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kaberettReading. FINISHED. THE BOOK. (i.e. The Audacity of Hope, which continued a slog.) Came to the conclusion (in therapy, no less) that I might e.g. get more PhD work done if I... am reading fun books for leisure, not ones that are A Slog. Promptly got started on The Push, through which I am making much more rapid progress, and also: child. CHILD. The EARTHWORMS. (Additionally and furthermore: it is completely okay to not know where any of your limbs are in teenagerhood, child. Oh my goodness.)
Film/TV. Ten minutes of Coraline before my father decided he didn't actually want to watch it after all (I'd been pushing for Jupiter Ascending or the new Ghostbusters, but never mind, eh.) Leverage: The Gimme a K Street Job, in which the show is remarkably sympathetic to a criminally incompetent coach who cares more about success than her kids' safety, with bonus poorly-understood paralysis plot.
Language. Very crankily finished off Week 1 of the FutureLearn Irish 101 course, and got started on week two. Spent some time discussing Irish orthography with my godmother's eldest and felt rather the better for it.
Growth. Hatching tomatoes! Just the cherries, so far, but fingers crossed for More To Come. The two surviving chilli have each got a third leaf coming (and I still daren't move them out of the warm box); I've stuck a baby stake in each of the Passiflora pots, and they're working on their second leaf-pair. At the allotment: spring onion seeds + shallot and garlic sets into the ground, plus some weeding in a desperate attempt to convince myself there's still time to get root veg in.
Tiny adventures. Inveigled A to drive me down the road to visit my godmother + family today, and spent a thoroughly lovely if slightly exhausting afternoon there. Am now in the process of introducing godmother's children to my small cousins, because they will all get on EXCELLENTLY, and I'm mildly embarrassed I hadn't thought of it sooner. We stayed much longer than I'd expected & I v much enjoyed myself.
Film/TV. Ten minutes of Coraline before my father decided he didn't actually want to watch it after all (I'd been pushing for Jupiter Ascending or the new Ghostbusters, but never mind, eh.) Leverage: The Gimme a K Street Job, in which the show is remarkably sympathetic to a criminally incompetent coach who cares more about success than her kids' safety, with bonus poorly-understood paralysis plot.
Language. Very crankily finished off Week 1 of the FutureLearn Irish 101 course, and got started on week two. Spent some time discussing Irish orthography with my godmother's eldest and felt rather the better for it.
Growth. Hatching tomatoes! Just the cherries, so far, but fingers crossed for More To Come. The two surviving chilli have each got a third leaf coming (and I still daren't move them out of the warm box); I've stuck a baby stake in each of the Passiflora pots, and they're working on their second leaf-pair. At the allotment: spring onion seeds + shallot and garlic sets into the ground, plus some weeding in a desperate attempt to convince myself there's still time to get root veg in.
Tiny adventures. Inveigled A to drive me down the road to visit my godmother + family today, and spent a thoroughly lovely if slightly exhausting afternoon there. Am now in the process of introducing godmother's children to my small cousins, because they will all get on EXCELLENTLY, and I'm mildly embarrassed I hadn't thought of it sooner. We stayed much longer than I'd expected & I v much enjoyed myself.
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Date: 2019-04-08 06:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
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