In which I just realized I haven’t blogged in, like, ten days or something! Ack!
I watched all four-point-five seasons of Battlestar Galactica in the space of half a month. It was frakkin’ awesome.
I have been in bed for three days with an evil, mean, awful cold. I’m coughing like I’m in a TB ward and I can’t smell anything.
Why can’t I buy simple cotton long-sleeved fitted women’s t-shirts anywhere? How hard is it to make long-sleeved freakin’ t-shirts that aren’t fugly and boxy?
I still need to buy new underwear, but I’ve run out of Xmas money and I’d rather pay my cell phone bill instead.
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In which I tell you all I know about the Polaroid SX-70!
I have two SX-70s. One is a lovely silver and leather top-shelf SLR, and the other is a black plastic Model 3 (the non-SLR model). I’m lucky in that I got them both really cheap, and they both function beautifully and close completely. They’re really cool, compact, portable cameras.
SX-70s were made to take a particular kind of film (Polaroid SX-70 integral print) that is, of course, totally discontinued now, but the cameras can be altered to shoot 600 instant film (which has also been discontinued, since as of early last year Polaroid no longer manufactures any film at all). The 600 film you can still find is long expired, so buyer beware. If it’s been stored properly it will shoot just fine. If it’s been stored badly it might give you interesting, moody images, or it might not work at all.
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In which…eh. Blah blah blah.
I’ve lost two pounds. I’m doing really well on the diet. In other news, self-discipline is not, as much as I wish I could report otherwise, really its own reward. I want to eat an entire wedge of brie RIGHT THE FUCK NOW.
I received my new fuzzy-lined Crocs yesterday. (Thanks, mom!) They have a tiny red spaceship on them, for which I paid an extra two bucks and which was totally worth it. They are fugly and comfy and I adore them.
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In which I share the story I was given today.
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I went to a volunteer meeting at Helpline this afternoon. After it was over, I rushed across town for my CCNA lab, but class was canceled so I went and got my eyebrows waxed instead. Then I got invited to a jam session, for which I was going to be picked up at four. It was just past two. I decided to stop in at the P&E and say hi to everybody because I haven’t been there in weeks.
I told Susan, the bartender, what I’d learned today, which is that teens are the fastest-growing segment of our homeless population, and that we don’t have a teen shelter. Kids over a certain age aren’t allowed in the women’s shelter, and the men’s shelter and the motels won’t take kids under 18 for liability reasons. When it’s twenty degrees out, it’s important to be inside for the night, but there’s nowhere for them to go.
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In which there’s dieting! Whee! Aren’t you glad you’re reading this crap?!
The little bastards over at Cocky & Rude are having another diet competition. The prize for the winner is probably a stinky old shoe and some gravel, but eighteen people signed up to compete anyway.
Including me. Because I’m fat. Fat, fat, fat.
My life of sedentary sedentary-ness wants very much to make me perfectly round, but due to my natural contrariness I just don’t want to be perfectly round! Pudgy’s okay, sure, fine, I can handle being pudgy, but in the past year I have totally moved past pudgy.
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In which there’s a little travel, and some work and school.
Toni agreed to drive me to Portland if I paid for gas. Since there was no bus service and the train was full, I was grateful she did so. We rolled out of Walla Walla on Saturday just before noon.
She dropped me off at Leila’s just after dark. (I went to high school with Leila. We lost touch for years, but found each other back when I was married and lived on a farm in Iowa. I’ve seen her a couple times since then.)
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In which I tell you about the gifts I received.
For Christmas I got a Kindle gift certificate (yay moar ebooks!), a red goblet, candy (some of it filled with tequila, I kid you not!), a hand-made tote bag, cash, and a little herb garden kit.
I really wanna buy myself some sort of shiny new electronic device for Christmas (a new phone, Kindle, or iPod) but I’ll need to buy school books next week. After I’ve done that, I’ll be able to get myself something fun. I think it might have to be a phone, though, since mine now shuts itself off at random.
Last night, my brother and I walked over to Amity’s and stood around the fire on her patio and drank beer and talked to people. It was nice. I love having a friend five blocks away; it makes me feel like I really live here now.
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In which there’s not much going on, really. Yay Christmas break!
Went to a great pre-solstice party Sunday night, hung out with fun people and ate great food.
Volunteered at Helpline on Monday afternoon; it was great. Got to give away blankets and gloves and food and fix a computer and everything.
Did my Xmas shopping (since I’m unemployed, everybody gets the same thing) finally. Had leftover chili at Amity’s house Monday night.
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In which I got up early… and it was actually a pleasant experience!
I got laid off a year ago yesterday.
Since then, I looked for work for six months and had a total of two responses, and then I applied for and returned to school but my classes are 85% online. I have an on-again/off-again contracting gig for a friend in California, but it’s also online. Other than the occasional gig, running into G’ma in the kitchen, and the nights I go out to bars (something I’d like to do less of, really), I’m very much isolated.
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In which the term is over and I’m on Christmas break!
I barely left the house. I declined three different social invitations. I studied and studied and studied. Then I studied some more.
I powered through the Windows Client practice tests and the rest of the Linux + class. It took several tries to pass the final, but I managed it. Then I opened my Cisco Certified Network Associate course and realized that there was no way I could get through it and study for my other CCNA final too, so I emailed my instructor and told him that I was totally freaking out.
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4 random books from my Library!
