Tired but better
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magidI stayed far too late at work yesterday (well past the start time of the House of Roses game night, sadly), working on something that had to go out today. Yes, I should've gotten it done earlier, I suppose. My own damned fault. Anyway. I hadn't gotten an optimal amount of sleep the night before, and the 12-hour day at work had me frazzled and tired, unfuntional (maybe the Benadryl had something to do with this, too). Even so, I woke up rather early this morning, and by the end of the work day, all I really thought about was sleep. It didn't help that I spent all morning in a training session, either.
And yet, I didn't want to just go home and fall into bed again, having done nothing at all.
Luckily, that didn't happen. My backyard neighbor was sitting on her front steps, and we ended up chatting for a long while, occasionally looking at the mural painting going on across the street (they've filled in the dragonfly :-). I think it's the first time I've been invited into their backyard; it gives a very different view of that space. Since it was so late in the afternoon, the shadow of the house covered half the yard. But there were some lights dancing in the shadow: another neighbor had tied mirrors to her porch railing, and at just the right time in the afternoon, the light bounces down to the patio. All I could think about was how much this would entertain/frustrate certain cats...
I needed to get out, move, walk around. Into the Square it was, to get a ticket to The Dybbuk (free, at the Loeb Experimental Theater, in the ART building, if you'd like to get a ticket), then on the way home.... I was sucked into the Harvard Book Store. Really, I think they have a vacuum set up, or a magnet, or something.
I succumbed. Mostly, I got used/remaindered books (9 of them... there were all sorts of kid books that were interesting, and that was after resisting a bunch more :-), and I couldn't resist getting one brand new one, Diana Wynne Jones' The Merlin Conspiracy. I know it's not the English edition, Bitty, but I have it in my hot little hands. Perhaps I shall splurge utterly sometime and get the English editions of her books too, but for now, this shall suffice :-).
Walking home, laden with books, and I found myself still tired, but not as much, and much happier than I had been a couple of hours ago. A nice walk in pleasant weather plus an infusion of books can do wonders (just don't ask where I think I'm going to shelve said books...).
And yet, I didn't want to just go home and fall into bed again, having done nothing at all.
Luckily, that didn't happen. My backyard neighbor was sitting on her front steps, and we ended up chatting for a long while, occasionally looking at the mural painting going on across the street (they've filled in the dragonfly :-). I think it's the first time I've been invited into their backyard; it gives a very different view of that space. Since it was so late in the afternoon, the shadow of the house covered half the yard. But there were some lights dancing in the shadow: another neighbor had tied mirrors to her porch railing, and at just the right time in the afternoon, the light bounces down to the patio. All I could think about was how much this would entertain/frustrate certain cats...
I needed to get out, move, walk around. Into the Square it was, to get a ticket to The Dybbuk (free, at the Loeb Experimental Theater, in the ART building, if you'd like to get a ticket), then on the way home.... I was sucked into the Harvard Book Store. Really, I think they have a vacuum set up, or a magnet, or something.
I succumbed. Mostly, I got used/remaindered books (9 of them... there were all sorts of kid books that were interesting, and that was after resisting a bunch more :-), and I couldn't resist getting one brand new one, Diana Wynne Jones' The Merlin Conspiracy. I know it's not the English edition, Bitty, but I have it in my hot little hands. Perhaps I shall splurge utterly sometime and get the English editions of her books too, but for now, this shall suffice :-).
Walking home, laden with books, and I found myself still tired, but not as much, and much happier than I had been a couple of hours ago. A nice walk in pleasant weather plus an infusion of books can do wonders (just don't ask where I think I'm going to shelve said books...).
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Date: 2003-04-30 06:42 pm (UTC)Actually, wait: it's somewhere in my cluttered as-yet-unpacked bedroom. Must remedy that.
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