I DIDN'T start capslocking about stationery though!

[spindizzy]

• I've been having a dilemma with myself about whether or not to cancel my summer dentist appointment, because on the one hand: I am grinding my teeth at night because med side-effects are fun! And on the other hand, I am staying locked down as much as possible because that's better for my anxiety regardless of what the official guidelines are. But fortunately, procrastination has solved this dilemma, in that the dentist office phoned me and asked if I'd be okay to reschedule my appointment for September. Yes, thank you, I will take that, that sounds great. ... Now I need to figure out what I'm going to do about the whole teeth thing. I'm on muscle relaxants already (which I THINK is the only thing that lets me get to sleep at night), so the next step might be a mouthguard or something?


• So my interests have cycled back around to stationery, which is simultaneously fun and dangerous. Currently it's manifesting in the form of stickers, which I'm okay with, at the point where it starts being "What if I buy shiny new notebooks that I've no plans for using?" I'm gonna start worrying. ... Also I've discovered that fine-nibbed paint pens are a thing and now I'm seriously considering throwing myself into an internet rabbit hole to see if they're a thing that I would actually use.


• I know it's cycled back around because I have used up two (A6) notebooks already this month, and have got another six on the go. No really, I wish I was joking about that. I guess on the plus side, I'm actually using the older bits of kit I bought! I bought a leather traveller's notebook last year and never used it because filofax and also my brain has flagged up B6 as a non-standard size, but I figured that now was the perfect time to try out all of the weird stationery ideas I never used, because it's not like my diary needs to be able to leave the house right now. And I'm trying to burn through all of the sticker sheets that I didn't get around to using, so this is turning out very colourful.


• I finished my first cross stitch! I accidentally skipped a row and didn't notice until it was too late, because I was doing it one colour at a time instead of one row at a time, but I think I pulled it off! It just doesn't fit as nicely into the square.


• I haven't started a new cross stitch or the tiny crochet project I decided on (see also: brain has cycled back to stationery as an interest), but I've got a few to choose between! I just need to decided whether I feel like I'm ready for splitting threads yet, or if this is going to end in disaster.


• We finally! Have a new cover for the sofa! The fake leather had split, and throwing a blanket over it could not stand up to the might of my inability to sit still, even while medicated.


• I officially break up from work on Tuesday, which feels UNBELIEVABLY soon. Like, I thought it was still a few months away, but nope, June. What a concept. Work still don't have a concrete plan for reopening yet, although word from on high is that term dates are being changed and exams are being cancelled, which is definitely going to get a reaction from the students and academics. Honestly, I'm glad that they're taking it slow and delaying the opening until they're sure, because there are a lot of carers/parents/people in high risk groups working in libraries! And the longer we can keep people from needing to take public transport or have contact with people longer than it takes to go "Here is the order you're collecting" the better.


• ... On the topic of work, you know how I'm forever complaining about the building leaking? Apparently it flooded. Not like, "Books floating across the library" levels of flooded (Although that was a thing that happened before I started working at the uni!), just... "The carpets on two of these floors are going to need replacing" levels of flooded. Whoops!


• All I want to read right now is webnovels. Like, specifically the sort of tropey queer fantasy romances that were around circa 2004. In fact, I could probably FIND some of the tropey queer fantasy webnovels that I was reading circa 2004 and see how many of them still exist. ... I say "queer" like anyone was promoting any romance that wasn't m/f or m/m back then, but the point is that I'm pretty sure most of them will exist somewhere.


• THE 23RD OF JUNE IS TOMORROW. WHAT. NO. GO BACK A MINUTE AND EXPLAIN HOW THAT HAPPENED.

Comments

[tomakeanoffer]

I am so weak for stickers and notebooks both. I really need to purge my notebook collection, or at least try and use them up before I buy new ones. Sketchbooks especially lure be in because I can tell myself they're versatile and I don't have to account for lines

[spindizzy]

SAME, this is the problem I have! I used to be really good about finishing one before I bought another, and then...

I did a major purge of my notebook collection in December last year and gave most of them to friends or colleagues, and then I bought more. Sketchbooks are my current weakness too! Especially because I keep going "Oh, well, obviously I need to check how the paper holds up against [paint/highlighters/specific pens]!" >_>

[oracne]

I would be interested if you shared links to these tropey webnovels.

[spindizzy]

I'm happy to share links as I find things! Do you have any preferences or squicks?

(Also a few of the ones I was reading at a scandalously young age still exist, such as the ones by Jesse Hajicek, The Administration by Manna Francis! I haven't read them in a million years, so I can't vouch for the quality.)

[oracne]

Belatedly responding to say I remember The Administration from its origins in Blake's 7 fanfiction.

[spindizzy]

I didn't know that! I remembered there were essays about Blake 7 on the same site, but not that they were connected.