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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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Fun fact: I only saw Inception once and I still hate it. But Edith Piaf stays independently good.
I'm on Day 2 of aggressive loafing, after about ten 14-hour days in a row, and it's great. My apartment finally feels like it's coming together (after more than two years!), I'm getting junk off the floor, I'm feeling energized and ready to get some work done. This feels super good! This especially feels good after an evening out with
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One other plus: got my favorite cookie from Panera at lunch.
I successfully survived jury duty selection day! I also narrowly avoided being seated on a jury that could have listened to a case for an extremely brief amount of time, given one verdict, or a much, much longer time, given the other. I told the lawyers that I was too financially insecure to lose up to a month of income, so... many apologies, civic ( Read more... ) -
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... ) -
Something something Lila Downs
Like, I'll be honest, I have completely absolved myself of doing real work for the past two days and it's been a huge relief. Every day I'm not working retail (and even those days too), I berate myself for not finishing relatively straightforward freelance projects that I picked up at the end of November. It's been a combination of overwhelm, bad ( Read more... ) -
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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I'm having another shoe crisis.
And I definitely can't afford them, any of them, right now, but they're gorgeous, so I want to share them.
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It's been a while since a straight-up grabbyhands post, hasn't it.
When I checked my bank account this morning, I had a little more than $105 in checking. HAPPY AUGUST!! I cannot wait to start getting paid, especially for the damn work I've already done, but also not least because there's a bunch of stuff I just want.- For instance, Doc Martens likes to torment me, like with these black-and-white brogue Mary Janes. ( Read more... )
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You have to take advantage when you find a store that actually carries your damn size in sale things
I'm almost to the end of Leverage and the second season of Jane the Virgin, and it's getting so stressful that it's hard to continue! I'm planning to start S1 of Leverage, since it's been years, but I may have been spoiled for something major in Jane the Virgin, and I'm in agony and have been all season!! I gotta find something to watch next. (Don' ( Read more... ) -
This is me procrastinating on paid work, of course. What deadline today?
For the interested, I've got a good, prank-free linkspam at my RealName.com today (I promise you that is not a lie, which I understand is suspicious, but it's true). I'm also drowning in links and tabs, and need to offload a bunch, some of them a little old. So... let's get to it.
The Atlantic has a series called Choosing My Religion that they ( Read more... )