Small struggles
Today is going very slowly, though some good progress: I made an excellent pot of grub (3-4 meals), and 2 quarts of very nice yogurt from the Greek-yogurt culture (L. bulgaricus and S. Thermophilius) is in the fridge with its topping of towels to wick away the whey.
But I’m struggling elsewhere. When The Niece visited I got behind in my daily Spanish flashcard review, and now I see the dark side of Anki: hundreds of flashcards to get through in order to catch up. It’s a pain, but I’m now down to the two large decks, and today I’m determined to catch up with one. The other I’ll tackle tomorrow.
The other struggle is adding material and reorganizing part of the shaving book. Simply getting the narrative flow right is hard enough, but add to that the way that Microsoft Word will occasionally go crazy, adding carriage returns to footnotes, moving photos about, deciding in the middle of a page that it’s time to start text on the next page… frustrating. So this is a slog.
Just wanted to whine a bit.
UPDATE: It just occurred to me: For those familiar with Anne Lamott’s work, this feels an awfully lot like “bird by bird.”
