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Mostly non sequiturs. She/her. Sports (WNBA, MLB) and stationery/fountain pen fan. AsAm, but the east coast kind. Vegas local. Some posts also shared on https://mas.to/@carolou Personal website https://notes.partlark.com

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carol o @carolou.bsky.social · 1d

TIL it's possible for your iphone to receive voicemails even when your carrier voicemail (which kicks in when your phone is in airplane mode) is full. judging by the diff number of VMs, i think my carrier VM box has been full for more than a year lol

carol o @carolou.bsky.social · 5d

like i'm pretty sure i've never been close enough to actually notice the brushstrokes or texture(?) before, which is pretty neat

close up portion of Rough weather at Étretat (Gros Temps à Étretat) by Claude Monet

carol o @carolou.bsky.social · 5d

still thinking about some of the oil paintings i saw at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. am uneducated in art certainly, but i don't think i've ever really appreciated oil painting as a medium before? did go on a random uncrowded weekday, so was able to linger and just admire more

Spraygun virus by Tony McGillick, Australian, oil on canvas, 1969 - hung on a neutral light-colored wall with museum placard to the left

Ticket window by Richard Estes, American, oil on canvas, 1969

The shrimp seller by Maria Margaretha La Fargue - in a gold frame on a dark burgundy wall with a placard to the left

Trompe l'œil with a letter rack holding newspapers, letters, writing equipment and a comb by Edwaert Collier, Dutch, oil on canvas, 1706 - hung on wall with a couple of placards to the left

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carol o @carolou.bsky.social · 8d

lol I guess a trip's gone on long enough if you start feeling weirdly fond of gate agents with American accents 😂

carol o @carolou.bsky.social · 10d

saw this outside of the National Gallery of Victoria yesterday. thought it was some sort of interesting traffic calming strategy, but it's actually one of the museum's installations!

www.ngv.vic.gov.au/julian-opie-...

carol o @carolou.bsky.social · 13d

and I might need to start following other forms of basketball, if only so I have an excuse to post this brick exhibit before next WNBA season begins 😂

display case featuring a number of historical clay building bricks

carol o @carolou.bsky.social · 13d

p.s. was in the rocks/minerals exhibit when game 7 began, and I think this piece of fluorite was trying to call the winner...

a piece of fluorite on display arguably featuring a Blue Jays blue

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carol o @carolou.bsky.social · 13d

Melbourne Museum goes pretty hard.. probably the best history/natural history museum I've been to on this trip! it does cost money, but only about 12 USD for general entry, which is a bargain for how much there is to see

glimpse of part of a living indoor forest gallery exhibit, which includes trees, plants, water, birds and a few other animals

artist's work near the First Peoples gallery.. something entrancing about the dark orange, brown, blue, white, black colors here

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carol o @carolou.bsky.social · 13d

now in Melbourne, at a hotel that I'm pretty sure totally forgot to tell me my room was ready, but also upgraded me to a suite so shrug emoji?

the bedroom portion of the 1 bedroom hotel suite

the living room/desk area of the 1 bedroom hotel suite

carol o @carolou.bsky.social · 17d

in my chicken schnitzel pub food era

(it's apparently a common pub food in Australia!)

golden brown chicken schnitzel on top of some fries with a little bit of salad to one side. beer and water glasses slightly visible to the left.

carol o @carolou.bsky.social · 18d

psst, check out the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery if you’re ever in Hobart. not sure I’ve ever felt so engaged by a museum’s blend of natural history and art!

display of stuffed penguins at the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery. if you anthropomorphize them, one sort of looks like it’s whispering in the ear of another

carol o @carolou.bsky.social · 20d

minor upset stomach yesterday. also the first day this entire trip that I haven’t had a flat white. coincidence????

flat white in a pretty mug with a milk heart on top

carol o @carolou.bsky.social · 21d

if i were on an Antarctic expedition, i’d 100% want to be responsible for the penguin scrapbook

