wherein Liz acquires new plants; also, a brief life update and Yuletide progress report
I came back from Thanksgiving not only with a bunch of leftovers (I will return the tupperware and extra cooler at Christmas), but also with a new spider plant -- apparently my mom was serious about getting rid of all of hers. Oh well, more for me! :-)
The next picture is a plant I bought for myself last Friday, as a reward after surviving a week from hell at work. I’m not sure what it is, but it’s cute and it was shelved among the succulents, so I have high hopes of not killing it accidentally within two months. *crosses fingers*
I haven’t named either of them yet. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Oh, btw, I am safely back in Ithaca! I left Madison around 11:15am and arrived home around 3:30pm, at which point I did my weekly grocery run while I still had the rental car. I returned the car around 5pm and walked home rather than wait for a courtesy ride, despite the frigid weather, because I have gotten used to walking a mile or more every day and I find I get weirdly twitchy if I don't get out and move around at least a little. Then I took a nap. :-)
I have spent the evening organizing the fruits of my Yuletide research so I know more precisely what I know, and also have a clear list of things I still want to research in more details (plus potential sources for those details). My next day off is Wednesday, and this time I really will hit up the Cornell libraries to see if they have some more obscure and/or scholarly resource type books, not to mention some articles from academic periodicals, because there is no way in hell I'm going to find those in the public library system. And hey, you never know what a trained reference librarian may be able to dig up. :-D
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The next picture is a plant I bought for myself last Friday, as a reward after surviving a week from hell at work. I’m not sure what it is, but it’s cute and it was shelved among the succulents, so I have high hopes of not killing it accidentally within two months. *crosses fingers*
I haven’t named either of them yet. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Oh, btw, I am safely back in Ithaca! I left Madison around 11:15am and arrived home around 3:30pm, at which point I did my weekly grocery run while I still had the rental car. I returned the car around 5pm and walked home rather than wait for a courtesy ride, despite the frigid weather, because I have gotten used to walking a mile or more every day and I find I get weirdly twitchy if I don't get out and move around at least a little. Then I took a nap. :-)
I have spent the evening organizing the fruits of my Yuletide research so I know more precisely what I know, and also have a clear list of things I still want to research in more details (plus potential sources for those details). My next day off is Wednesday, and this time I really will hit up the Cornell libraries to see if they have some more obscure and/or scholarly resource type books, not to mention some articles from academic periodicals, because there is no way in hell I'm going to find those in the public library system. And hey, you never know what a trained reference librarian may be able to dig up. :-D
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