ten good things//never have i had a mohawk to show you how i feel

[kaberett]

My baby brother (all nineteen years and six foot something of him) dragged me out of bed this morning in order to make and feed me pancakes, in the kitchen with the back door open and the garden beautiful, and lectured me sternly about the fact that he was only doing this in order to use up the batter, and I wasn't to take away the message that he liked me. (This is how we express intense affection toward one another. My mother finds it quite distressing, bless her.)

Yesterday evening, I sent an e-mail that read (in its entirety) Evening of bad brain day. Please kick me if I don't reply to this properly tomorrow. xx I woke up to this response: Nose of earwash. Will forepaw you if you don't wag to this happily today. In conclusion, my friends are the best people.

The postie brought me a postcard from forestofglory -- a contemporary poster (shrunk, obviously) commemorating the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption!

Today's xkcd is relevant to Dreamwidth's internets (by which I mean "volunteer culture").

I have just finished The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and really, really enjoyed it. Hurrah immersive magical Victoriana. Also: I have copies of Prozac Diary and Being Human on their way to me in the post, which makes me very happy, and I have started making progress with the Big Heavy Dead Tree Book I am reading currently. Again. (Derek Walcott's Omeros.)

My amazing PhD supervisor, because she is amazing, pointed me at a free four-day meeting at the Royal Society on the subject of the origin of the Moon. It is not really in-field for her, but she knew I would be interested. I get embarrassingly excited about this every time I think of it, because it is a topic of interest to me and I will get to meet lots of big names in field (... some of whom already know me indirectly, via my data, which is gently terrifying), but also my out-of-field supervisor pointed it out to me because she thought I'd have fun. She is actually the best.

Dave Hughes and the Renegade Folk Punk Band have released a pile of bootlegs (I LOVE THAT BAND; title of this post from Daddy Fought The Law).

I am doing tolerably at self-care: I'm splinting my wrists at the moment, and I've got my hair into a state that doesn't make me want to scream in horror (hurrah sensory wossnames...) and I have dropped my mefenamic acid dose to 250mg 3xday, experimentally.

I am making progress on the various bugs I've had sitting around dreamwidth-wise for An Age; I've reached a point where of the fifteen bugs on my to-do list, two were reported by me rather than being strictly mine; two have open pull requests; four need me to learn how to convert from BML to TT; another two are blocking on that; one is big and scary (languages in profiles) but at least well-specced; and of the four remaining, I am working on one and the others ought to go readily enough, I hope. (Most of these have been sat on my to-do list for months, so getting the time to deal with them is... nice.)

I have sorted out dates for going to visit my grandfather this summer. This is (a) an achievement [it involves coordinating schedules of four people...] and (b) Generally Filial in a direction I like being filial in.

Comments

[syntaxofthings]

Much like for all of these things. It sounds like you have a lot of support which is *wonderful*.

[forestofglory]

Yay, I'm glad the postcard got there, and happy for all your other good things.

[worlds_of_smoke]

Yay for good things!

I'd say I know who sent you that text message, but I don't know if you spend time with said person offline. XD

[kaberett]

I suspect I know who you're thinking of and I do spend time with them offline, but it weren't them who sent me this in this instance :D

[worlds_of_smoke]

-laughs- Then you definitely have awesome friends. XD

(I mean, it's not like they weren't before, but y'know. Add a +1 to their level of awesome.)

[footpad.livejournal.com]

I was under the vague impression that your baby brother was in the habit of being something of a buttock to you. I'm glad that seems to have transmogrified into tongue-in-cheek affection!

[kaberett]

That's the middle one, who is currently in Amsterdam via Costa Rica and will shortly be fucking off to Jamaica for a year :-)

[untonuggan]

♥