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No post yesterday, but I hit all my goals, used my time well, and feel fine with it. Yesterday's big win was finishing the quilted wall hanging's top (the pieced part!) and a good phone call with a friend. I visited a new-to-me Nepalese grocer and had my brows threaded for the first time since I moved. I checked my work email, too... it's coming. Digital Garden WIP! My digital garden page has been…
Hi! If you've reached this post, just know its part of a series of posts for Blaugust in which I take accountability for my time every day for the month, or at least until school starts. This is not my normal blogging rhythm of two posts a month or so about more substantial topics or places. Moving on! Quilt Progress Almost done! I need to add some borders and then quilt it to backing, but the top…
Welcome back to another Blaugust post. The theme for mine is daily accountability to the quality of my time spent in the last gasps of summer before I go back to teacher mode, with my ideals laid out in this post . quilting progress bigger and better stars! I am down to just doing filler on this wall hanging and seeing all the pieces come together. I did have one section come together as a hot…
Sleep has been elusive, so I don't have a lot to report. I've kept up with my routines, had a fine amount of computer time, made plans to see a movie next Friday in an actual theater for the first time in maybe 7 or so years. I just came back from a party, bought a really nice drawing, and tried a new burger at a bar. I also lost access to my Reddit account I've had for years because it wasn't…
my lotus continues to bloom I picked up this pretty for my container pond at a nursery a couple weeks ago. It's the most I've ever paid for a plant - I'm cheap and I love to propagate and trade - but it takes four years to get to the blooming stage and that makes the price make sense. Now I'll collect the seeds and propagate some in the spring in my medaka ponds. I have a really old iPhone that…
Every few months I really dig into a full system overhaul, something I've written about here before. I do it to procrastinate something else, to process stress about something coming up, to pull my life back together when the mental clutter is overwhelming. This time, it's to transition from a really lovely summer I can't stop feeling guilty about to a fresh year of middle school teaching. If I…
What societal problems is your region known for and do they affect you? I live in Baltimore, Maryland. It's known for it's high homicide rate, even thought it's gone down considerably in the last few years. how the city's reputation affects me Its reputation affected me as soon as we started getting serious about our move here. My mother-in-law declared it the worst city in America. Most people…
I've been keeping at least two or three fish tanks going for about six years, and found myself with some losses this spring that made me cool on the hobby for a bit. My goldfish passed - one from ich brought on by big temperature swings and one from predation. I am gutted and I won't be keeping them outdoors at all with the drastic temperature changes. My betta also passed very suddenly, and I…
I am going through a new experience that I feel sheepish about, even though I know I deserve it: a proper teacher's summer. No summer jobs, no stressing and trying to do childcare or gig work like I did for the ten last summers as a teacher. I just finally work in a state that pays me enough to not have to find a second job when school is out. It was jarring at first. I filled it with a two-week…
When I went to teacher orientation in Baltimore, it was full of Southerners. We came from Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina and Florida. It was nice to see one another and press people on exactly what county someone's from because you actually know it. It was cathartic to talk about what dehumanizing salary scale or new law or state-mandated curriculum we dealt with, to talk about straws on…