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daily update, Thursday Jan. 30
Jan. 30th, 2020 08:41 pmThings done today:
1. Rental office 9am-7pm. Mostly slow, though again a weirdly large number of packages. (Seriously, WHAT are people ordering at this time of year???) Mom Boss had the March rent reminders ready, so I sent them out even though it's not quite February yet. Might as well get them done while we have the time, you know?
2. Read some more of Sovereign.
3. Continued listening to the frustrating Great Courses lecture series. We're dealing with the Reformation now, which is irritating on two counts. First, I happen to know more about the radical Reformation than the lecturer does (by virtue of being a Unitarian Universalist and interested in my own denomination's history, which has some roots in 16th century Poland and Transylvania), so I found a lot of what he said about it either wrong or so incomplete that it wildly missed the point; also, his relentlessly western-European focus drives me up the metaphorical wall because the Reformation didn't stop dead at the Austro-Hungarian border. Second, every time he talks about a pope, he just says "the Pope" and never bothers to say WHICH POPE (unless it's Paul III, and even then only sometimes). This is MADDENING, because it has the effect of collapsing all popes into a single ur-Pope with no distinguishing characteristics -- and he maintains this flattening lack of names EVEN WHEN he is also talking about how a given pope's personality affected his decisions! ARGH!!!!!
4. Wrote ~200 words of the untitled Narnia bridge fic. I have hit my![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
getyourwordsout wordcount target for January, with one day still to go! \o/ Also, I managed to at least partially wrangle the conversational subject back around to bridges rather than taxes, though possibly doing this by way of discussing drowned Telmarine soldiers from the climactic battle in PC was not the most tasteful way to do that? Oh well, whatever. I'm not going to prettify the logical results of a war.
5. Put away some of the clean laundry from yesterday.
And now I will have a slice of coffee cake and do a bit of websurfing before I hit the sack. :)
1. Rental office 9am-7pm. Mostly slow, though again a weirdly large number of packages. (Seriously, WHAT are people ordering at this time of year???) Mom Boss had the March rent reminders ready, so I sent them out even though it's not quite February yet. Might as well get them done while we have the time, you know?
2. Read some more of Sovereign.
3. Continued listening to the frustrating Great Courses lecture series. We're dealing with the Reformation now, which is irritating on two counts. First, I happen to know more about the radical Reformation than the lecturer does (by virtue of being a Unitarian Universalist and interested in my own denomination's history, which has some roots in 16th century Poland and Transylvania), so I found a lot of what he said about it either wrong or so incomplete that it wildly missed the point; also, his relentlessly western-European focus drives me up the metaphorical wall because the Reformation didn't stop dead at the Austro-Hungarian border. Second, every time he talks about a pope, he just says "the Pope" and never bothers to say WHICH POPE (unless it's Paul III, and even then only sometimes). This is MADDENING, because it has the effect of collapsing all popes into a single ur-Pope with no distinguishing characteristics -- and he maintains this flattening lack of names EVEN WHEN he is also talking about how a given pope's personality affected his decisions! ARGH!!!!!
4. Wrote ~200 words of the untitled Narnia bridge fic. I have hit my
getyourwordsout wordcount target for January, with one day still to go! \o/ Also, I managed to at least partially wrangle the conversational subject back around to bridges rather than taxes, though possibly doing this by way of discussing drowned Telmarine soldiers from the climactic battle in PC was not the most tasteful way to do that? Oh well, whatever. I'm not going to prettify the logical results of a war.5. Put away some of the clean laundry from yesterday.
And now I will have a slice of coffee cake and do a bit of websurfing before I hit the sack. :)
