Semi-isolation days 49-51
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highlyeccentricLife still feels... heavy, but I'm dealing a lot better than I was a few days ago.
Done Saturday:
* Called Shiny, had a nice quiet chat for a while.
* Located and read the water meters
* Zoom Good Omens readthrough withwildeabandon et al
I know I stayed up later doing... something. Possibly a podcast? Yeah. I think it was the military hospital episode of Magnus, which I couldn't finish in the end and listened to the next morning.
Done Sunday:
* Got up late, but with determination, and made an elaborate if somewhat misshapen brunch: asparagus and mushroom fritters, dukkah crusted eggs, fetta cheese, and some avocado "relish" that had begun life as avocado and bacon pasta.
* Dragged the purloined-from-street coffee table into the shower, and scrubbed it down at the same time as scrubbing self down
* Had my zest for life knocked about a little by an attack of stomach cramps. Yes, I know, guts, you hate having to process matter every single day, it's a terrible imposition. Came better in the afternoon.
* Set up sewing machine, did NOT have to call my mother (although i did message her a picture for clarification on a thing i didn't recognise but didn't need immediately). Sewed the first few steps of the mask, and gave up while the going was good. The machine is still sitting out, and I am sort of... acclimatising to it? Like how you get a horse used to being in the same SPACE as a saddle before trying to ride it. I am a person who owns a sewing machine and hasn't broken it yet.
* Read another essay in Meanjin (and, later, some online)
* Discovered that slightly stale banana and coconut muffins, made on the not great cake flour, are better if sliced, microwaved and buttered
* Went for a run. Still repeating wk 2 of C25k and inexplicably hating it. I think I'll escalate to wk3 even though I lost stamina/fitness in the unplanned week off, just because hating it might feel better if I hated it because it was HARD, as opposed to just because I'm too depressed for adrenaline to kick in.
* As you all saw, got WILDLY hyperfocused on GENEALOGICAL DATA while sorting photos for my photoblog. Missed German class because of FIXATION ON GENEALOGY.
Done Monday:
* More thinking about genealogy, courtesy of my father and K (who has found MORE INFO ON THE MYSTERIOUS MR MOSS COHEN, update coming later this week).
* Meeting with MF. Largely a meeting to report on having nothing to report, but I feel better for it. We will try to meet in person next week when I'm down in Geneva for my psych appointment.
* Took some paper recycling out. I need to get rid of a lot of cardboard, because the furniture delivery will mean MORE CARDBOARD.
* Re-read the section of text I'm giving a paper on on Friday. Confirmed I was, in my gottdamn phd, wrong about some things. On the other hand I was right about some others.
* More tinkering with drafting said paper
* Read the Daphne chapter of Wake, Siren, and it definitely pulls no punches
* Answered several messages and initiated another, look at me Adulting.
* Made Smitten Kitchen's "pizza beans", which turn out to be... fancy beans on toast? Tasty, though.
* Stripped bed. Still have to remake it before getting into it, ugh.
* Adored the 'cheating death' Magnus episode.
My to-do list in general is spiralling - the huge things aren't the problem, they are proportionate in number, it's the SMALL THINGS, ugh.
Done Saturday:
* Called Shiny, had a nice quiet chat for a while.
* Located and read the water meters
* Zoom Good Omens readthrough with
wildeabandon et alI know I stayed up later doing... something. Possibly a podcast? Yeah. I think it was the military hospital episode of Magnus, which I couldn't finish in the end and listened to the next morning.
Done Sunday:
* Got up late, but with determination, and made an elaborate if somewhat misshapen brunch: asparagus and mushroom fritters, dukkah crusted eggs, fetta cheese, and some avocado "relish" that had begun life as avocado and bacon pasta.
* Dragged the purloined-from-street coffee table into the shower, and scrubbed it down at the same time as scrubbing self down
* Had my zest for life knocked about a little by an attack of stomach cramps. Yes, I know, guts, you hate having to process matter every single day, it's a terrible imposition. Came better in the afternoon.
* Set up sewing machine, did NOT have to call my mother (although i did message her a picture for clarification on a thing i didn't recognise but didn't need immediately). Sewed the first few steps of the mask, and gave up while the going was good. The machine is still sitting out, and I am sort of... acclimatising to it? Like how you get a horse used to being in the same SPACE as a saddle before trying to ride it. I am a person who owns a sewing machine and hasn't broken it yet.
* Read another essay in Meanjin (and, later, some online)
* Discovered that slightly stale banana and coconut muffins, made on the not great cake flour, are better if sliced, microwaved and buttered
* Went for a run. Still repeating wk 2 of C25k and inexplicably hating it. I think I'll escalate to wk3 even though I lost stamina/fitness in the unplanned week off, just because hating it might feel better if I hated it because it was HARD, as opposed to just because I'm too depressed for adrenaline to kick in.
* As you all saw, got WILDLY hyperfocused on GENEALOGICAL DATA while sorting photos for my photoblog. Missed German class because of FIXATION ON GENEALOGY.
Done Monday:
* More thinking about genealogy, courtesy of my father and K (who has found MORE INFO ON THE MYSTERIOUS MR MOSS COHEN, update coming later this week).
* Meeting with MF. Largely a meeting to report on having nothing to report, but I feel better for it. We will try to meet in person next week when I'm down in Geneva for my psych appointment.
* Took some paper recycling out. I need to get rid of a lot of cardboard, because the furniture delivery will mean MORE CARDBOARD.
* Re-read the section of text I'm giving a paper on on Friday. Confirmed I was, in my gottdamn phd, wrong about some things. On the other hand I was right about some others.
* More tinkering with drafting said paper
* Read the Daphne chapter of Wake, Siren, and it definitely pulls no punches
* Answered several messages and initiated another, look at me Adulting.
* Made Smitten Kitchen's "pizza beans", which turn out to be... fancy beans on toast? Tasty, though.
* Stripped bed. Still have to remake it before getting into it, ugh.
* Adored the 'cheating death' Magnus episode.
My to-do list in general is spiralling - the huge things aren't the problem, they are proportionate in number, it's the SMALL THINGS, ugh.
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Date: 2020-05-05 03:48 am (UTC)I had to store the cake in the oven once it had cooled as my little orange cat will LICK THE FROSTING off the cake in the night if I leave it sit out. Then, without fail, she will PUKE it out--usually on a carpet because that is the hardest and nastiest place to clean up cat puke.
I also have a lot of cardboard that needs to be broken down and put in the recycling bin as I have been a bit crazed with ordering things like books, cat food, and shoes (just one pair) from Amazon.