This week has been an entire month. I wanted to update earlier this week but then I would start looking for other things to put in the post and I would get distracted and so on and so forth and now it's Sunday and I feel like I have looked at twenty thousand things and yet looked at nothing. So let's dive in. Jinn have been on my mind! When trying to trace the origin of jinn being on my mind as of late (they have been on my mind for a while, I wrote a paper on jinn for Senior Sem), I have been using Twitter friend/writer/artist Kristina Kay Robinson as my jinn muse for a while: I have a hard time capturing her essence but I'm working on it. Jinn on the mind got me thinking about Middle Eastern horror, a genre that I am interested in but know nothing about. So I asked Twitter and wound up with some great recommendations! I have particularly enjoyed these short stories by Hadeer Elsbai: In Your Wake We Sin Your Damnation Will Be Infinite I was also recommended Frankenstein in Baghdad, by Ahmed Saadawi, which I'm reading now and really enjoying, and The Queue, by Basma Abdel Aziz, which is on my wishlist. I finished my depressing zine from last week and did a test photocopy. It looks really good! Unfortunately I ran outta quarters. I have to go to a post office tomorrow that is not the post office at school because they won't let me mail an international package(???) But okay.
Recently, I had to do a database search exercise for class about which fields are searched by default, which took longer than it should have because then I would find articles that I wanted to read later and then started bookmarking them. (And because I did all that through a proxy, I just found out JSTOR didn't save anything that I saved, so that's great). Went out yesterday to the Peddler's Mall, which has so many packs of unopened trading cards and boxes of postcards that I had to walk away from them lest I get wild (I think a pack of trading cards would be a great little surprise to send in the mail, or even the individual cards, which would then give me the personal joy of opening the packet), but I did wind up with a treasure that I will write more about after I've read a bit more of it. Have a good week! Or don't. Is there any such thing anymore?
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