Current mood:

tired

Things.
I have a real post. Really I do. I even started writing it. It just isn't finished yet. And so, because it's been a few days, and I am too tired just now (cramps + tired + long long week of working in the kitchen) to write a real post or to finish the one I started writing, here are a few random things:

-It is 81 degrees in my apartment and I do not feel overly uncomfortable. I consider this a complete and total win.

-I successfully made meatballs on my own for the first time ever!

-I ate way too much candy today, thinking it would fix my grumpy cramp problem. (It helped a little. Then there was another problem that comes about when one eats too much candy. Ah well.)

-I am reading Little, Big by John Crowley, which I have owned for so long that I don't even remember how I got it (....from that pile of SFBC books my dad gave me that I got Moving Pictures out of?) and heard good things about and tried reading at least twice only to give up. This time around, I am certainly finding it slow, but it's a good kind of slow. It just means that I'll read it slowly, but I've decided to be okay with that. It's a good book, but just now I can't figure out how to sum it up. So far it involves a house and a family (envious!) and it's a young man who meets a girl of this family and decides to marry her and treks to her house and it's weird. Reminds me of... Dangerous Angels if it were written in 1982 (? I think?) by a man? Or that, crossed with something else very familiar that I just can't place? (Neil Gaiman? A lengthier Diana Wynne Jones? Someone British and famous who didn't write fantasy? Or that one British guy who is very very famous for writing fantasy?) Anyway, it is very slow, but I like it.

And I was going to start The Bloody Chamber (one of my summer reading books!), but Pride and Prejudice just came in for me at the library, and library books take preference. So I am going to start that one tonight out of interest, and it will be my work book (it probably being slightly easier to read than LB), and the other being my home book.

-I might be coming down with something. This is my second day with a mild sore throat. Another toddler teacher was out for two days with something (chills and something) and another toddler teacher was out today with a sore throat. Super.

And now for working on AEFB (I have not in a couple of days, being busy working on other things), and then hopefully going to bed early/on time. Debating peppermint tea--it will make my throat feel better, but will it make me hotter in my already warm apartment? Decisions.

I cannot wait until next week. I will have to get up earlier, but at least I won't be changing truly disgusting diapers (ordinarily I do not mind changing diapers, but I had a nasty one today), corralling loud toddlers, wiping food off of faces, doing dishes, or being challenged by my superiors (...probably). At least, in the mornings I won't.