Ok, you can get decidedly less cute if you ring the doorbell 345987 times in a day asking to rub the cats. I just had to explain to the elder of the two (who is 6, judging from her teeth, which I noticed today as being Significantly Missing) that 1. If we don’t answer the doorbell the first time it’s rung, then we’re not going to, so they don’t need to ring it again, and 2. that I work from home, so if they wish to pet the cats they…
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*so* don’t want to work today
I so don’t want to go to work today. This is more because I haven’t done anything the last couple days than not wanting to work, you know? Entropy. Also, it’s ridiculously beautiful out, and I’d rather go outside and play. This, however, is not an option, as I have people coming sometime this weekend and the line edits on PHOENIX are due three days earlier than they told me they were. Argh. I’d been going to do those next week after visitors were gone. Now I have to do…
minor triumph
Minor weight triumph, in that today’s weigh-in wasn’t any more than last week’s. You’d think this wasn’t a triumph at all, but cyclically speaking this isn’t a week I expect/tend to lose weight in, and there’s a fair precedent for it being a slightly higher weigh-in, so managing to hold steady is at least something. If I’m terribly lucky there’ll be a distinct drop next week. *checks something* The other good news is that my scale (having just put two weights on it as a test) is weighing correctly. This…
entertaining myself
I have been entertaining myself since my last posting by making new icons. Two of them. I’m not very fast at this. :) And stealing icons. I’m not very fast at that, either. :) I shall spare you the iconlove and put them behind :) Created: Snurched:
research question
Can anybody, by any chance, tell me what swimwear (for white women (ie, wives, daughters of plantation owners) specifically) in the Caribbean in the 1650s or so would have been like, or if the whole idea is just so beyond the pale that legions of outraged society mothers would rise up from their graves to castigate me for the idea of sending their precious plantation daughters into the water? I can only get the net to cough up stuff from either pre-Roman times or 18th century on. (In a way…