Day in the Life of an Idiot

You didn't hear from me for a week because I had a very full dance card.

• Sunday: My friends offcntr and his wife, Denise, came in to town from Eugene, OR
• Monday: the youngest of the the Jackson clan and his SO stayed overnight with us on their way back to Portland, OR
• Tuesday: hung out with naomikritzer
• Wednesday: worked at White Bear Lake
• Thursday: saw jiawen and Naomi again, before jiawen heads back to Taiwan and then went out to anime night
• Friday: met up with pegkerr  Naomi, and Eleanor for our usual get together.

i am an extrovert, but even for me, this was a lot of running around, especially since somewhere in there I also did a big grocery run to Hyvee and made four quiche. We also got a bunch of Mason's PSEO stuff squared away. Alas, he did not get into the University of Minnesota's PSEO program, so we had to do a bit of scrambling, but we got him all registered for St. Paul College's PSEO. 

Whew.

On Saturday, we cleaned out the garage because St. Paul was having its big 'all you can dump" deal over at the Fairgrounds, where you pay $10 to get rid of all the things you usually can't--scrap metal, cellphones, stuff you need to shred, lumber waste, big appliances, etc.  We sat a line of cars forever, but it was decent weather and we listened to the beginning of the "Balance" arc of The Adventure Zone. Mason has me hooked on "Amnesty" already.)

I think I spent Sunday just trying to catch my breath, I swear. 

This week Mason is, as he likes to call it, "paying his dues" as an employee of the Science Museum. He's going to be one of the youth paid assistants at "Wizard School" camp all week. It should be... chaotic? I think he's looking forward to the paycheck, if you know what I mean. But, at least it doesn't start until 12:30 pm, so he gets to catch up on his sleep now that school is out for the summer.

For myself, I need to get back to Unjust Cause (my deadline is November 1.) Meanwhile, my short story "Only Gossamer, My Gown" should be coming out in Boundary Shock Quarterly any day now. I've seen the cover art, and its gorgeous! I will do more jumping around about it, once there's a link to something you can buy.

But, I've been spending my washing dishes time staying current with Midnight Occult Civil Servants and, while waiting for the next episode of that to air, watching Free! Season 3 (which somehow I missed when it came out). 

I guess that's all I know? I will try to post more regularly (and more coherently) now that things have calmed down.

Almost two weeks ago, I was doing the dishes in the kitchen and I heard the cats knock something off the table. I didn't think much of it. Then, I heard the mail come and I went to go get it. I'd been in my tennis shoes because I needed to pick up Mason in a matter of minutes... and as I headed out, I heard, beneath my feet a decidedly hard crunch. I looked down. MY GLASSES!

They were broken in three places. Completely shattered.

I dug my earlier pair out from the drawer and have been wearing them until I could find time to go get a new pair. Since we don't have insurance for me, we needed to find something cheap. Luckily Vision World was having a sale. I went and got an exam and picked out two pair. The eye doc said that my right eye has been doing most of the work for my eyes for a long time, but other than that my eyes were pretty healthy.

Yesterday we picked up my new glasses. Obviously, I usually take my glasses on and off a lot, but I've been wearing these constantly as I get used to them... and I have to say, I probably should continue that trend. It seems that the world is a lot more... 3-D than I previously realized. I wonder if I've been slowly loosing a bit of depth perception.

In other news, I have to teach starting Monday. After languishing for a long time with only four registered students, my on-line class at the Loft suddenly picked up the three more needed to make it viable. I'd gotten my mind around the idea it would be cancelled so I'm... rushing around trying to get ready, and trying to focus on the fact that I have things that need doing that aren't related to drawing more fan art or writing slash fic.

Also, I need to get the word out about my up-coming signing at Uncle Hugo's for Tate's last Ana book, ALMOST EVERYTHING.

This means, of course, that this morning all I've managed to get done was ink a couple of pictures while sitting next to Mason who is nursing a tummy ache by watching the Star Wars triology (the evil prequels, no less.)

Later today I need to fetch some bread from the bakery and get ready for a Superbowl party/housewarming we were invited too. Unfortunately, Shawn woke up with a migraine, so she's trying to sleep it off.