Timelies all!

Happy birthday sj!

Had some major thunderstorms last night, so we didn't see any fireworks. Could hear some from our house, but it was still raining hard, is I don't know how that worked.

lisah I think right now anything I do would be really hard and exhausting. I only had to deal with maybe 6 customers but they all kind of came at once and trying to go through all the steps was draining. Plus before that I had been working on organizing some racks that was mentally fatiguing as well.

I do want to look at something different but right now I need to just do what I can while my brain is healing.

I'm pretty sure right after the concussion at work I forced myself through worse feelings but I'm trying not to push myself too hard. I know I need to but not too hard. Today I did take a break and I felt better but as soon as I was trying to do stuff it just went down hill again. It started to feel more like disassociation and I've learned when that happens and I can't stay focused all it's time to stop.

I have had a cosmo and a lemontini and I’m more than a little tipsy.

Happy Birthday, sj.

I’ve been battling apathy for, like, the past 2+ years. Today I somehow managed to find the motivation to clean my apartment. While it’s a huge improvement over the recent status quo, it’s even still kind of gross in here. It’s kind of disheartening.

sj, I highly approve of your alcoholic choices. High flavor and alcohol content to match.

I am taking some community college courses and getting mad on a regular basis. I'm a big fan of community colleges in general but MAN I've got some issues with some of these pedagogical choices. I know it's a) summer and b) asynchronous online but you can't scold your students halfway through the semester for not responding appropriately to your discussion questions when you NEVER TOLD THEM HOW! Or, well, you can. But you shouldn't. Also of course the research project which asks us to do kinds of analyses that are never discussed in the textbook. And the part where the only instruction provided is the textbook and the hourlong recorded lectures in which she reads from the slides that go with the textbook for, as far as I can tell, the very first time.

Tom, that's a huge accomplishment. Congratulations! I'm sorry for the grossness though. Is it deeper-cleaning grossness or age-and-wear grossness?

Both. I really need to get my apartment renovated, but that seems way too daunting for me at this point.

You are not alone, Scola. Envision husband and me cleaning in advance of the in-laws' arrival. There are places where the dust was practically sentient.

You are not alone, Scola. Envision husband and me cleaning in advance of the in-laws' arrival. There are places where the dust was practically sentient.

Us, too. Tim vacuumed the house today for the first time since probably...March? Possibly earlier. And we have a cat, so. It was as gross as you'd expect it to be.

I promise that my 35 years of slack housekeeping at the old apartment were on full display as we took everything down and moved.

It's been quite scrubbed since.