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life giveth, life taketh away
Sep. 25th, 2018 11:44 pmThings and also stuff:
1. My relationship with Wilson (my diagonal neighbors' cat) has progressed to to the point where she actively asks me to pick her up and cuddle her against my shoulder. I can only do this for fifteen minutes or so before I have to retreat and blow my nose and wipe down all my skin and clothes, because allergies, but gosh it's relaxing and rewarding!
2. I finished my NFE fic on Saturday night. It very badly wants expansion and editing, but it passes the bus test (ie, if I got hit by a bus and died between now and the challenge archive opening, it would be a perfectly reasonable gift for my recipient) and editing is always easier than creating something out of nothing, so I'm not worried.
3. Work continues to chug along. Aunt Boss finally generated the new parking lease form, so I was able to print out all the individual template leases. It's nice to have that off my back. We are also well into the "endless stack of lease folders" stage of the game. I got several scanned on Monday, but had to leave an equally large stack for New Hire 2, plus all the uploading, Rent Manager data entry stuff, and emailing. Oh well, we're not paid to sit around and websurf, nice though that might be. *wry*
4. College also continues to chug along. Prof. G dumped about thirty-odd files onto Blackboard this week, which I will need to look through tomorrow. I think most of them will ultimately be irrelevant, but she is not terribly organized so there's no way to tell which are important and which aren't without opening them all. As for my government class, I just turned in my first essay tonight, after writing it in... I think literally twenty minutes? It's far from deathless literature, but considering the general writing level displayed in the online discussion boards, I think I am quite safe in saying it will be one of the top three essays submitted. *sigh* (Also, it's weird writing an essay that boils down to "let me describe Topic to you" instead of "let me justify an opinion about Topic to you!" It's like stepping back several rungs on the ladder of intellectual complexity. I kept feeling I really ought to be doing more, but no, the assignment was to explain/describe, so that's what I did.)
5. It's a pity Former Upstairs Neighbor E and her family moved away at the end of July, because the raspberries she planted three years ago have finally come into their own this August and September, and have been blooming and fruiting like nobody's business. I have taken to having raspberries as a small sidedish with every other night's dinner. (It turns out I am not terribly allergic to them at the moment -- I have been more sensitive in the past -- and so I can eat a dozen or so if I make sure to intersperse them with a few bites of something else.) They are delicious. I hadn't realized quite how much I missed the experience of fresh fruit (aside from citrus) until it was returned to me. :D
6. I did something to my left knee last Thursday -- wrenched it, strained it, slept on it funny, whatever -- and it has been complaining at me ever since, at various levels of pain. I dug out my old Ace knee brace (from when I really dinged up my knee playing soccer in high school), which has been helping, but the discomfort keeps lingering. :(
7. And last, some sad news.
I don't think I ever mentioned Mark Pedersen on this journal, but he was my church administrator for many years, and he died very unexpectedly on Sunday the 16th.
Here is his obituary: http://www.bangsfuneralhome.com/obituary/mark-pedersen
And here is a message from the First Unitarian Board of Trustees:
( cut for length and a gesture at privacy )
I went to Mark's memorial service on Saturday morning, and cried a bunch. I didn't have a close personal relationship with Mark, but we attended an adult RE class together many years ago, we would sometimes run into each other on the bus in the mornings, and he was always willing to chat when I dropped by his office on errands. He was, in many ways, the heart of our congregation, and while I know we'll get through this in the long term, in the short term I'm not sure what we'll do without him.
1. My relationship with Wilson (my diagonal neighbors' cat) has progressed to to the point where she actively asks me to pick her up and cuddle her against my shoulder. I can only do this for fifteen minutes or so before I have to retreat and blow my nose and wipe down all my skin and clothes, because allergies, but gosh it's relaxing and rewarding!
2. I finished my NFE fic on Saturday night. It very badly wants expansion and editing, but it passes the bus test (ie, if I got hit by a bus and died between now and the challenge archive opening, it would be a perfectly reasonable gift for my recipient) and editing is always easier than creating something out of nothing, so I'm not worried.
3. Work continues to chug along. Aunt Boss finally generated the new parking lease form, so I was able to print out all the individual template leases. It's nice to have that off my back. We are also well into the "endless stack of lease folders" stage of the game. I got several scanned on Monday, but had to leave an equally large stack for New Hire 2, plus all the uploading, Rent Manager data entry stuff, and emailing. Oh well, we're not paid to sit around and websurf, nice though that might be. *wry*
4. College also continues to chug along. Prof. G dumped about thirty-odd files onto Blackboard this week, which I will need to look through tomorrow. I think most of them will ultimately be irrelevant, but she is not terribly organized so there's no way to tell which are important and which aren't without opening them all. As for my government class, I just turned in my first essay tonight, after writing it in... I think literally twenty minutes? It's far from deathless literature, but considering the general writing level displayed in the online discussion boards, I think I am quite safe in saying it will be one of the top three essays submitted. *sigh* (Also, it's weird writing an essay that boils down to "let me describe Topic to you" instead of "let me justify an opinion about Topic to you!" It's like stepping back several rungs on the ladder of intellectual complexity. I kept feeling I really ought to be doing more, but no, the assignment was to explain/describe, so that's what I did.)
5. It's a pity Former Upstairs Neighbor E and her family moved away at the end of July, because the raspberries she planted three years ago have finally come into their own this August and September, and have been blooming and fruiting like nobody's business. I have taken to having raspberries as a small sidedish with every other night's dinner. (It turns out I am not terribly allergic to them at the moment -- I have been more sensitive in the past -- and so I can eat a dozen or so if I make sure to intersperse them with a few bites of something else.) They are delicious. I hadn't realized quite how much I missed the experience of fresh fruit (aside from citrus) until it was returned to me. :D
6. I did something to my left knee last Thursday -- wrenched it, strained it, slept on it funny, whatever -- and it has been complaining at me ever since, at various levels of pain. I dug out my old Ace knee brace (from when I really dinged up my knee playing soccer in high school), which has been helping, but the discomfort keeps lingering. :(
7. And last, some sad news.
I don't think I ever mentioned Mark Pedersen on this journal, but he was my church administrator for many years, and he died very unexpectedly on Sunday the 16th.
Here is his obituary: http://www.bangsfuneralhome.com/obituary/mark-pedersen
And here is a message from the First Unitarian Board of Trustees:
( cut for length and a gesture at privacy )I went to Mark's memorial service on Saturday morning, and cried a bunch. I didn't have a close personal relationship with Mark, but we attended an adult RE class together many years ago, we would sometimes run into each other on the bus in the mornings, and he was always willing to chat when I dropped by his office on errands. He was, in many ways, the heart of our congregation, and while I know we'll get through this in the long term, in the short term I'm not sure what we'll do without him.
