary burial of selected bones or body parts" instead of having cemeteries as we generally understand them. This is my brain, wanting more data.

- Relatedly, I refuse outright to apologize for having a big pagan nerd crush on Ronald Hutton. This interview is a semi-recent example of his particular brand of awesome. It's also rather long, so you may want to grab a sandwich or a drink and settle in.

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