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kaberettReading. I desperately needed a comfort re-read this week, so I may have slightly stayed up until 6am one night inhaling A Queen From The North (Erin McRae & Racheline Maltese), which continues to be horribly wrong about an enormous number of things (what! is a geosciences! undergraduate student! doing! in Unspecified lab! in spring term!!!) but also it was pretty much exactly what I wanted, so, hurrah for that.
Writing. ... well. Well. Via shenanigans various: I am Strongly Intending to Finish the redraft of the introduction to chapter 5 tonight, but have been waylaid by figuresand also cooking so. Let's see. How crunchy everything gets between now and Tuesday, which is when I want to circulate it around supervisors.
Watching. CXG S02E04. Still! having a lot! of feelings! about parallels between Greg and Paula, both choosing to protect themselves from Rebecca in ways that involve quietly stepping out of her life (Greg literally, Paula figuratively) and refocusing on their own ambitions... and also the ways in which Rebecca singularly fails to do anything other than try to stop them, either passively (through not getting her act together to write a recommendation) or actively (through straight-up demanding that Greg not leave, even though we already know she's willing to move cross-country on basically no notice if she's sufficiently sold on The Concept of True Love). And, goodness, but she's bad at distinguishing between "makes me feel wanted" and "in love", and goodness but she's entitled about their attention, and simultaneously they're. not. treating her brilliantly. In terms of having been actively encouraging her behaviour while it benefited them, and then... dropping her when they realise it doesn't, and it's bad for them, without any apparent reflection on how it's bad for her.
All of which is to say: this show is so good.
Listening. Barenaked Ladies, A Very Virtual Christmas, which I was somewhat dubious about, but nevertheless It Was Nice To See Them.
Playing. Among Us, small quantities PoGo, large quantities Dragons, tiny quantities horn, one (1) Hanabi with A, in which we mysteriously achieved our highest score ever despite having been working at cross-purposes with respect to our conventions for the first half of the game. (It turns out to also be available online! Via an apparently wide variety of interfaces! So have fun with that.)
Cooking. Cauliflower leaf curry! While A made dal and rice to go with. And then, this evening, while I was Definitely Not Procrastinating: 2.5l mulled apple juice; a Large batch of pastry, some of which has promptly been turned into mince pies, and the rest of which is in the fridge to become cheese straws and possibly more mince pies In Future; Teebäckerei (3:3:3:2 flour:icing sugar:ground nuts:butter, plus some grated dark chocolate and ~1 egg per ~100g butter); and tomorrow morning's bread.
Creating. I may slightly (still not procrastinating) have tripped and fallen into the general concept of Bullet Journalling, on the grounds that (1) I like nice notebooks and had just bought myself [shuffles] two Moleskines, one purely on the basis that I liked the cover, which only came with dot grid or ruled and I don't like their ruled, and apparently dot grids are The Done Thing; (2) turns out Ryman were selling the full set of 60 colours of Staedtler triplus fineliners for half-off (i.e. £19.99, as compared with £14.99 for 36 colours...) and I have coveted them for actual years; and (3) the principles are not dissimilar to how I'd been organising todo lists anyway, just, it is probably easier for me to consolidate a bunch of my todo lists In One Place where it's Easier To Look At Them than they currently are.
So far so good: it's been three days and I'm getting rather more physio done (let's see how long that lasts, eh?), and I'm enjoying myself, and also I now have a page for DW Posts I Keep Meaning To Get Around To Writing, and am pretty pleased with its freehanded header (see icon, which might get replaced with one with better colour balance At Some Point).
Writing. ... well. Well. Via shenanigans various: I am Strongly Intending to Finish the redraft of the introduction to chapter 5 tonight, but have been waylaid by figures
Watching. CXG S02E04. Still! having a lot! of feelings! about parallels between Greg and Paula, both choosing to protect themselves from Rebecca in ways that involve quietly stepping out of her life (Greg literally, Paula figuratively) and refocusing on their own ambitions... and also the ways in which Rebecca singularly fails to do anything other than try to stop them, either passively (through not getting her act together to write a recommendation) or actively (through straight-up demanding that Greg not leave, even though we already know she's willing to move cross-country on basically no notice if she's sufficiently sold on The Concept of True Love). And, goodness, but she's bad at distinguishing between "makes me feel wanted" and "in love", and goodness but she's entitled about their attention, and simultaneously they're. not. treating her brilliantly. In terms of having been actively encouraging her behaviour while it benefited them, and then... dropping her when they realise it doesn't, and it's bad for them, without any apparent reflection on how it's bad for her.
All of which is to say: this show is so good.
Listening. Barenaked Ladies, A Very Virtual Christmas, which I was somewhat dubious about, but nevertheless It Was Nice To See Them.
Playing. Among Us, small quantities PoGo, large quantities Dragons, tiny quantities horn, one (1) Hanabi with A, in which we mysteriously achieved our highest score ever despite having been working at cross-purposes with respect to our conventions for the first half of the game. (It turns out to also be available online! Via an apparently wide variety of interfaces! So have fun with that.)
Cooking. Cauliflower leaf curry! While A made dal and rice to go with. And then, this evening, while I was Definitely Not Procrastinating: 2.5l mulled apple juice; a Large batch of pastry, some of which has promptly been turned into mince pies, and the rest of which is in the fridge to become cheese straws and possibly more mince pies In Future; Teebäckerei (3:3:3:2 flour:icing sugar:ground nuts:butter, plus some grated dark chocolate and ~1 egg per ~100g butter); and tomorrow morning's bread.
Creating. I may slightly (still not procrastinating) have tripped and fallen into the general concept of Bullet Journalling, on the grounds that (1) I like nice notebooks and had just bought myself [shuffles] two Moleskines, one purely on the basis that I liked the cover, which only came with dot grid or ruled and I don't like their ruled, and apparently dot grids are The Done Thing; (2) turns out Ryman were selling the full set of 60 colours of Staedtler triplus fineliners for half-off (i.e. £19.99, as compared with £14.99 for 36 colours...) and I have coveted them for actual years; and (3) the principles are not dissimilar to how I'd been organising todo lists anyway, just, it is probably easier for me to consolidate a bunch of my todo lists In One Place where it's Easier To Look At Them than they currently are.
So far so good: it's been three days and I'm getting rather more physio done (let's see how long that lasts, eh?), and I'm enjoying myself, and also I now have a page for DW Posts I Keep Meaning To Get Around To Writing, and am pretty pleased with its freehanded header (see icon, which might get replaced with one with better colour balance At Some Point).
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Date: 2020-12-20 09:47 pm (UTC)Man, I love notebooks and pens and stickers and markers and just all of it. LOL
I'm glad you're enjoying yourself.
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Date: 2020-12-20 09:47 pm (UTC)Which, as someone who struggles with memory at the best of times, I *loved* if only because it automatically keeps track of (a) what you know about your cards and (b) what you know other people know about their cards.
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Date: 2020-12-20 10:35 pm (UTC)fwiw I think https://hanabi.cards/ looks much less ugly and much more like something I'm tentatively willing to engage with
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Date: 2020-12-21 07:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2020-12-21 07:09 am (UTC)I started BJing and then moved into elements of that but in a page-a-day diary plus less-organised notebooks. I am trying to remember to index my notebooks as I go along, because that is definitely useful!
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Date: 2020-12-28 08:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
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