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jenettIt's almost September! Welcome to this week's salon post!
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Topic of the week
September is one of the possible 'new year' start points for a lot of people (like those of us tied to the northern hemisphere academic year!)
It's the start of a personal series of them: my birthday is September 22nd (another one), my ritual new year is October 31st, and then there's January. (which means by January, I usually have a pretty good grasp of 'things I want to do differently next time around the sun')
What marks the new year for you? Do you have any traditions or things you think about?
(As always, feel free to talk about anything else in the comments!)
What I've been up to
I have continued to be very busy with our new catalog, plus teaching staff coming back, plus a bunch of stuff that got pushed off
It has also been absurdly hot in Boston, so while I have AC in my bedroom (aka where I spend almost all my time at home), there has been a good couple of hours of "argh I had to go out in the ugh" once I get home
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Topic of the week
September is one of the possible 'new year' start points for a lot of people (like those of us tied to the northern hemisphere academic year!)
It's the start of a personal series of them: my birthday is September 22nd (another one), my ritual new year is October 31st, and then there's January. (which means by January, I usually have a pretty good grasp of 'things I want to do differently next time around the sun')
What marks the new year for you? Do you have any traditions or things you think about?
(As always, feel free to talk about anything else in the comments!)
What I've been up to
I have continued to be very busy with our new catalog, plus teaching staff coming back, plus a bunch of stuff that got pushed off
It has also been absurdly hot in Boston, so while I have AC in my bedroom (aka where I spend almost all my time at home), there has been a good couple of hours of "argh I had to go out in the ugh" once I get home
House rules:
This is a public post, feel free to encourage other people to drop by, just note the 'if posting anonymously, include a name people can call you in responses' rule.
* Consider this a conversation in my living room, only with a lot more seating. I reserve the right to redirect, screen, and otherwise moderate stuff, but would vastly prefer not to have to.
* If you don't have a DW account or want to post anonymously, please include a name we can call you in this particular post. (You can say AnonymousOne or your favourite colour or whatever. Just something to help keep conversations clear.)
* If you've got a question or concern, feel free to PM me.
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Date: 2018-08-31 03:31 pm (UTC)I'm getting another new neighbor directly underneath me. I only met him briefly, but he seems like a nice guy. In addition, I was just informed that 2 other neighbors are soon going to move in together. They recently got engaged, and one of them has been living with another guy in my old apartment. But they're actually doing some apartment swapping, so the 2 who got engaged will be living in my old apartment and that other guy is taking her apartment. They are going to have the back room in the bigger apartment--which was my bedroom--made into a closet. We're not sure what will be done about the window in there though. But I never even mentioned this whole thing with the downstairs neighbors, lol! Nobody else here knows about it yet, but I've absolutely no doubt word will spread like wildfire.
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Date: 2018-08-31 06:25 pm (UTC)Negotiating the "I like spending time with you, but not quite this much time" is always awkward, I think. But the people who are actually my friends understand that.
(I limit my going out beyond work, absolutely necessary errands like groceries and prescriptions, and swimming for exercise very heavily, so I see none of my friends in person nearly as much as any of us would like.)