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sorcyressIt was the first day of school for teachers! There is no specific nightmare that makes me want to scream, which is probably for the good. I should definitely be doing/have done more prep work, which is...interesting. Maybe this weekend? I don't actually have to do anything with students except orientation this week.
Tuesday came out to visit for a bunch of days, which was really lovely. They arrived Thursday night, their train two hours and two minutes late, but very pleased to see me waiting for them in South Station. I didn't spent the whole wait in the station of course, as soon as it became clear it was going to be a while I went for an excellent wander around the greenway and ate a late snack at a little outdoor cafe.
On Friday, we walked down to look at the green line construction and almost stole a stop sign (it was abandoned behind the dumpsters --I should remember to grab a wrench and go back to check if it's still there...). In the evening we lay side by side in bed and listened to music together --I have a headphone splitter, and she swapped her actually decent headphones for my shitty earbuds when making me listen to some things she liked.
Saturday was my birthday! I made egg sammiches for us (and Rey! Ezri'd already eaten) and then Tuesday and I went out and spent the day walking to, then wandering in, Harvard Square. Mostly it was for touristing and not shopping --we swapped lots of college stories since we were going right past Lesley-- but we did stop in to Harvard Square Books so I could pick up Harrow the Ninth. The top of the shop was unfortunately crammed, but the lower level with the used books and remainders was quite quiet. I found a keen little book of Gahan Wilson cartoons (many of which I recognize from his Haunted House) and we found a comics trade entitled "Harley and Ivy Meet Betty and Veronica". Yes that's Quinzel and Isley meeting Cooper and Lodge.
We were flipping through it just for the fun and then found a panel that made it obvious it was a bodyswap story and YEP we purchased it _so quickly_ you have no idea. It made for excellent reading on the T back to Davis and then we curled up on the couch to finish it, with me explaining the Archieverse references as they came up.
Of course then was ice cream time --I saw a nice batch of people, including at least one totally unexpected. It was wet and rainy, so we clustered under the overhang of Davis Sq station. Not totally six feet apart, but still well outside, and people were pretty good about putting masks back on when they finished their ice cream.
Sunday was for packing and back to South Station to catch the bus which was barely late at all. Tuesday's gone back to help close up Pinewoods (desperately wish I were there, because wow could I use some last minute late-summer sunshine in the woods) and I went to bed at a decent hour for the first time in two months. I don't think I _slept_ for seven hours, but I did lay in the dark for that long and I'm on track to do it again tonight I think. Depends on whether or not I want to pokewalk and how long it takes to wash the dishes.
I've restarted my dailies sheet, which I maybe mentioned before. It is...spotty. Doesn't help that I was at the school until six today (I volunteered to help with some _very_ last minute interviewing and one of those wasn't until five, so I puttered around with my work computer and got some administrativia done). I've had a few good days though, and I'm happy to see the records once again being kept --I haven't touched the thing since last May.
I stopped by the grocery store on the way home, as part of the plan Ezri and I came up with last year where it's fair trivial for me to do that a couple times a week on the commute home, and means we can get groceries quickly and more often. Of course, if Delta gets worse we should probably not be going into stores more frequently and should go back to really big trips once a month or so, but that's harder without a car. At any rate, I got to see a former student at the checkout and he was bright and chatty and lovely to make small talk with.
Then I came home and basically collapsed on the couch for most of an hour to read more fanfic --reading any DC at all put me in the mood for a reread of the entire Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts universe, which is some of my favourite fanfic in all the world. On Sunday I was reading random bits and pieces from it all, then last night I started from the beginning of the first story until I fell asleep in an armchair.
There's half an hour or so before bed, so that should be just enough time to wash a dish and walk down to the pullup bar and do one of those. Bonus points if I prepare lunch for tomorrow, but I think that's a morning plan. No therapy tomorrow afternoon, so maybe I will leave work more on time? That'd be good.
Hope you're well.
~Sor
MOOP!
Tuesday came out to visit for a bunch of days, which was really lovely. They arrived Thursday night, their train two hours and two minutes late, but very pleased to see me waiting for them in South Station. I didn't spent the whole wait in the station of course, as soon as it became clear it was going to be a while I went for an excellent wander around the greenway and ate a late snack at a little outdoor cafe.
On Friday, we walked down to look at the green line construction and almost stole a stop sign (it was abandoned behind the dumpsters --I should remember to grab a wrench and go back to check if it's still there...). In the evening we lay side by side in bed and listened to music together --I have a headphone splitter, and she swapped her actually decent headphones for my shitty earbuds when making me listen to some things she liked.
Saturday was my birthday! I made egg sammiches for us (and Rey! Ezri'd already eaten) and then Tuesday and I went out and spent the day walking to, then wandering in, Harvard Square. Mostly it was for touristing and not shopping --we swapped lots of college stories since we were going right past Lesley-- but we did stop in to Harvard Square Books so I could pick up Harrow the Ninth. The top of the shop was unfortunately crammed, but the lower level with the used books and remainders was quite quiet. I found a keen little book of Gahan Wilson cartoons (many of which I recognize from his Haunted House) and we found a comics trade entitled "Harley and Ivy Meet Betty and Veronica". Yes that's Quinzel and Isley meeting Cooper and Lodge.
We were flipping through it just for the fun and then found a panel that made it obvious it was a bodyswap story and YEP we purchased it _so quickly_ you have no idea. It made for excellent reading on the T back to Davis and then we curled up on the couch to finish it, with me explaining the Archieverse references as they came up.
Of course then was ice cream time --I saw a nice batch of people, including at least one totally unexpected. It was wet and rainy, so we clustered under the overhang of Davis Sq station. Not totally six feet apart, but still well outside, and people were pretty good about putting masks back on when they finished their ice cream.
Sunday was for packing and back to South Station to catch the bus which was barely late at all. Tuesday's gone back to help close up Pinewoods (desperately wish I were there, because wow could I use some last minute late-summer sunshine in the woods) and I went to bed at a decent hour for the first time in two months. I don't think I _slept_ for seven hours, but I did lay in the dark for that long and I'm on track to do it again tonight I think. Depends on whether or not I want to pokewalk and how long it takes to wash the dishes.
I've restarted my dailies sheet, which I maybe mentioned before. It is...spotty. Doesn't help that I was at the school until six today (I volunteered to help with some _very_ last minute interviewing and one of those wasn't until five, so I puttered around with my work computer and got some administrativia done). I've had a few good days though, and I'm happy to see the records once again being kept --I haven't touched the thing since last May.
I stopped by the grocery store on the way home, as part of the plan Ezri and I came up with last year where it's fair trivial for me to do that a couple times a week on the commute home, and means we can get groceries quickly and more often. Of course, if Delta gets worse we should probably not be going into stores more frequently and should go back to really big trips once a month or so, but that's harder without a car. At any rate, I got to see a former student at the checkout and he was bright and chatty and lovely to make small talk with.
Then I came home and basically collapsed on the couch for most of an hour to read more fanfic --reading any DC at all put me in the mood for a reread of the entire Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts universe, which is some of my favourite fanfic in all the world. On Sunday I was reading random bits and pieces from it all, then last night I started from the beginning of the first story until I fell asleep in an armchair.
There's half an hour or so before bed, so that should be just enough time to wash a dish and walk down to the pullup bar and do one of those. Bonus points if I prepare lunch for tomorrow, but I think that's a morning plan. No therapy tomorrow afternoon, so maybe I will leave work more on time? That'd be good.
Hope you're well.
~Sor
MOOP!