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I'm scared today. Not of anything particularly scary. I'm just feeling the fear effect of chronic anxiety more than the anxiety effect, if that makes any sense. It makes everything seem more scary.
My ride in this morning makes 2005.1 recorded miles by bicycle for the year. My new rear wheel is holding up quite well.
I spent most of yesterday, when I wasn't out for a late birthday
dinner with Danae and folks, posting books to Amazon. I now have very nearly 500 listings. Amazon keeps prompting me to tell my friends on Facebook about new listings. I could be wrong in thinking that most of you don't care, but if any of you want to know when I post page-turners like "Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy In Invasive Bladder Cancer", let me know and you'll be the first to hear.
I have books stacked spine-up four rows deep on the floor of the workshop room, but at least things are more organized and my workbench is usable. I still have a frequency counter kit to assemble!
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Danae and I were at Todoroki in Evanston last night with a few other people who made it out. Dee, Lisa, and Nathan were there to offer her their birthday wishes and eat tasty fishes. (See, it rhymes!)
The director of the library I work at had a staff party on Saturday. The party menu was mid-century themed, and the director and her husband have some great mid century furniture too. I love their couch so much! As well as introducing Danae to a number of coworkers, I got to talk to the director's husband, an accomplished photographer with very similar interests to mine, a little bit about my own work while he was showing me his darkroom. He asked me to send him a few of my pieces and I will do so once I've picked out some that I think demonstrate my architecture work well. And once I'm not feeling quite so much fear about it. Looking at his books of urban photography in Chicago, I felt a familiar ache to *do* something with my photos, even while I wonder whether that's at all possible.
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I bought a cute little blue plate (or maybe it's a candle holder...) at the Goodwill to bring with me to work. Now I have that, a cup, and a metal spork in my drawer. I hate using disposable materials. For food, I typically walk the 4/5 mile from work to Jewel a couple times a week for sandwich fixings, frozen corn dogs, or whatever I feel like. I'm not looking forward to doing that as the weather gets colder. Maybe I'll start bringing things from home, even though it means more weight on my bike.
My ride in this morning makes 2005.1 recorded miles by bicycle for the year. My new rear wheel is holding up quite well.
I spent most of yesterday, when I wasn't out for a late birthday
dinner with Danae and folks, posting books to Amazon. I now have very nearly 500 listings. Amazon keeps prompting me to tell my friends on Facebook about new listings. I could be wrong in thinking that most of you don't care, but if any of you want to know when I post page-turners like "Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy In Invasive Bladder Cancer", let me know and you'll be the first to hear.
I have books stacked spine-up four rows deep on the floor of the workshop room, but at least things are more organized and my workbench is usable. I still have a frequency counter kit to assemble!
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Danae and I were at Todoroki in Evanston last night with a few other people who made it out. Dee, Lisa, and Nathan were there to offer her their birthday wishes and eat tasty fishes. (See, it rhymes!)
The director of the library I work at had a staff party on Saturday. The party menu was mid-century themed, and the director and her husband have some great mid century furniture too. I love their couch so much! As well as introducing Danae to a number of coworkers, I got to talk to the director's husband, an accomplished photographer with very similar interests to mine, a little bit about my own work while he was showing me his darkroom. He asked me to send him a few of my pieces and I will do so once I've picked out some that I think demonstrate my architecture work well. And once I'm not feeling quite so much fear about it. Looking at his books of urban photography in Chicago, I felt a familiar ache to *do* something with my photos, even while I wonder whether that's at all possible.
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I bought a cute little blue plate (or maybe it's a candle holder...) at the Goodwill to bring with me to work. Now I have that, a cup, and a metal spork in my drawer. I hate using disposable materials. For food, I typically walk the 4/5 mile from work to Jewel a couple times a week for sandwich fixings, frozen corn dogs, or whatever I feel like. I'm not looking forward to doing that as the weather gets colder. Maybe I'll start bringing things from home, even though it means more weight on my bike.