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Yesterday I overslept a bit, so only did a tiny amount of additional
ironing.

It was a phone day. I tried to reschedule my physical Wednesday a bunch of
times but couldn’t get through. At lunch mom called to kill some time and
check in while they were in Portland picking up a trailer base.

At work I fixed a stuck process for a student, put in a few OS upgrade
requests I’d forgotten about from fall, made substantial progress on
PyTheo, and wrote up most of the exercises for R. At the lab meeting Z gave
a talk on neural text generation techniques, which was fascinating.

Over dinner I watched a captivating vlog on shopping for fabric in NYC’s
garment district
. Two episodes of Heart; I stayed up until P got home from
class. Wasn’t sleepy.
infryq: Kitchen scene at dawn, post-processed to appear as if painted (Default)
Yesterday we went on an adventure to find rose petals. P called around the
local middle eastern groceries but came up empty; I googled for herbalist
supply shops and got a hit in Bloomfield. Very woo, but very well-stocked.
There will be a lot of extra that I’ll probably send home and use for bath
tea or something.

We also went to the Italian bakery and got ricotta pasticciotti, a small
domed filled short-crust pastry that substituted nicely for the big ricotta
pie they were out of. Also got a large cherry tart, which the cashier
assumed had food coloring (“I don’t understand why you *wouldn’t* put food
coloring in it”) but which P didn’t react to on taste test so maybe not.

Spent the rest of the day reading and knitting and chatting. Lunch was
difficult; dinner was easier. G put a fire in the fireplace, which was
nice. M got another pizza from another local place. I think he’s trying to
work through them all before he goes home on Sunday.

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