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Hi, not dead!
Random stuff in no particular order:
1. I posted a rough draft of my remix tonight. It's not the entirety of what I have written, but it's the part that works okay on its own -- the rest is either a rambling introductory scene I may end up cutting altogether, or unfinished unrepentant porn. Unfinished porn is nobody's friend. *wry* (Yes, I am actually writing porn for RemixRedux. I am as surprised by this development as you are! This is not even the fic I meant to be remixing, but it's the one I couldn't get out of my head, to the point it muscled in on my planned remix and stole all my inspiration for itself. Stories. What can you do.)
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2. I now have eleven pepper sprouts. I'm not completely sure the later sprouts will do as well as the earlier ones -- they're a bit crumpled and funny around the leaves even after some time to grow -- but what the heck, they deserve a fair chance. I gave them all a bit of MiracleGro on Thursday and we shall see what happens.
I also acquired seven more flowerpots. You see, we are cleaning out the smoke shop basement in preparation for closing in about two months, and we have a LOT of old junk down there. Which included seven very nice terracotta pots, 7" across and 5.5" tall. The pots I was using last year (of which I have two) are 8" across and about 7" tall, while the two I bought at Target a few weeks ago are square-ish rather than round but of basically similar dimensions. So my new pots are a bit smaller but still of respectable size... and I got them for a grand total of $7.00, no sales tax.
It's not a very large silver lining, but I'll take it.
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3. I have finally applied to return to college. By which I mean I finished the online form part of the application and my transcripts will go in the mail tomorrow morning. From this point on, my fate on that front is out of my hands.
*attempts to cross fingers and bite nails simultaneously*
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4. Today's RE session was the second half of a two-part lesson on courage -- this is less about how to know what the good/right/appropriate thing to do is, and more about how to actually do the thing in question. So we did a quick recap of the story from last week (The Lion on the Path) and then played Courage Tag (which is basically freeze tag with beanbags on your head) and gave the kids a chance to practice being brave and telling a bully -- first a random person, then a "friend" -- to stop being mean; Joan and I took turns being the bully and the person being picked on, since we didn't want to say mean things to the kids themselves. It was actually really hard to say mean things to Joan! For one thing, I kept running out of ideas, and for another, even though I knew it wasn't real, just saying the insults made me feel like a shitty, shitty person.
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So that's some stuff I've been doing.
Random stuff in no particular order:
1. I posted a rough draft of my remix tonight. It's not the entirety of what I have written, but it's the part that works okay on its own -- the rest is either a rambling introductory scene I may end up cutting altogether, or unfinished unrepentant porn. Unfinished porn is nobody's friend. *wry* (Yes, I am actually writing porn for RemixRedux. I am as surprised by this development as you are! This is not even the fic I meant to be remixing, but it's the one I couldn't get out of my head, to the point it muscled in on my planned remix and stole all my inspiration for itself. Stories. What can you do.)
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2. I now have eleven pepper sprouts. I'm not completely sure the later sprouts will do as well as the earlier ones -- they're a bit crumpled and funny around the leaves even after some time to grow -- but what the heck, they deserve a fair chance. I gave them all a bit of MiracleGro on Thursday and we shall see what happens.
I also acquired seven more flowerpots. You see, we are cleaning out the smoke shop basement in preparation for closing in about two months, and we have a LOT of old junk down there. Which included seven very nice terracotta pots, 7" across and 5.5" tall. The pots I was using last year (of which I have two) are 8" across and about 7" tall, while the two I bought at Target a few weeks ago are square-ish rather than round but of basically similar dimensions. So my new pots are a bit smaller but still of respectable size... and I got them for a grand total of $7.00, no sales tax.
It's not a very large silver lining, but I'll take it.
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3. I have finally applied to return to college. By which I mean I finished the online form part of the application and my transcripts will go in the mail tomorrow morning. From this point on, my fate on that front is out of my hands.
*attempts to cross fingers and bite nails simultaneously*
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4. Today's RE session was the second half of a two-part lesson on courage -- this is less about how to know what the good/right/appropriate thing to do is, and more about how to actually do the thing in question. So we did a quick recap of the story from last week (The Lion on the Path) and then played Courage Tag (which is basically freeze tag with beanbags on your head) and gave the kids a chance to practice being brave and telling a bully -- first a random person, then a "friend" -- to stop being mean; Joan and I took turns being the bully and the person being picked on, since we didn't want to say mean things to the kids themselves. It was actually really hard to say mean things to Joan! For one thing, I kept running out of ideas, and for another, even though I knew it wasn't real, just saying the insults made me feel like a shitty, shitty person.
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So that's some stuff I've been doing.
