8.09.2021

I Am Not At All Sure of When I Will Do Any of the Following

  • Make muffins with the blueberries that E.'s mom sent us over a week ago (still good, though; I checked)
  • Put the blueberries in the freezer because I've finally accepted that I'm not going to make the muffins until some random weekend or at 8:15 PM some random night
  • Get the haircut I have been trying to get for about the past month
  • Get L. the haircut we ought to get her, not least because it is starting to get dangerously in the way during some of her bathroom breaks, and do you know what I don't feel like cleaning out of her hair if I can help it?
  • Actually get my tutor-training curriculum (due earlyish next month) finished drafted out of the early outline stage
  • Start getting caught up on the student-advising database records for my previous program that I left undone, saying I would do them sometime (assuming what's left of the program is actually submitting an annual report this year, which I am hoping they totally won't if they're not getting funded again until 2025 or later, but it would be like that byzantine grant to expect us to waste a gazillion hours on it anyway) 
  • Start an exercise regimen (alone, thank you, or at least alone among others if I decide that part of the point of having been vaccinated against Covid months ago is to be able to go waste about 15% of my monthly discretionary funding on a seldom-used subscription to a public gym)
  • Find the cloth mask given me by my college
  • Borrow Ember's End from the library system connected to my college, because the odds don't look good for its soon being acquired by the library system in my state of residence
  • Reread the first several books in the Queen's Thief series so that I can have more than a vague recollection of their contents when I eventually go on and read the other ones
  • Read the pile of books connected to my job, because somehow I got hired with practically no knowledge of one of the forms of tutoring I'm supposed to be overseeing, yea, even training people in
  • Start figuring out when we are moving out of here, in greater detail than "ideally before M. [so, I haven't previously mentioned here that we had a second daughter in 2019, but we totally did] turns three"
  • Resume any meaningful semblance of a social life, even via Zoom (remember when I lived in Binghamton and blogged about doing CyberCafe trivia most Mondays? So: Cyber Trivia came back over Zoom late last year [on Thursdays this time], even though Cyber Cafe West had closed a couple of years ago. I started playing again early this year [not every week, but probably the majority of them], and it was genuinely great. I had a fun threeish months there with Charles, Suzi, and other friends of theirs. Then Jeff, Cyber Trivia's creator and only-ever question-writer and host, developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and died within something like a couple of weeks of diagnosis. The trivia league, bereft of its central figure, hasn't met since, at least that I know of)
  • Clean the rest of the fridge shelves

Thank you.