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Job hunting is so needlessly stressful and unpleasant. But it proceeds apace; interview this afternoon!

I'm starting so many seeds this spring. I want to fill out the garden, but, as I hope our time here will be coming to an end soon, I don't want to spend a lot of money on it this year; so, as many starts as I can get going! Between new starts and volunteers, I'm getting comical quantities of lupines. The opposite of a problem, lol.

I need to write about recent reading. I've got behind there. RN, I'm trekking through James Meek's "To Calais in Ordinary Time," which I picked up for plague reasons, but am most interested in because I want to see where the formalist experiment with period prose is going, and how Meek is going to pay it off. The writing is simple but truly archaic. Time spent reading untranslated Chaucer, and reading French, are helpful in smoothing the experience.

My dad and sib got a room for eclipse viewing, and I'm invited to roll along if desired. IDK... there's been a lot of schlepping about since my parents started splitting up, and these two-sisters-and-one-parent excursions keep being Weird and A Lot. Maybe I'm sticking with my newer family unit. B's 19th birthday coming up shortly before the eclipse date, and I want him well fussed-over, since his ties with his biomom have definitely been fraying over the last year.