Asylum on the HIll

I went to Katherine Ziff's talk on her book of the same title. It's about the first 20 years of the Ridges, Athens Lunatic Asylum (I've posted photos before). It was very interesting just how much patient info there still is. This was part of her dissertation. The Athens Lunatic Asylum was built on the Kirkbride plan which harkened back to ancient Greece using landscape as part of the healing. It was the idea of moral treatment starting around early to mid 1800's coming out of the chain 'em up philosophy of mental health care. check out the kirkbride buildings At one point Athens Lunatic Asylum was 1000 acres and hosted events that regular townspeople came up to enjoy. It housed all sorts of people, Civil War vets with soldier's heart, the homeless, the kids no one could treat, people trying to organize labor unions...

The one downside to it was she's a counselor and talks with that soft placating counselor's voice. I'm sure it's great in a session but it was very soporific. You need someone like me talking. I have a voice like a foghorn. What was just as interesting was a male nurse who worked there in the latter years was there and an attendant from the 50's were there and she attested to the number of lobotomies performed. One of the people I went with (a friend from work and her roommate) had a great grandmother who lived there as an attendant. The doctors and their families lived on staff. They had pools/islands made to beautify the surroundings and they farmed the area. The fountain you can see in the kirbridge link (Athens is the first on the right) is no longer there BUT it's not destroyed and might be moved back on premesis (part of this has been repurposed for OU as their art museum).

I think it would be cool if they could reclaim the rest and make it into apts. I'd move there and then I thought, wasn't there just a show from the BBC like that...

I gave 2 finals today and that's it. It's all over but the grading.

Graduation is gonna SUCK. It's supposed to be 90! OMG that's horrible. It's uncomfortable sitting out in that gown when it's 60 out. How naked can I get?

People seemed to like the pasta at the potluck today. I'm happy with that.

I forgot to mention I have to have another MRI on my arm next week. I'm worried. I'm very worried. the arm feels wrong as in hey there's a bulge here, a divet there and something like rock here....

April's Books and DVDS

But first, I just got the pencil art for my novella THe Darkest Midnight in December cover. SQUEEEEEE! I'm so excited. I can't share yet but I really like it. It's definitely not what I was expecting and it looks more like an action book than erotica but that's okay. I asked for that.

As for the books/dvds. you know the drill, talk to me about them. I love to hear it.

Manga: Fairy Tail 17

Book: Full Bone Moon Mystery

Book: Death Cloud YA

Graphic Novel - Trouble Maker

Book: The Haunting of Maddy Clare historical mystery

Graphic Novel: Troublemaker 2

Manga: Fairy Tail 18

Book: Elegy for Eddie historical mystery

Book: The Alloy of the Law fantasy mystery

Graphic Novel My Boyfriend is a Monster: And I love him to pieces

Particularly good were The Alloy of the Law (looking at ELD, wildrider and silvrethorn for that one) and The Haunting of Maddie Clare (same group, add in SP23)


And yet another bad month for movies. I should just cancel in April and start back in May

Claymore vol 2 Anime

Hugo technically historical/kids but that falls short of capturing it.

Fic - Shall We Play A Game?

Title -- Shall We Play A Game?
Author-- cornerofmadness
Disclaimer -- Arakawa owns them, not me.
series -- Manga/Brotherhood
Rating -- PG-13
Characters/Pairing -- Kimbley/Roy
Timeline/Spoilers -- Set during the Ishbalan War
Word Count -- 1,115
Warning -- It’s Kimbley, but really not much in the way of warnings needed.
Summary -- Kimbley suggests some games to entertain them.
Author’s Note -- written for fma_slashfest for the prompt "Do you like games, Mustang?" "...What kinds of games?" Thanks to evil_little_dog for the beta.

XXX
( The question was innocuous enough )