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kbkCoughs and sneezles spread diseazles! (I have been increasingly phlegmy for the last few days, and now am sneezy also. Boo hiss.) (Also, where is that from? Is it Thomas the Tank Engine, or something?)
Today I got called out of my hole to bake something because my great-aunt was coming over for tea. Which was actually surprisingly tolerable.
I have had a ver' busy week, as have started volunteering thing. The work is not boring; the subject matter is fairly interesting, that is, but the adding-associated-people etc, not so much, especially because I have to click through about four screens to do so. Still. On Wed I was doing listed buildings and I learned strange words: a bridge was described in the listing as having "putlog holes" and "stugged rusticated voussoirs" and other such things; the gazetteer description, which I got to write, was more along the lines of "three arches, sandstone" and a smattering of history. (Oh, but it inspired me to go play freerice some more - the levels go past fifty now! it's quite exciting!)
Also I got to go down and wander the stores three times already. I have to go with someone, but it's still fun, and I ran across one of my favourite things from the old Kelvingrove, which is a woodwind instrument called a 'serpent' because it's like a big long recorder but bent so it's only torso-length, and I went "ooh ooh lookit" except not quite, but nearly.
And I've just about worked out the timing of the buses. And I'm going to go tomorrow and get a zonecard, because I've also worked out that. Annnnd.
Oh yes, I have a fic, which I wrote then actually got betaed but then remembered why I don't do that because I'm now scared of it. But I'll do that tomorrow, too, and I'll post it, so there.
And last Sunday was the choir concert, which went fine, and I wore a bowtie, which was fun, except paternal has lost his one which actually ties so it was just velcro which is not as good.
And I have been indulging in strange obsessions again - because I'm procrastinating that fic, and the huge fic, and stuff - and investigating crafty things (and I bought a set of knitting needles. So I guess I'm going to knit stuff. And I now know the difference between English and Continental and can do both, until I forget how, which will probably be soon.) and also green houses - straw bales and Earthships and earthbags, which were new to me and I'm actually quite impressed by, because you just shovel dirt into strong bags - like sandbags - and make them square and use them as bricks. So I think that's the new dream-home, for now. Not that it'll ever happen, but it's fun to think about.
Today I got called out of my hole to bake something because my great-aunt was coming over for tea. Which was actually surprisingly tolerable.
I have had a ver' busy week, as have started volunteering thing. The work is not boring; the subject matter is fairly interesting, that is, but the adding-associated-people etc, not so much, especially because I have to click through about four screens to do so. Still. On Wed I was doing listed buildings and I learned strange words: a bridge was described in the listing as having "putlog holes" and "stugged rusticated voussoirs" and other such things; the gazetteer description, which I got to write, was more along the lines of "three arches, sandstone" and a smattering of history. (Oh, but it inspired me to go play freerice some more - the levels go past fifty now! it's quite exciting!)
Also I got to go down and wander the stores three times already. I have to go with someone, but it's still fun, and I ran across one of my favourite things from the old Kelvingrove, which is a woodwind instrument called a 'serpent' because it's like a big long recorder but bent so it's only torso-length, and I went "ooh ooh lookit" except not quite, but nearly.
And I've just about worked out the timing of the buses. And I'm going to go tomorrow and get a zonecard, because I've also worked out that. Annnnd.
Oh yes, I have a fic, which I wrote then actually got betaed but then remembered why I don't do that because I'm now scared of it. But I'll do that tomorrow, too, and I'll post it, so there.
And last Sunday was the choir concert, which went fine, and I wore a bowtie, which was fun, except paternal has lost his one which actually ties so it was just velcro which is not as good.
And I have been indulging in strange obsessions again - because I'm procrastinating that fic, and the huge fic, and stuff - and investigating crafty things (and I bought a set of knitting needles. So I guess I'm going to knit stuff. And I now know the difference between English and Continental and can do both, until I forget how, which will probably be soon.) and also green houses - straw bales and Earthships and earthbags, which were new to me and I'm actually quite impressed by, because you just shovel dirt into strong bags - like sandbags - and make them square and use them as bricks. So I think that's the new dream-home, for now. Not that it'll ever happen, but it's fun to think about.
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Date: 2008-03-24 05:35 pm (UTC)Wandering in those stores sounds awesome!
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Date: 2008-03-24 06:18 pm (UTC)The stores are pretty cool. Of course, some stuff is locked up - there are filing cabinets, with the shallow drawers, for medals and things, and they have big chains run through all the handles and padlocks on them, which is kind of incongruous - and I'm not supposed to touch anything, but still. And the paintings are on racks, big long rows, and you pull one out and there are paintings hung on either side. And in another room is the library, with winding shelves and a few desks and then, suddenly, there's rows upon rows of shelves of stuffed animals and birds, and a few birds hanging from the ceiling, twirling gently in the breeze from the air conditioning. Or, short version - awesome.
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Date: 2008-03-25 03:09 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-03-25 03:07 pm (UTC)I still can't knit Continental because of a mixture of my extreme right-handedness and my hands cramping if I try, but also because am a bit hopeless. Knitting things is good. I have books and stuff about but they are here and you are there and that is bad.
Oxfam have a knitting-squares thing going on at present if you need Projects and, um, don't mind knitting squares. As long as they're 9"x9" and doublish knitting you can do mad things with them, so it isn't too mindnumbing.
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Date: 2008-03-25 03:15 pm (UTC)I have one book. Somewhere. I think. But I have also found websites. I want to do a moebius scarf, and a klein bottle hat, and another hat I saw that I thought was cute, and and and... I'm not particularly lacking in things to try. Just in motivation. And, as yet, in the necessary items. Oh, and lookit - cute or creepy?
Agh. I had. Agh. I left thing because of appointment but I missed bus and next bus was late and then I had to break a twenty and I stupidly went into a bookshop and I was quick but not enough and then bus was slow and then I got there and the woman had left five minutes before. And, just to top it off, on the way home, Maureen and the boy drove past. I think they just arrived home. She did, anyway. Agh. I do not want to go tell this. This sucks. May make post of Moan later. Feel better for having eaten cake, though.