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today's litany
Jun. 17th, 2010 10:07 amI hurt my hand opening laundry soap yesterday. It's ouchy, but only when I have to use my opposable thumb. What's lame is that I couldn't open the bottle with my right hand, hurt myself trying, and it popped right open when I tried with my left. I should have tried that hand first. I had to drive this morning and whoo boy was that nasty. But I can hold my coffee cup by sticking my hand into the handle and not gripping with my thumb.
Yesterday I found a list of DM/HG exchanges and read some. They're all ghastly. I like me some Draco/Hermione... but the people writing these can't construct a story, don't have original plots (one was so close to another story as to be bordering on plagiarism), and have no real characterization (which is needful since this is a non-canonical pairing). They're just bad stories. Since I've read some Draco/Hermione which doesn't suck on non-specific archives, I wonder why there is such a prevalence of suckage in this pairing. But the Snape/Hermione stories were all vile until the first movie came out and a bunch of old-lady Rickman fangirls got into it. I'll read Hermione/[anybody but Ron], but I'm looking for an actual story. I would have liked to see Hermione and Draco together canonically because it would have meant both of them were changed for the better and the evils of stereotyping would have been illustrated more clearly.
Today someone was asking basically how to get socks that fit better when their feet are non-standard. But the question actually asked for pattern suggestions. If your body is not the standard size, there will be no pattern that works; nothing is going to fit right unless you do your own math. If you have long skinny feet, then most of the sock patterns from 5 years ago will fit like a dream with minimal tweaking. If you're using one of the standard patterns from last year, you're not going to get a good result just from dropping the stitch count by 20% because the patterns are much more wide-foot tolerant.
I have 3 knitting projects I want to start stacked up. I have 6 in progress projects now. I think I should actually work on one of those, but it might not be today since my hand really hurts.
Yesterday's post about the sewing doesn't convey the underlying problem. I loathe sewing. It's not something I want to be good at. The sewing machine is better than hand sewing and overcoming my fear of it is an accomplishment. But it's the difference between handwashing and using a washing machine... doesn't make it less of a chore. The machine does a better job and makes the effort less arduous but it's still work.
I need to make bread today. I have laundry to do. There's knitting group this afternoon (and I have to be there to teach). I didn't go to the gym yesterday because I was busy cleaning and cleaning and cleaning. (Between my SO's mother coming next week and the maintenance people coming, there was a lot of work that needed doing.) I need to get the car washed before next week too. But I really want to take a nap. I would have started with that this morning, but the maintenance people were coming.
I'm going to go to the gym now, then come home and shower and have an ibuprofen. Then I'll go out for lunch and go to the knitting early so I can chart out my forthcoming projects. [ETA: been to gym. no weights, just cardio. extra cardio. bleah. But 4.4 miles divided between elliptical (10 minutes/ .6 miles) and inside bike (20 minutes/ 3.8 miles). I brought a book for the biking part and that really helps.
ps. I need a different mood icon set, this one has hot being the "sad" face. That's stupid.
Yesterday I found a list of DM/HG exchanges and read some. They're all ghastly. I like me some Draco/Hermione... but the people writing these can't construct a story, don't have original plots (one was so close to another story as to be bordering on plagiarism), and have no real characterization (which is needful since this is a non-canonical pairing). They're just bad stories. Since I've read some Draco/Hermione which doesn't suck on non-specific archives, I wonder why there is such a prevalence of suckage in this pairing. But the Snape/Hermione stories were all vile until the first movie came out and a bunch of old-lady Rickman fangirls got into it. I'll read Hermione/[anybody but Ron], but I'm looking for an actual story. I would have liked to see Hermione and Draco together canonically because it would have meant both of them were changed for the better and the evils of stereotyping would have been illustrated more clearly.
Today someone was asking basically how to get socks that fit better when their feet are non-standard. But the question actually asked for pattern suggestions. If your body is not the standard size, there will be no pattern that works; nothing is going to fit right unless you do your own math. If you have long skinny feet, then most of the sock patterns from 5 years ago will fit like a dream with minimal tweaking. If you're using one of the standard patterns from last year, you're not going to get a good result just from dropping the stitch count by 20% because the patterns are much more wide-foot tolerant.
I have 3 knitting projects I want to start stacked up. I have 6 in progress projects now. I think I should actually work on one of those, but it might not be today since my hand really hurts.
Yesterday's post about the sewing doesn't convey the underlying problem. I loathe sewing. It's not something I want to be good at. The sewing machine is better than hand sewing and overcoming my fear of it is an accomplishment. But it's the difference between handwashing and using a washing machine... doesn't make it less of a chore. The machine does a better job and makes the effort less arduous but it's still work.
I need to make bread today. I have laundry to do. There's knitting group this afternoon (and I have to be there to teach). I didn't go to the gym yesterday because I was busy cleaning and cleaning and cleaning. (Between my SO's mother coming next week and the maintenance people coming, there was a lot of work that needed doing.) I need to get the car washed before next week too. But I really want to take a nap. I would have started with that this morning, but the maintenance people were coming.
I'm going to go to the gym now, then come home and shower and have an ibuprofen. Then I'll go out for lunch and go to the knitting early so I can chart out my forthcoming projects. [ETA: been to gym. no weights, just cardio. extra cardio. bleah. But 4.4 miles divided between elliptical (10 minutes/ .6 miles) and inside bike (20 minutes/ 3.8 miles). I brought a book for the biking part and that really helps.
ps. I need a different mood icon set, this one has hot being the "sad" face. That's stupid.
