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chickentimeschickenwaysBoring life things:
Life things:
1. I badly have to sneeze and have all day, due to the inside of my right nostril being irritated from being sick. My right eye is watering and I am feeling rageful about this situation.
2. I have three days off coming up, Sunday through Tuesday. I have vague and hopeful plans to go to the Museum of Fine Arts on Sunday or Monday with my sketchbook and pencils and do some studies. (I guess that's a less-boring life thing, but. Okay.)
3. I worked an extra hour today, and I will probably work an extra hour tomorrow and an extra hour on Saturday. This is my department's busiest time of year (well, it's everyone's busiest time of year). I had four pallets of books to send back to the vendors when I got in today; I have about two and a half pallets ready to go. I'm not really sure if the extra hours are good or bad or neither. According to my pay stub, I should get a raise in June. Also according to my pay stub, I have accumulated 15 hours of sick leave and no hours of vacation as yet. The thought that I could soon start calling out with little or no financial penalty is a heady one, indeed.
4. I believe that I may get a tax refund. This would be good.
5. I blocked myself from Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook for two days. I have been indulging myself because of the anxiety over presents, and I don't regret that, but I need to get back to actually doing things that are not just compulsively scrolling.
2. I have three days off coming up, Sunday through Tuesday. I have vague and hopeful plans to go to the Museum of Fine Arts on Sunday or Monday with my sketchbook and pencils and do some studies. (I guess that's a less-boring life thing, but. Okay.)
3. I worked an extra hour today, and I will probably work an extra hour tomorrow and an extra hour on Saturday. This is my department's busiest time of year (well, it's everyone's busiest time of year). I had four pallets of books to send back to the vendors when I got in today; I have about two and a half pallets ready to go. I'm not really sure if the extra hours are good or bad or neither. According to my pay stub, I should get a raise in June. Also according to my pay stub, I have accumulated 15 hours of sick leave and no hours of vacation as yet. The thought that I could soon start calling out with little or no financial penalty is a heady one, indeed.
4. I believe that I may get a tax refund. This would be good.
5. I blocked myself from Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook for two days. I have been indulging myself because of the anxiety over presents, and I don't regret that, but I need to get back to actually doing things that are not just compulsively scrolling.
Life things:
1. If you put actual cream in your cream soda it is Better.
2. Birch soda tastes like root beer.
3. I am very slowly writing my holiday cards now. I've let a lot of my addresses go out of date in the last year, a thing which I am trying to remedy.
4. I started Possession, by A.S. Byatt, during my break today. I am, so far, intrigued.
5. I am trying to come up with a dream that is good to dream. Currently my theory is that only things that I am not at risk of living are enjoyable to be immersed in, so today's bit of escapism was about a woman running a truck stop diner in either Montana or Wyoming called Delicious Sandwiches Inc. with her husband and adopted daughter.
6. I am trying not to think too hard about the real vacations I might take, as I suspect I will have less time off than I am currently hoping in 2020. I would like to take the sheep-shearing workshop at Cornell, and I would also like to visit UK friends. I would like to visit my friend in Texas and I also want to go on a couple hikes in New Hampshire. If I think too much about all of it I feel like I am going to shake myself into bits of hunger and panic and possibly go screaming out into the night and try to swim to London or wherever it is I'm going.
7. I have not yet purchased a bottle of Irish cream for my New Year's toast, but I plan to. I have not yet investigated whether there might be a sale on Christmas cards at the closest independent bookstore, but I plan to.
2. Birch soda tastes like root beer.
3. I am very slowly writing my holiday cards now. I've let a lot of my addresses go out of date in the last year, a thing which I am trying to remedy.
4. I started Possession, by A.S. Byatt, during my break today. I am, so far, intrigued.
5. I am trying to come up with a dream that is good to dream. Currently my theory is that only things that I am not at risk of living are enjoyable to be immersed in, so today's bit of escapism was about a woman running a truck stop diner in either Montana or Wyoming called Delicious Sandwiches Inc. with her husband and adopted daughter.
6. I am trying not to think too hard about the real vacations I might take, as I suspect I will have less time off than I am currently hoping in 2020. I would like to take the sheep-shearing workshop at Cornell, and I would also like to visit UK friends. I would like to visit my friend in Texas and I also want to go on a couple hikes in New Hampshire. If I think too much about all of it I feel like I am going to shake myself into bits of hunger and panic and possibly go screaming out into the night and try to swim to London or wherever it is I'm going.
7. I have not yet purchased a bottle of Irish cream for my New Year's toast, but I plan to. I have not yet investigated whether there might be a sale on Christmas cards at the closest independent bookstore, but I plan to.
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