Amelia

Just dropping by for my own records. I passed all of 1st round assessments at the beginning of the month but endurance. But I'm making progress! As of last night I'm at 22.5/25 (in 5 minutes). Just 2.5 laps to go. Slow, incremental progress is still progress. That's what I'm telling myself.

I'm having proscuitto and dried figs for dinner. B. got them for me (because he is awesome, he also got me bonus pink calla lillies); I was having a craving (for figs and proscuitto, not lillies). They are so delicious, the perfect mix of salty, sweet, smooth, and dense. Although I may have eaten too many figs. I also do this with prunes and dried apricots. A habit from childhood when my mom wouldn't let us have junkfood, but we could get dried fruit from the natural foods store. Oh well.

I'm still waiting to hear on that job. My boss is out of town for 10 days. The committee checked references and met before she left, but they only got half way through the discussion. This job was posted last August and I applied in October. The length of this search is ridiculous.

Work is going pretty well. I expected to have a quiet week with my boss out, but instead ended up working on an omg-the-deadline-is-when grant proposal. That was more fun then the other stuff I had to do, but I'm still a little behind on things.

Last weekend B. took me LARPing for the first time. It was pretty overwhelming, but fun. The fights are...something (the one at night with the children crying out was darned creepy). I was a healer so I felt useful, but not under too much pressure. Although by the end of the weekend fighting looked fun rather than *just* intimidating. I also got pulled into more plot than expected from tainted cups to missing masks to evil clown codes to deciding which dead brother to give the soul of a woman too (I picked the right brother, go me. Then he attacked me and I couldn't defend myself--heal him to death?--but my friends got him for me, thanks guys!). Seeing B. in his LARPing clothes did not cause me to loose all attraction to him, so that was a win. I borrowed a dress and actually seeing all the costumes was really fun. Makes me wish I had a clothing budget :) I also hit on someone, put myself out there, got slightly humiliated afterwords via online messaging, and slapped down. But I don't think any more embarrassed or slapped down than in normal dating?, so I guess that's a win? So that was sucky educational. Okay that last bit wasn't strictly LARP-related. Oh, being in the dark in the woods is scary, I was not told in advance there were no lights allowed. Anyways, it was interesting enough that I might try it again, probably in the fall.

I'm getting better at roller derby, but I still have a long way to go before I can pass the skills assessment (current frustration: gliding on one foot, although I am getting better at skating backwards). My stomach was bothering me so I had to leave practice early on Thursday, but I think with rest I will be back to normal next week.

Is anyone else watching The Killing? I'm really enjoying it. The grayness and meditative pace really work for me. I also really love the lead detective. The acting is brilliant. I might watch with caution if I had kids though, the parents' grief is shown in really brutal, heartbreaking ways.