Done This Week
Jul. 13th, 2025 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksI SAW A BLUE JAY AT HOME!
Sorry, needed to get the most important news out first. I have been deeply jealous of work, where there are a bunch of blue jays* swinging by on a regular basis to harass people on the patio. In eleven years at my home, I have never seen a blue jay here. But yesterday, while out cleaning the corrals, I saw one flitting about. Looked fluffy and vaguely juvenile. I hope it sticks around. I may be one of the few people who is actually happy at the prospect of jays coming around to pester.
*For those not in California, I am referring to the California scrub jay, Aphelocoma californica, not the variety seen in the eastern portions of the continent, though both are colloquially referred to as blue jays. Still a corvid, still a beautiful blue bastard.
Anyway! Work was boring; I have resorted to reading library books on my phone at my desk. Complained to my boss that all the things I’m allegedly meant to be doing are either swept up by other people or locked behind the endless bureaucracy of waiting on approvals or support from people who don’t appear to ever do anything at all. I don’t actually like being this bored, with or without library books on my phone. I did get to do some wall patching and painting, though, so that was a relief.
Lewisia: 2 new pieces written, so now I’m a full week ahead ヽ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ
Day job: 42.5 hours--a normal week???
Cooking: pineapple swirl milk bread (no recipe beyond the base milk bread from KAF, completely winging the alterations and additions, turned out tasty, would make as swirl rolls a la cinnamon rolls next time)
Gardening: more work on the club’s barcode database, garden club post, had a tree branch fall nearly on my car so had to drag that off for eventual dismantling
Watching: Murderbot season finale--premium quality entertainment 🔪🤖🖤
Listening: The Crux by Djo (very good, whatever this is called--shoegaze?--it is exceedingly pleasing for me, still hasn’t topped DECIDE but give it time to grow on me)
Clock Mouse: 1160 words
Sorry, needed to get the most important news out first. I have been deeply jealous of work, where there are a bunch of blue jays* swinging by on a regular basis to harass people on the patio. In eleven years at my home, I have never seen a blue jay here. But yesterday, while out cleaning the corrals, I saw one flitting about. Looked fluffy and vaguely juvenile. I hope it sticks around. I may be one of the few people who is actually happy at the prospect of jays coming around to pester.
*For those not in California, I am referring to the California scrub jay, Aphelocoma californica, not the variety seen in the eastern portions of the continent, though both are colloquially referred to as blue jays. Still a corvid, still a beautiful blue bastard.
Anyway! Work was boring; I have resorted to reading library books on my phone at my desk. Complained to my boss that all the things I’m allegedly meant to be doing are either swept up by other people or locked behind the endless bureaucracy of waiting on approvals or support from people who don’t appear to ever do anything at all. I don’t actually like being this bored, with or without library books on my phone. I did get to do some wall patching and painting, though, so that was a relief.
Lewisia: 2 new pieces written, so now I’m a full week ahead ヽ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ
Day job: 42.5 hours--a normal week???
Cooking: pineapple swirl milk bread (no recipe beyond the base milk bread from KAF, completely winging the alterations and additions, turned out tasty, would make as swirl rolls a la cinnamon rolls next time)
Gardening: more work on the club’s barcode database, garden club post, had a tree branch fall nearly on my car so had to drag that off for eventual dismantling
Watching: Murderbot season finale--premium quality entertainment 🔪🤖🖤
Listening: The Crux by Djo (very good, whatever this is called--shoegaze?--it is exceedingly pleasing for me, still hasn’t topped DECIDE but give it time to grow on me)
Clock Mouse: 1160 words
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Date: 2025-07-14 04:30 pm (UTC)