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The sound of the wind up here is ridiculous.
It's so very, very bleh outside, and I have to go out in it eventually, but not yet! Not yet. Which means after an unwanted hiatus (I have to get better about managing "freelance" tasks when I have guests), I finally can share my latest Things I'm Verbing. I'm really proud of Direct action, dirty hands and Asian-Americanness; all the stories in ( Read more... ) -
Do I need a baking icon? Am I going to turn into that person?
I kind of wanted the next bread I attempted to be this skillet rosemary garlic loaf that
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So much for to-do lists, there's an entry to post!
I have this easily digestible list of things I want to get done today, but now that I look at it, none of it looks very fun. (It's stuff like breaking down paid freelance work, novels and other projects in 25-minute chunks, or organizing piles of random ephemera I've carried through at least three moves, or figuring out how to use up some ( Read more... ) -
I have too many brown shoes and not enough black shoes, it turns out.
Now that I've resolved to go biking this weekend to some places I want to go, the weather has dropped from 73F earlier this week to 34F right now and a low of 16F tomorrow. This is not the climate change I was promised by all those buds and blossoms! (I mean, maybe it is. It is. But still, it was nice while it lasted ( Read more... ) -
Plan for the day: plan for the week.
I woke up early enough today to watch the sun burning off some thick fog right now. It is a lovely, lovely feeling to wake up early and super rested and just lie in bed, feeling happy! This week has been busy but really quite good.
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It is a nice day out, and I should go outside into its niceness.
At first, I was annoyed for a hot minute that my lunch date canceled last-minute today, but it would have involved an hour on the train each way, and now suddenly my whole day has opened up sufficiently for me to actually clean my kitchen and make real Cincinnati chili for
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I don't know what I'm waiting for yet.
In the simplest sense, I'm actually waiting for UPS to deliver between eight and ten heavy boxes filled with books, kitchenware and memorabilia from Ohio. The tracking information I've got says "end of day," whatever that may mean. My building's buzzer is broken, so I'm very much hoping the delivery guys actually call the number I left on the ( Read more... ) -
We know what happens next.
It's International Holocaust Remembrance Day; I've made up links with that in mind, including why Jews need allies today, how to resist without burning out, where you can get 1984 for free and what Jack Kirby thought of punching Nazis.
I also urge you to look to
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Temptations
Okay, things I want:- This IKEA shelf-thing, which is $20 off, ending today. Just do it, Esther!
- A bunch of stuff from Freddies of Pinewood, not least because I simply have no functioning jeans right now -- the skinny jeans StitchFix sent me lost their elasticity within a washing or two, which means they look sort of like weirdzo military parade ( Read more... )
- This IKEA shelf-thing, which is $20 off, ending today. Just do it, Esther!
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Fun fact: Four years ago was my first day of grad school.
I don't know what time I actually fell asleep last night, but I sure woke up at 10:30 today. Feeling very content and well-rested, mind you! That's a plus, at least. Another plus: In addition to realizing why I don't like slowtime RP (flow-state storytelling, please!), I'm pretty sure I figured out a way to fix a major structure thing that's been ( Read more... )