what I did today
Sep. 3rd, 2012 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfalling1. Some sewing. I repaired a torn pair of pants (the back pocket had somehow separated from the main cloth, leaving a giant open seam on my butt through which anyone could see my underwear *twitch*), repaired a torn sheet, and got a bit further on hemming a pair of black pants -- I had been 1/8 of the way through and am now 5/8 toward completion. I hate back stitch. The next pair of pants I have to hem, I think I will do in running stitch instead -- it's less secure, but it also uses much less thread and goes a LOT faster, and since the next pair is not in such a heavy fabric, I am not as worried about needing a solid hem line.
2. Constructed two more articles for Dad's encyclopedia. I have one more left, but that one requires some active research and writing, since the writer only provided scientific career info and no biographical stuff, so I have to write those parts myself.
3. Wrote 175 words of "Secrets" -- a transition from Ginny-and-Daphne to Ginny-and-family-and-trio, basically -- for a current total of 5,450. Bleh.
4. Called Vicky and spoke briefly. We try to pick days to talk when I am off work, but then she relies on me being the one to call her and I tend to forget until dinnertime, at which point she is often getting ready to go out with friends. I think this would work better if she called me, since she is more likely to try earlier in the day.
5. Talked to Downstairs Neighbor S for over half an hour while taking out the recycling. Upstairs Neighbor K used to do that, but since he and his family bought a house last month, the job seems to have fallen to either me or to Upstairs Neighbor R, whoever gets to it first. I am glad that S enjoys sitting on our porch and being neighborly, because I am terrible at socializing of my own accord and am therefore relieved when someone else takes the initiative, but I have to figure out polite ways to back out of our interactions sooner because I hit my "okay, I've been sociable and I would like to be alone now" limit LONG before she seems remotely interested in winding down the conversation and going back to her reading.
(It's hard being an introvert. It's hard and no one understands. *silly*)
2. Constructed two more articles for Dad's encyclopedia. I have one more left, but that one requires some active research and writing, since the writer only provided scientific career info and no biographical stuff, so I have to write those parts myself.
3. Wrote 175 words of "Secrets" -- a transition from Ginny-and-Daphne to Ginny-and-family-and-trio, basically -- for a current total of 5,450. Bleh.
4. Called Vicky and spoke briefly. We try to pick days to talk when I am off work, but then she relies on me being the one to call her and I tend to forget until dinnertime, at which point she is often getting ready to go out with friends. I think this would work better if she called me, since she is more likely to try earlier in the day.
5. Talked to Downstairs Neighbor S for over half an hour while taking out the recycling. Upstairs Neighbor K used to do that, but since he and his family bought a house last month, the job seems to have fallen to either me or to Upstairs Neighbor R, whoever gets to it first. I am glad that S enjoys sitting on our porch and being neighborly, because I am terrible at socializing of my own accord and am therefore relieved when someone else takes the initiative, but I have to figure out polite ways to back out of our interactions sooner because I hit my "okay, I've been sociable and I would like to be alone now" limit LONG before she seems remotely interested in winding down the conversation and going back to her reading.
(It's hard being an introvert. It's hard and no one understands. *silly*)
