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[dragonlady7]

So busy week. Gotta get ready to go to work (!!!) this afternoon (well, noon). Have to scramble to get the rest of the garden beds prepared-- Burpee shipped my plant order yesterday so it'll be here soonish, and I gotta be totally ready to stick it in the ground. I think when I do that, I have to plant the rest of the warm-weather seeds as well, and that means I have to have a bit more trellising done. I am thinking morning glories and nasturtiums need to go up the back fence, but I pulled out the big poles back there so I gotta come up with something new.

I am just endlessly pumped about Pennsic. I have been thinking nonstop about the garb I have to make. I wish I could sew as fast as I think. I have this cognitive thing that sort of seems to rule my life, I'm noticing: if I'm doing a task and I reach a point where I'm not sure what to do, instead of deciding, I tend to abandon the project. Which is why my clothes never get put away (because I'd have to decide on a system, and I rarely have the oomph to make the decision) and so many of the things I make are unfinished because i just don't know how to attach the fasteners or finish the hem or whatever. So I'm slightly hung up on the blue dress-- I have made the adjustments to the fit of the bodice, and now need to attach the facings. I don't know what material to cut the facings from, and any cutting is always a major hang-up spot because I need to concentrate so hard to do it right. So I'm sort of stalled, but I can't move on and start a new project because I *have to* finish this one first. And I'm so close to done, I just have to focus and get the facings cut properly, and do it. Tragic.
I need a personal assistant who is also a cheerleader and also good at spatial reckoning, who can tell me what I need to do, encourage me to do it, and tell me if I'm doing it right-- basically, I need a mom. Sad, isn't it?

Hopefully having a job will improve my time management. Not that I waste much time now-- I am always busy, I just spend a lot of time dithering over what I ought to be working on next.

* garden: mulch pepper bed, plant beans, morning glories, nasturtiums; re-lay brick walkway around edge of bed
* blue dress: facings, finish armholes, hem, decide about interlining skirt & embroidering bodice
* next project: Lorelei's purple dress (may interrupt blue dress for this one, since blue dress isn't needed until June 20th)
* Garb for Z: bang out a quick tunic and pair of trousers as starter-garb


I admit that part of my motivation in taking this job at the camera store was that I used to be so all-encompassingly interested in photography, and now... really don't ever take pictures. I know that a huge factor in this is my vision: I am probably at 20/40 wearing my glasses, and that means I just can't really see anything. I've lost much of my visual delight in the world. We went to Niagara Falls and I looked at it and was like, OK, it's nice. I didn't want to take any pictures and wasn't really stirred to awe or anything. That's fucking ridiculous: I need some fucking glasses. So we'll see. I've just got to work up my nerve to go to the doctor again, and hopefully can get a referral to the eye doctor to save a little bit on the cost of going-- the ocular migraines are probably just that, but there's a chance something's wrong with my optic nerve, so maybe I could get a referral? I don't know.
Anyway.
Hopefully working in a camera store will give me back my love of photography. That and being able to see again. There's my not-so-secret wish.
Also maybe I can score some cheap equipment to take better pictures. Yes!

Comments

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

You should go to the doctor soon so you can have glasses before we come up! Then you can go to Niagara Falls with us and actually enjoy it.
I never have the forethought to make appointments so I always end up at the place at the mall, but luckily they have real doctors there, so I can see. :)

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Yes! You are the other person I was trying to remember that I had to email! When are you coming, again?
(I've been awful at correspondence this spring and I've been emailing people the last 2 days that I had to catch up with, and I knew there was someone I was forgetting but I kept staring blankly at my inbox not being able to remember.)
Was it May 16th? Or something like that? Because I have a roller derby party-thing May 15th and it would be an awesome party if you came to that too, but you don't have to. (Starts at like 8 pm. You get to play lots of pool. Who doesn't love pool?)
Anyway. I am glad you reminded me that it was you I was trying to remember to write to.

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

We will invade on the 16th, alas. I would've loved to go to an awesome pool-playing party. I haven't played pool in forever! Now I want to come earlier. But I can't because Josh has to work. Oh -- and I do, too. Right. Schedules are not my thing.
Anyhow, Saturday the 16th, like 9ish at night, because we are terrible people who must work Saturdays. Because we are enslaved by weekend-hating people. Except for Alice. She is not enslaved. At least not on weekends.
Okay, I have listened to "We're going ot Kenya" so long that it has rotted my brain. Off to write about people who have jobs, now. (Seriously, that's what I'm writing about.)

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Hey! Would you be at all interested in meeting us in Rochester at like 9pm at night? Because the Rochester roller derby league has their season opener that night and need Z's help with their scoreboard. I only just found this out and am trying to coordinate it. I don't know what time the bout in Rochester is, though. Anyway-- just putting that out there-- let me know and I will look into details.

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

I'm sure we could meet you there. I've always wanted to see a match. DUnno if they do, but what the hey, we can rope 'em into it. :)

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

OK the match starts at 7 pm. If you can get there by then, then yay. But if you can't, you'll probably want to not arrive in Rochester until after the match is over. Which could be troublesome to predict, as it's their first home game so who knows how long it will take them-- first bouts tend not to run real smoothly. So it may be easier to just say, OK, we'll meet you afterward at some other place-- it may even be easiest to meet in Buffalo well afterward instead.
Rochester is approximately 4 hours from Albany, and 1 hr from Buffalo, depending how you drive.

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

We can't leave til Josh gets off work at 5, unfortunately. We can't just meet you for the end of the bout?

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Well, you have to pay admission to enter, like any athletic or performance event. I don't know if they'd let you just walk in at the end. And I don't know when it will end. And I think you might be bored if you've just driven four hours so you can sit in a parking lot and wait for an event to end. So it might be best to plan on meeting somewhere that has food and drink so you could at least eat or drink while you waited, if there was waiting.