No blog post last week as I was back home for time in Goshen, our family lake house in Michigan, a wedding, and a day in Ann Arbor, MI. Last time I wrote, my brother, Wyatt, was visiting. He left Tucson late Monday morning and I left on Wednesday. Our house dispersed for the Memorial Day weekend and then were all back together this past Wednesday, just in time for our trip to Rocky Point, Sonora, Mexico (yes, I'm currently writing from the beach).
In between travels, I was back at work where we have several law student interns joining the Florence Project for the summer. Having more people in the office is nice and we got to know each other over a couple of lunches last week. I'll eventually help train them on some of my tasks like responding to orientation requests and answering phone calls on the hotline. At first, it felt strange that I would help train them since I sometimes still feel very new. Then I realized that I've spent a significant amount of time on the hotline. I'm scheduled for roughly a quarter of the shifts every month and with a team of 12, that means I'm scheduled more frequently than others. On hotline, I effectively support the team because it's something that happens regularly, I can do it from the office, and it exposes me to many different cases.
This week I saw two movies in the theater at the invitations of some of our friends in Tucson. Tuesday night a group of us saw Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Thursday we saw the live-action Little Mermaid. Very different movies but both fun in their own way! I've been a Marvel fan since middle school and until last summer had seen every new movie in theaters when it released. It's always fun when I can nerd out with others at the movies (this is the second Marvel movie--out of the four released in my time in Tucson--that I've seen with housemates this year). The Little Mermaid had some new music from Lin Manuel Miranda and set the tone nicely for our current beach weekend.
A few hours ago I finished the second book in the Remembrance trilogy, a science fiction trilogy written by Chinese author Liu Cixin. Ken Liu translated the first and third books and Joel Martinsen translated the second. The first book in this series is The Three Body problem and tells the story of humanity's first contact with extraterrestrial life set in the Chinese cultural revolution of the 1960s-1970s. This has been the most recent sci-fi series to fully captured my attention with its world-building and philosophical musings. It has also been very interesting to read something translated from Mandarin to English and I have as much respect for the translators of each book as I do for the author.
I have no new puzzle updates (yes, it has been a while but I promise there's one in progress).
As always, you can see more photos here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/rFXtPMJf9GjWMsFd9
Cade-I also enjoyed the SF trilogy. Some great stories!