Saturday Shake-Down
Mar. 4th, 2017 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee341. Josh had his endoscopy/colonoscopy yesterday. Everything went fine, and the doctor saw nothing immediately apparently wrong. Now we have to wait on the biopsies. On the one hand, I am thrilled that nothing is immediately apparently wrong. On the other, I am envisioning a drawn out process in which we may not even be able to figure out what the problem is. *sigh* I want a tricorder, dammit, and I want it now.
2. I have been reading like my old self again! It's wonderful! I read all of The Girl with All the Gifts yesterday, just devoured it in one go like Lorraine of Yore. And then I read some random poetry (oh, Anne Sexton, Transformations is such a glorious, glorious work; thank you for it). Feels nice.
3. I cleared a bunch of work stuff off my plate this past week, and I intend to get everything caught up and squared away over this upcoming week which is spring break. I wrote the forward to the next edition of the peer-reviewed journal attached to the academic org I'm president of this year; that was fun. I also went through and changed the pagination on almost all of my notes for 1102 as the text I'm teaching from went to a new edition; that was much less fun.
4. I've been writing on my autoimmune disorder memoir! I actually have an idea for the shape of the thing, and I've been putting down words. I still can't seem to get the hang of writing on it every day, but I am writing on it.
5. My Leuchtturm1917 arrived! It is beautiful, and it smells delicious just likeelfin said it would. I did the title page with mandala corners and a quote from Margaret Atwood's "Spelling."
2. I have been reading like my old self again! It's wonderful! I read all of The Girl with All the Gifts yesterday, just devoured it in one go like Lorraine of Yore. And then I read some random poetry (oh, Anne Sexton, Transformations is such a glorious, glorious work; thank you for it). Feels nice.
3. I cleared a bunch of work stuff off my plate this past week, and I intend to get everything caught up and squared away over this upcoming week which is spring break. I wrote the forward to the next edition of the peer-reviewed journal attached to the academic org I'm president of this year; that was fun. I also went through and changed the pagination on almost all of my notes for 1102 as the text I'm teaching from went to a new edition; that was much less fun.
4. I've been writing on my autoimmune disorder memoir! I actually have an idea for the shape of the thing, and I've been putting down words. I still can't seem to get the hang of writing on it every day, but I am writing on it.
5. My Leuchtturm1917 arrived! It is beautiful, and it smells delicious just like
elfin said it would. I did the title page with mandala corners and a quote from Margaret Atwood's "Spelling."
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Date: 2017-03-04 05:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-03-05 01:04 am (UTC)It smelled like good paper but also like something kind of spicy that definitely is not paper when I first opened it. I never would have thought to smell it if you hadn't said that.
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Date: 2017-03-05 01:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-03-05 03:09 pm (UTC)I could see the spiciness I smelled being analogous to resin. It smelled like the person packing the notebook had been wearing this awesome perfume and faint traces had rubbed off on it.
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Date: 2017-03-04 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-03-05 01:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-03-04 07:42 pm (UTC)Awesome! That's a great Intro quote. :D :D
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Date: 2017-03-05 01:06 am (UTC)I love Margaret Atwood. I have a bone deep and abiding love/jealousy/admiration/omg!yay reaction to everything I've read that she's written. And she writes so much about writing; I'm a sucker for the meta piece.
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Date: 2017-03-05 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-03-06 12:38 am (UTC)We have an annual conference and a peer-reviewed journal, so not just conference proceedings!