A Thursday Roundup

13. My new dish for this month was pumpernickel bread---somehow, I'd never made any. It's quite tasty, and makes me happy: I hadn't had pumpernickel in literally years, since it's not a thing out here.

24/28. I'm making new appointments with the dentist and hand doctor once I finish this entry. Got the numbers here and everything.

43. I'm looking through all the books I have... and am now cataloguing all the books I own but haven't read yet. Ohhh man it's scary big (and does not include library books, eek). So, here's the full list, numbering currently at 101(!) books:

1. Julian Barbour, The End of Time
2. S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
3. Hans C. Chanian, Einstein's Mistakes
4. Suppes, Axiomatic Set Theory
5. Apostol, Calculus
6. Lay, Linear Algebra and its Applications
7. Bergmann, Moor and Nelson, The Logic Book
8. R.F. Leslie, Three Old English Elegies
9. Eric Gerald Stanely, The Owl and the Nightingale
10. Ekko Danmark, The Ugly Duckling
11. Chomsky, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
12. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic
13. Jespersen, Growth and Structures of the English Language
14. Partee et al, Mathematical Methods for Linguistics
15. Whorf, Language, Thought and Reality
16. Repp, Negation in Gapping
17. Tomoko Ishizuka, The Passive in Japanese
18. Jordan and Chaplin, Reading Japanese
19. Ashby, Read Real Japanese
20. Selden, Annotated Literary Gems 1
21. Selden, Annotated Literary Gems 2
22. Chekhov in J
23. Fujiwara, The Emperor Horikawa Diary
24. M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating
25. Heatter, Maida Heatter's Cakes
26. McKee, Making Craft Cider
27. Lass, Approaches to English Historical Linguistics
28. Dewey, Essays in Experimental Logic
29. MFA Boston, Art and Artifice
30. Lucas, Dinosaurs: The Textbook
31. Allan, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics
32. Gorey, Amphigorey Also
33. Ken Schramm, The Complete Meadmaker
34. A.S. Byatt, Ragnarok
35. Emily Dickinson, Favorite Poems
36. Karen Joy Fowler, What I Didn't See and Other Stories
37. Jo Walton, Among Others
38. Catherynne Valente, Six-Gun Snow White
39. A Treasury of the World's Best Loved Poems
40. Juster, La Caseta Magica
41. MFK Fisher, A Life in Letters
42. Montaigne's Travel Journal
43. The Complete Montaigne
44. Thoreau, Walden
45. Ashbery, And the Stars Were Shining
46. Eliot, The Waste-Land and Other Writings
47. Frost, The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
48. Keats, Lyric Poems
49. Roethke, The Collected Poems
50. Rosetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems
51. Shapiro, After a Lost Original
52. Shakespeare, Sonnets
53. Yeats, Easter 1916 and Other Poems
54. The Quran
55. The Bible
56. モーテル・クロニクルズ
57. 馬追い旅日記
58. 　Neruda, Viente poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada, cien sonetos de amor
59. Esquivel, Como agua para chocolate
60. Crowley, Traduciendo el cielo
61. Ocho siglos de poesia catalana
62. Mueller and Aelbrecht, Contemporary Algebra and Trigonometry
63. Children of the Arbat
64. Hemingway, The Short Stories
65. まんが日本昔話し
66. Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again
67. Taylor, The Global Translator's Handbook
68. Yasutaka Tsutsu, Paprika
69. Aesop, Fables
70. Barr, Invitation to Cryptography
71. Indigo
72. Marquez, Cien anos de soledad
73. Catherynne Valente, The Folded World
74. Valente, Deathless
75. Valente, In the Mere
76. Peake, Gormenghast Novels
77. Anderson, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
78. The Best American Essays 1991
79. Napier, Hands
80. Hobbes, Leviathan
81. Plato, The Republic
82. Barwise and Etchemendy, Language, Proof and Logic
83. Oates, Best American Essays
84. Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind
85. Lamb, Essays of Elia and the Last Essays of Elia
86. Wallace, Death and Rebirth of the Seneca
87. Bellamy, Looking Backward
88. The Complete Oscar Wilde
89. Heaney, Electric Light
90. The Oxford Book of English Verse
91. The Collected Poems of Yeats
92. Winterson, Written on the Body
93. Winterson, Oranges are the Only Fruit
94. Reage, The Story of O
95. Hamilton et al, The Federalist Papers
96. Sapir, Language
97. Pinker, The Language Instinct
98. Lakoff, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
99. Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier
100. The Lais of Marie de France
101. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
102. Catherynne Valente, Apocrypha
103. Neil Gaiman, Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes
104. Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
105. E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist
106. Rhiannon Held, Silver
107. Brian Vaughn, Saga: vol 1
108. Catherynne Valente, The Melancholy of Mechagirl
109. Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
110. Cheryl Strayed, ed., Best American Essays 2013

A Monday Roundup

So, life has still been a bit crazy---a bit unmoored and lost at sea with no paddles sort of situation. I'm simply continuing on the "try to get things back together" tack.

