badgerbag: messy, surly, full of books

blue jay behavior

It's nature week over here... I just watched a blue jay fly up to the window in front of my desk, with a date or a pointy acorn in its beak. It shoved the nut into the ground next to some rocks, and pecked it like a woodpecker hammering into a tree, driving the nut pretty deep into the ground. Do they usually bury food for later? If so I had no idea! Crazy! Is it going to remember this? How the fuck?

Meanwhile. I read over the article draft again. Printed out a contract and must fax it. Got together some things I need to mail. Wrote rec letter for my old prof and happy to do it. Downloaded the audio of some poems in English and Spanish for my talk next week. Looked up references. Compiled a bunch of info for the new issue of the zine, which I'll layout and print this weekend!

Remembered to eat something for breakfast.

Somehow it feels like I've done a lot, but I haven't made any tangible progress with a finished product in my hand.

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plan for tomorrow

Tomorrow I'll write in the early morning on the encyclopedia article, and then will go to TechShop to check it out & hang out with Strata. I'd love to give classes there, it's close to home, & it sounds like just my cup of tea. Despite the caulking incident.

ouchismo

Something has gone wrong "down there" and I'm not talking about the tropics. I think a bladder infection as I have to pee like every 10 minutes and it hurts. Ow! Yesterday I was noticing this, but today is worse.

I am drinking cranberry juice which luckily Rook had just bought a 2 gallon thing of it (though it's the kind with corn syrup in it - why do they even bother to make it, it's so nasssty!) and wondering if the way I feel like I've been kicked in the back means kidney infection, or I'm just overly sensitive and a hypochondriac? Or possibly all 3.

I'm going to skip working for McCoot (oh darn...) and stay in bed all day and do my homework. I'm not going to skip class tomorrow even if I'm sicker, so I'm trying to pre-emptively rest today. By this afternoon I'll have antibiotics, I hope.