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Dec. 23rd, 2014 02:09 pmHey, I was a good courtesan today, I did my exercises, did my Japanese, am working on my Russian, checked in with my girls and laid out my very hazy progress over the past year (look, it was a massively fucked up year) and my plans for the next year, which were somewhat more clear. Good courtesan. That means I get a cookie now, right?
And my box arrived with my Christmas money which means a little more peace of mind as we get into the lean season, aka the season of what the fuck state government why can't you organize yourselves so your employees don't have a 7-8 week stretch without a fucking paycheck. (Yes we have liquid savings. Yes, it still makes me edgy.) And my ornaments. This wouldn't be such a big deal if Mom were just trying to toss trinkets at me except these are family ornaments. I was going to be very very pissed if the post office had lost them, but they didn't, and now my goddamn tree can get decorated properly, as befits a [lastnameredacted].
Yes, I am clannish in some ways, no I am not telling you my real wallet last name.
Anyway. And that leaves me a bit more to toss around for Christmas since the boy's Mom also threw money my way, and now, well, I've got 2/3 of it earmarked but I have no fucking clue for the rest. NOCLUE. Pens, sure, but calligraphy pens for Hindi and Arabic? Which are evidently going to be my next two languages, starting with Arabic. Regular notebooks? Moleskine notebooks? Do I really want to spend the extra money on moleskines just for language practice? On the other hand I'm not likely to use them up quickly. It'd have to be composition books otherwise. The wire bound ones give me fits. And pens. I have a number of good, fine point pens to use for Latin, Dothraki, Japanese which is very good because I can see all the fine lines of the kanji I'm writing. But do I use that for Arabic and Hindi? Or do I try to go ahead and do the calligraphy thing? or WHAT. ARGH. Choices. I hate choices when they're all equally benign and there's no real reason to choose one or the other. This might all be rendered moot if Mom decided to get me trinkets in the form of moleskines off my wish list for Christmas, but argh. Poking around on Amazon it looks like notebooks of whatever type and my usual pens are probably best, and then I can fuck around with calligraphy later. Still argh.
This is the point when I realize I've spent most of the day either dealing with dayjobligations or fucking around with languages and I still have a metric shitton of writing work to do and I'd better get on that, oops. Will update this post or make a whole new check-in later.
Hey, on the plus side, tomorrow's a very very light day at work, i.e. no actual shipping is going out, so I should be able to just come in, pick up, and write/fuck around with languages. That's good, yes? Yes.
And my box arrived with my Christmas money which means a little more peace of mind as we get into the lean season, aka the season of what the fuck state government why can't you organize yourselves so your employees don't have a 7-8 week stretch without a fucking paycheck. (Yes we have liquid savings. Yes, it still makes me edgy.) And my ornaments. This wouldn't be such a big deal if Mom were just trying to toss trinkets at me except these are family ornaments. I was going to be very very pissed if the post office had lost them, but they didn't, and now my goddamn tree can get decorated properly, as befits a [lastnameredacted].
Yes, I am clannish in some ways, no I am not telling you my real wallet last name.
Anyway. And that leaves me a bit more to toss around for Christmas since the boy's Mom also threw money my way, and now, well, I've got 2/3 of it earmarked but I have no fucking clue for the rest. NOCLUE. Pens, sure, but calligraphy pens for Hindi and Arabic? Which are evidently going to be my next two languages, starting with Arabic. Regular notebooks? Moleskine notebooks? Do I really want to spend the extra money on moleskines just for language practice? On the other hand I'm not likely to use them up quickly. It'd have to be composition books otherwise. The wire bound ones give me fits. And pens. I have a number of good, fine point pens to use for Latin, Dothraki, Japanese which is very good because I can see all the fine lines of the kanji I'm writing. But do I use that for Arabic and Hindi? Or do I try to go ahead and do the calligraphy thing? or WHAT. ARGH. Choices. I hate choices when they're all equally benign and there's no real reason to choose one or the other. This might all be rendered moot if Mom decided to get me trinkets in the form of moleskines off my wish list for Christmas, but argh. Poking around on Amazon it looks like notebooks of whatever type and my usual pens are probably best, and then I can fuck around with calligraphy later. Still argh.
This is the point when I realize I've spent most of the day either dealing with dayjobligations or fucking around with languages and I still have a metric shitton of writing work to do and I'd better get on that, oops. Will update this post or make a whole new check-in later.
Hey, on the plus side, tomorrow's a very very light day at work, i.e. no actual shipping is going out, so I should be able to just come in, pick up, and write/fuck around with languages. That's good, yes? Yes.