Since Mother Eve in the Garden long ago

Well, my emotional symptoms this month were confined to a sort of generalized "everything is pointless, fashion history doubly so, why can't you care about anything meaningful", which is a pain but it didn't make me cry - but physically an awful backache and so much bloating. I want to work on stays stuff today because I need this all finished soon, but I can't stand to have anything tight at the waist right now. Also I don't really want to get off the couch, it is soft and warm.

Owen is a total hipster, and so vain about his appearance and his muscle-building, but I do love that he's still the same little boy who used to draw original manga characters with huge swords. He's all about guitars now, and when he's home I swear he does nothing besides read Reddit and practice guitar. Over the summer, he was trying to take apart and rebuild one of his older electric ones, and what did he end up doing to it? Painted it white, and then painted on a direwolf head and "the North remembers". Oh, and his biggest poster in his dorm room is the Night's Watch oath.

I've just realized that, now that I'm done with school, I can do NaNo again this year! At last, I am part of the demographic that NaNo's November date was chosen for. (They should have two NaNos, a student version in July or August and a non-student version in November.)

This morning I did my exercise and mowed the lawn, which feels good. Also, now the lawn looks 100x better. On the minus side, I took my shower at 11:30 rather than 9:30.

Yesterday I met with the site manager at Mabee Farm and the curator at the Schenectady County Historical Society when I went to both places as a visitor. (It was pretty awkward, since I was the only person there and there's nothing to see at Mabee Farm unless you take a tour.) I was pleased to see that the curator is quite young, probably in his early 30s, because I'm always worried that my age is a huge strike against me - the site manager actually asked if I was doing a project for school at first. I look like a high schooler from a distance, evidently. But he said they would tell me if they wanted an interview or if they'd filled it within two weeks, so that is heartening, although of course they all say that.