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Stupid bloody exception nouns. On the plus side, this is giving me practice at declining nouns, which is good.

The store where I got my Silk Spectre costume the first time seems to have gone bye-bye. Fortunately I checked in the costume and it's actually the same kind sold on Amazon, so that works. It's probably also the same kind sold half a dozen other places, so I can poke around and shop and get a backup if I really have to. Not quite what I wanted to do, but it'll work. It's actually a damn good costume base, I just need to fix the other things.

Actually got to bed on time last night, go me. Slowly dragging myself back into the finer details of routines. Languages are easier to do because they're relaxing and silly, exercise first thing in the morning is harder. I'm not awake, I just want to roll over and go back to sleep even if I've had, for me, a full night's sleep. And especially now that it's not so much a matter of making sure the door's unlocked and grabbing the iSis and staggering outside. Walking around a little before coming back and showering. Now it's weights, stretches, yoga, exercises first and then walking, and apparently that's harder. Still. Discipline! Is good for me. Routines changed at Lammas, they'll change again to winter routines at Samhain. Not sure what, specifically, winter routines will be, but I've got time to figure it out.

At some point today I need to poke the Beej to give me a refresher on the drop spindle. I think I've got the hang of wheel spinning to the point where it's pretty much just practice, so that can wait till I've got the rest of my wool carded from, oh, way back then. Or until someone hands me some other stuff and says "here, spin this." Which, given the store, is entirely possible. Beej/Aunt/Witch Queen; "Here, spin some bamboo." Me: "Augh slippery fine stuff omg I can't spin this into anything resembling yarn! *spins* oh, hey, I made yarn." But right now, drop spindle. So I can wander around Dragon Con with it and be Aeriel.

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( 日本語 )

Oogh. I think I need to double check one of those, and possibly I need some more verbs. Maybe not, my vocab is probably just there enough that I just need to focus on the grammar rules and deal with the limited sentences I have. Either way, I need to work on my kanji.

The Prop 8 decision bullshit is going to drive me bloody nuts. I keep jumping every time NPR mentions something about it. Either which way he rules, too, it's going to be a vicious fight, it's just that one way we have a fighting chance and the other way, well, I get to be very depressed and very pissed off for the next several hours. Then I fix it in fiction. I just don't know what I'm going to do about keeping some kind of steadiness in my state of mind till we hear one way or another. I really want to throttle people over it, though. And tell them to get some goddamn sense.

Ah well. Makeup is coming next week. Leotards haven't come yet but hopefully will come later this week. Bento today and Friday are the last of the spaghetti sauce with whatever tubeish noodles I had to hand, and a crapton of fruits and vegetables, so healthy eating is still apparently on the menu. Lots of raw food eating, too, although I need to go back to my list and add in a little variety. Might be time for more experiments. I need to order the backup Silk Spectre costume, some things for the aunt, and probably call the PT place in about an hour. And the doctor. And go to the bank. And and and. This might mean it's time for an organizational post of things to do wherein I just cross things off the list.

Oof. Am also developing a headache, though thankfully more of the ordinary kind, I think. Still, self-evaluation says energy levels flagging. Definitely early bed tonight, even if it just means curling up in bed and reading a book rather than early sleep. I've been reminded by my fellow baby courtesans that I've been going at a pretty hard pace for at least two weeks and therefore am likely to crash, might as well mitigate that crash by resting as much as I can and still get stuff done. Wig shopping this weekend, too. And if I'm lucky, assembling Cheetara.

The back saga may or may not be continuing. There's some achiness today, more so than there has been although it feels more like sore muscles from use rather than sore muscles from having torn or injured something. Maybe shouldn't have started with those specific exercises just yet, but now I know that. And I took two Aleve the moment I got out of bed with that kind of ache, so hopefully that'll get me through the day without falling over again. It has so far.

Oi. Yeah, definitely getting tired, which means it's time to make an organizational list so I don't miss anything and start knocking down those tasks one by one. I've been recently reminded that one of the slightly stranger but more useful things my childhood/formative experience has given me is a tendency to self-evaluate more and be self-aware of a lot of aspects I think most people usually aren't. Both in terms of mental/emotional and physical health. Witch training, and co-counseling as a kid (I have seriously no way to explain what this is, especially since I've never been around it as an adult, but the way Mom describes it I'd say it's partly the source) and various other things. The only problem is, when I run into problems I don't have clear perspective on, not enough experience that I can self evaluate, whatever, I wind up feeling like a failure because I can't figure this out myself.

... which actually isn't the case right now, I'm just rambling some thinky thoughts. Anyway. Making the list, setting 'em up, knocking 'em down. Let's get going.

Organization

1. Call doctor's office. Schedule physical. Check scoliosis. Ask re: PT Oct 1st 1pm
2. Call Mountain Physical Therapy, schedule appt. Mon the 9th at 1pm, follow up Wed 11th at 3pm
3. Deposit check.
4. Move the rest of the minis to spare room
5. Write
6. Record yesterday's vocab for Anna when home
7. Review writing schedule
8. Tag CS
9. Drop spindle practice
10. Fill out all four new patient worksheets plus injury/pain scale sheet? It's on the website.

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( Deutsch )

Mmm, wall o deutsch.

Proposition 8 was overturned, doo dah, doo dah! Of course, now there's going to be a couple years' worth of appeals, further motions, etc, and God knows what's going to happen in the end. But it's a step. It's a damn big step, from what I'm given to understand. The points on which he overturned it as I understand how this goes makes it easier to overturn his decision, but if his decision stands the phrasing he used sets a precedent to overturn a shitton of other legislation banning gay marriage. Which would also be awesome.

Really, the more I hear about this case and the case that the defendants mounted, the more I wonder just what the bloody hell they were thinking. Two witnesses? One of whom doesn't even really count as the "expert" witness they called him? Who essentially backtalked the judge, albeit with a thin veil of politeness? Who offered no studies that I can tell, no science or even pseudo-science, just "gay is wrong and you should know this" type testimony? Yeah. How in sweet and sour sesame topped hell could they even imagine that would stand? Did they not even try to mount a token defense? Really?

I'm not sure how sanguine I am about the odds that this ruling will stand. I wasn't actually all that sure it would be overturned. But damn. This really is kind of awesome.

I got a physical therapy appointment and made an appointment for my yearly physical with the doctor I saw the other day. Actually I have two PT appointments, one for next Monday and one for a follow-up on Wednesday, which she said she would pencil in for me just in case. I have a bunch of new patient paperwork to fill out now, and another "pain" sheet, I think she said, because it's a result of an injury. That'll probably happen tomorrow night in between watching Burn Notice and Royal Pains. It's the same PT place my aunt goes to, and she says they're quite good, so this ought to be productive of some considerable good and hopefully I won't do anything horrible to myself in my morning exercises.