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Dec. 10th, 2007 09:44 pmSo, I've been working on getting "stuff" done, both online and in the "Real World".
* Nearly all of my stuff from the move is put away- or at least, out of the living room. I unpacked and put away all of my art supplies this afternoon, and it was pretty clear from having everything I own boxed up that "Art Supplies" and Art make up about 25% of everything I own. I'm working on going through all of my files and papers now- I have the six file boxes lined up in the living room and the remaining papers to sort out in a line in front of them. An entire filebox worth of stuff so far turned out to be things I can recycle. (They make up a box now, they were mixed in with all the saved stuff before, I mean.) I was debating getting an actual filing cabinet, but that would leave me with about $60 worth of empty filing boxes. (I think they were about $10 a piece, I've collected them as I needed them.)
* Remembered to clean out the fridge when I put out the trash.
* Spoke to friends on the phone. This is uncommon to me, but something I hope to continue. It is a happy thing.
* Called the place in Florida about the "missing" material in the thing I sent them. Learned something really was missing, learned where to get it, called another place in Florida, got the docket, book and page number, and certification fee...wrote a short letter, a tiny check ($2.50, heh), and made out a SASE. Dropped it in the mailbox. Productivity is like, Mm, ice cream.
* Wrote up a list o' stuff - promotional ideas - for PSFS. Followed links and read some stuff on the website of their upcoming guest, author John Scalzi, including this blog post about the recent thing where The Kentucky legislature holds hearings on global warming, and forgets to invite any actual scientists. There's a link to the original news article about this "global warming hearing", which includes this bit from lawyer James Taylor: "Similarly, Taylor said most scientists don't believe in global warming. Not that warming is bad, he said. Hotter weather means more vegetation and crops and more diversity of wildlife, as in the tropical rain forests, he said. He distributed a report that urged Americans to burn more coal, oil and natural gas so "our children will therefore enjoy an Earth with far more plant and animal life than that with which we now are blessed."
I read that and my brain turned off for a few seconds. CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE EXPLAIN TO THIS MAIN THAT IT DOESN'T QUITE WORK THAT WAY?? well, yes, okay, it does in the sense that it means more diversity in wildlife- in that natural growths that have been in places for centuries are suddenly going to be unable to thrive in a climate change and new species are going to take over in their place. It means sharp alterations- death- to an abundance of older established ecological systems, and- and- well, it's not automatically a GOOD thing by any means. That's what I mean by "working that way". It doesn't just mean things getting warmer = changes that are yaye!
* While going through a few more papers while writing this post, I found my diploma for college, which had been cunningly concealed by me in a "safe location" some while back. It turned out to be safe even from my memory. Included in it was a clipping about the death of a soldier in Iraq in 2004. He was the younger brother of one of my only two friends inside my middle school. I remember him from back then. I didn't remember that he had died. I haven't spoken to his older sister Anna D., my friend, since my first year of college- We didn't go to the same high school and were already drifting apart, but I miss her. It's a nice article, what have read. I can't seem to read all of it. It's going back in with my diploma, for now.
* ...um, I had more to mention, but I don't feel like talking about it now. I think I'll read for a little, and try to get an hour or two in on my new work assignment. Maybe make a banner for something, to keep in practice.
* Nearly all of my stuff from the move is put away- or at least, out of the living room. I unpacked and put away all of my art supplies this afternoon, and it was pretty clear from having everything I own boxed up that "Art Supplies" and Art make up about 25% of everything I own. I'm working on going through all of my files and papers now- I have the six file boxes lined up in the living room and the remaining papers to sort out in a line in front of them. An entire filebox worth of stuff so far turned out to be things I can recycle. (They make up a box now, they were mixed in with all the saved stuff before, I mean.) I was debating getting an actual filing cabinet, but that would leave me with about $60 worth of empty filing boxes. (I think they were about $10 a piece, I've collected them as I needed them.)
* Remembered to clean out the fridge when I put out the trash.
* Spoke to friends on the phone. This is uncommon to me, but something I hope to continue. It is a happy thing.
* Called the place in Florida about the "missing" material in the thing I sent them. Learned something really was missing, learned where to get it, called another place in Florida, got the docket, book and page number, and certification fee...wrote a short letter, a tiny check ($2.50, heh), and made out a SASE. Dropped it in the mailbox. Productivity is like, Mm, ice cream.
* Wrote up a list o' stuff - promotional ideas - for PSFS. Followed links and read some stuff on the website of their upcoming guest, author John Scalzi, including this blog post about the recent thing where The Kentucky legislature holds hearings on global warming, and forgets to invite any actual scientists. There's a link to the original news article about this "global warming hearing", which includes this bit from lawyer James Taylor: "Similarly, Taylor said most scientists don't believe in global warming. Not that warming is bad, he said. Hotter weather means more vegetation and crops and more diversity of wildlife, as in the tropical rain forests, he said. He distributed a report that urged Americans to burn more coal, oil and natural gas so "our children will therefore enjoy an Earth with far more plant and animal life than that with which we now are blessed."
I read that and my brain turned off for a few seconds. CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE EXPLAIN TO THIS MAIN THAT IT DOESN'T QUITE WORK THAT WAY?? well, yes, okay, it does in the sense that it means more diversity in wildlife- in that natural growths that have been in places for centuries are suddenly going to be unable to thrive in a climate change and new species are going to take over in their place. It means sharp alterations- death- to an abundance of older established ecological systems, and- and- well, it's not automatically a GOOD thing by any means. That's what I mean by "working that way". It doesn't just mean things getting warmer = changes that are yaye!
* While going through a few more papers while writing this post, I found my diploma for college, which had been cunningly concealed by me in a "safe location" some while back. It turned out to be safe even from my memory. Included in it was a clipping about the death of a soldier in Iraq in 2004. He was the younger brother of one of my only two friends inside my middle school. I remember him from back then. I didn't remember that he had died. I haven't spoken to his older sister Anna D., my friend, since my first year of college- We didn't go to the same high school and were already drifting apart, but I miss her. It's a nice article, what have read. I can't seem to read all of it. It's going back in with my diploma, for now.
* ...um, I had more to mention, but I don't feel like talking about it now. I think I'll read for a little, and try to get an hour or two in on my new work assignment. Maybe make a banner for something, to keep in practice.