1. Have done at least a bit of afghaning, though not as much as I'd like.

13. Realized I've not done any new cooking for this month; I'm going to have to change that! Don't want to lose out on the really easy goals here.

15--20. Nothing new on any of the financial front.

21. Have been eating fruit like a maniac.

24/28. I'm calling my dentist and hand doctor today to reschedule the appointments that get fracked up in the Great Wedding Week.

29. Still utter suck at the vitamins. Ugh.

34. 4213 songs now, booyah.

48. Watched a few new movies, including The Great Gatsby and The Hulk. Let's just say that I'd watch Gatsby again, but if anyone ever tries to turn Eric Bana into the Hulk again I will smash so many things.

75. I managed to make it to a new restaurant: Gayle's, over in Capitola. Not sure how I hadn't been there before. It was generally quite delicious---good sandwich, good (dry!) macchiato, excellent dessert. Nom.

Oh lord, it has been a while. These last few months have been... hard, to say the least. My three-year relationship came grinding to a rather painful halt, and so let's just say that I've not been as, ah, good about doing things. Especially things that are not immediately necessary. It's simply not pleasant.

However, let me update what I can now; I've probably forgotten some things, and I need to generally re-settle my life, but---gonna do my best here and all.

1. The current goal is to finish the white afghan by the end of the summer. If I do a few rows on each panel a day, I should definitely be able to do it. Now, let's just hope that I remember to do that.

2. Added more yarn to the yarn bin. Whoops. Admittedly, this is supposed to be for some gifts I'm making---but I'm having difficulty getting the shop to order the rest of the yarn I need. I can only cross my fingers. >.<

3. I think that, at this point, I'm getting pretty good at figuring out the type of clothes that look good on me. (Pencil skirts and dresses with fitted bodices (either pencil or A skirts); pants that are fitted through the hips and either straight or bootcut below; shirts with boat and v-necks; fitted button-ups; blazers; and so on.)

4. The revamping of the wardrobe continues; I just recently got some semi-casual dresses that I can wear for summer and teaching.

12. Nail polish experimentation is, I think, something I can say I've done now. Recent polishes include an amazing silver metallic, Essie No Place Like Chrome, and Essie Lollipop (looove this color, just a beautiful bright true red). Essie is probably, at this point, my favorite of the polish companies.

13. I've done at least a bit of cooking recently. There was a parmesan chicken recipe in March---marinate the chicken, coat with parmesan and crumbs, eat very happily. April had a red lentil soup that I love and that is, huzzah, very cheap! And for May, a cocoa nib dacquoise, which is a cake I must make again and again, I love it.

22. I've been doing a bit better about exercising. I've not been great with doing it 3x a week, of course, but I'm getting better---I've been trying to get to 10,000 steps a day or more, which means that I've been going for walks more, and have also gone for a few runs here and there. It's not great, but it's better, and it's that upward trajectory that I most want to push on.

25. The skin is generally doing better---lots of lotion seems to help a lot, imagine that.

28. I had an appointment with a sports medicine doctor for my hands, but then had it cancelled by the doctor's office due to some scheduling difficulties. So, it's back to trying to figure that out.

29. Have been utter fail on the multi-vitamins. Ugh.

30. Less fail on calling the parentals recently.

34. Have been listening to a lot of music! 4192 out of 6406 songs. Of course, we'll see what happens when I inevitably go on another music acquisition spree (which is in the making; I've been wanting to get Lykke Li and Ellie Goulding for a while, among others).

48. I've also watched a fair number of movies recently: Captain America, Dark City, Iron Man 3, Up are all among them.

75. I realized that if I limit my new restaurants to just restaurants in town, that I actually might not be able to make 25 restaurants. I've eaten at a LOT of different places; so, I'm allowing myself to also add restaurants in the general area. So, Zeni's goes on (also, SO good).

Finally, I'm adding another goal: Writing a letter to my end-of-this-project self.