Feb. 19th, 2013 01:26 pm
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fox_confessorHi! Hi! Hello!
I've spent the morning being Relatively! Productive! At! Work!! Lately, it happens so rarely, partly because I did my taxes, which emphasized the facts that a) I didn't get a bonus last year despite seriously going above and beyond when we had turnover issues and b) my base salary is shockingly low given my title and responsibilities. I'll have to be honest and say it put me out more than a little, particularly since they've started to ask me to work on Saturdays.
Anyway, productive, which is good because I'll be out tomorrow finally having my MRI. I'm not currently nervous about it (so keep your horror stories to yourself :D). It's a compression MRI, which the Internet assures me will be a good time. I'm planing lunch and a manicure after, so while I could technically go into work after (and before my doctor's appointment), I've decided that I'll deserve good things to happen instead. and that starts today when I plan to go grab some coffee and a cookie (cooooooooookie).
Other big and exciting news, I cleaned last night. I hadn't actually vacuumed since before I hurt my back, sooooo December, and my house was just a general tip--not quite a hoarders episode but if you had a look around, you might be shaking your head to say, "this is how it starts, Dani". So I picked up the trash and took out the recycling and put things where they mostly belonged. I still need to dust and finish the laundry and mop (my least favorite task) but it's better.
I also decided that I needed to see and hear and read new things. I've got into a rut that mostly involves refreshing the same seven webpages--no books, no new artists, and my viewing habits are abysmal (let's never mention the whole Toddlers and Tiaras thing that happened last month). I know it's time for change when my internal juke box plays the Springsteen lyric "I need to change my clothes, my hair, my face/I just live in a dump like this/there's something happening somewhere, baby I just know there is", which doesn't bode well for growing my hair out, quite frankly. It's embarrassing how long ago it was since I read something that wasn't fanfiction, which I loooooove btw, but I feel like I need new and different (and professionally edited fiction that doesn't generally mistake "taut" and "taught" and omg I read a story this morning that had some really funny typos).
So I dug up some of those best of lists to get some ideas. The book ones are particularly hard because most of the lists exclude authors that are anything other than Western white male--I don't want them excluded, I just want a variety of stories and thoughts, you know? Young adult literature gets left off frequently, too, and science fiction. So, I ended up with six lists from different places and I'll likely spend way too much time paring it down. What do you think? Do I leave on books I know I've already read and reread? Probably not, I suppose, if I want new. I really want books that aren't American or British, too, and I think those will be harder to find unless I buy them. I've also decided that I really dislike reading on my Kindle. I like it for other things (mostly playing this game that's kinda like the old Zoo Tycoon and reading fanfic) but reading books is annoying.
I also got a list of 100 best movies from the American Film Institute, which is actually something like 123 films, and 1001 albums to list to before you diiiiiiie, which I'm going to cross reference with Rolling Stones 500 best albums. I'm feeling strangely shy about talking about these so I'll likely move the whole project over to another journal I've been sitting on for a while.
Wow. I have been rambling, which is going to put a dent in my whole "productive!!" theme I had going on today.
I've spent the morning being Relatively! Productive! At! Work!! Lately, it happens so rarely, partly because I did my taxes, which emphasized the facts that a) I didn't get a bonus last year despite seriously going above and beyond when we had turnover issues and b) my base salary is shockingly low given my title and responsibilities. I'll have to be honest and say it put me out more than a little, particularly since they've started to ask me to work on Saturdays.
Anyway, productive, which is good because I'll be out tomorrow finally having my MRI. I'm not currently nervous about it (so keep your horror stories to yourself :D). It's a compression MRI, which the Internet assures me will be a good time. I'm planing lunch and a manicure after, so while I could technically go into work after (and before my doctor's appointment), I've decided that I'll deserve good things to happen instead. and that starts today when I plan to go grab some coffee and a cookie (cooooooooookie).
Other big and exciting news, I cleaned last night. I hadn't actually vacuumed since before I hurt my back, sooooo December, and my house was just a general tip--not quite a hoarders episode but if you had a look around, you might be shaking your head to say, "this is how it starts, Dani". So I picked up the trash and took out the recycling and put things where they mostly belonged. I still need to dust and finish the laundry and mop (my least favorite task) but it's better.
I also decided that I needed to see and hear and read new things. I've got into a rut that mostly involves refreshing the same seven webpages--no books, no new artists, and my viewing habits are abysmal (let's never mention the whole Toddlers and Tiaras thing that happened last month). I know it's time for change when my internal juke box plays the Springsteen lyric "I need to change my clothes, my hair, my face/I just live in a dump like this/there's something happening somewhere, baby I just know there is", which doesn't bode well for growing my hair out, quite frankly. It's embarrassing how long ago it was since I read something that wasn't fanfiction, which I loooooove btw, but I feel like I need new and different (and professionally edited fiction that doesn't generally mistake "taut" and "taught" and omg I read a story this morning that had some really funny typos).
So I dug up some of those best of lists to get some ideas. The book ones are particularly hard because most of the lists exclude authors that are anything other than Western white male--I don't want them excluded, I just want a variety of stories and thoughts, you know? Young adult literature gets left off frequently, too, and science fiction. So, I ended up with six lists from different places and I'll likely spend way too much time paring it down. What do you think? Do I leave on books I know I've already read and reread? Probably not, I suppose, if I want new. I really want books that aren't American or British, too, and I think those will be harder to find unless I buy them. I've also decided that I really dislike reading on my Kindle. I like it for other things (mostly playing this game that's kinda like the old Zoo Tycoon and reading fanfic) but reading books is annoying.
I also got a list of 100 best movies from the American Film Institute, which is actually something like 123 films, and 1001 albums to list to before you diiiiiiie, which I'm going to cross reference with Rolling Stones 500 best albums. I'm feeling strangely shy about talking about these so I'll likely move the whole project over to another journal I've been sitting on for a while.
Wow. I have been rambling, which is going to put a dent in my whole "productive!!" theme I had going on today.
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Good luck on your MRI. I will be thinking good thoughts for you. :)
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Thanks for the good thoughts. I'm determined not to be nervous about it.
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