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May. 16th, 2022 08:38 pmDownloaded more music albums, but stupid Apple Itunes Library account keeps playing the same stuff. I'm getting annoyed. Oh well - it might switch it up soon - but I've heard Kenny Rogers The Gambler three times this week, and if I hear any more of Les Miz, Spring Awakening, Into the Woods or Fiddler on the Roof - I'll go insane.
I want Earth Wind & Fire, La Belle, Belle & Sebastian, Donna Summer, Ike and Tina Turner, The Magnetic Fields, St. Etienne, Elle McIllwaine, the Magpies, Aretha, Etta James, etc.
Sigh.
It's stubborn and may require some tweaking. Or I may need to delete the musicals from the library.
This is the downside of being insanely eclectic in regards to music taste.
**
Work was frustrating, but what's new? I'm waiting on other people - which is nice in a way, since down time, but also aggravating, because when they send it to you they expect you to jump and do it all in a nano-second, which is stressful.
Unnecessarily so.
Making me grouchy and snappish.
Talked to Gabe, who got Covid two weeks before I did. Was asymptomatic, but stayed home. Then a week later ended up with bronchitis, and got really ill with it. Now she's on antibiotics. She had a tightness in the chest that wouldn't go away.
This unnerves me. Mainly because I'm really hoping I don't get it too. A lot of folks at work ended up fighting off pneumonia.
In better news, niece is better, just feeling spacey and brain foggy. Her international law final is on Friday, not Monday, apparently. And according to mother - she can't transfer her grades, so they don't affect her GPA in anyway. It's all Pass/Fail and gives her credits towards graduation, that's it. The reason is that Britain grades on a different scale than the US and isn't transferable as a result. Britain does it on a number scheme - levels 1, 2, 3, while the US does it on a letter scheme - A, B, C, D, F. See? Not transferable.
***
Lucked out. The weatherman predicted thunderstorms from 4-7pm. Outside of a brief one in Jamaica while I was under the platform shelter waiting for the train, there wasn't any. It cleared off by the time I reached Brooklyn. The next storm happened around 7pm and lasted until 8:30pm.
I was drenched with sweat by the time I got into my apartment, so stripped, took a shower and changed clothes. Then called mother, who had called me while I was getting ready for a shower. Talking to her gave me a headache, she kept coming in and out on her cell phone speaker.
**
Have chosen to stick with the Throne of Glass novels by Sarah Maas for the time being, mainly because they require 0 concentration, and I'm curious how the writer does certain things. There's a fantasy novel percolating in the back of my brain, and the lead character was a half human, half fae former apprentice assassin but has no memory of it. Here the character is a half human, half fae assassin but much younger and with memories intact. The fantasy novel percolating in my brain may or may not see the light of day. There's a lot of novels that never do. It wouldn't be the first or the last.
***
Avoiding the news - mainly because it makes me angry and upsets me. Also, I keep wishing the Universe would off various folks for me. But it's being stubborn and refuses to budge on this issue.
I want Earth Wind & Fire, La Belle, Belle & Sebastian, Donna Summer, Ike and Tina Turner, The Magnetic Fields, St. Etienne, Elle McIllwaine, the Magpies, Aretha, Etta James, etc.
Sigh.
It's stubborn and may require some tweaking. Or I may need to delete the musicals from the library.
This is the downside of being insanely eclectic in regards to music taste.
**
Work was frustrating, but what's new? I'm waiting on other people - which is nice in a way, since down time, but also aggravating, because when they send it to you they expect you to jump and do it all in a nano-second, which is stressful.
Unnecessarily so.
Making me grouchy and snappish.
Talked to Gabe, who got Covid two weeks before I did. Was asymptomatic, but stayed home. Then a week later ended up with bronchitis, and got really ill with it. Now she's on antibiotics. She had a tightness in the chest that wouldn't go away.
This unnerves me. Mainly because I'm really hoping I don't get it too. A lot of folks at work ended up fighting off pneumonia.
In better news, niece is better, just feeling spacey and brain foggy. Her international law final is on Friday, not Monday, apparently. And according to mother - she can't transfer her grades, so they don't affect her GPA in anyway. It's all Pass/Fail and gives her credits towards graduation, that's it. The reason is that Britain grades on a different scale than the US and isn't transferable as a result. Britain does it on a number scheme - levels 1, 2, 3, while the US does it on a letter scheme - A, B, C, D, F. See? Not transferable.
***
Lucked out. The weatherman predicted thunderstorms from 4-7pm. Outside of a brief one in Jamaica while I was under the platform shelter waiting for the train, there wasn't any. It cleared off by the time I reached Brooklyn. The next storm happened around 7pm and lasted until 8:30pm.
I was drenched with sweat by the time I got into my apartment, so stripped, took a shower and changed clothes. Then called mother, who had called me while I was getting ready for a shower. Talking to her gave me a headache, she kept coming in and out on her cell phone speaker.
**
Have chosen to stick with the Throne of Glass novels by Sarah Maas for the time being, mainly because they require 0 concentration, and I'm curious how the writer does certain things. There's a fantasy novel percolating in the back of my brain, and the lead character was a half human, half fae former apprentice assassin but has no memory of it. Here the character is a half human, half fae assassin but much younger and with memories intact. The fantasy novel percolating in my brain may or may not see the light of day. There's a lot of novels that never do. It wouldn't be the first or the last.
***
Avoiding the news - mainly because it makes me angry and upsets me. Also, I keep wishing the Universe would off various folks for me. But it's being stubborn and refuses to budge on this issue.