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Except I think that my pupil distance was 56 instead of 55, and also the bridge seems a bit flimsy. That, I don't like, but it may be my amorphous anxiety talking.

In other news, Moonpie has completely scratched and licked up her nipples and now they're bleeding and infected, and apparently the vet prefers to do a blood test at this age, but as the blood test is $400 we declined. (E asked if I thought they judged us for that, lol, sweetie, I always think everybody judges me for everything, but that's not a rational mindset, so no, upon reflection I don't think that. We're hardly the only family to make petcare decisions based on affordability, and even if they do judge us, great, they can pay for this bloodwork themselves.) Also, NYC now mandates a new vaccine for cats and dogs. They can mandate what they like, but they can't make people follow that law. However, after the vet explained that this disease spreads pretty easily and now is spreading to humans, in whom it can cause kidney and/or liver failure, I decided, reluctantly, to make vaxxing the cats a priority. Which means full vet appointments for each one and new rabies shots as well. It's not going to be a quick process, is what I'm saying. (And we still need to replace those water heaters before they break!)

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It was a penny more than the old ones, so there's that. (But I paid for super expedited shipping, so actually it's like $40 more.)

They're green. I'm not so sure about this, but there will be NO MORE TAKE-BACKS. I triple checked that they weren't safety glasses with the things on the side, which would've been great if I was in a field where I needed those but, as it is, was unwearable, and they're the exact same measurement as my old glasses, I checked that as well.

conuly

I liked it, but that was because I liked laughing at how stupidly oblivious the protagonist was to his not-rival's extraordinarily obvious crush on him. And also because I like most things I read.

But then, here I was, 20 minutes from the finish line, our two dudes are about to finally resolve all their deep-seated personal issues that have kept them apart - and my coworkers start a loud conversation right next to me and they will not shut up. I did, eventually, have to ask them to please stop for half an hour so I could finish my book.

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Final Project Hell has begun at school 😭 Or, well technically I still have one class with the final project unassigned as yet? But still!

For Social Problems, I need to do a creative project on, well, a social problem, and write an accompanying paper. And there's some regular homework in addition to that.

For Ceramics, I need to interview a living ceramicist and do a creative project on them. The interview has to be done vocally (in person, over the phone, or via video call). Plus our final unit project, the slab houses.

Intro to Human Services hasn't been assigned yet, but guess what, it's another interview! This time with a Human Services professional. Looks like it has the same "interview has to be done vocally" restrictions as the Ceramics interview. Separate from that is a final paper, "Developing Your Personal Mission Statement as a Human Services Professional".

I need to go to the Learning Commons or something and get all of this bullshit untangled, because my ADHD brain has gone into Panic Mode.

Current Mood: distressed

soc_puppet

I just sat down and scheduled posts-by-email for

moodthemeinayear for almost the rest of the year; I haven't done the final wrap-up post, but that's still a good six more weeks I won't have to worry about manually updating there! Er, provided I did everything right, at any rate 😅 I guess I'll find out next week!

Current Mood: quixotic

conuly

I have a mandatory staff meeting in an hour and I may call out on the grounds that I am so tired.

(I also have a headache, but if I call out on the grounds that omg my head is killing me my manager will tell me to go to the doctor. It's not an illness, it's a generational curse, plus I worked 16 hours on approximate 0 hours of sleep yesterday.)

On the other hand, I want to seem responsible. But... I am really groggy and tired and I have a headache.

conuly

I haven't had a chance to look at any other election results yet, but that's cheering. I do think he's vastly overpromised and will regret it - among other things, free buses requires first wresting the MTA back from Albany, and that's not the job of a single term - but it's not like I liked any of the other candidates.

Especially Cuomo, for many reasons, but most especially because you just can't trust somebody who thinks the best career move after governor is mayor.

conuly

Happy Election Day, I guess?

conuly

I took over Jenn's game of Cult of the Lamb - which may have been a mistake, because her angry followers whom she starved now pop out of chests and try to kill me - and I defeated the big boss and converted him into a follower. And then I resurrected somebody, and literally the second I stepped outside my temple to go to the healing hut to heal the resurrected follower, the resurrectee ate him. So now I have to do a new resurrection!

conuly

picked out a pair of glasses I just cannot stand. Sending them back, getting a better pair. I do have another spare pair if this one gives out entirely.

conuly

I don’t care if it is in character, pick another word! (And while it ought to be in character, she hasn’t exactly been dropping the big words every other dialog line. Or if she has, I didn’t notice?)

soc_puppet

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Current Mood: to buy or not to buy...

soc_puppet

I successfully finished all my required objects for my wheel project in Ceramics! (A total of eleven objects, for various reasons, one of them being that we had to make duplicates of everything to manually destroy to simulate losing half of our work in the kiln. (I made a triplicate of one item.))

