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Feb. 15th, 2018 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesToday is one of those days in which I can't stop hearing, even if I'm not listening to anything in particular. And since the Drama Llama is having a very loud verbal diarrhea day, I'm really annoyed and trying not to take it out on anybody. He's lucky there's a closed door between me and him, even though I can hear him very clearly through it. Thankfully he's taking a four-day weekend starting tomorrow, so it will be quieter in here then. I just have to get to then.
I made beef stew on Monday night and put turnips in it, just to see if I liked them that way. I do, but the whole thing came out too sweet on account of also having carrots in it. Lesson learned. And I made the Smitten Kitchen peanut butter cookies again on Tuesday night, and this time the cookie dough part came out very dry (as dough; it was fine when baked) and I had four extra peanut butter balls at the end. I don't know what the hell happened there. But anyway, I took the cookies to work yesterday and none of them came home again. We were swimming in sugar yesterday between the cookies, the spontaneous office treats, and cupcakes for teatime. I postponed the planned carb abstinence until today. (Especially because I wound up in charge of the logistics and food and cleanup for the IPE session yesterday, and the food was pizza, and I wouldn't have had any lunch if not for leftover pizza. I was too busy running around finding extra tables and chairs and making the online quiz work.)
The other night I woke up three times, and the first two times I thought I had woken myself up snoring, but I couldn't reproduce the noise when I was awake. The third time I figured it out. It was, in fact, snoring, but it was Snip snoring, not me. I'll have to record her doing that someday, because it's very cute when it's not waking me up. Lily doesn't snore, but I make it my mission in life to make her go Mrrp? when I wake her up. It happens about twice a year. I think it's her feral upbringing; the less noise you make, the less anything knows you're there. She's awfully good at making less noise. Except when she's running up and down the hall, and then it sounds like a bowling alley. How does seven pounds of cat sound that heavy?
The Director of Admissions had the flu last week and the Director of Student Services has it this week. That means it's coming around the office in my direction, and I don't want it. And I did get a flu shot, but this year it seems to mean you get the flu for a week instead of two weeks. If you don't get the adenovirus that does lay you out for two weeks. I find all of that highly uncalled for.
My New Year's resolution, a month and a half late, is to not fix the copier unless somebody asks me to. Let them figure it out themselves, or not. Unless it's making a noise I can't stop hearing.
I made beef stew on Monday night and put turnips in it, just to see if I liked them that way. I do, but the whole thing came out too sweet on account of also having carrots in it. Lesson learned. And I made the Smitten Kitchen peanut butter cookies again on Tuesday night, and this time the cookie dough part came out very dry (as dough; it was fine when baked) and I had four extra peanut butter balls at the end. I don't know what the hell happened there. But anyway, I took the cookies to work yesterday and none of them came home again. We were swimming in sugar yesterday between the cookies, the spontaneous office treats, and cupcakes for teatime. I postponed the planned carb abstinence until today. (Especially because I wound up in charge of the logistics and food and cleanup for the IPE session yesterday, and the food was pizza, and I wouldn't have had any lunch if not for leftover pizza. I was too busy running around finding extra tables and chairs and making the online quiz work.)
The other night I woke up three times, and the first two times I thought I had woken myself up snoring, but I couldn't reproduce the noise when I was awake. The third time I figured it out. It was, in fact, snoring, but it was Snip snoring, not me. I'll have to record her doing that someday, because it's very cute when it's not waking me up. Lily doesn't snore, but I make it my mission in life to make her go Mrrp? when I wake her up. It happens about twice a year. I think it's her feral upbringing; the less noise you make, the less anything knows you're there. She's awfully good at making less noise. Except when she's running up and down the hall, and then it sounds like a bowling alley. How does seven pounds of cat sound that heavy?
The Director of Admissions had the flu last week and the Director of Student Services has it this week. That means it's coming around the office in my direction, and I don't want it. And I did get a flu shot, but this year it seems to mean you get the flu for a week instead of two weeks. If you don't get the adenovirus that does lay you out for two weeks. I find all of that highly uncalled for.
My New Year's resolution, a month and a half late, is to not fix the copier unless somebody asks me to. Let them figure it out themselves, or not. Unless it's making a noise I can't stop hearing.
