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Getting ready to hibernate
Oct. 9th, 2020 09:59 amIt's getting colder here, and over the past week I had a burst of autumnal cleaning to ready the aerye for winter.
On Monday, I did five loads of laundry. Considering that the aerye is on the third floor and the washer and dryer are in the basement, I impressed the hell out of myself in being able to do it all.
Then I immediately felt anxious that, since I was feeling unusually energetic, I might have the virus.
I swear, I am using p about five normal years worth of anxiety and paranoia this year.
Lucky for me, when I'm feeling anxious, I clean things. I have washed the insulated winter curtains and put them up. I have washed the new winter blanket, the old winter blanket, the summer curtains, the old pillowcases, the new pillowcases, and almost all of my hoodies and flannel-lined shirts.
I am slowly clearing out the fridge, and
yesterday morning I made jambalaya from the andouille I found in the back of a shelf and the last little bit of bacon. By the time I came back downstairs for dinner, the jambalaya bowl was sitting, ravaged and abadoned, on top of the dishwasher.
The web design class I am taking ends tomorrow, and the Voiceover class I am taking begins on Monday. Oh! And the beta testing for the Bookshare Alexa app begins next weeks! One of the questions the form asked me was "What book would like Alexa to read?," and I answered M. F. K. Fisher's _How to Cook a Wolf_, since it is one of my favorite books, and I would like to be able to read it anywhere.
If you aren't familiar with this wonderful book, I recommend it to you. Fisher wrote it during WW2, while Britain was experiencing food shortages, and people were trying to carry on while the world around them seemed to be falling apart. Sound familiar? It's not really a cookbook, so much as a philosophical exploration of how the enjoyment of meals, even in times of shortages and anxiety, is one of the things we should be able to savor in life, and even a simple meal can be a feast.
What I meant to write when I began this post, a couple of digressions ago, was that I will be posting fewer updates regarding online webinars and help docs, as this Voiceover class will be taking a lot of my focus (it's two two-hour online classes starting Monday and lasting until a couple of days before Christmas). I'm also trying to finish a Coursera course on using Git and, after I finish that, I want to think about another supposedly simple computer language.
Also, don't forget: Netflix premieres Mike Flanagan's "The Haunting of the House of Bly" today! I'm very excited, since I've been a big fan of Mike Flanagan since "Oculus."
On Monday, I did five loads of laundry. Considering that the aerye is on the third floor and the washer and dryer are in the basement, I impressed the hell out of myself in being able to do it all.
Then I immediately felt anxious that, since I was feeling unusually energetic, I might have the virus.
I swear, I am using p about five normal years worth of anxiety and paranoia this year.
Lucky for me, when I'm feeling anxious, I clean things. I have washed the insulated winter curtains and put them up. I have washed the new winter blanket, the old winter blanket, the summer curtains, the old pillowcases, the new pillowcases, and almost all of my hoodies and flannel-lined shirts.
I am slowly clearing out the fridge, and
yesterday morning I made jambalaya from the andouille I found in the back of a shelf and the last little bit of bacon. By the time I came back downstairs for dinner, the jambalaya bowl was sitting, ravaged and abadoned, on top of the dishwasher.
The web design class I am taking ends tomorrow, and the Voiceover class I am taking begins on Monday. Oh! And the beta testing for the Bookshare Alexa app begins next weeks! One of the questions the form asked me was "What book would like Alexa to read?," and I answered M. F. K. Fisher's _How to Cook a Wolf_, since it is one of my favorite books, and I would like to be able to read it anywhere.
If you aren't familiar with this wonderful book, I recommend it to you. Fisher wrote it during WW2, while Britain was experiencing food shortages, and people were trying to carry on while the world around them seemed to be falling apart. Sound familiar? It's not really a cookbook, so much as a philosophical exploration of how the enjoyment of meals, even in times of shortages and anxiety, is one of the things we should be able to savor in life, and even a simple meal can be a feast.
What I meant to write when I began this post, a couple of digressions ago, was that I will be posting fewer updates regarding online webinars and help docs, as this Voiceover class will be taking a lot of my focus (it's two two-hour online classes starting Monday and lasting until a couple of days before Christmas). I'm also trying to finish a Coursera course on using Git and, after I finish that, I want to think about another supposedly simple computer language.
Also, don't forget: Netflix premieres Mike Flanagan's "The Haunting of the House of Bly" today! I'm very excited, since I've been a big fan of Mike Flanagan since "Oculus."
