I spent a rather disappointing day today, and decided to start anew by taking a nap. I woke up at 7 pm and felt a bit better, although getting out of my very warm, cozy bed into a 63F apartment (I'm cheap/broke) was very difficult.
I spent half an hour deciding on what to watch - settled on one of the Vicar of Dibley Christmas specials - and then got to work on dinner. Made Portuguese spicy shrimp (my grandmother's recipe) and white jasmine rice and a green salad. Nobly resisted going to the store to buy feta cheese (a staple of my "luxury" purchases), and after my dinner was made and consumed I was putting the leftovers (very happy with the fact I have rice and shrimp in one tupperware and another tupperware with plain rice I get to make egg fried rice with - screw my diet, it's bloody cold outside) I found that I still HAD some in the fridge! I'm very cross about this. Tonight was all about the perfect dinner and I had the feta I wanted and didn't know it was in there! Oh well. I'll have it for lunch tomorrow with my leftovers.
So, anyway, my Friday night is me chilling on the couch (literally chilling...brrr) watching As Time Goes By on Amazon Prime, drinking aspartame-laced Cuba Libres, and writing a novel. And I'm strangely okay with that.
(Not that I wouldn't like a tall, dark, handsome boyfriend snuggling up on the couch with me, him reading and drinking with me writing and drinking. But I haven't got one, nor am I likely to find one, so making the best of things it is.)
Friday, November 14, 2014
Monday, November 10, 2014
Quickie thought of the day
Why am I always so tired?
And, more importantly, why do my friends post articles on Facebook about how lung cancer affects 1 in 13 women and kills more women than breast, colon, and brain cancer combined every year? And worst of all, how the symptoms are "a cough that doesn't go away," "fatigue," and "aches and pains"??????
I mean, I KNOW every internet diagnosis is death. But still. My chest has been bugging me, and that article was not something I wanted to see!!
And, more importantly, why do my friends post articles on Facebook about how lung cancer affects 1 in 13 women and kills more women than breast, colon, and brain cancer combined every year? And worst of all, how the symptoms are "a cough that doesn't go away," "fatigue," and "aches and pains"??????
I mean, I KNOW every internet diagnosis is death. But still. My chest has been bugging me, and that article was not something I wanted to see!!
Sunday, November 9, 2014
An artist's quandary
I have no idea whether it's finished or not. I love it, and yet I look at it and wonder...oh well. It's mine, and I can take all the time I need to finish it.
I was at Michael's weeks and weeks ago, buying some paint, canvases, and craft variety items for the Halloween costume I was making, and some girl behind me in line was talking about how she had been offered gallery space in a real museum, and people bought her art off Etsy and tried to buy it when they saw it in her apartment, and how she had dozens and dozens of finished canvases, but she 'didn't want to give them up' and 'let them go' and I just stood there in line and gripped my items and managed not to smack her silly for being so foolish and frankly, downright evil, as to brag about her success and about her inability to capitalize on her talent because she was too emotionally attached to her pieces to share them with the world.
I'm sure it's hard to part with your pieces. But to refuse to give/loan them to a real museum that wants your artwork!! Forget not selling on Etsy (although she claimed to be broke, and still buying loads of art supplies to create more art), a real museum!
Oy.
Just oy.
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Sheer Exhaustion
What a week! I don't know which way is up right now.
Had an exam this morning, and was horribly frustrated that the professor accidentally put 7 more questions than he meant to, so told us to not answer the last 7 (I'd already done the whole test and was in the process of filling in my scantron), and those last 7 questions I knew all the answers to, but three or four in the middle I wasn't at all sure about, so I've probably lost some points! So frustrating.
Then I worked for a couple hours, and by noon I was so cold and miserable and hungry I nearly cried, despite my jersey and the throw I keep at my desk, but then I remembered my old office-mate left a space heater in there, so I turned it on, put it under my desk, and in about 10 minutes I was actually warm (my office is notorious for being the coldest room in the building), felt significantly less hungry, and didn't want to cry anymore! I must remember this for the future because I know it's just going to get colder in that damn icebox of an office. Even my current office-mate, a northerner who is gloating over the fact it's supposed to get down to 39F this weekend as an overnight low, thinks our office is way too cold and keeps a sweater in there.
