evening life update, Feb. 19

[edenfalling]

Things done since 1pm-ish:

1. Continued doing nothing in particular at Not the IRS until 4pm.

2. Wrote two more 3-sentence ficathon fills.

3. Read ~25% of Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo instead of ch. 5 of A Fistful of Shells. Sometimes you want YA fantasy adventures rather than depressing economic and cultural history, you know?

4. Bought groceries! Put them away once I got home.

5. Took a walk to Cascadilla Creek and snapped my daily photo.

6. Took a nap, because sleep is both important and delicious. :)

7. Steamed broccoli, both for tonight's dinner and for meals over the next few days. I have always liked broccoli, but I seem to be on a real kick for it lately. I am not sure why. Possibly it's just that it's very easy to cook? But it also seems to taste especially good to me these past couple weeks, which is weird. Possibly I am low on some kind of vitamins that broccoli contains more of than my other usual veggie options do? Or maybe it's just one of those occasional random "I will eat this thing ALL THE TIME" streaks I get on, which last for variable lengths of time until the food in question abruptly stops being food for an again variable length of time.

*hands* Food is weird. Brains and bodies are weird. At the moment, I am really into broccoli and there's no use analyzing it more deeply than that.

Anyway, I think I will return to bed soonish, because I am still tired and also I think I pulled something in the back of my left knee this afternoon, which is the same knee I wrenched while shoveling snow last week. *sigh* It's twinging angrily at me right now, and I would very much like to sleep that off.

Comments

[rosaxx50]

How are you finding The Grisha Trilogy? I read it first, and melodramatic saviour epics are actually much more my thing than heist dramas so naturally I loved it to bits, but it's definitely less polished.

[edenfalling]

I'm enjoying it, but it's not grabbing me by the throat the same way Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom did -- which is a little bit because the writing and structure feel slightly... hmm... the pieces don't all click together with the same feeling of terrible inevitability? I mean, Bardugo is clearly going for that same general effect, but the weave as a whole is less tight and a bit more "and then this happened, because why not" instead of "and then this happened because there was nothing else that could have happened." And also a little bit because heist dramas are totally my thing while melodramatic savior epics are more hit and miss for me.