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Remember when I used to scramble last minute before midnight to try and make a daily post? Let's try something like that because I feel out of touch.

Work is entering a phase of being bananas that is likely to last quite a long time. We just got in a collection of about 2000 boxes (may not refer to actual boxes), many of which need to be repackaged/rehoused pronto, including/especially some of the boxes that didn't quite make it through the move. Amazingly, the move was finished before about 3:00 today, having started at 8:30. I actually had the easy part, overseeing things leaving the other facility, as opposed to the stuff coming in on our side. But everything about the collections is My Job, or my job to organize (I don't have to physically do it, thank goodness), and that's on top of my regular work. Fortunately I seem to have a decent amount of help at the moment! but there a bunch of other stuff going down along side it too that makes it all extra cray cray.

I went to a Pi Day Pie Party tonight! I made my poison pie (chocolate almond cayenne), which I managed to make totally gluten free! I made an almond flour crust which turned out really nicely, and I subbed 2 tbsp of cornstarch for the flour in the filling, and used a non-glutenous chocolate. A piece was saved for someone who wasn't able to make it and I hope it doesn't kill her! It needed more cayenne, though :(

What else what else... Games continue to all be awesome! I have been reposting my GM's game writeups on my tumblr for pathfinder under "the fuck squad" as a tag. My other games are all online text ones and the logs are on the rocksfall wiki. The sessions are all broken up into scenes and there are summaries for each, if ever anyone was curious.

I've been having issues with my hands lately so I haven't been doing too much crafting. I did a little weaving to use up some stash yarn and made a dish towel and cloth, but they wound up narrow. I've been working on the same pair of basic socks for ages because I keep having to take breaks. And I'm still working on Skara Brae... But it is coming along pretty well now that I am giving it attention again! And I'm just about to start the gusset on my second sock, so really they are almost done. I already have a next sock pattern lined up too...

I think that's basically my life? It is march break and Wererogue's mum is up visiting for a few weeks so I am having to adjust to having an extra person around, though she is't staying with us. I mostly see her in the evenings. I think Longpig is pretty thoroughly DONE though. Two more days - you can make it!

I'm being eaten by Christmas and Yuletide. ON the point of the latter, I have written over 10k this season @_@ Probably that's all? Maybe some drabbles? I dunno!

Work continues bananas cray, and will be until... forever. We are merging wth the museum, which was supposed to happen in a year and a half and instead is happening in May. So yeah. I'm lucky it wasn't pushed to Jan 1 @_@

I meant to post more Windsorcon stuff, but I was tired/busy... I did write my usual post con drabbles on MOnday.

I had pretty seep post-social funk at the beginning of the week and had a hard time making myself do, well, anything. I did do things, at least sorta, but not much of them. Work was being depressing - everything is so uncertain all the time and it can be hard to deal with. I know that the museum doesn't think it can maintain my position past my contract date at this point, so unless things turn well around by then I will need to look elsewhere. But this job is not really going to have prepared me for anything much else. Well no - that's a lie. I will have to work to make it look good on paper, though. Also a lot of the stuff I am currently working on is stuff I know will be de-prioritized or even mothballed, so it is hard to keep up the momentum. By the end of the week, though things were super busy. Friday was kind of a blur.

I think that one thing I need to do is, like, sit down and really think about what I want out of my life - what I like and what I want to change and how I can achieve those things. I feel like I turned down a path away from what I wanted, or had thought I wanted, and have basically been costing along since then. It is a really interesting time to be working in archaeological collections care in Ontario though. The Truth and Reconciliation movement and also the implementation of UNDRIP have such interesting effects, and I wish I could engage more at that level. But then I also question if it is my place, and so on. I ran into the concept of rematriation (as opposed to repatriation) the other day and it was just really inspiring to think about. But I don't think I have either the authority to d anything with that idea at work. And then I see all these gross patriarchal structures being replicated and it is depressing to know that we have this vision and it is both so much better than anything else going, and yet so deeply flawed. Anyway. Mixed feelings and a lack of direction is not doing me a lot of good.

In other news.... I finished a scarf at Windsorcon, and I finished a sock on the bus as well... I've picked up an older WIP for knitting that I set aside util I'd finished Pulled by the Sunset. I'm over wordcount on my yuletide and have a fair idea where the story is going. I have a pinch hit and I know what I want to write for it as well. I did a bunch of cleaning this weekend too, mostly vacuuming, though I also cleaned the upstairs bathroom. I also went to a local spin-in yesterday for a few hours, and it was really nice, and we had the first session of the new Ye Olde Timey Adventure world game this afternoon, which was also fun.

Now I'm going to go take the dogs out before dinner since Longpig are going out to a friend's to watch a movie.

Heading out for Windsorcon tomorrow after work. I'm hoping to leave early.

I made a very fancy pie! It is a cranberry pie with gingerbread cookie crust. I hope it turned out and is actually good. I'll try and get a picture tomorrow.

