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It finally occurred to me after two days that possibly the reason I've spent the last two days feeling feverish and headachy, the way I do when I get very stressed, is because Baltimore. These things take on a whole new dimension when your baby brother is just about everything except maybe the class demographic of the same people whose names are becoming hashtags. Baby sister, too, but she's been out of the country for a while. Thank god.
So, okay. Let's take a social media break at least for the next 48, till I'm done with Camp Nano, and maybe my body temperature will drop a degree or two to what it's supposed to be, yes?
Besides, there are way plenty of other things for me to do. Like Camp Nano, of which I have 11-12k words left to write in the next two days, eek. I mean, I can do it, I know I can do it without too much stress, but eek. Then there's the courses, physics, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Javascript, Cosmology, I finished Reconstruction and picked up Intro to Human Evolution. I have adequate amusements! Also known for the moment as distractions from working on what I should be working on, she typed, having just gotten distracted by the math review course for about thirty minutes.
I've also started hitting up the omgsexyfood tumblr for recipes. A lot of them are vegan/vegetarian, which would be fine for me but which the boy won't eat, but then a lot of the pastas and rices can also be adapted to go over chicken. So I may try some of that tonight and see how that goes, maybe one new recipe a week since I already have most of these ingredients, it looks like.
This coming month's improvement projects is gardening. Unlike the last couple (bathroom door, painting the upstairs), this one actually should not stall because the people who had the house before us are fuckwits! Since I've been gardening here, the only thing I have to do is keep pushing on expanding my planting area. The raised beds in front of the porch should be clear, I might do some heaping layers and put morning glories along the side of the house and up the trellises where the herb garden used to be. Now it's a thyme and mint garden, because oi everything. And then vegetables in the vegetable beds. That ought to be more than enough to be going on with, and I can try not to kill the lavender this year.
So far my word count for the week is 24, 359 but the day is still young and unless I want to make tomorrow a 10k in one project day, I need to get going so I can win Camp Nano. I think I actually can! I do not yet know.
No new reading this week, I think. But in case I didn't mention it last week, I did finish the Spiritwalker trilogy. It was very excellent. Steampunk and magic and interesting characters, and also girl friendships above all. I am so here for the girl friendships, and I am so getting it in most of my media these days (except Ultron, because apparently women are love interests and little else god so pissed about that) and it is glorious. If anyone has any books with good girl friendships to rec, feel free!
So, okay. Let's take a social media break at least for the next 48, till I'm done with Camp Nano, and maybe my body temperature will drop a degree or two to what it's supposed to be, yes?
Besides, there are way plenty of other things for me to do. Like Camp Nano, of which I have 11-12k words left to write in the next two days, eek. I mean, I can do it, I know I can do it without too much stress, but eek. Then there's the courses, physics, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Javascript, Cosmology, I finished Reconstruction and picked up Intro to Human Evolution. I have adequate amusements! Also known for the moment as distractions from working on what I should be working on, she typed, having just gotten distracted by the math review course for about thirty minutes.
I've also started hitting up the omgsexyfood tumblr for recipes. A lot of them are vegan/vegetarian, which would be fine for me but which the boy won't eat, but then a lot of the pastas and rices can also be adapted to go over chicken. So I may try some of that tonight and see how that goes, maybe one new recipe a week since I already have most of these ingredients, it looks like.
This coming month's improvement projects is gardening. Unlike the last couple (bathroom door, painting the upstairs), this one actually should not stall because the people who had the house before us are fuckwits! Since I've been gardening here, the only thing I have to do is keep pushing on expanding my planting area. The raised beds in front of the porch should be clear, I might do some heaping layers and put morning glories along the side of the house and up the trellises where the herb garden used to be. Now it's a thyme and mint garden, because oi everything. And then vegetables in the vegetable beds. That ought to be more than enough to be going on with, and I can try not to kill the lavender this year.
So far my word count for the week is 24, 359 but the day is still young and unless I want to make tomorrow a 10k in one project day, I need to get going so I can win Camp Nano. I think I actually can! I do not yet know.
No new reading this week, I think. But in case I didn't mention it last week, I did finish the Spiritwalker trilogy. It was very excellent. Steampunk and magic and interesting characters, and also girl friendships above all. I am so here for the girl friendships, and I am so getting it in most of my media these days (except Ultron, because apparently women are love interests and little else god so pissed about that) and it is glorious. If anyone has any books with good girl friendships to rec, feel free!