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my grandparents sent me a care package with tea bowls and money! the tea bowl that survived the trip is the prettiest thing! (ye gods I hope they weren't too expensive. but USPS Priority Mail comes with insurance, so I have asked grandparents if they want me to take photos of the shards to prove the thing broke in transit so they can put in an insurance claim.) I will a photo tomorrow when there is light!

(and money!)

ETA: my tea bowl! (pictures of broken one not enclosed, though I did take them.)

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How is it four am.

But at least I convinced words to look like knowledge-on-the-page long enough to get my paper due today-during-work-hours done and submitted! I am tempted to stay up and read The Copyright Thing Doesn't Work Here (which is the thing I quoted page five of earlier) while words are looking like knowledge, because I will be able to make sense of it (I hope). But as it is only ten and a half hours till must-be-at-work time, I had probably better go to bed. :(

ETA: how is it NINE AM.

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Glorious summer day, isn't it?

Climate change. We're fucked.

Weekend todo in roughly chronological order

✓ Work
✓ Pick up library DVD
✓ Inquire at library about what to do with epic massive donation-to-book-sale pile
Walk a lap of the park too dark, too damp
✓ Buy stuffs for two lasagna, one veggie, one meat
✓ Do dishes
Actually make lasagna
Do dishes again
Actually make other lasagna
Do dishes again
Week 6 & 7 work for Adv Fic
Week 6 & 7 work for Sys Oppr
Meditate / pray / misc spiritual work (research reading may or may not count)
Yuletide canon review pt 1
✓ Read a book, or at least a chapter of a book
** Dwelling on the Threshold
Watch library DVD
Alexeigynaix work
Clean things
Art a thing
✓ Write things
** daily prayer cycle (rest of Olympians, not counting Hades and Persephone)

twelve good things

* Showers. Start out all icky greasy dirty, spend ten minutes being utterly focused on the here and now and the pleasurable sensation of water on skin, then rinse off with a bowlful of lustral water, and when you get out you're all fresh and clean and waterfall-scented. Seriously this shit's magical.
* Radio Rivendell.
* Seltzer water.
* Kellianna, "Serpent Mound".
* I keep turning into my apartment complex and being struck all over again with the wonder and delight of I live here now.
* I haven't made these Toby Daye 'verse cookies yet (nb: link has v mild spoilers for A Red-Rose Chain), I only found the recipe earlier today, but damn they sound intriguing.
* Gabapentin is also magical. My hands have barely hurt all week—two weeks, really, I've been on the gabapentin for two weeks, but last week I was off work, so last week doesn't count.
* Handmade dichroic-glass-dot earrings. (Handmade as in I made them. Granted this was effort on the order of "glue the Etsy-acquired dots to the ear studs", and not recently, but.) They are sparkly.
* Breathing. Seriously. I need to pay more attention when I'm feeling tired, because it might be a breathing problem that a hit of albuterol inhaler can alleviate!
* That check from my grandparents.
* I found a quarter.
* It is can be sleep tiem nao? IT IS CAN BE SLEEP TIEM NAO!

I feel blessed beyond my power to articulate.