Over the rest of break, P made popovers and ma’amoul to drop off at C’s for thanksgiving, I made a stuffed pumpkin for the day after (successfully, finally, and the squash itself is really good so I’ve saved the seeds), we took a nice day trip to a new independent bookstore for our anniversary, had video calls with our respective parents, and otherwise took it very, very easy.
Over the weekend I spent some time remembering how to do welt pockets, and installed one into the wool pants for P. The rayon I ordered for lining them arrived, but I didn’t get around to unpacking it. P made ma’amoul, and I made another batch of lentils and wild rice. We went to the market and got apples, pears, beans, peppers, bak choy, sweet potato greens (!), zucchini, and honey. I finished watching Shadow And Bone and started alternating The Magicians with Ada Twist to counteract the gore in the former. Mood’s been shitty but I suspect hormones.
Last night I watched Twitter explode with the news that Frances is the Facebook whistleblower. We’ve lost touch, but I couldn’t be more proud of her.
Yesterday P helped me figure out wtf to do with L’s draft of our final report for the process mapping project, which included installing Office on my machine for the first time in like ten years, then rearranging the outline to nest things more logically, and now I’m maybe two thirds of the way through the front matter and introduction. L… sent a new copy of the report at the end of the day, which is frustrating since he knew I had made time for editing yesterday. I’ll deal with that when we meet on Monday. The rest of the day went to one on ones, including a work session with my high school mentee J where we submitted her manuscript to an emerging investigators journal. It’s her first paper submission, and I’m really proud of her!
P baked the ma’amoul in the morning, so the house smells delicious. He dropped some of them off at the coffee shop, some with our favorite middle eastern grocery, and the rest are for us. I managed to remember to soak more giant lima beans, so those are ready to shell and split this morning.
Dinner, crossword, Pose, snack, sleep. Long epic dreams about Christmas shopping in bookstores, book tours, mixed mechanical components, cleaning the stove with anxiety, standing in line, small friendly furry creatures, a toy shop that should have been open but claimed to be closed but had the guy inside dazed, tensegrity structures.
Yesterday was super productive! I released a bugfix to the website, fixed a gnarly problem with surveys running out of memory on the new host, added a whole new page to the website to host our job postings, and linked to it from the footer and the landing page carousel, released that and another bugfix, and finished editing all 200-some signal descriptions for the new sheet-based metadata.
P made ma’amoul dough to bake this morning. While dinner was cooking I went out and watered the garden and picked a couple handfuls of snap peas. After dinner we did the crossword, then I watched another episode of Pose, then snack and sleep. Dreamt of our house by the lake, making little books, sleeping under the stars, arborists, a T piano recital (??), hanging out with A on the fringes, cats.
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