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How the heck is it August already?
Aug. 1st, 2022 01:38 pmMiss Rutabaga has only 2 more weeks of summer camp, then there's that awkward week where there's nothing planned for M-W, and I start school on Th-F. Yikes!
It's been a pretty rough July, tbh. After the July 4th comic I kinda lost a week or two -- I'd promised a teacher friend to do some teacher stuff in July instead of August, and that was a Bad Idea, because instead of actually doing it, my brain rebelled and just procrastinated for a week. That's a week that I was planning on being creative! And then there's the two weeks that were lost to friends visiting + spouse going on a work retreat + trip to Vermont. AND THEN I got COVID from the Vermont trip (spouse got it from the airport, then I got it from him. Thankfully Miss Rutabaga hasn't gotten it yet, but ye gods that's another week lost to brain fog and the dance of "trying to care for your child solo while simultaneously self-isolating." Aiyah! Anyway, the brain fog cleared yesterday, just in time to make way for some migraine goodness, so yay me, I guess.
I realized last night that I really need to read some familiar fic in order to sleep, but because I couldn't look at screens, I reread some Jinyong for the first time in probably 10 years (it's fun, he's a great storyteller! but I notice his poor treatment of women more on every reread, ugh). I think I'm also going to get an ereader that lets me read fics in bed on not-a-screen. (Probably a Boox? I like the idea of having access to Google Play.)
But anyway, precious little time left in the summer, aiyah. And even less brain power. :(
( todo list, sigh )
It's been a pretty rough July, tbh. After the July 4th comic I kinda lost a week or two -- I'd promised a teacher friend to do some teacher stuff in July instead of August, and that was a Bad Idea, because instead of actually doing it, my brain rebelled and just procrastinated for a week. That's a week that I was planning on being creative! And then there's the two weeks that were lost to friends visiting + spouse going on a work retreat + trip to Vermont. AND THEN I got COVID from the Vermont trip (spouse got it from the airport, then I got it from him. Thankfully Miss Rutabaga hasn't gotten it yet, but ye gods that's another week lost to brain fog and the dance of "trying to care for your child solo while simultaneously self-isolating." Aiyah! Anyway, the brain fog cleared yesterday, just in time to make way for some migraine goodness, so yay me, I guess.
I realized last night that I really need to read some familiar fic in order to sleep, but because I couldn't look at screens, I reread some Jinyong for the first time in probably 10 years (it's fun, he's a great storyteller! but I notice his poor treatment of women more on every reread, ugh). I think I'm also going to get an ereader that lets me read fics in bed on not-a-screen. (Probably a Boox? I like the idea of having access to Google Play.)
But anyway, precious little time left in the summer, aiyah. And even less brain power. :(
( todo list, sigh )
