Shana

I rewrote SO MUCH MANGA this weekend (counting yesterday as part of "the weekend"). Other than a) the amount of time I spent waiting for my GP appointment yesterday morning and b) going out for ramen and having some social time afterwards on Sunday evening, I feel like rewriting is all I did over the past three days.

I also think that can't be as true as it feels, because I also finally finished reading K.B. Spangler's Stoneskin (which was wonderful, and I'm really excited for the [as-yet-unwritten, AFAIK] trilogy it's a prequel to), and scruloose and I finally saw the first two episodes of Star Trek: Disco last night.

OTOH, I read most of what I had left of Stoneskin yesterday morning while doing the aforementioned waiting for an appointment, most of which was my own fault. Last month's appointment used up the last of the injectable B12, so I got a new prescription from Dr. Awesome and dropped it off at the pharmacy to be put on file, but then I forgot about it until I was on my way out the door to yesterday's appointment. Fortunately the pharmacy is right next door to Dr. Awesome's office, and I called in to get the new B12 as I started walking, and they got it ready as fast as they could, but it still meant I was late to my appointment (although at least I was able to pop in and say "I'm here! Sort of...").

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--I've got a small heap of ST:D reaction posts from all of you tucked away in Memories and was finally able to start sifting through the early ones late last night. I doubt I'm going to do much (if any) commenting on weeks-old posts, but reading them is fun. ^_^


--I'm blanking on another detail about Yuletide logistics. I feel like in previous year's there's been a page (on AO3?) showing all the names of who requested what fandoms (but I think not connected at all to people's optional Dear Yulegoat letters?). Is that right? Am I simply missing it?


--My third year of "only read books (novels, anyway) from my bookcase of purchased TBR or things I've purchased in ebook" is almost up, and the status of the physical bookcase is...dire. I'm not literally out of room to put any more books on it (especially since the bottom shelf has binders of CDs and stuff on it, so the TBR only ["only"] takes up four shelves), but it's not good.

Between that and my wallet, I truly need to buy fewer books. (And relearn the habit of making purchase suggestions for novels with the library, not just anthologies and graphic novels, without getting back into putting tons of things on hold there. No going back to the days of juggling a 300 or 400-item holds list, self. *stern*) Emphasis on the "and my wallet" part, which means not simply switching to buying a higher percentage of things in ebook. (Even if ebooks are usually enough cheaper that doing that also technically means spending less money.)

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As is usually the way, I feel like there were other things I meant to mention, but I now have about an hour before I have to throw on proper clothes and head off to Casual Job, and I need to use that hour to proofread some prose. Yes.

I took a stab at catching up on replying to comments, but I suspect I'm not gonna get completely caught up. *stares grimly at browser* I did at least manage to get back under 100 open tabs. That's something, I guess.

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Oh-so-mercifully, I don't have Casual Job work on Monday, which means I'm merely very stressed about my freelance deadlines for the coming week, where before yesterday (when we found out about Monday) I was closer to "I'm only managing to not panic because I know it won't help".

Our odds of getting bulbs in or getting any other garden work done this weekend (basically everything else falls under "fall cleanup", I guess?) still seem low, though. Dear ground: please, please do not freeze solid this month.

I keep finding myself trying to think of how long it's been since I wrote any words at all. It may be just as well I haven't figured it out yet. Even trying to piece it together is disheartening.

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In "Kas is tremendously awesome" news, a week or so ago Ginny brought a piece of a recent Kas-made lemon loaf to the office for me, and it was wonderful, and in my happiness I mentioned that it'd been a while since I'd had his lemon loaf and so it was delightful to have a piece. (He used to make it quite a bit, but has been tending to bake other [also excellent!] things for the last while.) Ginny relayed that to him, and next thing I knew, Kas had made me a lemon loaf. *melts*

Guys. The Yuletide signup summary indicates that seven people wound up requesting Newsflesh (and seven people offered it), which delights me, but as of yet either none of them have written (optional, I know!) Dear Yulegoat letters, or if they have, they haven't linked them on the (even more optional) post for people to link their letters.

I'm not even participating, flist, but I'm still keenly hoping at least a couple of those people post letters. (While quite aware that manymanymany people are still working on their letters, and fair enough!) For lo, I am nosy about these things, and not always the best at patience. ^^;

[EDIT at 12:47 AM; revised wording]

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Current status (various):

--While Casual Job is in I try hard to tame my sea of open tabs on weekends, because when else? But that so did not happen this weekend. o_o I've already closed so many posts that I'd vaguely meant to comment on because they were over four days old and I didn't have something really specific in mind. >.<

--I didn't get nearly enough work done this weekend, and it's stressing me out. (Also didn't even get The Good Place watched. Meep.)

--In theory, I still want to finish writing a post about Hal-Con, but I think it's been a week and a half since I touched my half-finished draft. Hmm.

--And oh, I should post about my second silks class...

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I was looking back through the "kittens kittens kittens" tag (and failed to find the entry I was looking for), and was reminded that back in 2014 Claudia weighed 9.7 lbs. These days, as she and Jinksy near "full-grown Siberian" status, the thought of her hitting even 8 lbs seems like a dream. She is a tiny, tiny Siberian. (Back at that same point Jinksy was closer to 11 lbs than 10, and it's been a long time since he went at all noticeably above 10; it seems possible/probable that that's because they're on a wet food-only diet now [due to Claudia's calcium levels]. Ten pounds isn't an unreasonably small size for a male Siberian, maybe, but he's definitely on the smaller side for the breed, although he's good and sturdy.)

Current cat health update: Jinksy's still on the two meds Dr. Julia originally prescribed and seems to be doing fine, so tonight we stopped keeping him and Claudia separated. ( a tiny bit more detail )

--Yesterday was a longish day at Casual Job (12.5 hours), but I still got home in time to see scruloose briefly before he went to bed, and he'd used up the blueberries and the peaches we'd sliced and frozen by making a crisp, which was ready just before Kas and Ginny dropped me off. Mmmm, crisp.


--I actually got a decent amount of sleep last night! I woke up with a headache around when scruloose's alarm went, which is less good, but I got up long enough to take painkillers, and by the time my alarm went off my head felt okay. I'm still tired, but given how droopy I was yesterday, this feels not so bad.


--I had a lovely snuggle with Jinksy while I was back-reading Twitter after my alarm. A subsequent mixed blessing: just as we were going from "I should get up nowish" to "I really need to get up and start the day", Jinksy rolled over...and toppled off the bed. Ooops. But it means I didn't have to be the one heartlessly making him move so I could get up. ^^;


--I finally tweeted to the dance school where I took most of my classes forever ago and confirmed that the "ballet open barre" adult class (taught by the woman who taught my very first ballet class, back when I was fifteen) really is just an hour of barre, which is of great interest to me. Then I thought to poke at the site of one of the other long-time dance schools on this side of the harbor, where I've never been, and found that they also have what looks like a barre-only class! (AFAIK they teach a different ballet style--I only know Russian--but I imagine I'd adjust, even if [many? most? all?] non-Russian forms of ballet have things like FIVE numbered arm positions. FIVE. [Russian has three.]) I don't know when I might take a real bash at using this information, but it's good to have.