daily(ish) update, Monday-Thursday, April 27-30
Yeah, so I am not great at regular daily updates. Ah well. Anyway, since I last posted there have been things! And stuff! Most of which were fairly everyday and boring, but, y'know, I will mention them because this is my journal and I do what I want. *wry*
Monday: Rental company office 9am-5pm. Continued data entry for old tour information. Also distributed all the move-out packets into the mailboxes of one of our three big apartment buildings. This took MUCH LONGER than it should have, because I was removing all junk mail at the same time. I filled three large trash bags worth of paper, which I carted down the hall to the ground floor recycling bin. OUCH.
Tuesday: Moved my container garden outside for keeps! I also did my annual spring cleaning laundry, which involves stripping not just my sheets but also my comforter, my mattress pad, and my mattress protector and dumping them in front-loader washing machines -- and my winter coat, and my little fleece blanket for good measure. It runs about twenty dollars to tack those on to my normal three loads, but it needs doing and now I have a very clean, fresh bed. :)
Wednesday: Grocery day. I should perhaps mention here that I have been comfort-rereading the Books of the Raksura (or at least the ones my library has in ebook form (and has available; one has been checked out this whole week, argh)). I have also been reading some regency urban fantasy gay romance books (the A Charm of Magpies trilogy) by K. J. Charles, since the first book is currently free on Amazon and dammit, I needed to know what happened next. And I put away some laundry.
Thursday: Back at the rental company office. More data entry, more move-out packets. But the packets are finally all distributed! ...Which, of course, means that tomorrow we start sending out emails saying "Hey, your move-out packet is in your mailbox/in your apartment, please read it and follow the instructions" and also adding something about "if you're not in Ithaca right now, here is how to return your keys and here is what you need to do to make sure we send your damage deposit return check to where you will be at the end of your lease".
I also finished putting away laundry, and listened to episode 165 of the Magnus Archives ("Revolutions") which is mostly a very long poem. That was... well, it was odd. There is a strong pattern to these various "hellscape" statements, which is that because they are all one thing, and that thing turned up to eleven (or more), they don't have the same effect as the previous season statements. This is because there's no contrast left. I hope this turns out to have thematic significance as the season progresses, in the sense that a world that's entirely FEAR isn't actually that great for the Fears themselves -- sort of like an ocean of junk food instead of properly spaced out nutritionally balance meals. Or something like that, I dunno.
Anyway, Jon destroying Not-Sasha cannot possibly bode well (and wasn't even necessary; he just did it for revenge because he was angry). I am also still mulling over some of what he said when trying to post-apocalyptic Google search how to fix the world in episode 164, that there isn't currently anywhere for the Fears to go because the extra-dimensional place they used to inhabit isn't there anymore. Which, you know, if you're looking for places not in the world, the gap in reality in the basement of the house on Hilltop Road is still sitting there unexplained and unexplored. I am starting to wonder if the podcast itself is some kind of ritual to cast the Fears into our world.
...
I am probably getting too meta.
Also, I am going to make dinner now. :) If you want to comment on this post, you can do so over here on Dreamwidth, where there are currently (
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Monday: Rental company office 9am-5pm. Continued data entry for old tour information. Also distributed all the move-out packets into the mailboxes of one of our three big apartment buildings. This took MUCH LONGER than it should have, because I was removing all junk mail at the same time. I filled three large trash bags worth of paper, which I carted down the hall to the ground floor recycling bin. OUCH.
Tuesday: Moved my container garden outside for keeps! I also did my annual spring cleaning laundry, which involves stripping not just my sheets but also my comforter, my mattress pad, and my mattress protector and dumping them in front-loader washing machines -- and my winter coat, and my little fleece blanket for good measure. It runs about twenty dollars to tack those on to my normal three loads, but it needs doing and now I have a very clean, fresh bed. :)
Wednesday: Grocery day. I should perhaps mention here that I have been comfort-rereading the Books of the Raksura (or at least the ones my library has in ebook form (and has available; one has been checked out this whole week, argh)). I have also been reading some regency urban fantasy gay romance books (the A Charm of Magpies trilogy) by K. J. Charles, since the first book is currently free on Amazon and dammit, I needed to know what happened next. And I put away some laundry.
Thursday: Back at the rental company office. More data entry, more move-out packets. But the packets are finally all distributed! ...Which, of course, means that tomorrow we start sending out emails saying "Hey, your move-out packet is in your mailbox/in your apartment, please read it and follow the instructions" and also adding something about "if you're not in Ithaca right now, here is how to return your keys and here is what you need to do to make sure we send your damage deposit return check to where you will be at the end of your lease".
I also finished putting away laundry, and listened to episode 165 of the Magnus Archives ("Revolutions") which is mostly a very long poem. That was... well, it was odd. There is a strong pattern to these various "hellscape" statements, which is that because they are all one thing, and that thing turned up to eleven (or more), they don't have the same effect as the previous season statements. This is because there's no contrast left. I hope this turns out to have thematic significance as the season progresses, in the sense that a world that's entirely FEAR isn't actually that great for the Fears themselves -- sort of like an ocean of junk food instead of properly spaced out nutritionally balance meals. Or something like that, I dunno.
Anyway, Jon destroying Not-Sasha cannot possibly bode well (and wasn't even necessary; he just did it for revenge because he was angry). I am also still mulling over some of what he said when trying to post-apocalyptic Google search how to fix the world in episode 164, that there isn't currently anywhere for the Fears to go because the extra-dimensional place they used to inhabit isn't there anymore. Which, you know, if you're looking for places not in the world, the gap in reality in the basement of the house on Hilltop Road is still sitting there unexplained and unexplored. I am starting to wonder if the podcast itself is some kind of ritual to cast the Fears into our world.
...
I am probably getting too meta.
Also, I am going to make dinner now. :) If you want to comment on this post, you can do so over here on Dreamwidth, where there are currently (
comments)