#pluviose

Funeral of the victims of the Pluviôse submarine's accident in Calais, Pas-de-Calais, France

Funeral of the victims of the Pluviôse submarine's accident in Calais, Pas-de-Calais, France

I am frustrated because I have reached the limit of my ability to get the the basemap to piece together properly — Nebraska and Missouri are falling apart, the South is falling apart. It seems to be perhaps a combination of the scan losing space as the pages meet the binding (I am sure this is happening) and perhaps also slight adjustments in the underlying projection (I am less certain about this, but it would make me feel better because otherwise my stitching has been severely suboptimal.) The task is an obsessive-compulsive terror, and, my godhead evidently being nearsighted, the names of my towns have in many cases noised into nothing.

I am frustrated also by the prospect of tomorrow's labor; and I am wishing it was significantly more possible to get a job in which research (or artificial skills in general) was a valued component; I am tired of the service economy, tired of the institutional pathways which seem to me like a boring closed-world grinding task, tired of rejection letters (many weeks later coming) noting that my background is very impressive (but...), tired of being managed. It is one thing to be constrained by sleeping and feeding, and movement and repose, and quite another to be herded through the social machines inherited to us as a congenital sickness: at a dreamworld teatime, relations crowd the table and lecture me: you are stooped under our ceilings, and slow to handle our figures: you are more stupid than we were, though perhaps with senses more sensitive to variegation — and you stupider for it;.

Which month were you born in based on the French Revolutionary Calendar?

[id: picture of the French Republican Calendar. The title reads "The New Republican Calendar". Under it there are three columns as reproduced below:

Vendemaire Vintage September 22 - October 21

Brumaire Fog October 22 - November 20

Frimaire Frost November 21 - December 20

Nivose Snow December 21 - January 19

Pluvoise Rain January 20 - February 18

Ventose Wind February 19 - March 20

Germinal Budding March 21 - April 19

Florea Flowers April 20 - May 19

Prairial Meadow May 20 - June 18

Messidor Harvest June 19 - July 18

Thermidor Heat July 19 - August 17

Fructidor Fruit August 18 - September 21

adj. Of, relating to, or characterized by rain; rainy.