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my socks are wet from puddles

Today’s moving of stuff went so well. Reyn and Steve were here helping and it all just happened. I’d been hoping to get the furniture I didn’t need off to the MCC furniture thrift store, and maybe move a shelf over to my new room. But Steve’s vehicle is a surprisingly good little hauler so we got stuff to MCC and all my boxes to Reyn’s in one trip apiece We didn’t lose any fingers, didn’t wreck any vehicles and had time for lunch before people had to go to work. Way to go, day. You were a good one.

Of course the annual thaw puddle/lake in front of the building has started up. I really wish that could have held off until the money for the condo was in my hand, but whatever. It’s not like it’s a bunch of water in the condo they bought, right?

In non-moving news the BBC thinks I think like a girl. I took this series of tests the other day and my results put me in the average female brain. Because of my empathy and my willingness to share I guess. Although that empathy score is pretty awesome because it’s a combination of perfect results on the “being able to tell how someone feels” scale and nigh-sociopathic (my hyperbole) results on the “how good of a shoulder you are to cry on” type stuff. Which seemed about right.

Now this was just some internet quiz thing, but it seemed a step or two above the quality found on Facebook surveys. I’d be interested to see what someone who knows something about psychology might have to say about if the test was anything actually interesting or not. Evidently Holly already goes around describing me as someone who thinks like a girl (thus making me easy to get along with), so I’d like to find out if science actually has her back on this or not.

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On the bus I listened to a couple of teens talking about their drug use. And when I say “I listened to” I mean “the whole bus couldn’t help but listen to” (though you see how that would have used the word bus twice in four words and I couldn’t do that). About how when the girl was in grade 6 she thought pot was a slang term for coke, and how their friend did a whole lot of caps and stayed up all night and made a really bad first impression on one of their other friends and then had to go to work the next day. An enlightening few minutes in the lives of these kids.

And then last night when I was walking to the bus stop I dodged and ducked (and by “ducked” I mean “splashed right through as if I were a member of the family Anatidae because it was dark and I couldn’t spot every one perfectly”) huge puddles all down Keewatin. Just nasty things. And I managed to avoid getting soakingly splashed by any vehicles and in my head I rewrote the beginning to a short story I’m submitting to a magazine. The new beginning managed to stick with me the whole way home and I was grateful.

A shady looking guy knocked on my door today. He tried to say “Hey I know you from…” and I said “Nope.” And he said he was looking for his friend and he’d been told I was a source for some herb. I told him he was mistaken. He was all “Oh dude, he must have been upstairs, sorry.” Ten minutes later he was loitering in the stairwell and I asked if he could wait for his friend outside. His story shifted a few times about how he had keys and he pulled out his phone and pretended to talk to his friend, and I asked him to leave. Then I changed the keyless code for getting into the building.

So yes, now if you want to get in, you’ll have to buzz up. For me you just press 3 and I’ll let you in. If you aren’t there to pretend to buy drugs from me.

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