The 3d printer is just a big mess forever. It will cost between 2-3 thousand dollars to fix. I cry.

I had fire extinguisher training at work, which meant I got to go to campus for a bit.

I feel so lost and directionless at work right now. Like, yes, I have things to do. But I have trouble finding motivation because who knows if that effort is going to be worth my time in the end...

I really want to like my job but the work and environment make it difficult.

But this weekend should be good, even though this will be two weekends away in a row!

I did manage to get packed and finish up some stuff for my game this weekend at least, so success?

I am at an archaeology conference this weekend, for the Ontario Archaeological Society. This is my first time! I'm here for work and networking, basically - I'm not presenting this time, though I kind of regret that. Maybe next year?

The theme of this year's conference is From Truth to Reconciliation: Redefining Archaeology in Ontario, and there are some really cool sessions planned around those themes, and around collections stuff, and also maritime cultural resources, so.... here I am! Unfortunately there is a lot of overlap between the papers I want to see, because of course there is.

But also, the opening reception had free drinks (2 each), and actually had people wandering around with trays of food, which legit until this point in my life I have never experienced, and it was great! My favourite was the grilled cheese with smoked salmon and some kind of maple cream drizzle @_@

I stayed for about an hour and a bit, which is pretty good for me considering I really know very very few people in the room. But I talked to people I knew better first and then the people I knew less well, and then was encouraged to go talk to people I didn't know and I actually did!

Of course by then I'd had my two complimentary cocktails, and of course that's when someone asked me tough questions that I'm not able to answer well at this point in time ;p But then we exchanged cards and this person (who works at the Canadian Museum of History, in Gatineau (not Ottawa!!!)) is going to send me some interesting maritime installations and also a shipwreck from on the Hudson Bay coast which sounds cool to me :V I talked to a few folks at the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport as well, which was nice. Anyway. I did some networking, which I hate and am generally terrible at, so good on me.

And hen I came back to my hotel room and watched the end of Stranger Things with Nary. I liked this season quite a bit, especially all the Aliens references and nods.

And now it is much later than I intended to go to bed! So I better do that I guess...

Well okay, probably not everything, but it's been a not great day.

3dprinter is still broken. I am having a hard time focusing at work.

The bus, which had been on alternate routing for months was suddenly changed back today with no notice or signage. So I spend 20 min standing in the cold soaking rain with no umbrella, and was super late home.

The water issue in the basement is actually worse than we realized and I had to preventatively move more shit downstairs, and also no take a bath/shower.

I'm still sick, and have been having sinus pressure issues all day.

I'm going to bed.

I went to work, at least, though I had terrible insomnia last night. I blame the cold meds. I was out for two hours and then basically didn't get any real sleep after that, just dozing.

Am 7eps in to Stranger Things 2! I'm enjoying it a lot!

Trying to start socks with mixed results.

Tomorrow someone is coming to look at the 3d printer.

Also there has been a slow but steady leak since the new dishwasher was installed.

I continue to believe that they will get fixed at the same time, or not at all.

I have 7 rows left on Pulled by the Sunset! and only 2 of those are actual pattern rows!

I also finished the bub hat, so technically all my Christmas Knitting is done unless I decide to do more. My Christmas weaving on the other hand...

I had a weird and awkward but interesting and maybe good meeting at work. But like... there's politics involved that are both over my head and dumb. And awkward. I guess we'll see how things go.

The weather here has been stupid - it dropped temperature really fast and we've been having snow squalls off Lake Huron. I guess it is time to strat thinking about putting plastic on my windows again.... or adding another quilt.

Cake went over really well! And was delicious. I was going to send it home with Bobbie but I forgot she was walking, and that seemed mean. So I have leftover cake. If I thought ti would last that long I'd bring the rest to pathfinder.... but that's an unlikley scenario. Unless I freeze it? maybe? It's not happening tonight, though! It's already past bedtime.

Today was not my most competent day.

At work, I managed to save to wrong open file (an invoice) under the name of the desired document (*not* someone else's invoice), which I then emailed as a n attachment on an email to four different people. After I'd initially done the document wrong.

Tonight I was trying to ice the cake for my friend for tomorrow, and it took me four tries to get a workable icing. Two failed boiled icings, one failed whipped cream, and finally I just did a chocolate buttercream. Then I covered the "rustic"looking cake in eyes. Happy birthday, Bobbie?

I think it's bedtime.

I saw Thor tonight, and it was hilarious! And generally good, though I feel like they underused Bruce and introduced some things that will probably never come up again, because that's how it goes in Marvel: only the team movies have real consequences.

I also did a bunch of dishes.

I cleaned the 3Dprinter at work, which was an interesting adventure in taking things apart. It still isn't working, though. It was close... I was running it's test print, and it seemed to be going okay... But literally the minute I looked away from it,it failed. Of course


I did a bunch of other things, though, so hey.

Making a cake tomorrow, after baby bedtime, for a birthday on Thursday. Chocolate almond and cherry with boiled icing, I'm thinking...