halfway through the day

Things done so far today:

1. Cut my fingernails and toenails.

2. Prep work for making taco salad tomorrow -- chop onions, thaw ground beef and jalapenos, set out pans and pots, stuff like that. (This is so I can't argue myself out of actually cooking tomorrow, since everything is already set up and therefore there's no prep time for me to look at and decide it will take too long to bother.)

3. Repaired a shirt that had small tears in both underarm areas.

4. Repaired my illegally comfy yet still work-appropriate black jeans. Again. *sigh* See, the reason they're so comfy is because they are old and the fabric is worn soft... which means they are sadly prone to occasional tears and holes and such. So first I sewed up the new tear a bit, and then I slapped an iron-on patch over the area since the fabric was still quite weak. (My iron is one of those household appliances that I hardly ever use, but when I need it, I really need it and nothing else makes an adequate substitute.)

5. Backed up my laptop to my external hard drive.

Now I have not quite one hour left before I need to head out and catch a bus to Not the IRS, and I'm not sure how to fill it. Probably I should write stuff, or maybe take a stab at sorting some of the childhood document folders my mom dumped on me a few years back, but I'm not feeling either of those options.

Ah well. I'm sure I'll think of something.

evening life update

Things done as of 7pm-ish:

1. Sorted through some childhood document folders after all, and chucked a good amount of stuff into recycling.

2. Walked into town (so as to get my daily photo of Cascadilla Creek), caught a bus out to the mall, and arrived at my Not the IRS office.

3. Listened to some more season 3 episodes of The Magnus Archives.

4. Printed out some of my own tax documents. I think I now have everything except my 1095-A.

5. Scheduled a tax prep appointment with one of my prior clients. \o/ I mean, the appointment is in late February, but whatever.

6. Wrote ~825 words of a ficlet that I intended to be about how to build a functional river-crossing bridge in Narnia, given that classic stone bridges feel like chains to the river spirits as per dialogue/events in PC, and given that Golden Age Narnia doesn't seem to have had bridges at all. But fords and ferries are so inefficient, you know? So my protagonist is a teenage human girl who seems to have taken alternate methods of bridge construction as her... sort of combination of romantic change-the-world goal and hyperfixation. The plan was for her to meet up with an equally curious/experimental-minded naiad and develop a beautiful creative partnership. Except after the human girl left home in pursuit of her goal, she somehow wound up working in a tax office in the early post-Miraz years, where the chief auditor is a Lynx working to hunt down corruption and tax evasion left over from Miraz's reign, so I am no longer sure what on earth is going on here. *hands*

...

Now I'm going to either poke at that story some more or kill time websurfing until we close up the office for the night, after which I will buy groceries and catch a bus home.

end of day update

I came home, and as I was putting away my groceries one of the bags fell off the counter and six of my eggs broke.

*headdesk*

So I boiled eight (including the three that were only a bit cracked), saved one for later, and used the three that shattered to make banana bread and brownies, because I didn't really feel like an omelet tonight. I guess I'll bring some of the brownies to the Board of Trustees retreat on Saturday, along with the results of my vegetable roasting? They're not vegan (eggs, plus whatever dairy may or may not be in the box mix), but they are vegetarian and they definitely don't contain tree nuts because I have never seen the point of chucking walnuts or whatever into baked goods.

I listened to some more Magnus Archives episodes on the bus and while I was baking, and I am now up through episode 96 ("Return to Sender"), or not quite halfway through season 3.

I keep feeling I ought to say something in more detail about the show, but at the moment I'm basically at "I am enjoying it a lot, I find all the characters engaging, the individual horror shorts are each well-written, and the meta-plot is really well-structured." Possibly I will have deeper thoughts by the time I finish all currently extant canon. Or possibly not. Sometimes I just like something because I like it and have no particular need to pick it apart beyond that. *wry*