Five Things Make a Day (domestic edition)
Nov. 29th, 2012 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanMorning: I did the Stevia-in-my-coffee test again this morning. Nope. It still tastes like metal shavings on my tongue, and weirdly makes everything taste more bitter, not sweeter. Bleah. Clearly, my body does. Not. Want. (and looking around, there seem to be some studies suggesting that Stevia can mess with insulin sensitivity and hypoglycemia. Yeah. My body knows what it's talking about. Oh well. Back to raw sugar for me.)
I have now tried every available sugar substitute, both "natural" and un, and found them all to be sadly lacking. Do you people just get used to the taste? Or do you not notice it? Because, ugh - half an hour later and my tongue was still unhappy.
Midday: Today started off with irritation (too many people being reactive rather than proactive, and I'm tired of having to use the damn poking-stick) and has segued into painful WTFkery on the spectator level. Is there something even more than Merc Retro going around? And if so, how long do I have to hide under my bed before it will go away? At least the book is behaving... (at the moment. who knows about tomorrow)
Afternoon: On the plus side: today also brought us NASA geeking in prime geek manner over Seriously People There's Water/Ice on Mercury! The press conference was fascinating to listen to... Also, NASA seems set blowing the geek-nerd scientists are unattractive" myth out of the water. I'm just sayin... Or maybe I go for well-groomed geek. This is entirely possible.
Evening: At dinner tonight with friends, the check came.. and the starters had been left off. We hailed the waiter to tell him, only to be informed that it had been deliberate. "You're a regular, a VIP," the waiter said to my friend (who had made the reservation). So they thanked us for our support in a small (to them) but significant (to us) way.
I have now tried every available sugar substitute, both "natural" and un, and found them all to be sadly lacking. Do you people just get used to the taste? Or do you not notice it? Because, ugh - half an hour later and my tongue was still unhappy.
Midday: Today started off with irritation (too many people being reactive rather than proactive, and I'm tired of having to use the damn poking-stick) and has segued into painful WTFkery on the spectator level. Is there something even more than Merc Retro going around? And if so, how long do I have to hide under my bed before it will go away? At least the book is behaving... (at the moment. who knows about tomorrow)
Afternoon: On the plus side: today also brought us NASA geeking in prime geek manner over Seriously People There's Water/Ice on Mercury! The press conference was fascinating to listen to... Also, NASA seems set blowing the geek-nerd scientists are unattractive" myth out of the water. I'm just sayin... Or maybe I go for well-groomed geek. This is entirely possible.
Evening: At dinner tonight with friends, the check came.. and the starters had been left off. We hailed the waiter to tell him, only to be informed that it had been deliberate. "You're a regular, a VIP," the waiter said to my friend (who had made the reservation). So they thanked us for our support in a small (to them) but significant (to us) way.
Mind, we go there because the food and service are excellent, and the place is packed enough that they don't need to "woo" people. But knowing that they appreciate us as much as we enjoy them is a lovely plus, and the sign of good management.
Late Night: Yes, it takes me longer to get home using mass transit than it would if I drove. But there is something soothing about walking to the subway, then being able to read (or listen to music, or knit, or do all the things people enjoy doing) for 45 minutes to an hour - time that I'm not being poked or prodded by the Must Dos, or irritated by the Hurry Ups. And less traffic, fewer parking woes, and no worries about having had alcohol with dinner. I will never understand why some cities/towns resist building a mass transit infrastructure....
(and I say this as a suburbs-raised child who wholeheartedly embraced car culture - and still misses her beloved car occasionally.)
And now I am OMG tired, and need to go to bed by 11 like an old lady. *shakes cane*
Late Night: Yes, it takes me longer to get home using mass transit than it would if I drove. But there is something soothing about walking to the subway, then being able to read (or listen to music, or knit, or do all the things people enjoy doing) for 45 minutes to an hour - time that I'm not being poked or prodded by the Must Dos, or irritated by the Hurry Ups. And less traffic, fewer parking woes, and no worries about having had alcohol with dinner. I will never understand why some cities/towns resist building a mass transit infrastructure....
(and I say this as a suburbs-raised child who wholeheartedly embraced car culture - and still misses her beloved car occasionally.)
And now I am OMG tired, and need to go to bed by 11 like an old lady. *shakes cane*
