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Two weeks worth of hair is a lot of hair. But I'm getting better at wielding the clippers. Last time I trimmed it this short because I didn't entirely understand how to use the comb... this time I trimmed it to where I thought I wanted it last time, and then stopped and went "Huh. Too long." and trimmed it to the same place as last time. Next time I might decide even velvet head is excessive, and go for velveteen head. (We're probably talking about a few days of growth, really.)

Inversions (okay, especially handstands, but not only handstands) rock. The perfect antidote for too-many-article induced lethargy. And they make my back happy. And my arms... Okay, for me a "girly" moment is being vain enough about my physical appearance to tell stolen_tea "Check out my muscle-y arms!" (His take: "You are getting to be pretty muscular for a guy." Hey, if I'm going to be built like a bloody amazon, I might as well do it right. And once my arms shoulders and upper back got past the "What are you doing?!?" stage from suddenly doing the full body weight stuff every day, they've calmed down into happy.)

But I still don't have the new hinge for my tablet. And I was supposed to get it Friday. (It works just fine as a laptop, but I'm not putting in the new cable until I have the new hinge, since I'm pretty sure that the old hinge is what damaged the old cable.)

K is saying things like "I should try having my hair at the length yours is at" (admittedly, before this morning's trim). Apparently we are not identical enough :-S (That all being said, while "blond stick figure and black haired stick figure" would work just fine for the comic, I think light pony-tail and dark pony-tail are more entertainingly gender ambiguous. But no tablet, no comic.)

Oh, and silliness, but... I've been a lot more stressed out about my grades than I probably should be, this semester. Leftover from the horrors of last spring when I really should have taken incompletes in my classes at least two months earlier than I did, and enough pain to fry my memory (not to mention the issues around sitting still long enough to survive an exam). Anyhow, got back my midterm from one of the classes, and not only was I tied for highest grade in the class but it was full of comments like "You rock. I don't think anyone else got this one." and "You have to assume something. Are you still assuming your name is Catherine? I don't think so..." (Okay, I thought that was funny. But hey, my experimental design ruled.) I didn't have to take two classes this semester, and I might have been able to get out of any classes ever again, but I'm really glad I took these and reminded myself that while, yeah, this stuff isn't what I'm here to do, I'm still kicking ass and taking names.

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I started writing this... oh, a couple of weeks ago, I think. On the edge of posting or tossing, but I guess I'll just post and cut.
( rambling about other wolds )

Gardening

So we're staying in this apartment another year. Which means no real garden, and no room for a dedicated lab. (But no moving, and the awesome commute, and the apartment managers who don't freak out about the chemical deliveries, and deal with the martial arts, and the great view...)

But I figured I'd work on what garden we do have for consolation. And really, for an apartment, it's pretty productive. Right now we have peppers (both ripening and just starting to set fruit) several squash plants (K's are winter, mine summer... and I might put in another one or two) rosemary, basil, mint, garlic chives and oregano, pitcher plants, and now eggplants, different basil and blue lake beans that have been recently planted and not come up yet. Might need some more beans, too. (Hanging string from the support bar of the blinds and training things up them worked for squash, so I'm pretty confident about the beans.) And I'd like to pick up one indeterminate tomato. (No Kendrick, really, I won't make you eat any.)

BTW, the secret of our success (and why my container garden on the barge looked like this, even early in the season)? Okay, some of it is paying attention to waterings and drainage, and making sure they get decent light, and the general stuff, but the biggest bit is that I buy my fertilizers from a place that specializes in nutrients for hydroponics rigs. (Foxfarm Grow Big.) Hey, if I'm growing things in the ground I'll compost and... oh wait, we do that here too. But really, containers generally need more nutrients, and if you're trying to make the most of limited space, good fertilizer is huge.

Thinking of putting some basil and arugula in the annex...