I was relieved when it was lunchtime, but a blonde girl has suddenly developed the habit of being in the grad student lounge when I come up for lunch, which drives me INSANE. I've decided I must have both introvert and extrovert qualities, because spending 10 hours or so on campus (which I do a lot of days) is really hard on me and I need a half hour entirely to myself to recharge and get through the end of my day in one piece. Then when she left, and I was just rising to lie down on the couch for the five minutes I had left, another girl came in and asked, "Oh, are you studying?" - despite the macaroni and cheese cup in my hand - and I politely said no, she came in and dropped her belongings on the couch and I gave up my dreams of five minutes of calm and repose, and left.
Needless to say, I was in a seriously unpleasant mood by the time I got to Conservation class. Class was okay. Spot-cleaning rusty nails with 10% solutions of various acids is neither soothing nor fun, and I was very relieved I only had to do 45 minutes of work after class to complete my hours for the week.
Unfortunately, I have to go in tomorrow (I purposely work 10-12 hour days so that I DON'T have to go in Fridays!) but it shouldn't take long. I'll take my car and run errands on the way home. Need to get laundry quarters, supplies for a photography portfolio, my tires checked, things like that. Then I need to work on my thesis and I SHOULD go to the opera night, but I'm not sure. I usually enjoy myself when I'm there, but I'm so horridly tired right now, and have so much work to do this weekend, I don't know if I would.
I loathe being grown-up. I never know what's the good thing for me, or the right thing for me to do! That and I just put a percentage of my paycheck into my savings, and paid off my credit card and have so little money left for the month I'm practically frightened about it. I still need stuff for Thanksgiving - cutlery, food, some little bowls and things. Hopefully I'll be able to swing it, but I'm going to pray my hardest that I don't have to dip into my retirement savings. It's all because I bought $200+ of furniture last month, and a bunch of very necessary cooking stuff that turned out to be more expensive than I thought. Still, once I have everything then I won't have to spend money on it again, will I?
Had an exam this morning, and was horribly frustrated that the professor accidentally put 7 more questions than he meant to, so told us to not answer the last 7 (I'd already done the whole test and was in the process of filling in my scantron), and those last 7 questions I knew all the answers to, but three or four in the middle I wasn't at all sure about, so I've probably lost some points! So frustrating.
Then I worked for a couple hours, and by noon I was so cold and miserable and hungry I nearly cried, despite my jersey and the throw I keep at my desk, but then I remembered my old office-mate left a space heater in there, so I turned it on, put it under my desk, and in about 10 minutes I was actually warm (my office is notorious for being the coldest room in the building), felt significantly less hungry, and didn't want to cry anymore! I must remember this for the future because I know it's just going to get colder in that damn icebox of an office. Even my current office-mate, a northerner who is gloating over the fact it's supposed to get down to 39F this weekend as an overnight low, thinks our office is way too cold and keeps a sweater in there.
I was relieved when it was lunchtime, but a blonde girl has suddenly developed the habit of being in the grad student lounge when I come up for lunch, which drives me INSANE. I've decided I must have both introvert and extrovert qualities, because spending 10 hours or so on campus (which I do a lot of days) is really hard on me and I need a half hour entirely to myself to recharge and get through the end of my day in one piece. Then when she left, and I was just rising to lie down on the couch for the five minutes I had left, another girl came in and asked, "Oh, are you studying?" - despite the macaroni and cheese cup in my hand - and I politely said no, she came in and dropped her belongings on the couch and I gave up my dreams of five minutes of calm and repose, and left.
Needless to say, I was in a seriously unpleasant mood by the time I got to Conservation class. Class was okay. Spot-cleaning rusty nails with 10% solutions of various acids is neither soothing nor fun, and I was very relieved I only had to do 45 minutes of work after class to complete my hours for the week.
Unfortunately, I have to go in tomorrow (I purposely work 10-12 hour days so that I DON'T have to go in Fridays!) but it shouldn't take long. I'll take my car and run errands on the way home. Need to get laundry quarters, supplies for a photography portfolio, my tires checked, things like that. Then I need to work on my thesis and I SHOULD go to the opera night, but I'm not sure. I usually enjoy myself when I'm there, but I'm so horridly tired right now, and have so much work to do this weekend, I don't know if I would.
I loathe being grown-up. I never know what's the good thing for me, or the right thing for me to do! That and I just put a percentage of my paycheck into my savings, and paid off my credit card and have so little money left for the month I'm practically frightened about it. I still need stuff for Thanksgiving - cutlery, food, some little bowls and things. Hopefully I'll be able to swing it, but I'm going to pray my hardest that I don't have to dip into my retirement savings. It's all because I bought $200+ of furniture last month, and a bunch of very necessary cooking stuff that turned out to be more expensive than I thought. Still, once I have everything then I won't have to spend money on it again, will I?
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