I kind of wanted the next bread I attempted to be this skillet rosemary garlic loaf that
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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... )

( Diary comic, 3/17/16 )

After keeping it in my tabs since it went live, I finally read Questions are the new comments, a Medium piece by the creator of WBEZ's Curious City (which I guessed not too far into the piece - legit one of the coolest things Chicago Public Media does!). It got me all excited about writing and reporting again, a thing I dearly want to do but am ( Read more... )

I want it to be the weekend, but largely because I just want to be able to clean up. Is that weird? I keep wanting to finally be able to put up the rest of my art, or finally be able to cook a meal, or finally be able to put away the last of my misc. knicknacks (a box label that, for some reason, always sent
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Guys

Guys

I have things

on my wall

On my wall I have things

And then

there will be more things

You have no idea how big this is for me. \o/

This was originally posted on Dreamwidth, where it has
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There's that itch: the "I hate everything I own, must get rid of it and actually buy things I like" one. I'm sick of my furniture (or lack thereof); I'm sick of my clothes; I'm sick of not having anything on my walls. And I'm sick of only having weekends to even have a chance of thinking about it, because during the week all I want to do is plop ( Read more... )

I found out today that in order to paint the walls in my apartment, I would have to get the colors approved by the landlord (which I knew going in) and that I would have to pay a $400 painting deposit (which was not made clear to me when I signed the lease). Of course, once I was ready to move out, I would have to paint over it with "the neutral ( Read more... )

( Blue and turquoise )