Quote of the Day

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space.
---Gloria Steinem

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It's been a while since I made a quote post, hasn't it? I'm not sure why.

Anyway, having spent some time on a pedestal in my youth, I can personally attest to the truth of this particular aphorism.

afternoon update, Wednesday March 25

My day so far:

1. Slept in until 10:30am because I could and it was lovely. :)

2. Cut my fingernails and toenails.

3. Several of the tiny carrots I planted a few days back have brightened immensely -- their rather sickly yellowish tiny feathered leaves have turned solidly green -- and while others have lost their little leaf sprouts entirely, I retain hope they will try again soon.

In other botanical news, one of my bell peppers has a healthy-looking flower (winter flowers tend to look... weird, shall we say) but the petals were covered in aphids this morning, what the heck. I squished a bunch and sprayed the whole plant with soapy water, and then sprayed all the other peppers and the eggplant for good measure. *sigh*

4. Thoroughly cleaned the car handles and driving apparatus and dashboard and so on with Windex. Brought in two bags of childhood documents which I will let sit for some days before I touch them again.

5. Roasted some zucchini because it needed doing and I'm not going to have time for that tonight.

6. Mom Boss texted me to say that the rental office will be staying open. However, all employees have the option to be "laid off" and collect unemployment if we're not comfortable working. I think I won't take advantage of that.

My Saturday shift has been cut; Miss California will work alone. If I want, I can spend part of Saturday doing some light sanitation work in our three big apartment buildings, but that's not a requirement. I can also reduce my hours during the week, but that's not mandatory.

So I'm going to think it over and decided tomorrow when I can ask a few questions about how the cleaning shift would work in practice.

7. Drove to Not the IRS, where I have finished one of my in-progress returns (this has to be done entirely online now, since we don't want to expose the receptionist to the inherent contamination risks of taking payments in-person) and am waiting for another client to come drop off their documents.

This evening's plan is to attend a Board of Trustees Zoom meeting that's half check-in and half emergency planning session, because we have to recalibrate a whole bunch of stuff for obvious reasons.

evening update, Wednesday March 25

Things done since my last post:

1. Wrote ~320 words of the Narnia/Naruto crossover. It's amazing how writing one particular conversation is giving me such a clear picture of what I need to go back and retroactively add into previous scenes! (No really, this is very cool because I knew there was a weak point but it's damnably hard to pinpoint the precise shape of the structural weakness until you hit the part where your narrative needs that support to function, whereupon the way it fails tells you exactly what you need to go back and fix. You still have to figure out where and how to apply the changes, which is a kettle of fish all on its own, but by gum you know what the changes must be!)

2. Quick grocery run to buy broccoli, more crackers, eggs (because I anticipate some stress baking), some Windex, and some hard cider. Alas, there were no paper towels in the store. I did snag some napkins, though, so I can switch to using actual napkins as napkins (and for wiping up minor kitchen splotches) and save the paper towels for serious cleaning.

3. Board of Trustees Zoom meeting 7pm-8:15ish. This was a little bit of a check-in and a little bit of a planning session. We are all doing okay, we agreed on a couple Things To Do, and we've agreed to do this again next Wednesday. My laptop's camera is still busted, apparently, but I think that was okay because it meant I could eat dinner (my delicious homemade bean soup!) without worrying about looking gross in public.

4. This is actual a thing I did earlier in the day but forgot to mention in the previous post. I have finished crossposting all my Three Sentence Ficathon fills to AO3! \o/ ...Now I just need to add the AO3 links here on my journal, and then copypaste the journal URLs into my table of contents document so I can start getting everything sorted into my directory pages. *flops onto keyboard* I mean, I know exactly why I do this to myself -- I like organization, goshdarnit, and I also really enjoy writing three-sentence ficlets -- but some days I wonder whether I should just chuck in the towel and let AO3 handle everything for me. *sigh*

5. Called my parents to make sure they're doing okay. They are, thank goodness. Dad reports that he's still going in to PT twice a week (he mucked up his foot a few months back) but now not only are the staff all wearing masks and gowns and gloves, they are making all patients wear masks as well.

And now I am off to bed because whatever I end up deciding in re: Saturday cleaning work, I think I'm going to go with a 9am-5pm schedule for my weekday shifts at the rental office.