Nov. 1st, 2021

monday

Nov. 1st, 2021 05:25 am
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well, i’m back home in buffalo.

MM, DF, the kids, and my dude went out trick-or-treating. I sat in the front hallway and handed out candy to an assortment of adorable children. Most of them were middle schoolers, awkward and crack-voiced and remembering to say thank-you with varying degrees of success. A few of them complimented my costume.

The resident kids came home and were so excited to hand out candy, but mostly everyone had already finished trick-or-treating, as it was well after dark and it’s still kind of covid-y out. So I went out and trick-or-treated them so they gave me a bag of candy, and then they bestowed one apiece on each other, and then one for all the other adults present, and that was that, we’d used up all the candy, and we turned out the light. I loaded everything into my car and drove home.

Got home after 9:30, and the cat was delighted to zoom around the house about it. I had an Amazon package– I know, I know, but I needed some things and Amazon’s the only place to easily get them– and so I looked at what I’d bought and the cat jumped into and out of the box. And then I collapsed into bed.

Slept somewhat poorly, as the cat needed me to hold her at all times. Me gone for a week, and then Dude gone overnight too, was a lot for her. Also I wake up when she sits on my head, so I did and kept petting her, which only encouraged her.

This morning I had to leave before sunrise, and I couldn’t find my clothes, and I don’t have much by way of food in the house– I brought meat and vegetables from the farm, it being cool enough that the ice packs in my cooler could keep everything cold overnight, but I don’t have like. Lunch. That sort of thing. So it was icky getting ready for work this morning.

And now I’m at work but I don’t wanna. It’s my own fault I didn’t take any time for myself at home but Halloween comes but once a year and I hadn’t seen the DF/MM family in quite some time. And that’s just. How it goes. Alas.

We’ll see how I do this week, maybe I’ll be able to get stuff done. At least I haven’t woken up with vertigo like last time after I pushed myself this hard. And I hope the sun won’t have gone down yet when I go home, that’s the part of this time of year that’s hardest.

I am utterly filled with a desire not to be at this job anymore but I can console myself that I’m certain I feel like that about literally every job so there’s no real solution for it.

The thing I’m excited to go home and do (besides nap) is that I want to learn whittling, and I have a bunch of collected wood scraps in the car, and I bought myself woodcarving Dremel heads on Amazon, and I bought myself cutproof gloves too, and I have some knives and I want to see if i can make these blocks of wood be shaped like other blocks of wood and I’m excited by the concept and I don’t want to sit in a windowless office desperately trying to make numbers be other numbers on the Internet for eight hours, I want to be in my house and make blocks of wood be other blocks of wood. There’s no justice in this world. (Your picture was not posted)

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Today I was set up in the auditorium which is also the cafeteria, as if often the case with elementary schools. I told the secretary that I was ready to start taking photos at 8:30 if any staff wanted to come down, but she said that I couldn’t start til 9. Meanwhile, I was behind the curtain, waiting for the kids to be done eating their breakfast before pulling the curtains up so they wouldn’t be distracted.

So I was kind of peeking through the curtain to see when the kids were done.

Unfortunately, kids notice a lot more than you think they do and one preschooler saw me.

“Mrs Fritz I saw someone behind the curtain!”

“Are you sure? I didn’t see anyone.”

“Yeah I saw him!”

So I lay low for a little bit so they can continue eating without distraction, I peek through the curtain again to check the status.

“Mrs Fritz! I saw him again!”

“I saw him too,” said another.

Mrs Fritz has figured out that there’s someone here, and knows it’s just the photographer for the yearbook, she starts playing on the kids imaginations. “Maybe it was… a Halloween monster!”

I dial it back, but now the kids are looking for me. I sneak out the side door and all eyes are on the curtain, waiting to catch a glimpse of the stranger. Another adult joins them.

“Mr Stubbs there’s a man behind the curtain!”

“There’s a what?”

“A man! I saw a man behind the curtain!”

“Thers no man behind the-”

“Yes there is! I saw his feet!”

“Feet! There’s his feet!”

Mr Stubbs, who would be the first to die in a horror movie, decides to investigate. He comes towards the gap in the curtains to see what’s causing the commotion, pries it apart, and sees me.

I wave. “I’m waiting for them to be done with breakfast so I can get started,” I say, indicating my photi setup. “Like… 5 minutes?”

Mr Stubbs nods, closes the curtain, and turns back towards the preschoolers.

“You know, this building is pretty old,” he says. “I think it might be a ghost.” (Your picture was not posted)

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