kaberett | some good things make a post

warm milk with nutmeg, before bed, and washing up the pan afterwards and feeling rooted by the memory of my grandparents arguing about The Most Appropriate Way To Wash Up.
turns out I've got a week longer before this chunk of thesis is due to my supervisors than I thought I did, or they think I have anyway, so that's a relief. tomorrow, hopefully, having had A Rest, I will be able to dive back in to sorting out the stability fields of divers silicate minerals during subduction.
today in small dragons-related dopamine: I have got half my Bestiary filled in now, i.e. I have collected half of the miscellaneous critters that you can set up as companions to your dragons. this Pleases me, in no small part because it's quantifiable measurable progress at a Thing, which I am badly in need of at the moment, for some reason.
I have been entirely too Thesis to mostly manage curling on the sofa with A and being in a pile and chatting about Whatever We're Thinking About, but I did manage it today, and have been getting gradually better at it over the few days, so it is Possible that the reality of the Looming Deadline doing, in fact, that thing where you think you've reached the top of the hill/mountain and then you crest a rise and there turns out to be More of it (this metaphor might have got away from me) is now sinking in and I'm relaxing a bit. Which would be nice.
I've set up my experimental bullet journal (on which more at the end of the month, probably) with, essentially, a glorified sticker chart for physio. I am using my ridiculous pack of 60 different coloured pens to tick off each exercise I manage in One Colour Per Day, to make A Rainbow. I did not actually plan my gradient out in advance so I am definitely at Purple and am going to have to loop back around, but also (i) colours, and (ii) I have been getting a lot more physio done. It's the quantifiable-measurable-achievements thing again, right?