Hokay, sinus pressure: mostly down. Barking cough with a side order of lung-butter: only sometimes. Like when the boycreature finally gets to bed and wants to fall asleep quickly (sorries :c) Verdict is: my body is finally making the long, slow army-crawl back to health, so I get to stop acting like I'm sick now because being in / on the bed all ( Read more... )

Still a good 66% behind where my total word-count should be for National Novel Writing Month ( Read more... )

Today is no longer mandatory-relaxation-day, but mandatory-catch-the-fuck-up day (-_-); I borked my goals, so no more desserts for me until this dissertation is turned in ( Read more... )

Two of the builders finally finished the front room of the house today. That's one down . . . the rest of the three stories to go (@3@);; Right now my old room in the witch's tower is still off-limits 'cause they need to finish re-tiling the moldy roof & insulating the attic spaces. And they wanna move everything from the den, where I'm sitting ( Read more... )

Got quite the week a-brewin'. Must dive headlong and in-earnest into my self-styled dissertation schedule starting yesterday, or I'm not gonna be a happy panda come August. Still working on beating back my crippling mentor-awe of Wonder Woman to actually let her effectively mentor me. Helps that it's conference-season, so if I don't respond to our ( Read more... )

So after yesterday's hissy-fit, my wonderful, superfantastic, ever supportive & generous cuddle-giving boycreature said I could camp at his crashpad for the weekend while he's away. Solace & solitude in a study-friendly safe space. Awesome sauce ( Read more... )

My tendency to slip into several flavors of commonwealth English during a single phone conversation continues to baffle Londoners as to my country of birth.

Mom e-mailed me an ode to our native land :3 (for all those who have never been there: it's all true.)

I want to work for the dancing-lizard-arm-people. I'm applying the HELL outta this ( Read more... )

First week of classes, done. First lesson-planning session for 1st-year classes . . . awkward beginning, but concluded civilly and even optimistically. I always kind of want to shake Tomo-sensei (this is a pseudonym) when we first start to plan a lesson, because she is so very hesitant to suggest anything and yet she seems to have very specific ( Read more... )