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Spent most of the day hoping something interesting would happen…

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…and thus far it has not, at least nothing interesting enough to overcome my desire to lie in a heap and stare at the wall and groan.  The drive home from Nashville was considerably more taxing than the drive to Nashville, particularly the more extended post-Louisville part, and “staring and moaning” has been about where my head has been at all day.  There was some raking of leaves.  The front lawn has, oh, 80% of the leaves that it had earlier today.  A spot of shopping.  Very little else.

Yeah.

How was your weekend?

Day Two of November…

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november_08_40…and I’m already like “Oh, God, just screw it, words are for people who can’t grunt properly.”  It is very clearly Sunday.  I have spent some time idly cleaning (which means that I move approximately two thousand small objects from where they are to where they should be, a process that ought to result in a more orderly-looking house but somehow never does) and reading a book that may well be beyond my intellectual capabilities at the moment.  The tree in my front yard is clearly waiting for the first major snowfall of the year to drop the rest of its leaves.  Oh, and I’ve been learning about how squirrels can climb down trees.  Did you know that squirrels can rotate their back ankles 180 degrees?  It’s kinda fascinating.

That’s been about it.

(Sidenote: it’s maybe 40 degrees outside.  The neighbor boy, an eighth grader, is running around with no shirt on.  Clearly, he’s out of his mind.)

I also sorta quit OtherJob, at least for the next several months.  You can probably imagine that your average miniature golf course doesn’t get a  whole lot of business during winter, and if you’ve been reading me for a while you’ll likely recall that I spend most of my time at OtherJob during the winter grading and writing.  I have nothing to grade this year, and I make enough money that 6 hours of extra pay every two weeks isn’t going to make me or break me, so I spoke with my boss this morning and told him to consider me on call until spring when we ramp back up to seven days a week.  I’ll still be in periodically (people are going to call in sick once in a while, for example) but I am effectively down to only one job for the first time in seven years until March or so, which is going to be a really weird feeling.

Wednesday I will be leaving for Nashville, where I’m attending an ed conference that will last until Saturday.  I’ve been looking forward to this conference until this week; I’ve never been to Nashville and it’s all expenses paid, so that alone ought to be nice, but as the thing grows closer my innate homebodyness is taking over and I’m finding that I really don’t want to leave my family for four days.  I’m spending an awful lot of someone else’s money for our team to go to this thing, though, so I probably ought to find a way to make the most of it.

Blargh.

This should probably just be a Tweet

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The house is clean, at least to the extent that if strangers enter it they would not wonder how we live here and still maintain our basic humanity.  I can live with that.

One down, two to go.

Today

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Getting the bathroom tile done if it kills me.

Getting the query letter for PITCH WARS written if it kills me.

Getting the house cleaned if it kills me.

Obviously, this will be my last post ever and I’ll miss all of you.  Do what you want with my body.

Prepare yourself for grabbaggery

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  • Kotobukiya-Guardians-of-the-Galaxy-Rocket-Raccoon-Groot-Statue-e1392822625414I am listening to, of all things, Beethoven right now, because bloody Peg + Cat has put the fifth symphony in my head and I can’t get it out.  This is… kinda rare.
  • I’ve ordered the statue to the right there and I absolutely cannot wait for it to show up.
  • I start full-time back to work tomorrow, so the posting schedule here is gonna go back to what it is during the school year– that is, no early post unless I manage to get one written the night before, and likely the first one of the day coming between four and six.  Traffic will no doubt take a hit; I will cry.  Oh well.  I’ll roll in a pile of money to make it all better.
  • That said, I just came up with another post I need to write, so you may have one tomorrow morning anyway.
  • Here’s the Guardians of the Galaxy review, as I’ve been thinking about it: in the ways it’s good, it’s really really good, but it’s sort of a letdown in others, and is actually one of those rare movies that could have benefited from being about twenty minutes longer.  There’s enough characters and enough going on here that the movie could have  used a little breathing room here and there.  That said, all of the characters are amazing, particularly Rocket and Groot, who could carry a movie entirely by themselves.  I didn’t know anything about Dave Bautista before seeing him as Drax but he’s hilarious and seems to have been born to play the role.  Gamora, sadly, is a bit underutilized, but I think they’re holding her back for some of the more Thanos-intensive movies to come, so I can live with it.  That said, she gets one of the best lines of the movie, and the fact that they didn’t hook her and Quill up is fantastic.
  • Weirdly, part of the reason I’m having trouble being more detailed about my feelings for GotG is that after a few minutes of watching Groot and Rocket interact I started thinking about how to handle a Benevolence Archives movie, as the main characters have similar height disparities.  It’s tougher than you might think to shoot a film when one character is of a substantially different height than the others, and when you mix a really short character and a really tall character with people of normal height… hella tricky.  The fact that it’s so seamless is one of the movie’s biggest strengths.  Anyway, I need to see it again when it’s not going to distract me– long story short, if you had any thoughts about seeing the film I’d highly recommend it.  I think some of the praise it’s getting is overblown, but it’s been just about the best-reviewed movie of the goddamn year so that kinda comes with the territory.
  • I am hoping to be able to tell you some book news this week.  I am also hoping for some time to goddamn write this week.  I’ve been stagnant for over a week now and I’m kinda ready to be done with that.

In which I infect your brain

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It’s 1:09 PM, and I’ve had sixteen hits so far today.  This is about a hundred and fifteen off my usual pace, so… taking the day off today, Internet?  I guess so.

I still have the aforementioned four thousand words hanging over my head that I referenced yesterday, and my in-laws are coming over for dinner at four, so I’m just as buried in nonsense today as I was yesterday.  I think you ought to listen to some music. Today’s theme: earworms:

Phish, “Julius”

Iggy Azalea, “Fancy”

“Let it Go,” Frozen

Abba, “Dancing Queen”

Tag Team, “Whoomp! (There it is)”

Miley Fucking Cyrus, “Party in the USA”

Chumbawumba, “Tubthumping”

Tom Jones, “What’s New Pussycat”

And, as a bonus:

John Mulaney, “The Salt and Pepper Diner”

The goal for today:

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zt1lkraq3fgdoqdz0kluAbove all else, stay busy.

I am terrible at being on vacation.  I am at my very worst as a human being on the last day of a vacation, where I generally spend my time being miserable about “wasting” the time I had off.  Note that I am entirely capable of this regardless of what I actually did during the vacation.  I already had a rogue two hours this morning between four and six AM where I woke up, couldn’t get back to sleep, and went to the computer and got school stuff done for an hour or so.  Ridiculously, I need to actually keep that pace up.

Also: must change all my passwords.  So should you, if you haven’t heard about Heartbleed yet.  I’ve already taken care of the two biggies– my Google account and my bank– but that leaves about 30 accounts to go through today.  Including this one, come to think of it.

Real post coming later.  Feel free to suggest important tasks I should be attending to in the comments.

In which I ain’t got nothin for ya

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I don’t think I have anything for you today, Internet.  I’m still full of sushi from yesterday, I have a lot of stuff to do today (Grading! Writing! Reading! Video games!  Housecleaning!  Home renovation! Oh, right, parenting!) and am not feeling super inspired.  There might be something later if I come up with a story worth telling, but I kinda doubt it.

In the meanwhile, feel free to wander through the archives.  Click here for a random post.