Anyway, with that done, we're on to our final project for the semester: Slab Houses.

In theory, I love this project. The teacher showed us some examples from previous years, and it has so much potential to be fun and quirky! The assignment is to make a home that tells a story about who or whatever lives in it. We also need two "roof angles" (not two sides of the same roof, as in an upside-down "v", but another roof thing in addition to that).

Unfortunately, the last constraint is killing me: There need to be a minimum of two slabs of 11" x 8.5". Holes can be cut into them, and structures built onto them, but they must otherwise retain those dimensions, because this project is ultimately about building slabs. Oh, and it also can't be more than like, 18" in diameter in any direction.

Idea sketches were due on Wednesday. I had five ideas for slab structures, and ended up finalizing one of the two I was least enthusiastic about because it's easy for the design to follow the "two piece-of-paper-sized slabs" rule.

We had to make models of our idea for a skill builder, due by 4:30pm today, and mine is. Not great. We're allowed to skip a lot of the final embellishments, and mine is still not great. Chiefly because it has a flat roof, and I didn't think through why that was a horrible idea. But it was also literally the only idea that would really work without being too big.

I've since come up with a couple of other ideas out of desperation, but I don't know if I'll be able to switch to one of them at this point. Still, it's gotta be better than my current attempt 😩

Current Mood: frustrated

soc_puppet

Guess who just remembered that ey've already written some "Image Hosting on Dreamwidth" tutorials?

They're just still stuck on Tumblr and not Dreamwidth at the moment.

Links, so I can get to migrating them later:

Brief tutorial with no images, Tutorial with images.

There's also this one, which is not by me, but covers posting images by email.

Current Mood: embarrassed

conuly

and omg those cultists are so needy. They can't feed themselves, so you're constantly trying to keep them in berries and fish, and they complain about everything!

"There's no place to poop, build an outhouse!" (You're an animal, poop on the ground!)

"I want to eat a poop sandwich!" (Uh, okay, but why do I have to make it!?)

"Oh, that grass gruel made me sick!" (Get back to work!)

"I'm sick of your lies!" (Welp, time to perform another ~~human~~ sapient sacrifice of a, uh, willing victim!)

Seriously, who's running this cult, you or them?

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conuly

This is the first thing
I have understood:
Time is the echo of an axe
Within a wood.

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conuly

Boo.

(Wait, and also nearly Halloween! Boo!)

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A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine I used to work with at AnimeIowa contacted me with questions about running Accessibility for the convention he's since joined; I've rounded up everything I could think of and sent it to him, though I don't doubt I'll be thinking of things I missed for a while longer 😛

Anyway, that was more floating around the back of my mind than anything, until I found out about TwitchCon's major accessibility fails, including (among other things) not having a ramp to the main stage for one of their Guests of Honor, for three years running. I'm no professional, just a passionate, self-taught amateur, but even I can fix something that egregious after the first time!

With that in mind, I'm going to do my best to start sharing some of the stuff I thought about and planned for Accessibility back when I was running it for AnimeIowa. I've got a bare bones timeline for stuff to do posted at

access_fandom already (with questions and input very welcome!), and am planning to share more there as I get the wherewithal. Because my efforts and knowledge aren't perfect, but I still somehow did better than a convention with corporate funding to throw around.

Current Mood: what the actual fuck

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Well, I like them well enough

Well, I've picked out a new set of frames

I used the election to read In Other Lands

Sob sob sob sob

Phew!

I am so tired

Mamdami won

Cheney died

Argh!

Didn't look closely enough

The word “perforce” does not belong in YA

New Manga Humble Bundle

More Ceramics

So...

Jenn's been playing Cult of the Lamb

This Is The First Thing by Philip Larkin

It's that awful time of month again.

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