Sometimes, I write fic.

...see title. But generally, things are good, and I'm SO FUCKING HAPPY to be <14 days away from the end of this job. Then I get a week to myself to do...something...before the summer job starts.

I've had so much more energy the past two days, and I've felt so much better mentally, which is fabulous and I'm so thrilled about. Yesterday, Greg was like "why do you have so much energy what is happening," because every single morning this week it's been a slog to get up, and I've been super bleary all morning (sometimes all day), even with caffeine, but yesterday I was like "hello it is 10am and I am AWAKE and DOING DISHES and EVERYTHING IS GREAT even though I haven't had caffeine yet!" and he was like ".....". And then he realized it was sunny out for the first time in what felt like ages, and he suddenly understood.

Yesterday, we took advantage of the lovely weather and walked down to an office park(ish thing) with a tiny strip of grass that had a distant view of the river, and that was great, though exhausting. Def more walking than I've done in a while. (yes, we wore masks and crossed the street any time someone was coming). Today we schlepped out to my parents' to pick up some fabric masks my mother sewed, then grocery shopping, then to do a quick distance plant-exchange with a friend. Also beautiful weather, still v exhausted by the time we got home and unloaded groceries. Didn't help that we'd run all the way out of food, so I hadn't had lunch and had a blood sugar crash... oh well.

Been taking my home improvement (?) energy out on my plants, trying to figure out how to make them the most happy and prep them for the summer (stronger/hotter sunlight, mostly, which can burn some of my plants if I'm not careful with placement/curtains/etc). Most of them seem p happy, and I'm very pleased that I finally seem to be figuring out some plants that have eluded me previously. Def still several I'm keeping a close eye on-- I spent an hour earlier scraping scale off my pencil cactus, because I let it get WAY out of hand. That was Fun Times (tm). It got a nice diluted soap spray afterward, and it'll get more neem oil in a few days, and hopefully that'll be enough to kick them off. I may do soap again after the neem oil, just to be sure, but we'll see how it's doing.

As the title suggests, I am actually considering signing up for exchanges again. Not sure, because I'll be working full time this summer, but I'll only be working full time, not almost full time + grad school, and I definitely did exchanges previously when I was working full time. We'll see. Kind of want to dip my toes in and make sure that I'm in a writing groove, but I'm also terrible at writing without a deadline or an obsession with a fandom/pairing/etc. Considering Rare Male Slash Exchange and/or Just Married, but I need to look at Fandom Calendar and see what's coming up. Hey, it's not like I'll have weekend beach trips to distract me this summer, right? you know, because I totally did that before.../sarcasm

sl;fjsdf the sun just makes me so fucking happy, I don't even know, guys. The world is wonderful when it's sunny, even when it's actually terrible. and with that cheery thought, I'm gonna try to wind down from a lovely day and sleep.