If I had known that taking a part-time job would neither add any money nor any time to my UI benefits I would not have bothered with it. I had many many other things I could have more (much more, it turns out) profitably spent my time on. A waste of three months. I'll know better next time? Even as I hope there will never have to be a next time ( Read more... )

( Just because I needed to type it, doesn't mean you need to read it. )

Or maybe not...I find myself struggling, mentally/emotionally, this week. It's been a little over a month now of me working full time, with the two-hour-round-trip bike ride, plus doing all the errand-y stuff...and I'm exhausted. To the point that I found myself unable to work up the energy to do much of anything this weekend ( Read more... )

and the first day of my period. Everything I do is way harder than it has to be, wrong, or both.

Oh, extended hours of crafting, how I have missed you ( Read more... )

I'll be working at Stanford again. Just part time, for now...they're moving carts of books around as they remodel the library and get ready to knock down a building, and I got quite good at moving carts of books around when I worked there all those years before ( Read more... )

I did a volunteer thing at the San Jose Library this evening, and on the way I biked past the Fairmont Hotel. It is, in fact, quite close to the library, which I had never paid attention to before now ( Read more... )

( whinge )

to be here in Venice. I keep remembering my trip.down to see my brother's film Redland, and spent the last truly good weekend with J.

I keep expecting to see him when I'm out. Logically this is highly improbable because a) Venice *is* a city and randomly running into someone is therefore statistically small, and b) unlikely he's even *in* this ( Read more... )

Still not entirely happy about it, but I'm trying to use this "dead time" to develop some habits I've been wanting to cultivate for awhile. Like writing down my dreams first thing. Walking. The good thing about this area, there's some good walking spots. And the middle brother (who is also here) is a fitness nut. So I have a reminder to walk, and I ( Read more... )