d's letter about things she'll miss about bloomington (
had a good day at work yesterday, where i solved a difficult engineering problem cleanly and elegantly and also had a meeting with a coworker where i showed enthusiasm for a project they've been working on and committed to advocating for it
didn't cry yesterday and feel dread about having four and a half hours of meetings today, including one where we have to solve a difficult engineering problem i don't know how to solve yet, but have the good day yesterday to help put me in stride, so hopefully will not cry again
making less oatmeal in the morning, since 1.5 servings was really more than i needed and though 1 serving didn't seem like enough initially, it absolutely is. putting a spoonful of (apricot) jam into the oatmeal and swirling it around to distribute it, which reminds me of being a child
jeopardy on netflix, which i stumbled across last night and which has a fascinating presence where instead of full seasons, it has the season premiere of every season from the first one up through the present, which is a totally fascinating time capsule / up series kind of experience (the first episode in particular has amazing 80s synth takes on the theme song and sound effects)
having a pretty good command of general knowledge which has always made me pretty good at jeopardy, even though i wouldn't want to actually go on the show because i have never liked the kind of studying you would need to do
it's thursday, which means tomorrow is friday, which means it's almost the weekend, and then i just have one more week of work to survive before i'm off for a whole week for phase 1 of our move, which i am so excited about, even though moving is stressful in its own way
staying in the living room later in the evening (after 10 last night) instead of migrating to bed by 9pm, which, even though i love being in bed, helps the evening feel longer (which helps with the relentlessness of work) and i'm hoping will also help with the fact that recently i explode into waking at 5:40am even though my alarm is set for 6:40
the long nightmare i was having last night where i was in a chernobyl-like situation and everyone was trying to avoid being exposed to more radiation but the dosimeters were hard to read and there were lots of hot spots was just a dream (and also, that midway through the dream, i found a piece of paper with a chart of conversion figures for the dosimeters that revealed that i hadn't been getting as much dangerous exposure as i thought i had)
for this new mark ronson/angel olsen song (
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FuJ2yitJI_U), where she does my favorite thing her voice does (close unison multitracked vocals with a bite of overdrive that makes a certain register of hers horn-like, almost) over a surprisingly bouncy disco beat