Post-Thanksgiving
Nov. 29th, 2024 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyressIt has been a delightfully lazy day, although I've managed to actually accomplish quite a bit.
Mostly it has been a day of lazing around the house. Tuesday did a batch of sorting/organizing/the general sort of thing you do when you visit your parents, and I managed to grade one entire set of MiniQuizzen (only two more of those to go and then the project...). Karen and Tuesday and I went out in the early afternoon, while it was still plenty light out, and shoveled the drive and brought some yard furniture into the barn (after sweeping off the snow). I did not particularly help with any cooking, but I socialized, and then I read nearly all of Barrayar --I'll probably finish it before the day is over, which means I am rather doing Correct Things in terms of the whole "take a vacation and try to catch up on your library pile".
Meanwhile, Erik has been reading Karen "Guards, Guards" in the evenings as she does the kitchen chores, and while I could mostly ignore it last night, tonight Tuesday and I found ourselves rather invested and demanding a "no no, don't stop on that cliffhanger!" until he went on another paragraph or six. I've got a goodly number of the Discworld books on my ereader, and I haven't read the most of them1, so maybe that's about to happen sometime soon.
Tuesday and I have been staying up a bit too late, so hopefully tonight we'll roll into bed at a more sensible hour. Tomorrow there is zoom games with the extended family, and then Sunday very early we drive back down to Boston (and Karen and Tuesday onwards to Providence) with a load of things in the car. And then probably doing the rest of that grading since realistically, I might get the other quizzen but I'm not getting the projects in any world with a priority of relaxation.
It feels rather closer to how life is supposed to be, lounging in front of fires and reading and being read to and petting the cat and occasionally deigning to eat a bit of pie.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: The first 5.5 --I got distracted in the middle of Wyrd Sisters and didn't finish it at the time-- and 3/5 Tiffany Aching. You may be aghast as you will.
Mostly it has been a day of lazing around the house. Tuesday did a batch of sorting/organizing/the general sort of thing you do when you visit your parents, and I managed to grade one entire set of MiniQuizzen (only two more of those to go and then the project...). Karen and Tuesday and I went out in the early afternoon, while it was still plenty light out, and shoveled the drive and brought some yard furniture into the barn (after sweeping off the snow). I did not particularly help with any cooking, but I socialized, and then I read nearly all of Barrayar --I'll probably finish it before the day is over, which means I am rather doing Correct Things in terms of the whole "take a vacation and try to catch up on your library pile".
Meanwhile, Erik has been reading Karen "Guards, Guards" in the evenings as she does the kitchen chores, and while I could mostly ignore it last night, tonight Tuesday and I found ourselves rather invested and demanding a "no no, don't stop on that cliffhanger!" until he went on another paragraph or six. I've got a goodly number of the Discworld books on my ereader, and I haven't read the most of them1, so maybe that's about to happen sometime soon.
Tuesday and I have been staying up a bit too late, so hopefully tonight we'll roll into bed at a more sensible hour. Tomorrow there is zoom games with the extended family, and then Sunday very early we drive back down to Boston (and Karen and Tuesday onwards to Providence) with a load of things in the car. And then probably doing the rest of that grading since realistically, I might get the other quizzen but I'm not getting the projects in any world with a priority of relaxation.
It feels rather closer to how life is supposed to be, lounging in front of fires and reading and being read to and petting the cat and occasionally deigning to eat a bit of pie.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: The first 5.5 --I got distracted in the middle of Wyrd Sisters and didn't finish it at the time-- and 3/5 Tiffany Aching. You may be aghast as you will.