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briefly (or not)
all moved in to the new house in fremont, and almost all unpacked. it's a great place, kind of a cross between a house and an apartment. there are 5 other units in the building, and our unit was originally built for the landlords to live in. so it's like a 3-bedroom house, with a full basement (laundry machines!!), garage, little front yard, and a huge main floor. we've got wood floors, funky kitchen cabinets and appliances, and 2 working fireplaces (one in the LR, one in the basement). last night one of my roomies called to cancel a bunch of paid off credit cards, and then she burned her old statements and other paperwork in the fireplace. we also had a regular wood fire in it last weekend. cozy! makes me less mournful for the shredder that i somehow lost in the move. (i think i left it behind the seat of the flexcar pickup truck i used for the move out of my storage area.) it would be very difficult for a would-be identity thief reassemble sensitive documents from ashes.
i'm almost back to normal, post-surgery. still some occasional aches in my tummy, and for some reason yesterday my jeans really irritated my incision (not visibly, it just hurt), but otherwise doing well. the coolest thing is that i can sorta feel the internal stitches under my skin, the ones holding my muscle layers together. or maybe that's just swelling where the cuts are healing. i don't know. i'm assuming they used dissolvable stitches on the muscle tissues, but i have no idea how long those take to dissolve. maybe this grosses people out...i dunno, i have always found biology fascinating, including the ins, outs, and quirks of my own body. (i must confess to being more fascinated by plants, though. the photosynthesis reaction mechanisms almost make me believe in god...)
i'm somewhat back to work this week. still in seattle, but doing web research for the cali job. i'll probably go back to cali next week, though that hasn't been confirmed yet. i might also be there for the first week in august.
nothing much else to say. life is good. i should be able to finish setting up my bedroom tonight. that will be nice, because i'll be able to start using my workspace to get some writing done. i'm very excited about that.
lately i've been thinking i might want to actually write a novel alongside my dissertation. i used to write fiction, and have always wanted to write a novel--indeed, have always *threatened* to do so. i think working maybe an hour a day on something like that would help me dissipate some of the writer's block anxieties i've been having about my dissertation, and also help me concretize, in narrative form, some of the theoretical ideas i've been delving into in my reading and writing (the little i've been doing this summer).
more on that later. hope everyone's doing well.
i'm almost back to normal, post-surgery. still some occasional aches in my tummy, and for some reason yesterday my jeans really irritated my incision (not visibly, it just hurt), but otherwise doing well. the coolest thing is that i can sorta feel the internal stitches under my skin, the ones holding my muscle layers together. or maybe that's just swelling where the cuts are healing. i don't know. i'm assuming they used dissolvable stitches on the muscle tissues, but i have no idea how long those take to dissolve. maybe this grosses people out...i dunno, i have always found biology fascinating, including the ins, outs, and quirks of my own body. (i must confess to being more fascinated by plants, though. the photosynthesis reaction mechanisms almost make me believe in god...)
i'm somewhat back to work this week. still in seattle, but doing web research for the cali job. i'll probably go back to cali next week, though that hasn't been confirmed yet. i might also be there for the first week in august.
nothing much else to say. life is good. i should be able to finish setting up my bedroom tonight. that will be nice, because i'll be able to start using my workspace to get some writing done. i'm very excited about that.
lately i've been thinking i might want to actually write a novel alongside my dissertation. i used to write fiction, and have always wanted to write a novel--indeed, have always *threatened* to do so. i think working maybe an hour a day on something like that would help me dissipate some of the writer's block anxieties i've been having about my dissertation, and also help me concretize, in narrative form, some of the theoretical ideas i've been delving into in my reading and writing (the little i've been doing this summer).
more on that later. hope everyone's doing well.
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