I am in a blue funk, and probably have been for a week or so.

It's taken me longer than usual to notice, because it's been... milder, maybe? than my usual periodic depressive episodes are. I mean, they always sneak up on me, but my standard description is brain-down-a-well, and in this case it's less down-a-well and more... hmm... softly rocking in ( Read more... )

I like earrings.

I don't think this is particularly a secret? I don't do much performative femininity (I have never worn makeup, I almost never wear dresses and very rarely wear skirts, my clothes tend to be relatively loose and plain, etc.), but pretty and/or cute earrings are the one kind of jewelry I have consistently worn since I was twelve ( Read more... )

A couple years ago, I bought a pair of earrings that are kind of stealth asexual jewelry -- that is, each earring is a chain of three glittery origami stars, with the top one black, the middle silver, and the bottom purple. So, asexual colors, but also just pretty glittery paper stars, you know?

I like them a lot, but paper's kind of fragile, the ( Read more... )

I had my orthopedics appointment this morning, the upshot of which is I have carpal tunnel surgery on my left wrist scheduled for Friday the 26th. We'll do the right wrist in March.

I wanted to separate the surgeries because I live alone and cannot have BOTH hands useless at the same time. I also figure doing my non-dominant hand first lets me get ( Read more... )

I did a little thought experiment on myself while reading Andre Norton's Uncharted Stars, where I mentally rewrote the two secondary characters (Ryzk and Zilwrich) as female. There was no plot requirement for those people to be male, so why not? That one change improved the book immeasurably.

I think I'm going to start applying that technique to ( Read more... )

Mr. Geniality was out sick today, and it's apparently an upper respiratory thing.

Everyone at the rental company is crossing our fingers it isn't Covid.

Upon receiving the news, I promptly felt short of breath all day, and I have no way to tell if that was an actual symptom, or just psychosomatic nerves and the usual way breathing through a mask ( Read more... )

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A Year in Writing: 2020
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( January )

Things done today:

1. Got up ~10 minutes early in order to dump my experimental pork-greens-and-onions slow cooker dish (basically what I did with chicken, chard, and onions last week but on a larger scale and with collard greens because apparently my grocery store doesn't sell chard) into some tupperware and shove it in the fridge.

I had some for ( Read more... )

Monday I was in Collegetown, and was surprisingly NOT overwhelmed by Tasks. So I got started on a downtown Task during my spare time: namely, creating a spreadsheet into which I can enter the key stamp numbers for all downtown apartment keys, so we have a clear record of which key belong to which lock.

This is not hugely important for finding keys ( Read more... )

My period arrived this evening, exactly when I predicted, and I am already so completely ready for it to fuck right back off, please and thank you.

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