Plague

audrey is meowing a lot at me right now (she wants to play, she wants hours of play) so we'll see how far i get writing this.

town fair was nice, it was somehow different from what i was expecting but also fun. it was largely put on for kids, i think. i had water stations out for dogs but not many people with dogs were uhhh paying attention to their dogs so only a few used them. my neighbors were a grouchy old lady who cracked me up on one side and lizards & snakes on the other. i was a little worried i might get a sunburn, but the pop up awning saved the day. i met a few local furries (or furry-ajacent types) and a small number of local queers which was exciting. this REALLY isnt a big lgbt town. so its nice to not feel like im the only one and im sure they felt similarly.

i think if i get in to vend next year, i'll do some sort of interactive paint station with washable paints. i thought about doing it this year but i only have acrylics (and zero budget) so decided against it.

met up sunday with two friends at the worcester comic shop, cuz theyre going on an international trip and had accidentally got a mealkit delivery thatd expire while they were gone. so they were very kindly offering it up to us. i had brought my mewtwo cards to show both of them and THEN when i was done quill just PULLS OUT THE TEAM ROCKETS MEWTWO EX SECRET RARE and HANDS IT TO ME like :> for ur collection aa aAAAAaa!!! this is a card that as of this writing is going for around 500$ or MORE, and as the 'secret rare' designation implies, it is NOT easy to find in the first place. like just bam have a holy grail card :O aaaa

oh my gosh audrey please, i am writing paragraphs. i guess audrey is staunchly anti-blog and only pro-microblogging. i was thinking about it last night, if microblogging suddenly just went away (and software like mastodon, sharkey, etc mean... it wont) i think i'd be okay with pivoting back to long form blogging. but also i'm an outlier, because after 30 odd years online, i really do not react when some hub goes under and takes all my posts with it. i dont really care about posts vanishing, i guess. i never really did? /art/ vanishing upsets me, but the general random post where i think over my day or my feelings etc i don't have any strong connections to. i suppose they always felt purgative to me anyway, and the idea that they might vanish forever is like "well, i should hope so." the idea an off the cuff statement might never biodegrade online feels... bad lmao we don't necessarily need a crystalized fragment of any given era of our lives to fall back into do we? even hand written journals can be lost or damaged or smudged. expecting them to be impervious just feels illogical i guess??

it's supposed to go down to freezing at least two nights this week, so i have to transfer tomato plants and hope they survive it long enough to ripen fruit. yep, late september and theyre still green... all my plants seem intent to be really really late to harvest. i will have to remember this for next year.

i THINK that the town faire is my last vending event for the year... though i cant be sure, cuz i'm waitlisted on a few other things. but honestly i think i'm ready to stay home and focus on other work for a bit.

i am on my third cup of coffee today and still feel like im about to fall asleep facedown at the desk. fortunately, this onion is here to yell and make sure i do no such thing.

by the time i post here again i will be able to wear hats and vigorously scrub my scalp again

til then