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Easy Like Sunday Morning
I'm trying to convince Shawn that she's having a "pajama day," rather than day eleven of her back trauma. I'm not sure it's working. But, we are cuddled up in bed with several cats, the Sunday paper, and I have a nice hot cup of coffee and my laptop. If Shawn wasn't still so miserable, it would be very pleasant ( Read more... ) -
Volunteerism
Mason is in the Junior Honor Society. As part of his membership, in addition to keeping up his grades, he's required to do a certain number of volunteer hours. It's difficult to find places that accept thirteen year-old volunteers. However, Shawn found that Second Harvest will take volunteers 8 and older. We managed to find free slots (no easy ( Read more... ) -
Coming Out
For years I thought I was a Slytherin. Look, I'm very ambitious, okay? I have some very Scorpio tendencies that align themselves with some Slytherin traits. I knew I wasn't the typical sneaky, back-stabby (mostly) Slytherin, but then neither was Professor Slughorn. I very much felt a certain kinship with Slughorn. And, I am a Scorpio, okay? I ( Read more... ) -
Protests and Such
On Monday night, I joined a couple hundred people in downtown Minneapolis. This protest was billed as "Minneapolis Against Trump," but it was really about workers' rights.
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Monday Morning
On Thursday, Shawn threw out her back. She's been in varying amounts of pain throughout the weekend, ranging from extreme discomfort to 'crying in despair.' We went to the emergency clinic on Saturday in hopes of some relief. She did get a some prescription pain meds at that point, but they don't entirely seemed to have helped. (There's been, ( Read more... ) -
Lumberjanes vols. 1 - 5
I finally got around to reading Lumberjanes written by Noelle Stevenson and Grace Ellis / art by Brooke Allen
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Another Day, Another Dollar
...Or $11.50/hour as the case may be.
I'm not really sure what possessed me to agree to EVERY Tuesday and Wednesday at the library for the entire month of February. It's not that I mind putting in the hours themselves, but routine of it... Okay, I realize that most people have to go to the same job every day, five days a week. I used to do the ( Read more... ) -
Q-Library and Life
I'm off to volunteer at Quatrefoil in about fifteen minutes. I don't think I'm going to last very long there. You can ask my family, but I'm not in a very sociable mood. (I would actually have said no to this, but I haven't been able to go for the last few weeks, and so I felt guilty). Plus, Shawn had to make a same-day appointment at the ( Read more... ) -
Road Trips and an Invitation
First, I need to kickstart my career by 2018. I just got an invite to be one of the GoHs for Minicon next year. It would be nice if I had something to promote by then ( Read more... )
