daily update, Saturday Feb. 15

Things done yesterday!

1. Rental office 10am-6pm. Pretty slow overall: two apartment tours, and we rented a studio. Also two separate apartments seem to have a mouse infestation, which is kind of frustrating. :(

2. Finished chapter 2 and started chapter 3 of A Fistful of Shells.

3. Wrote two 3-sentence ficathon fills.

4. Wrote a rough draft of a 1-2 minute presentation to give at church on Sunday, about recent Board of Trustees decisions and the results of a congregational conversation on January 26. Emailed it to the rest of the Board for comment, and got some useful feedback.

5. Ate a BLT for dinner and therefore went to bed early. :)

daily update, Sunday Feb. 16

Things done today:

1. Got up an hour early in order to revise my little presentation for church. Abruptly realized I didn't know if my printer was currently in working order. Tested printer; the mechanics are fine and it can talk to my computer, but apparently all the ink has dried up/solidified since the last time I tried to print anything. Oops!

So I copied the text out by hand on some notepaper, and also emailed it to myself both as the email text body and an attachment, just in case.

2. Gave short presentation at the start of the service. \o/ Then skipped out early because I had chores to do and limited time in which to do them.

3. Changed linens.

4. Cut my fingernails.

5. LAUNDRY. The big chore, ugh. I ended up running out of time to fold linens at the laundromat, so I just chucked all the clean and dry stuff into my bag and hauled it back to my apartment in a big wrinkly jumble. I will fold things tomorrow.

6. CONCERT! This was back at my church, at 3:00pm. The Cayuga Chamber Orchestra does a series of chamber music concerts in addition to their full orchestral series, which I was reminded of on Wednesday when reading the current issue of the Ithaca Times, the local free weekly newspaper. So I bought a ticket on the premise that I deserve nice things. :)

The concert was lovely! The first half was Beethoven's String Quintet, Opus 29, which is for two violins, two violas, and a cello. The second half was Alfredo Casella's Serenata, Opus 46, which is composed of six relatively short movements loosely based on Baroque dances; the instrumentation is violin, cello, bassoon, trumpet, and clarinet -- a very unusual combination, but one which produced beautiful and/or fascinating results.

I grabbed a BLT on my way home, which I have duly eaten, and I think I will fall into bed by 7pm, so as to continue paying down my (annoyingly chronic) sleep deficit. Writing can wait for tomorrow.

(On a vaguely related note, I am unsure whether to count my Board Minute speech toward my getyourwordsout total. On the one hand, it is definitely a thing I wrote, and one which is not journaling, but on the other hand it's not fiction, so... *hands* I will double-check the community rules tomorrow to see if they offer any guidance.)

I should probably also order some black ink for my printer sometime tomorrow. I haven't used it much in recent years, but it IS undeniably easier to do edits on longer works if I print them out and physically mark them up with red pen than if I'm just fiddling pixels on a screen.