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Today was manifestly not my best day ever. I made enough progress on my paper to realize that it's not going well, and that it's going to need a lot of revising tomorrow and... forever, or at least that's how it feels. I've yet to decide how to proceed tomorrow - whether I should start reframing and revising, or if I should try to go onward and leave the revision until later.
I also didn't manage to get my writing done by noon today, in part because I didn't get up until late. Now that it's warm, the neighbours have been very obnoxious with their outdoor, late-night partying, which seems to include more loud talking and singing on their front porch than it has in the past. Between that and the heat for the past week, I haven't been getting much sleep. I'm sure that hasn't helped with the crank.
In any case, we've been in touch with the community police liaison, hopefully with eventual positive results.
The final touch on the blech of the day was that Z and I have been trying to organize plans to get together tomorrow. This resulted in a round of phone tag this evening, followed by the longest and most frustrating phone call EVER. Z, despite the fact that as it turns out that she's got people in and out all day coming to see her roommate's room, wanted to DO something, whereas I would really just rather hang out and maybe wander around and get ice cream or something. So I turned down the possibility of paintball (ugh), kayaking on the Charles (why would you even want to?), and various other things like scavenger hunts at Faneuil Hall, and felt like the biggest loser of all time. BAH. But I don't see why there always have to be activities. It makes hanging out STRESSFUL.
Anyway, now I'm having tea and watching wedding shows on TLC with roommate J in the living room with our computers. It is somewhat soothing my rumpled spirit, but since I think the underlying cause of the crank is paper, even though I am taking the evening off. GRUMP GRUMP GRUMP.
I also didn't manage to get my writing done by noon today, in part because I didn't get up until late. Now that it's warm, the neighbours have been very obnoxious with their outdoor, late-night partying, which seems to include more loud talking and singing on their front porch than it has in the past. Between that and the heat for the past week, I haven't been getting much sleep. I'm sure that hasn't helped with the crank.
In any case, we've been in touch with the community police liaison, hopefully with eventual positive results.
The final touch on the blech of the day was that Z and I have been trying to organize plans to get together tomorrow. This resulted in a round of phone tag this evening, followed by the longest and most frustrating phone call EVER. Z, despite the fact that as it turns out that she's got people in and out all day coming to see her roommate's room, wanted to DO something, whereas I would really just rather hang out and maybe wander around and get ice cream or something. So I turned down the possibility of paintball (ugh), kayaking on the Charles (why would you even want to?), and various other things like scavenger hunts at Faneuil Hall, and felt like the biggest loser of all time. BAH. But I don't see why there always have to be activities. It makes hanging out STRESSFUL.
Anyway, now I'm having tea and watching wedding shows on TLC with roommate J in the living room with our computers. It is somewhat soothing my rumpled spirit, but since I think the underlying cause of the crank is paper, even though I am taking the evening off. GRUMP GRUMP GRUMP.