Category: Wisconsin

Of Travel and Tuna Breath

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15,046 Days Alive

47 Minutes Spent Cleaning Up My Room with Owl as my Body Double

22 Days to Finish the Surprise Daisy Cardigan for Grandma Gator

22 Days Until My Commencement Trip

11/38 Daisy Motifs Made

2 Packets of Garlic and Herb Tuna Eaten for Dinner that Benny the Cat Tried to Help Me Eat

Drove the 144 miles from Owl’s place in Illinois back to Madison today. Only a few more weeks and I’ll be living there full time. The same amount of time until my commencement trip.

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Of Untimely Demises and Unbearable Weight

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15,034 Days Alive

138 Miles to Drive from Work to the Parliament of Chaos

9 Tim Burton Comfort Films Watched in the Last Month

4 Specific Movies to Watch Planned (9 to 5, Clue, Steel Magnolias, and Muppet Treasure Island)

2 Days Until I Travel to the Parliament of Chaos Again

1 Crying Fit at 5am…Again

Life sure is life-ing again. It’s been a month since my last entry. I was trying to get back into the daily habit of blogging but seem to have, at least temporarily, failed.

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Of Friendliness and Falling Temperatures

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14,769 Days Alive

2,207 Days Straight on Duolingo

0 Rows Crocheted Today

Son of a crumbled biscuit. I fell asleep writing this. Oh dear.

Oh man am I utterly exhausted from work and socializing today. I had work in the morning, but I have to admit I was not as good as I could have been seeing as I had the beginnings of a very bad headache. It got better, but holy crap is it cold out tonight.

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Prompt Answer: Favorites Place To Go In My City

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What is your favorite place to go in your city?

As usual, I have a very roundabout answer to this. The too long, didn’t read version answer is “it depends on the city”.

One hundred and fourteen addresses since my birth in June 1985. I only really remember 1992 and onward, to be honest. Seven was a defining year; my little brother Mal was born that February. It was the beginning of my parentification, but I love him so much and am so proud of who he has become and the life he built for himself.

So. Where I am now? It’s the public libraries or this amazing local ice cream place that has some of the best damn ice cream I’ve ever had. Like, lemon cardamom, blackberry with lime, and cherry almond flavored. In Chicago, it’s Chiu Quon in Chinatown. Cash only, but fucking amazing food for as long as I can remember.

Of Air Mattresses and Anticipation

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14,754 Days Alive

6-ish Hours Until I Need To Drop Llama Off At the Airport

1 Goal List To Be Made Tomorrow

Still tired, in pain; but far less than yesterday and Sunday evening.

We have to be up and out the door by 0530 tomorrow. Ugh. I will be sad to see Llama go, but I hope she had fun this trip.

Take your meds, folks.