Disclaimer: I have the attention span of a gnat lately, so anything I'm not super into may just be a function of my brain and not a statement on its quality.

( Reading )

I have cried a lot today, but there are joyful things, so that's what I'll focus on.

In no particular order:

• Dodge Poetry Festival is online this year


• Work paid for me to go to Compounded Oppression: Sister’s Circle today


• Takeout Chinese food (we don't eat out much; joy is joy)


• We signed mortgage papers this week. Okay, I signed, but we own the ( Read more... )

...since I did one of these Wednesday things. Hmm, let's see. Disclaimer: I have the attention span of a gnat lately, so anything I'm not super into may just be a function of my brain and not a statement on its quality.

( Reading )

Via
( Read more... )

( CN: grief and boring paperwork )

My mom passed away this morning. I have never had a day that didn't have her in it. I am numb and sad and fine and scared and confident she would find some amusement (the dark kind) in the fact that she died from a mystery ailment and not the fucking coronavirus.

There will be no services. If you want to honor my mom, find something you're not using ( Read more... )

Answer each category with a SONG TITLE. No repeats and don’t use the internet (it's tempting but try not to). Go with the first song that comes to mind, change my answers to your own (can’t steal mine), and repost.

Something To Wear - Itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, yellow polka-dot bikini
Something To Drink - Black coffee in bed (Squeeze)
A Place - ( Read more... )

There's a fundraiser for mac_arthur_park's memorial service, if you can afford to help and want to. This entry was originally posted on Dreamwidth (DW). I welcome comments here or at the original post, where there are currently
( Read more... )

These are not in order of importance. My mind is all over the place today.

1) Playing Choose Your Own Apocalypse is wearing me out. I know I am not alone in this.

2) Went back to school to get (finish) a degree in nutrition. I like school. Plus, I like having something to do with every moment of time. But it doesn't help with the worn-out part.

3) mac_arthur_park ( Read more... )

1) Because the quarantine is less hard on me than it is on others, I sometimes forget to give myself a break for the ways in which it is hard. Privilege doesn't mean nothing ever hurts. I'm gonna try to be kinder to myself about all this.

2) I'm now getting two weekly farm boxes. I'm not sorry at all.

3) We've killed off 18.5% of our consumer debt ( Read more... )