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Katarina Whimsy ([personal profile] sorcyress) wrote2023-05-30 11:42 pm

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OKAY HI!

I just slept for...like the better part of ninety minutes? Basically crashed at about 9 and didn't make it back up until about 10:30. But the good news was that was after PowerHour, so it was nice to do that? And in PowerHour I helped make dinner and I washed the dishes and I read my book!

I didn't get home until seven, but that's because I had the big work-stack --work, then meeting with Christine about licensure and my observation today, and then curriculum committee, and then therapy, and then I was gonna leave but I got _really_ into listening to a three-hour Wellerman youtube vid while doing all my remaining grading. So now everything is graded for the rest of the year except like...six warm-ups and the final exam. And all the late shit my students turn in late when they realize their grades are shit and don't hafta be.

But yeah, I left school after six (normal but not actually contractually allowable --I am supposed to leave the building by six, which happens...I dunno, half the time?) but it was a good after six, and I must've been in a quite good mood because I sang songs the whole way home and that was pretty nice.

(My emotional regulation is all hinky because covid-bullshit-trauma-dissociation, so I wouldn't have actually called my mood happy, but I think I just need to shift all my baselines and look for new identifiers of things like this. If I am singing as I walk through the streets of my town, that deffo seems like things are either quite alright or _really fucking bad_ and I know it wasn't the latter one.)

Andsoyeah. PowerHour covered washing dishes and helping make dinner and eating dinner and chatting with Ezri and Rey a bit about stressy-stuff. And then sitting down with my book (I've gotten far enough in the Peter Wimsey mysteries that I am rereading Murder Must Advertise and I am _pumped_! I last read this one like...in October maybe? Early November? Anyways, it's fabulous and I don't normally reread books quite this close together, but I am four chapters in and _really_ enjoying the different perspective of having seen the good Lord do other mystery things along the way.)

And then I slept and that's how we got here! If I finish my words quickly enough, I will be able to go into a bed and sleep for ~six whole hours~ in the bed. This is very exciting for me, and probably explains part of why I'm so fucked up right now.

Anyways, I hope you are well and that your life is charmed and good.

~Sor
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[personal profile] canyonwalker 2023-05-31 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you're able to find happiness in small things. At the risk of veering in armchair psychology I think that's what was happening when you sang on the way home from work. Yes, the world sucks and lots of things are wrong, at the macro level. War, death, sickness, unfairness, hatred. But at the micro level there are still things that can be right and beautiful. Dinner with friends, a good book or movie, a beautiful day in May. It's okay to be happy for those.