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timegoddessrose) wrote2022-06-14 02:00 pm
timegoddessrose) wrote2022-06-14 02:00 pm
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Excessive Heat Warning
We're experiencing a heat wave, which around these parts at this time of year means it's averaging 100 degrees and above. I'm focusing on keeping the upstairs as cool as possible for Grey (the cat) and keeping myself hydrated. I'm running on very little sleep because of all this since I have to leave the (extremely loud) window unit running overnight. The payoff is that my day started at 7 AM, so I've already crossed a lot of things off my to-do list for today. But that balances out with the price of being exhausted by 2 PM.
I finally finished rereading all the new canon Thrawn books leading up to Lesser Evil, so now I can begin the aforementioned new(er) installment. I'm finding it hard to focus on Lesser Evil, though, in a bitter twist of completely predictable irony. I'm having better luck with some academic reading; a biology course and reading Orientalism by Edward Said for funsies. I'm also working my way through a collection of Brothers Grimm fairytales in the original German (Andrew Lang translations are Bad, theory confirmed).
Went by the fabric store yesterday and picked up some needle threaders (the ancient one Mom and I had been sharing finally met its honorable end last week), and then, because I have no self-control, I got some sparkly yarn that was on sale. IT WAS CHEAP WITH PRETTY COLORS AND SPARKLES, WHAT ELSE WAS I TO DO?? Do I have a project for it? No. But I will think of something, I'm sure.
The figure skating rule changes from the ISU congress are coming down and they are a predictable mixed bag. Raising the age limit, good. Reducing the program components from 5 to 3, BAD. Honestly, with the upcoming season, I am seriously contemplating ceasing to follow the sport. I'm not at all interested in watching "figure jumping" and the ISU seems determined to head in that direction unto its own destruction. However, I know myself, and I know that so long as Shoma Uno is still competing, I will be unable to completely walk away from the sport. But I am at the very least going to reevaluate how much time and emotional investment I put into the sport, because I can only take so much nonsense and the last Olympic quad had me at my absolute limit.
I finally finished rereading all the new canon Thrawn books leading up to Lesser Evil, so now I can begin the aforementioned new(er) installment. I'm finding it hard to focus on Lesser Evil, though, in a bitter twist of completely predictable irony. I'm having better luck with some academic reading; a biology course and reading Orientalism by Edward Said for funsies. I'm also working my way through a collection of Brothers Grimm fairytales in the original German (Andrew Lang translations are Bad, theory confirmed).
Went by the fabric store yesterday and picked up some needle threaders (the ancient one Mom and I had been sharing finally met its honorable end last week), and then, because I have no self-control, I got some sparkly yarn that was on sale. IT WAS CHEAP WITH PRETTY COLORS AND SPARKLES, WHAT ELSE WAS I TO DO?? Do I have a project for it? No. But I will think of something, I'm sure.
The figure skating rule changes from the ISU congress are coming down and they are a predictable mixed bag. Raising the age limit, good. Reducing the program components from 5 to 3, BAD. Honestly, with the upcoming season, I am seriously contemplating ceasing to follow the sport. I'm not at all interested in watching "figure jumping" and the ISU seems determined to head in that direction unto its own destruction. However, I know myself, and I know that so long as Shoma Uno is still competing, I will be unable to completely walk away from the sport. But I am at the very least going to reevaluate how much time and emotional investment I put into the sport, because I can only take so much nonsense and the last Olympic quad had me at my absolute limit.