daily update, Thursday Feb. 20
Things done today:
1. 9am-7pm at the rental office. Very boring day, given that many Cornell students are already leaving for February break. Both Mom Boss and Aunt Boss are currently on vacation, so Miss California has picked up some extra hours by being a second person in the office today and tomorrow. (I would have returned the favor on Wednesday, but I was at Not the IRS all morning and afternoon.)
2. I forgot to mention this yesterday, but I finished listening to The World of Byzantium on Wednesday morning, and started on a new Great Courses lecture series: How to Listen to and Understand Great Music (3rd edition). I listened to episode 2 today. The lecturer is not to be trusted when it comes to historical interpretation of non-musical trends (though he's fine on names and dates, thank goodness), but fortunately he mostly sticks to music and personal history anecdata, so I can grit my teeth and say "Oh for fuck's sake" a lot when he attempts to explain the fall of the (western) Roman Empire. (This is the same guy who did the Bach lecture series I listened to and enjoyed last year, FYI. He had the same "please stop trying to do social, political, or economic history and just stick to music, which you are admittedly very good at" issue there, too.)
3. Listened to The Magnus Archives episode 154: Bloody Mary. As I've mentioned before, I am slowing way down in the homestretch of season 4 because I don't want to run out of content and be stuck in a long hiatus. :/
4. Read chapter 5 of A Fistful of Shells, which felt a bit less in-depth than the previous chapters despite being ten pages longer, perhaps because it's trying to cover a much larger geographic area.
5. Wrote two 3-sentence ficathon fills.
6. Started folding and putting away linens from Sunday's laundry haul.
Now I am going to finish dinner, after which I think I will attempt a bit more writing since I have not yet reached my wordcount goal for the day... and, of course, fold some more linens since they're currently strewn all over my bed as part of my attempt to force myself to fold them because otherwise I can't go to sleep. (This trick does not always work. Sometimes I just chuck the unfolded items back in the laundry bag for another day. But it's always worth a shot!)
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Oh! Tangentially and unrelated to anything, I just wanted to say that while I was walking into town to catch my bus this morning, I passed a woman walking a dog. I complimented the dog (I think a mutt with a hefty dose of standard poodle? very large and curly and with intelligent eyes), and she complimented my scarf. And I felt very nice about that all the way to work. :)
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1. 9am-7pm at the rental office. Very boring day, given that many Cornell students are already leaving for February break. Both Mom Boss and Aunt Boss are currently on vacation, so Miss California has picked up some extra hours by being a second person in the office today and tomorrow. (I would have returned the favor on Wednesday, but I was at Not the IRS all morning and afternoon.)
2. I forgot to mention this yesterday, but I finished listening to The World of Byzantium on Wednesday morning, and started on a new Great Courses lecture series: How to Listen to and Understand Great Music (3rd edition). I listened to episode 2 today. The lecturer is not to be trusted when it comes to historical interpretation of non-musical trends (though he's fine on names and dates, thank goodness), but fortunately he mostly sticks to music and personal history anecdata, so I can grit my teeth and say "Oh for fuck's sake" a lot when he attempts to explain the fall of the (western) Roman Empire. (This is the same guy who did the Bach lecture series I listened to and enjoyed last year, FYI. He had the same "please stop trying to do social, political, or economic history and just stick to music, which you are admittedly very good at" issue there, too.)
3. Listened to The Magnus Archives episode 154: Bloody Mary. As I've mentioned before, I am slowing way down in the homestretch of season 4 because I don't want to run out of content and be stuck in a long hiatus. :/
4. Read chapter 5 of A Fistful of Shells, which felt a bit less in-depth than the previous chapters despite being ten pages longer, perhaps because it's trying to cover a much larger geographic area.
5. Wrote two 3-sentence ficathon fills.
6. Started folding and putting away linens from Sunday's laundry haul.
Now I am going to finish dinner, after which I think I will attempt a bit more writing since I have not yet reached my wordcount goal for the day... and, of course, fold some more linens since they're currently strewn all over my bed as part of my attempt to force myself to fold them because otherwise I can't go to sleep. (This trick does not always work. Sometimes I just chuck the unfolded items back in the laundry bag for another day. But it's always worth a shot!)
...
Oh! Tangentially and unrelated to anything, I just wanted to say that while I was walking into town to catch my bus this morning, I passed a woman walking a dog. I complimented the dog (I think a mutt with a hefty dose of standard poodle? very large and curly and with intelligent eyes), and she complimented my scarf. And I felt very nice about that all the way to work. :)
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