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[kaberett]

(1) PAPER. SUBMITTED. for the fifth time good grief but I tidied up all of the figures and made the minor changes and spent approximately 0 time agonising over the cover letter and now hopefully I really don't have to do anything at all again until the proof stage (and honestly at this point if the proof stage requires more changes I might scream, very quietly, into a pillow).

(2) ... I. found. another packet of tomato seeds. down the backside of the sofa. I think I am convinced that I really don't need more than 2 plants of this variety. Probably. (Peche Vilmorin; they are for stuffing, where we don't actually eat stuffed tomatoes much, and I've actually acquired them at all because I'm so charmed by the way the immature fruit looks -- my seed catalogue posting a photo to FB; a Canadian supplier.)

(3) I did not wind up having therapy, today, but I did do therapy prep, and in the process worked out that Actually Reading Dreamwidth is a thing that will make me feel a lot better in terms of connection and so on and so forth, so instead of therapytoday I spent some time catching up on another few days of reading-page-by-date. Some of the issue is completionism on my part (and I absolutely don't want to imply I expect anyone else to do this ever), leading to familiar seize-up-overwhelm, but another contributing factor is that I'm currently up to, I think, the second of November, and it is quite something to be reading all of those posts as a time-traveller from the future. I am having a lot of feelings, basically.

Comments

[shanaqui]

Looking back at myself in November, I thought nothing was happening for me... but oh geez, in November I was going through my first round of therapy. I'm two therapists later now. How does so much and so little happen, all at the same time?

I am crossing fingers and toes that the paper is done with for you now. ♥ (You know, as much as possible, anyway.)

[kaberett]

oh I am SO GLAD that there is therapy progress <333 it feels deeply weird also to be reading all of this stuff and trying to work out what to comment on when -- do I need to catch up on the past X months of your life in order to not say something hideously clumsy and upsetting? is it best to just go by in silence? etc etc etc. BUT. <3

[lunabee34]

I'm glad you've got the paper off, and I hope that's the end of it.

[booksarelife]

Thanks for the poke that I should try and keep up a bit more with Dreamwidth because I think it does probably help

[kittydesade]

... I may have gotten another five varieties of tomatoes myself.

But GOOD ON THE PAPER may it come back with nothing to do.

[403]

Congrats! (And good luck with being Actually Done.)

Also, fried green tomatoes are a food that exists. Fry oil leaches out the solanine present in unripe fruit.

[kaberett]

Ooh, I did not know that that was the function of the cooking process! Thank you for the detail :D

[silveradept]

Permission to yeet the asshole reviewer if there are any other issues that rise above the level of typos or formatting errors? Because this is ridiculous at this point.

It must be quite interesting to look back at November, especially in the States, where we didn't know what was going to happen next, and with all the people concerned about what was going to happen at the end of December for the UK.

[sfred]

<3