• I have not been reading much this summer because sitting on the porch in my comfy chair just isn’t the same without a lazy, old cat at my feet.
• I have not been running lately because I am channelling said lazy, old cat, apparently. I am meant to be doing a half-marathon in six weeks.
• Expedia just threw a sale email at me. I can’t afford to go anywhere (not even said half-marathon next month, though I’ll manage) right now. But I could go to Hong Kong for 10 days for $2K!
• Dumb travel decisions are a big part of why I am in so much debt.*
• Spending too much on take-out and restaurants is another
• Occasional Modcloth binges don’t help either.
• I wish I had the patience and skill and data sets to figure out if I actually have saved about $100+ by only buying two work lunches and two take-out coffees in the last three weeks.
• My car is a rusting hulk.
• Entered a contest to win a Fiat ’cause it’s the only way I can imagine I will be able to get a new one in the next couple of years.
• Still having dreams of appearing on panel and interview shows, often RHLSTP or HIGNFY, but increasingly as a regular member of the public whose won some kind of contest because even my subconscious can’t dream big enough to make me a talented grafter.
• Sometimes they end the recording early because I am too dull. IN MY DREAMS.
• Recommitting myself to writing every day is only resulting in pyrite.
• I dropped most of a bowl or porridge, face(?)-down, on the carpet just minutes ago. Perhaps summing up this word vomit of a post/my life: Good intentions, a careless mistake, and me huddled on the floor, frustratedly scrubbing a mess that will probably never fully go away.
• I swear that I actually woke up in a pretty good mood, and am generally aware of my many faults, though I should maybe be a bit more rah-rah about some things, at least publicly, so people don’t think I’m *just* a human disaster.
• I am somehow in 5th place in my Learned League Rundle at midseason even though I am largely still fumbling at defensive scoring strategy and have not been feeling super smart. Yay me!
• If I had any sense at all, which I demonstrably do not, I should have written individual entries about each of these points over several weeks.
• My problems are actually very small and there’s already far too much privileged, self-pitying navel-gazing in the blogosphere.
• Have a lovely Wednesday.

* Still gonna save some pennies/debt space to go to Iceland (and rent a CAR and see WILDERNESSES) next fall with Jackie.