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Oogh. I have the sneaking suspicion that my varying foods of the last few days haven't been as high in vitamins and minerals as they should have been, mostly due to exacerbation of skin issues. Including hangnails, which is really a pain when you're knitting wool and every little thing tugs. Okay, fine, body, I hear you, I will try to restore some balance to my diet and we'll see if that makes you happy.

I did manage to finish step-by-stepping everything in the damn pattern, particularly the row increases, and the math checks out so far. I did also manage to fuck up the charted row notation in my step by stepping, but I think I fixed that now so it reads accurately. I still think this woman's idea of a well-written pattern is incomprehensible... okay, that's an exaggeration, but it's too complicated to be useful for a broad range of knitters rather than her and her friends, but the best I can do is turn it back in with edits and hope she takes any of the suggestions. The math all checks out though, now, and it looks like it should work and be very simple. So. To knitting!

Haven was... Haven. I remembered how much I absolutely loathe William! And how good of a bad guy Colin Ferguson makes, damn. I've met the guy, he was an absolute squishy sweetheart, and he is absolutely convincing as the uber-nasty William. Also everyone in Haven has taken stupid pills. Rather than an idiot ball they're enclosed in an idiot shroud. And Vince. Vince. You fucking moron. I'll say no more but really. Really, everyone. why so fucking dumb.

Writing, editing, and so on continue surprisingly apace. Despite everything and despite being tired quite a bit recently. I'm even up to date on Nano, despite spending a chunk of time at the beginning of the month sick. I haven't managed to do much catching up on lessons lately, but I'm hoping to get through that, maybe finish Haven 2x11 first and then get through that. Actually that should be a very good plan, meaning I can do a lot of catching up over the coming week. Not having capoeira next Wednesday because holiday will help loads. So, yes. Continuing not to be overwhelmed by all the writing/editing/learning/studying I have to do. This is a strange feeling. Still haven't managed to quite conquer the you should be doing something Productive what is wrong with you feeling though. I really need to step on that. It's so not healthy.

I wish I had something more interesting to say today, but I don't. I'm saddened and appalled by politicians in this country, and by the various actions of bigots which seem, not unexpectedly, to have exploded over the last several days. Not surprised, but saddened and appalled. And trying to balance being aware of it with not ... steeping myself in it, because it'd be far too easy to get pulled down and then I really wouldn't be of any use for anything. Feh.

But other than that, yes. Knitting, reading, writing. Doing day job stuff. Possibly sleeping a lot in a few days, when the holiday weekendish hits. So much sleep. I don't know why I'm so tired, but so much sleep. (No, I know why, capoeira and then another long hectic day at work and then the boy waking me up at 5.15 this morning all HI I'M COMING TO BED NOW. No. Stoppit. I know you know how to come to bed in such a way that I don't wake up, stop doing the other thing. Argh.)

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The progression was something like discussion of Donald Trump's proponency of Nazism by registering all Muslims to registering ourselves because, fuck, we've seen this play out before, to shit I probably have an FBI file anyway, with a brief digression into hey I'm related by blood or marriage to someone in almost every alphabet agency except two! I'm missing DHS and CIA. I think I'm missing CIA. (I have DOD, FBI, NSA, State, and IRS. Shut up the IRS goes on there.)

And then it got silly. So I'm creating a meme: If you got to peek in your/my FBI file, what would it say?

lireavue thinks something like: "Keep an eye on her search history and her writing blather to be sure the two line up and she's not going to doom us all out of Mad Skience." Possibly with a recruitment assessment of "it's a shame she's aware her temperament for the job sucks or we'd try to mold her."

I'm going with "Strong talent for languages, does not fall in line at all, likely to do her own threat assessments instead of the ones we want."

Or possibly "Follows only orders she thinks aren't stupid." Which is, to be honest, true, and why I've never signed up for anything that required following orders apart from, you know, a day job.