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Jan. 15th, 2010 09:50 pmOy, what a week. Rebroke my foot (stress fracture; no help for it but rest and better shoes); helped the kid get into college; helped the kid's older brother keep from being kicked out of his home. Worked my butt off at The Best Job Ever without the computers and databases I usually rely on. Walked miles and miles (yes, on my broken foot; it's a toss-up which is worse -- walking or not walking). Dealt with cancer stuff (two blood tests, a doctor visit, and an ultrasound).
But it wasn't all hard, and it wasn't all bad, and I had a ton of physical energy (see the walking, above, and the fact that my kitchen finally got clean) and felt fairly good most of the week. I'm not being pollyannish -- I am being a realist. It's just that my reality is that the bad almost always comes alloyed with the good.
Oh, and a weird thing this week. I'm reading a paperback copy of a book I like, Tam Lin, but the copy is reduced in size enough that the periods are so small I don't always catch that a sentence is supposed to have ended, especially if the next one starts with a proper noun. In similar fashion, I mistake semicolons for commas too often (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
pameladean uses lots of semicolons), and I completely breeze by many a colon. Oh, well. It's a good book, and not really less good because of this little annoyance; I do think I will seek out a hardcover copy, though.
But it wasn't all hard, and it wasn't all bad, and I had a ton of physical energy (see the walking, above, and the fact that my kitchen finally got clean) and felt fairly good most of the week. I'm not being pollyannish -- I am being a realist. It's just that my reality is that the bad almost always comes alloyed with the good.
Oh, and a weird thing this week. I'm reading a paperback copy of a book I like, Tam Lin, but the copy is reduced in size enough that the periods are so small I don't always catch that a sentence is supposed to have ended, especially if the next one starts with a proper noun. In similar fashion, I mistake semicolons for commas too often (
pameladean uses lots of semicolons), and I completely breeze by many a colon. Oh, well. It's a good book, and not really less good because of this little annoyance; I do think I will seek out a hardcover copy, though.