PolarBear of Celeste
Jan. 6th, 2021 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ismoI got eight hours of sleep, so you'd think that I'd be quite angelic today. No such luck. I was uncomfortable and cranky. Events as they transpired did not improve my state of mind at all. I filled out the ninth iteration of a Covid Coping Strategy survey from two people at the University of Michigan, and those people got an earful. One of my favorite phrases, "a clusterfuck of Biblical proportions" was deployed. I didn't really do very much, but I did get my story up to slightly over twenty percent.
Reading: I finished Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, which I've had out from the library for ages. It has a good ending, in a way, because the author made it out alive, but it's a sad book in many ways. Sad for me because it cut a little too close to home. Sad for the same reasons that "Wonder Woman 84" made me sad: because we'd all like to believe that our mistakes and bad decisions could be wiped out just by changing our minds and wishing it so. But in real life, consequences are long-lived and pain is durable. It's a thought-provoking book--just not what I wanted to think about for a day like today. Other non-genre books I'm reading include Noah's Garden,by Sara Stein, and Using Native Plants to Restore Community in Southwest Michigan and Beyond, by Nancy Cutbirth Small and Tom Small.
I'm burning my bayberry candles for good luck. I feel as if I should stay up until the voting is concluded! As if keeping my eye on them would ensure that it will happen. Perhaps I'll just go off and read some fanfic.
Reading: I finished Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, which I've had out from the library for ages. It has a good ending, in a way, because the author made it out alive, but it's a sad book in many ways. Sad for me because it cut a little too close to home. Sad for the same reasons that "Wonder Woman 84" made me sad: because we'd all like to believe that our mistakes and bad decisions could be wiped out just by changing our minds and wishing it so. But in real life, consequences are long-lived and pain is durable. It's a thought-provoking book--just not what I wanted to think about for a day like today. Other non-genre books I'm reading include Noah's Garden,by Sara Stein, and Using Native Plants to Restore Community in Southwest Michigan and Beyond, by Nancy Cutbirth Small and Tom Small.
I'm burning my bayberry candles for good luck. I feel as if I should stay up until the voting is concluded! As if keeping my eye on them would ensure that it will happen. Perhaps I'll just go off and read some fanfic.
