summer remains overrated
Jul. 7th, 2021 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thanateThis week my child is in all-day (9-4) horse camp a 5 minute drive from here, so I have actual time at home with Nobody Else In the House. It's relaxing in a slightly too good to be true sort of way, but I am trying to lean on the relaxing part and not dread the future. (So many things could go horribly wrong before school starts in September...)
Meanwhile, the mockingbird who has claimed our front yard is singing his head off; he does about sixteen different car alarms, a seagull, and possibly a tree frog. (It's a little hard to tell with some of them, since his timing is off from the sources.) There are bits of his song that sound like a kid got to one of those 80s digital noise maker toys, and I am resisting the temptation to dig up the one of those we still have lying around and gift him with the "bombs away!" sequence to add to his repertoire. I got some of it on inaturalist here.
Still staring a little blankly at the form to sign up for programming at Worldcon in December (unless of course the time to sign up has run out and there's no decision to be made; I should check that...) since I have no earthly idea whether I'll have managed to reassemble a writing process by that point. But all three of us have memberships & a hotel room, so until something else breaks we're going, darnit. (Is anyone else I know planning on being there?)
(In other effluvia: our final Cicada Scout rank seems to be #17; I am finally cutting up the gorgeous book of very 1930s law lectures I got about 25 years ago to make into a hollow book; I seem to have taken over running the ongoing ATC swap on the craft forum; summer is too hot, but isn't it always; I am finally making tiny bolero-style garments to shade my arms & the back of my neck w/o adding more layers elsewhere; life goes on.)
Meanwhile, the mockingbird who has claimed our front yard is singing his head off; he does about sixteen different car alarms, a seagull, and possibly a tree frog. (It's a little hard to tell with some of them, since his timing is off from the sources.) There are bits of his song that sound like a kid got to one of those 80s digital noise maker toys, and I am resisting the temptation to dig up the one of those we still have lying around and gift him with the "bombs away!" sequence to add to his repertoire. I got some of it on inaturalist here.
Still staring a little blankly at the form to sign up for programming at Worldcon in December (unless of course the time to sign up has run out and there's no decision to be made; I should check that...) since I have no earthly idea whether I'll have managed to reassemble a writing process by that point. But all three of us have memberships & a hotel room, so until something else breaks we're going, darnit. (Is anyone else I know planning on being there?)
(In other effluvia: our final Cicada Scout rank seems to be #17; I am finally cutting up the gorgeous book of very 1930s law lectures I got about 25 years ago to make into a hollow book; I seem to have taken over running the ongoing ATC swap on the craft forum; summer is too hot, but isn't it always; I am finally making tiny bolero-style garments to shade my arms & the back of my neck w/o adding more layers elsewhere; life goes on.)
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Date: 2021-07-07 03:13 pm (UTC)Horse camp sounds fabulous. Is your daughter having a good time?
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Date: 2021-07-07 04:46 pm (UTC)