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Things:

- Summer Reading starts this weekend. Thus, this week is a frenzy of ridiculous activity getting ready. (Our Summer Reading program is apparently - according to a person who came to our system from King County - needlessly complex. Since it is the only Summer Reading program I've ever really been involved with, it seems pretty okay to me.) We're going to have a sign up table this year, instead of having each kid individually sign up with staff at the desk. I'm terribly excited about this development.

- There's this house down the street from where I live that I pass on the way to work every day. It's slowly being gutted. There's occasional piles of splintered wood or carpeting in the driveway that get covered with tarps and then eventually carted away. I'm fairly certain there isn't a working bathroom in there anymore. I'm not sure if the second floor is still there at all. And I'm really curious about it but also I really don't want to know why. Because I'm sure the reason will be disappointingly mundane and I'd like it to continue being a mystery so that I can make up my own stories. (Current favorite right now is that it's analogous to the Whateley place in The Dunwich Horror. The problem with this theory is that I've never seen anyone bringing in cows.)

- I have made a hat! I made it last night, in fact. (This hat, for people on ravelry.) Well, I say a hat but I mostly made it because it was the most attractive (to me) pattern that came up when I searched the term "snood". Basically, it will be a bag to put my hair in when it's hot. Hurrah.

- These shoes, while comfortable in most other situations, are turning out to really not be Tuesday shoes. Damn.

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I am having the kind of day where, mostly, I want to hide in a hole. Possibly there might be some stabbing before the hiding happens because people are deeply irritating to me today, but mostly the hiding sounds really good.

The worst thing is that there isn't really a reason - I think I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. And there are too many people (despite the fact that there actually aren't that many people) and food has not really agreed with me all day and it's stuffy in here and people just don't shut up. Also, it is too bright. Is it possible to have the reverse of SAD? Because I think I do - bright sun and heat and long days make me cranky as hell.

I get to go home in 45 minutes. And then I will have tea and shut my blinds really tight and knit for a while. That should help.