mundane

Today, I am downloading and filling out applications. I started out with this long list of places I had to go and people I had to talk to, but it turns out a lot of this can be done via the web, mail, email, or some combination of the above. Which means I don’t have [...]

Too lazy to even write a real post, just a list of semi-random thoughts:

I vacuumed the dog. Surprisingly, she did not bite me. In her place, I would have bitten me. My dog is much more patient than I am.
Know what’s cool? Coming down into a little valley with big fat raindrops pummeling you to [...]

I’ve been hopelessly boring lately, but I’m trying to update my web stuff more regularly, so I’m faced with a lack of things to say. There has been very little progress on the writing front, none at all on the job-search front. I’m losing momentum on all the things I wanted to do this [...]

Been sick for a few days now, and it looks likely to continue for a few more. I hate this. It’s distracting. I want to write but I can’t concentrate when my head hurts and my throat burns and I mostly just want to go back to bed.
As for the better-writing-through-knitting plan, [...]

Did you know that if you’re sewing, and you have some loose pins and no pincushion, so you stick them in the top of the spool, and then you use that spool to load a bobbin, and the machine is running pretty fast, the pins will shoot out of the top of [...]

I’m feeling all domestic tonight, wearing a shirt I made myself and eating made-from-scratch salmon patties and sweet potato fries. I did not build the computer desk I’m sitting at, but I did add the duct tape and bungee cords that hold it together.