I've been catching myself humming Kitaro a lot lately. Is it weird to hum instrumental new age synth music from the 80s? I'm not sure if we still even have that album, and I haven't listened to it in... years, probably.

About a third of my hair is done. The rest of it is in tiny braids to keep it out of the way until I can get to it. It's slow going, but it gives me something to do with my hands while we work our way through the second season of La Femme Nikita in the evenings.

Someday I'll be caught up on work again. An assistant would help, but thus far we've been unable to train the cats to do anything useful. Maybe when we get a dog we can train her to take packages to the post office or something.

I need to sleep. Obviously.

Tags: hair, randomness, work
Current Location: Bakersfield, CA

I ended up canceling this week's shading session, as I'm just not up to handling tattoo work right now. The parts we did last week are heailing slowly and painfully, and my body has been making it very clear that it would like a break RIGHT NOW. Since my body has the ability to land me flat on my back in bed if I don't listen to it, I figured I probably wasn't going to win this one.

So now I have some extra time free this week, which is a good thing as I'm teaching three workshops on wirewrapping and crystals this weekend and haven't had a chance to prepare the handouts or materials for any of them. And, y'know, there's the whole moving thing, in which we need to somehow condense the contents of our one-bedroom apartment into something approximately the size of our kitchen, which means I really, really, REALLY need to get rid of more of our stuff.

Today, though, I need to work on some jewelry, and then go down to the courthouse and file what is hopefully the last piece of paperwork in my ongoing saga with the Department of Overly Complicated Name Changes, and then I have several hours to kill downtown before going to therapy this evening. Hm.

Tags: randomness, tattoo, the move, work

I ended up reading a bit about gender and orientation labels and slang just now, as the result of a post on my friendslist this morning. (Hi, Ty!)

After a bit of thought, I have concluded that I am a lipgloss lesbian.

For some reason, this amuses me entirely more than it should.

(And, um, yeah. I seem to have turned into a kinsey five at some point in the last year or so. *shrug*)

Tags: labels, randomness, sexuality

Randomness: Somewhere along the way I seem to have learned to associate reading books with slacking, unless I'm doing it at night before falling asleep, or while traveling by subway or train. I noticed this earlier today while attempting to curl up with a book for a few hours, because I kept being pinged by vague bits of inexplicable guilt. I eventually got up and organized beads, and then sat down to try to read again, and got more vague guilt, so I gave up and went to clean the bathroom, where I realized what was going on in my head and began trying to unravel it.

Odd. It's probably because reading has become a luxury that I only have time for at night and while traveling, and thus reading during the day usually means that I'm ignoring something that needs my attention. Still, not a reaction I like, so I think I'll work to disengage it, or at least reprogram it. Replacing "reading" with "futzing around mindlessly on the computer" would be a good change, I think.

Tags: book!, brains, randomness

Since I've opted for various reasons to stay home rather than go traveling this week while I'm off work, I made a pact with myself: I will get out of the apartment and do SOMETHING every day, weather and energy levels permiting, and when I'm home I will do mind-engaging things rather than spending all day spaced out in front of a computer.

My list of mind-engaging things currently includes the following:

• Finish the half dozen or so jewelry commissions waiting in my queue
• Try out some new wirework techniques
• Get back into practice on the dulcimer
• Read some of the books in my "to be read" stacks
• Dye my hair, get a haircut, and do a proper manicure and pedicure
• Go to the Compleat Strategist and get some new board games
• Catch up on letter writing (Rayna, Lori, watch your mailboxes)
• Sort and file beads and other jewelry supplies
• Write for at least an hour every day
• Go check out one of the bi social groups
• Take old clothes and other unwanted items to Goodwill
• Find a Hebrew class and enroll in it

Feel free to make suggestions of things I could add to that list, and if you're in the area and want to do any of that with me (well, within reason -- I don't need company for things like dying my hair or painting my toenails, really I don't) let me know and I'll see what I can do about shaking off my current bout of antisocialitis.

Tags: brains, lists, navel gazing, randomness
current mood: : weird
listening to: : Paul Simon, Graceland