Pandemic days 68, 69
May. 22nd, 2020 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentricDone yesterday:
- assembled a plant stand and installed the trailing petunias (which, like everything else except the rosemary, was not coping with the direct sun on the balcony rail - although it doesn't really get more than 6hrs, it's clearly Too Direct and Too Strong for a lot of my plants, even ones that should love that) and one pot of basil and one of mint.
- 2 hr coworking session via zoom, which i administered. Notetaking, reading.
- Called Shiny for what I expected to be an hour or so catch up in which I showed them my FURNITURE and caught upon their work drama. Ended up being about 4 hours, including me telling them all about current research reading both medieval (romance of the rose) and contemporary (theories of censorship), and assorted D&M social-personal navel gazing on both our parts.
- spent the evening drafting and posting the long thread about Garth Greenwell's Chaucer references
Done today:
- Dithered, then went to the shop. Aimed to acquire a plant pot, coathangers, and extension leads. Acquired those, and also bread, hair mousse, wine, lip balm, a lid for the frying pan, polenta in a tube, panacotta, milk, chicken, dried tarragon, frozen potato balls with cheese, ice cream, and a whole nother plant. No pot for said plant, all the correct size ones sold out.
- Came home to mail: a book i'd ordered (the one in the accidental Karen-ing earlier this week), a book for review, and mail from Ms10.
- Read two pomodoro's worth of the book I had ordered, and one of a secondary source I've been working on for a while
- Reorganised the balcony and vaccuumed both it and the dining room. Washed the balcony ledges.
- Made tarragon chicken tray bake
- Meditation
- email triage. Didn't struggle TOO long with ... it's some kind of dysregulated emotional response to emails esp since I can't see people in person to run ideas past them. Emails kick the "I HAVE DONE SOMETHING WRONG" button and then swiss brusqueness makes it worse.
- Actually managed to listen to some podcats without getting TOO distracted.
I am about to go and do more of that, in fact. Ideally I will also do my day's Duolingo BEFORE bed, and leave the phone on the dresser instead of in bed with me.
I am feeling pretty good about everything. This may be because now I have FURNITURE.
- assembled a plant stand and installed the trailing petunias (which, like everything else except the rosemary, was not coping with the direct sun on the balcony rail - although it doesn't really get more than 6hrs, it's clearly Too Direct and Too Strong for a lot of my plants, even ones that should love that) and one pot of basil and one of mint.
- 2 hr coworking session via zoom, which i administered. Notetaking, reading.
- Called Shiny for what I expected to be an hour or so catch up in which I showed them my FURNITURE and caught upon their work drama. Ended up being about 4 hours, including me telling them all about current research reading both medieval (romance of the rose) and contemporary (theories of censorship), and assorted D&M social-personal navel gazing on both our parts.
- spent the evening drafting and posting the long thread about Garth Greenwell's Chaucer references
Done today:
- Dithered, then went to the shop. Aimed to acquire a plant pot, coathangers, and extension leads. Acquired those, and also bread, hair mousse, wine, lip balm, a lid for the frying pan, polenta in a tube, panacotta, milk, chicken, dried tarragon, frozen potato balls with cheese, ice cream, and a whole nother plant. No pot for said plant, all the correct size ones sold out.
- Came home to mail: a book i'd ordered (the one in the accidental Karen-ing earlier this week), a book for review, and mail from Ms10.
- Read two pomodoro's worth of the book I had ordered, and one of a secondary source I've been working on for a while
- Reorganised the balcony and vaccuumed both it and the dining room. Washed the balcony ledges.
- Made tarragon chicken tray bake
- Meditation
- email triage. Didn't struggle TOO long with ... it's some kind of dysregulated emotional response to emails esp since I can't see people in person to run ideas past them. Emails kick the "I HAVE DONE SOMETHING WRONG" button and then swiss brusqueness makes it worse.
- Actually managed to listen to some podcats without getting TOO distracted.
I am about to go and do more of that, in fact. Ideally I will also do my day's Duolingo BEFORE bed, and leave the phone on the dresser instead of in bed with me.
I am feeling pretty good about everything. This may be because now I have FURNITURE.
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Date: 2020-05-23 09:49 am (UTC)Ugh, the amount of time I read and re-read emails before sending them in a vain attempt to ward this off.
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Date: 2020-05-23 01:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-05-23 05:32 pm (UTC)Mine is just an overspill of in-person panic about not picking up social cues and worrying I'm doing it wrong.
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Date: 2020-05-23 07:08 pm (UTC)