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Well I had an unusual morning: for reasons I truly cannot ascertain, the alarm on my phone did not go off this morning. I even double checked it later to make sure the programming was still the same, and it was, so I don't know what the fuck happened there. I'll have to make sure and check again before sleeping Sunday night. In any case, when I first opened my eyes and looked at the clock, it said 6:40. The first words out of my words were, "What the fuck?" I was supposed to get up at 5:15. I overslept by 85 minutes.
Two things effectively mitigated this when I got out of bed, after saying to Shobhit, "My alarm didn't go off," and he immediately said he would drive me to work. First, on a normal morning, I get up and eat breakfast and post my Bluesky digest post (which used to be Twitter, and then used to be Threads), trying to finish in time to get started in the bathroom by 5:40 so I can be ready an hour later to catch the 6:44 bus downtown. This morning, I just went straight from the bed to the bathroom, which saved me 25 minutes. Second, as my transit commute to work usually involves busing downtown and then walking up the waterfront and that typically takes me about 35-40 minutes, Shobhit driving me took only about 15 minutes so that saved me at least another 20 minutes. Thus: I overslept by 85 minutes; caught up on a cumulative 45 minutes; and got to work only about 40 minutes later than normal, getting to my desk at roughly 8:10 when I ostenisbly start work every day at 7:30.
The first thing Noah said to me today after I said good morning was, "Overslept?" Indeed.
While I was in the shower, I asked Shobhit to do me a favor and put a handful of blueberries into a small container and pull out the cereal bag from the box so I could put it into my backpack. This also helped save me some time: I ate my breakfast cereal after getting to the office. Even better, I got to use the oat milk that's available at the office—which I think actually tastes better than the almond milk I use at home
and it's way better for the environment than almond production. I just don't buy oat milk because it's still way too expensive.
So there you have it. My morning in a nutshell. A few nutshells, I guess.
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So Shobhit walked to meet me just a couple of blocks from my office yesteday, which I left at 4:10, so we could walk back together to Pacific Place and see
Paddington in Peru, which was fine—making it a few steps down from the previous installments, but whatever. They can't all be thoroughly delightful, and this one was fun enough. It was kind of a bummer that Laney had to cancel, but she clearly made the right decision: she needs to rest up and minimize extra risk before her flight to Florida on Sunday, and when Shobhit and I got out of Pacific Place after the movie, it was unusually wet, cold, and miserable. Not raining really, and even some tiny snowflakes falling through the air, but still a very wet cold, the kind of thing Laney should definitely be avoiding while fighting a minor cold.
Shobhit and I still walked the rest of the way home, getting him the steps he still wanted to get in.
I wrote my review and then Shobhit and I watched two episodes of season 3 of the UK version of
Being Human.
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I just finished my biweekly Zoom lunch with Karen. We covered a lot of territory today, from her travel plans this summer (due to her health issues they decided to postpone a hoped-for trip to Europe another year, and will go to Victoria and Vancouver instead; she said she "dug up" an email I already sent her some months ago with a bunch of Victoria recommendations), to the state of the construction of their house in Tulalip (the exterior still needs some work but apparently the interior is finally ready to start bringing stuff in, like furniture and linens and other household stuff), to my Birth Week.
The Birth Week thing was a key element of the conversation: I am starting to look at scheduling and budgeting for that, and I asked her if she'd want to go up the Space Needle with me. (My theme this year, remember, is "Observation Decks and Viewpoints.") She and her firm actually did accessibility consulting on the huge renovation they did there in 2018, and I think it'll be really interesting to visit through those eyes; she'll be able to talk about a lot of stuff there that she consulted on. She told me she "doesn't do well with heights" but still said she'll go and thinks it sounds fun, and perhaps we can also get dinner, an idea I also like a lot. She even suggested perhaps we can time the visit to when the sunset is happening, so I just need to figure out what time sunset will be on Friday, April 25, the date I had already slated for this and which is now on her calendar. It should be too difficult to do. I kind of love that this came together so well.
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[posted 1:07pm]
