Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: October 2021

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 10/21

    This week the Buffalo went from this: … to this: … and now I hate it. It needs more depth in the green. It’s in the middle stage: I need to remember I hate the middle stage.

  • A Clairvoyant MS Symptom

    On Wednesday the 6th my brother called and complained about coughing, malaise. This has been his baseline for the last month, most noticeable following a medical procedure the week before. I didn’t think any more about it. Later that afternoon I noticed my left leg was tingling. It went away after I walked a few…

  • A Sense of False Security

    I have thought myself clever by scratching any facial itches with the earpiece of my glasses. I figure it’s behind by ear, sheltered from Covid, no one’s going to be coughing behind my ear. Today I realized that I have not cleaned the actual earpieces of my eyeglasses since before the pandemic began. Time to…

  • Work Love

    Last Monday I dryly said something snide and a co-worker I had only met a week earlier said, “Oh, Ellen, I love you.” A few days later I heard the same declaration from my boss. This made me uncomfortable, because in one week my female coworkers said “I love you” two hundred percent more often…

  • Groceries

    I submit the grocery shopping order once a week. I don’t add things directly to the shopping application, I still add them to the Alexa shopping list and then shop form the on the grocery store application. It’s an unnecessary extra step because I am too crotchety to change my ways, but at least I’m…

  • Ring Light

    I don’t remember the first of my coworkers to purchase a ring light or halo light for the Zoom calls. Pretty sure it was post-pandemic. Check out the pupils of Ed Robertson from Barenaked Ladies. He’s clearly working, and he’s paid to look like a rock star. I am not. However, my duties have recently…

  • Shatner in Space

    I have been through all the videos purporting to show Shatner in Space. Pressing nose to window? Check. Being moved by the vulnerability of life? Check. Experiencing weightlessness? Not so much. He does not float. (Also, therefore, he is not a witch.) I mean, I know he’s ninety and not as agile and lightweight as…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 10/14

    This week the Buffalo went from this: … to this: He’s loose! I like him. He needs to be a little darker behind his armpit again.

  • Rewriting the Novel: Zeno’s Paradox

    I would tell you that I am 75% done with the book calculated by word count, but it seems every time I write nowadays I end up with fewer words. It’s not because I’m editing, either. It’s like the Missing Dollar riddle. The fun parts are in first draft form, but I have almost nothing…

  • New Manners

    There have been some surprising social events mentioned recently by The Young Folks at Work. I was familiar with destination weddings and promposals, but the three below were new to me. Bachelor party weekends – back in my day, men of the bridal party drank and drove to various strip joints and then recovered in…