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Aug. 7th, 2020 04:25 pmI lost Tuesday and yesterday to migraines. I suspect that, while I'm okay with stevia in my coffee, I can't deal with the amount in a can of Zevia. Or it might be entirely coincidence. I'm just suspicious. I could explain Tuesday's migraine with me having messed up my medication and meal schedule, but yesterday doesn't have that.
I've signed up for two exchanges, one for Dreaming of Sunshine and one multifandom for 10K+ fics (due date at the end of January and so doable). The Dreaming of Sunshine exchange is still doing sign ups. The multifandom one closes sign ups some time later today.
I also signed up for an exchange of writing encouragement. I'll be matched to encourage someone, and a third person will be matched to encourage me. I have no idea how well it will work, but I want to work on Rheotaxis (I'm not asking whoever matches with me to read it because 190K is a lot of words, even without the content warnings).
I've been having issues with iBooks crashing. Sometimes, I get an error message about it not finding a necessary helper program; other times, it just goes out. Just in case it's because I've overloaded it, I'm archiving some of my epub files by deleting them from iBooks without removing them from my hard drive. I had more than 4000 epubs in iBooks (mostly short fics), and a lot of them are things I don't expect to want to read or reread soon. As long as I still have my spreadsheet and know where I've stashed them, I can always open them up in iBooks again.
Our niece will be living in a dorm when the fall semester starts. There is some family friction over that decision because she and her parents think it will be fine, but the rest of us are concerned about the risk. She's going to Northern Michigan University, so trying to move up there in January would be pretty difficult. I think she also really wants to get out of the house because she's 18.
Cordelia's starting to work on college applications. There are bits of information that she needs from my parents, but she's reluctant to ask. Mostly, it's that she has grandparents who got degrees from these schools, and they ask about the exact degree and the year. She's also having issues because the applications want to know exactly what classes she's taking in her last year of high school and what her SAT or ACT scores are. She doesn't have either of those yet.
We need to fill out the forms to select Cordelia's options for the upcoming school year. Not the class selection but the methodology. The district is offering three approaches for high school students, and we're waiting to hear from the choir director as to how that class will work. She set the online meeting about that for Monday afternoon, so we'll wait until then. Supposedly, all classes will be available with the first two options while the third is more limited. The third option is the long standing program of online instruction which only offers some classes and is almost entirely independent study.
Cordelia has been experimenting with different sizes of crochet hooks. Like me, she has an easier time with the smaller hooks. Her biggest issue is that she can't figure out how to ease up and not pull everything tight. She also hasn't tried anything beyond single crochet. I can't demonstrate anything for her, so she's mostly looking at videos.
I've signed up for two exchanges, one for Dreaming of Sunshine and one multifandom for 10K+ fics (due date at the end of January and so doable). The Dreaming of Sunshine exchange is still doing sign ups. The multifandom one closes sign ups some time later today.
I also signed up for an exchange of writing encouragement. I'll be matched to encourage someone, and a third person will be matched to encourage me. I have no idea how well it will work, but I want to work on Rheotaxis (I'm not asking whoever matches with me to read it because 190K is a lot of words, even without the content warnings).
I've been having issues with iBooks crashing. Sometimes, I get an error message about it not finding a necessary helper program; other times, it just goes out. Just in case it's because I've overloaded it, I'm archiving some of my epub files by deleting them from iBooks without removing them from my hard drive. I had more than 4000 epubs in iBooks (mostly short fics), and a lot of them are things I don't expect to want to read or reread soon. As long as I still have my spreadsheet and know where I've stashed them, I can always open them up in iBooks again.
Our niece will be living in a dorm when the fall semester starts. There is some family friction over that decision because she and her parents think it will be fine, but the rest of us are concerned about the risk. She's going to Northern Michigan University, so trying to move up there in January would be pretty difficult. I think she also really wants to get out of the house because she's 18.
Cordelia's starting to work on college applications. There are bits of information that she needs from my parents, but she's reluctant to ask. Mostly, it's that she has grandparents who got degrees from these schools, and they ask about the exact degree and the year. She's also having issues because the applications want to know exactly what classes she's taking in her last year of high school and what her SAT or ACT scores are. She doesn't have either of those yet.
We need to fill out the forms to select Cordelia's options for the upcoming school year. Not the class selection but the methodology. The district is offering three approaches for high school students, and we're waiting to hear from the choir director as to how that class will work. She set the online meeting about that for Monday afternoon, so we'll wait until then. Supposedly, all classes will be available with the first two options while the third is more limited. The third option is the long standing program of online instruction which only offers some classes and is almost entirely independent study.
Cordelia has been experimenting with different sizes of crochet hooks. Like me, she has an easier time with the smaller hooks. Her biggest issue is that she can't figure out how to ease up and not pull everything tight. She also hasn't tried anything beyond single crochet. I can't demonstrate anything for her, so she's mostly looking at videos.