(probably not the actual name. exhibit at the Australian National Maritime Museum)

in a display case, an open album/scrapbook from the early 1900s with sepia-toned photos of penguins, ships, and other things

carol o @carolou.bsky.social · 22d

waiting for the ferry at the Cockatoo Island wharf. Sydney ferries have been a pretty scenic way to get around, tho definitely more crowded today than earlier in the week ⛴️⛴️

carol o @carolou.bsky.social · 22d

tortoises at the Taronga Zoo reminding you to eat your vegetables

carol o @carolou.bsky.social · 23d

getting ready! #WNBA

takeaway flat white parked in front of a laptop showing the Finals pre-game

carol o @carolou.bsky.social · 23d

✅ had some vegemite on toast

carol o @carolou.bsky.social · 24d

at some point I should look up what chicken salt actually is, but I can tell you it’s really good on fish and chips 😋

carol o @carolou.bsky.social · 25d

been using Apple Pay more on this trip, which means looking at my Apple Pay transaction history for the first time in a long time.. and lol, why does RTC (public transit) in Vegas display as "Price 4 Limo Party Bus Las Vegas". shows as RTC Las Vegas on my actual cc statement, so funny quirk i guess!

screenshot of Apple Pay transaction history showing a couple of entries for something called "Price 4 Limo Party Bus" for $2 and $4

carol o @carolou.bsky.social · 26d

is it really a vacation if I don’t take a vid of water moving?

also just sucked down a flat white with oat milk, so this trip to Australia is off to a great start!

carol o @carolou.bsky.social · Oct 1

remain amazed and delighted that the Aces are in the Finals! will be out of the country for most of the games unfortunately (on a trip I booked in July when the Aces were .500 ahem) but that just means morning basketball in my future! ☀️🏀

carol o @carolou.bsky.social · Sep 25

have been a little checked out of baseball this year but figured i'd at least score one game before the season ended. picked Skenes' last start of the year and thought maybe i'd quit when Skenes left the game, but i wound up watching all 11 innings! (pls ignore where i lost a little steam) ✏️⚾️

open Eephus League Halfliner scorebook with a Zebra M-301 mechanical pencil and Pentel polymer eraser sitting on top. the game scored was Pirates @ Reds 4-3 in 11 innings

carol o @carolou.bsky.social · Sep 24

working on a half-baked theory that A'ja's consistently better the 2nd game after winning MVP than the 1st

granted it's a small sample size and could use more data.. A'ja just has to win more MVPs I guess! 😜

(most stats from basketball ref, mvp announce dates taken from press releases)

#WNBA

screenshot of a text file with dates of the 2020, 2022, 2024, 2025 MVP announcements and A'ja Wilson's stats (points, fg % and rebounds) for the first two games after.

full text of file:

2020 MVP announced 2020-09-17
2020-09-20: 19 PTS (.533 FG%) 9 REB in L
2020-09-22: 29 PTS (.684 FG%) 7 REB in W

2022 MVP announced 2022-09-07
2022-09-11: 24 PTS (.545 FG%) 11 REB in W
2022-09-13: 26 PTS (.769 FG%) 10 REB in W

2024 MVP announced 2024-09-22
2024-09-22: 21 PTS (.429 FG%) 8 REB in W
2024-09-24: 24 PTS (.529 FG%) 13 REB in W

2025 MVP announced 2025-09-21
2025-09-21: 16 PTS (.273 FG%) 13 REB in L
2025-09-23: 25 PTS (.556 FG%) 9 REB in W

carol o @carolou.bsky.social · Sep 22

fastmail trial has been promising so far... initially the trial account was weirdly limited in ways not described in the doc (couldn't send any test emails at all or create even one alias/masked address), but a support ticket (resolved on a weekend!) took care of that.

carol o @carolou.bsky.social · Sep 21

lol Bam with the trophy 😂 also Jackie fixing A'ja's hair 😭

full vid also has Mark Davis w/pink wig. do enjoy every time it seems like he loves the Aces more than the Raiders

Las Vegas Aces @lvaces.bsky.social · Sep 21

As if we thought we couldn’t top last year’s surprise 🤭

WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert, Roscoe, Eva, and her favorite Olympian from out of town dropping in to deliver the news!

Full video: lvaces.wnba.com/SurpriseAja

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