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domarzioneHow is it most of the way through June already?
School started and my fannish life stopped. I know summer classes are more intense because the summer session is shorter, but holy cats it wasn't this bad last year. One class is at the high end of normal, but the other is well over into "are you freaking kidding?!" territory and I have a week to come up with my final project proposal and record the demo. Jesus christ, I hate video presenting.
I started the QH28 file this week and it's 1027 words. I feel like that's more of an accomplishment than it should be. I haven't turned on the streaming services all month. I kind of want to do one of the writer memes but nobody ever asks me questions and all of the pre-populated questionnaires are geared toward non-gen writers.
It's been flirting with 90F all week and my love/hate relationship with my AC has been tested. I don't like having it on (I get cold even when it's set to 78), the cats don't like it being on because the windows are closed, but I also don't work very well when it's 84 in the apartment all day. So far this week it's been mostly off and my productivity has suffered, so I should just woman up and turn it on and ignore the sulking felines and get out some socks.
Was considering doing some clothes-closet organizing and putting away out-of-season stuff, but I honestly don't know what that would be right now. I have no idea when I will next need to wear anything in my closet, so I don't know which season to prioritize. I took the sweater dresses out a few months ago, but everything else is frozen in time in that jumbled NYC-in-March-has-six-seasons way. I have dresses I've never worn because they were purchased for spring/fall and I was sartorially absent. I did laundry this week and apart from sheets and towels it was workout gear, ratty tank tops and boxer shorts, and one of the 'decent enough for the grocery run' dresses I hang on a hook because they don't merit hangers. I know I have a lot of clothes, too many clothes, but it has never seemed as too much as it has right now.
There's going to be baseball on my birthday and I'm delighted by it even as I'm not sure I like the game that will be presented to me. Universal DH? Starting a man on second in extra innings? What are these things? There might also be hockey on my birthday, which will be freaking weird because it's at the start of August, but I did giggle a bit at this piece in The Athletic where the theories about how to make it safe and hub cities and training facilities and bubbles meet the reality that the NHL is currently primarily populated by 24-year-old boys who believe themselves invincible and can't be trusted to observe even the most basic precautions because most of them already have been ignoring them. This is going to end up with the teams being run like the Red Army hockey teams were during the Cold War: living in barracks, under constant supervision, zero contact with the outside world except for Sunday nights.
School started and my fannish life stopped. I know summer classes are more intense because the summer session is shorter, but holy cats it wasn't this bad last year. One class is at the high end of normal, but the other is well over into "are you freaking kidding?!" territory and I have a week to come up with my final project proposal and record the demo. Jesus christ, I hate video presenting.
I started the QH28 file this week and it's 1027 words. I feel like that's more of an accomplishment than it should be. I haven't turned on the streaming services all month. I kind of want to do one of the writer memes but nobody ever asks me questions and all of the pre-populated questionnaires are geared toward non-gen writers.
It's been flirting with 90F all week and my love/hate relationship with my AC has been tested. I don't like having it on (I get cold even when it's set to 78), the cats don't like it being on because the windows are closed, but I also don't work very well when it's 84 in the apartment all day. So far this week it's been mostly off and my productivity has suffered, so I should just woman up and turn it on and ignore the sulking felines and get out some socks.
Was considering doing some clothes-closet organizing and putting away out-of-season stuff, but I honestly don't know what that would be right now. I have no idea when I will next need to wear anything in my closet, so I don't know which season to prioritize. I took the sweater dresses out a few months ago, but everything else is frozen in time in that jumbled NYC-in-March-has-six-seasons way. I have dresses I've never worn because they were purchased for spring/fall and I was sartorially absent. I did laundry this week and apart from sheets and towels it was workout gear, ratty tank tops and boxer shorts, and one of the 'decent enough for the grocery run' dresses I hang on a hook because they don't merit hangers. I know I have a lot of clothes, too many clothes, but it has never seemed as too much as it has right now.
There's going to be baseball on my birthday and I'm delighted by it even as I'm not sure I like the game that will be presented to me. Universal DH? Starting a man on second in extra innings? What are these things? There might also be hockey on my birthday, which will be freaking weird because it's at the start of August, but I did giggle a bit at this piece in The Athletic where the theories about how to make it safe and hub cities and training facilities and bubbles meet the reality that the NHL is currently primarily populated by 24-year-old boys who believe themselves invincible and can't be trusted to observe even the most basic precautions because most of them already have been ignoring them. This is going to end up with the teams being run like the Red Army hockey teams were during the Cold War: living in barracks, under constant supervision, zero contact with the outside world except for Sunday nights.
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Date: 2020-06-24 18:51 (UTC)All the best with school!
Last year, my summer clothes were needed for two weeks - one week in June, and one in August during a conference in a warmer place, because here it was about 13 C.
This year, the weather looks like summer - but year, shorts/jeans and couple of shirts for walks around home. Vacation/conference clothes certainly won't be needed, and work clothes - well, maybe couple of times when I'll really need to go in for some paperwork.
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Date: 2020-06-25 00:21 (UTC)There's going to be a lot of "I forgot I own this!" while staring at closets this time next year. :)
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Date: 2020-06-25 08:19 (UTC)Psychologically - well, been better:). Work productivity extremely low, fandom creativity non-existent, still reading news way more than I should. Political situation here is something between scary, disgusting and ridiculous, but I guess you can relate :(.
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Date: 2020-06-25 15:25 (UTC)The attention span disappearing seems to be a common thing. I look at my cats and how they get bored by toys they love and go "well, if you only had three things to do all day, you'd get bored, too" and that's where we are as well.
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Date: 2020-06-24 19:43 (UTC)I just put all my polar vortex clothes away last weekend. I don't get cold as much as I used to (damn hot flashes) so it wasn't as big of a decision as it might have been otherwise.
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Date: 2020-06-25 00:26 (UTC)The DH is going to come in like this and never leave. They were already talking about it and now they'll be all "but why do you want to go back?" and we're going to have to play them Bartolo's homer on a loop until they get it.
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Date: 2020-06-25 03:40 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-25 15:29 (UTC)My favorite part of the baseball rules is that players/coaches can't get close to umpires or risk fines/ejections. We need the baseball version of the Monty Python semaphore Wuthering Heights sketch.
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Date: 2020-06-27 04:08 (UTC)