fuck the world

I now have a thirty-days-past-due notice for a medical bill that I paid A FUCKING MONTH AGO. I have proof in the form of an image on my credit union's site of the fucking cashed check, which image is accessible by going to the list of checking transactions, scrolling back to July 7, and clicking the check number.

twenty good things

01) Run Lola Run, "Wish (Komm Zu Mir)"

02) dark chocolate peanut butter cups

03) Coworker K complimented my amber-and-white dichroic glass pendant today (which iirc is a thing I bought from synecdochic's Etsy)

04) bag of gifts from Coworker K (which is not yet inventoried but whatever)

05) "The Importance of the Oxford Comma" by brian_bilston (there are several -isms on blatant display, unfortunately, and also unfortunately it is a text graphic instead of actual text, but the poem made me laugh)

06) Anybody else read the preview chapters of Kate Elliott's Court of Fives HOW AWESOME AN OPENING IS THAT (why is the novel proper not out for another few weeks WHYYYY)

07) reading fiction! actually reading fiction! even if it is only the preview chapters

08) so apparently there's now a statue of Satan in Detroit? got to love the Satanists, they're really devoted to freedom of religion and freedom to go everywhere the dominant religion goes

09) honeysuckle-scented candle

10) "Molten Lava" spiced chocolate honey cream from Bumbleberry Farms

11) gonna go to Pride on Saturday

12) and the local community theater production of Once Upon a Mattress later that evening

13) prices on white cultured freshwater pearls (the potato and rice shapes) at Fire Mountain Gems are not outrageous; middle sister's thought for bridesmaid jewelry for oldest sister's wedding should be entirely doable with real pearls

14) Kellianna, "Serpent Mound"

15) Backup Manager S's friend whatsherface recommends the apartment complex I'm currently most interested in moving to (she's lived there for years, apparently, and has never had any major problems)

16) H from MA is going to have an awesome birthday and I get to send part of the deluge of shinythings (okay my contribution is an Amazon gift card, but still)

17) mocha iced coffee (yes, that's why I'm awake right now when I really shouldn't ought to be, but it's tasty tasty)

18) coffeemaker -> experiment with small quantities of fair-trade coffee and cocoa and also milk and local honey in hopes of equaling or trumping the bottle-of-mocha-iced-Starbucks experience

19) my little pot of ivy

20) the pure sensuous physicality of taking a shower

**) HAH. made it to twenty.

yo coffee drinkers

Speaking of coffeemakers. How do I tell the difference between good and bad coffee? (that is so not a question that is cooperative with Google.) What coffee readily available in the US is, in your experience, best-for-cheapest? Or, since I am planning to refrigerate the brewed coffee and then drown it in cocoa and milk and sweetness anyway, does it not really matter all that much?

(All I actually know about the difference between varieties of coffee comes from Anne McCaffrey's Freedom series, and can be stated very nearly in full as follows: Arabica is milder than robusta.)

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Epic massive work stress was the LAST THING I NEEDED TODAY. THE LAST THING.

todo

✓ PT appointment Monday
✓ dentist appointment Monday
✓ figure out at-work meal Monday
✓ make 4 at-work meals by Tuesday
* poetry exercise 4 by Tuesday
* critique 2 classmate poems by Tuesday
* workshop 4 classmate poems by Tuesday
* poetry documentary-photo poem by Thursday
* do 6 ten-card tarot spreads no really this time
* K'S TOWELS
✓ go to AC Moore for yarn for my towels
* email Jeff
* email Bayard Plaza people
* call realtor
✓ call oral surgeon
* fold laundry
* clean wrist braces
* clean coffeemaker
* clean bathroom
✓ inventory bag o' gifts from Coworker K
* no actually put the gifts in a box and on the inventory sheet
✓ write thank-you note and sign card for Coworker K
✓ call Bayhealth re check 1098 / supposedly-30-days-past-due invoice
✓ get paperwork to change how much paycheck money goes into which account
✓ fill out paperwork to &c
✓ hand in paperwork to &c
✓ pick up prescriptions
✓ address and tape up wisdomeagle's package
✓ mail wisdomeagle's package
✓ address H-from-MA's envelope
✓ mail H-from-MA's envelope
✓ return overdue library books
✓ Once Upon a Mattress ticket
* price foods at Redner's
* fix do_it list
* bring in empty boxes from car
* pack and inventory box D or 18 (and maybe switch the yarn in C to a bigger box)

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*eyes todo list* Huh. I actually got lots done today.