incandescens | you never know till you try

Have taken a step into the wide unknown and listed that blue cushion cover on Folksy. Will now try not to get too depressed if nobody even looks at it.

Ah, nerves.

Monday is Monday and is rather difficult to get excited about. On the positive side, my coworker and I (who between us have 18 days of annual leave that we need to take before the end of March, and shouldn't be off at the same time) have managed to negotiate 16 of those days in ways that shouldn't impact work too badly, don't mean us being off at the same time, and does give us time off at points when we'd like it. Now I just need to work out what I'll do with a week off in February and another in March. Possibly for the February one I'll just sit around in my flat and be lazy and sew/make stuff. It could be rather enjoyable.

Or I could do some writing. Maybe even do a last chapter and a first revision on Library. :)

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"Folks say now that I can make beasts into men, by circumstance, and selection, and competition, and so forth. Well, perhaps they are right; and perhaps, again, they are wrong. That is one of the seven things which I am forbidden to tell, till the coming of the Cocqcigrues; and, at all events, it is no concern of theirs. Whatever their ancestors were, men they are; and I advise them to behave as such, and act accordingly. But let them recollect this, that there are two sides to every question, and a downhill as well as an uphill road; and, if I can turn beasts into men, I can, by the same laws of circumstance, and selection, and competition, turn men into beasts." -- Mrs Bedonebyasyoudid

-- The Water Babies, Charles Kingsley

(Why yes, I did pick up a secondhand copy of The Water Babies on Sunday and have been rereading it. Because. You know how these things happen.)