MeghanIsMe

I'm taking a course this summer and didn't realize that the first three blocks of work were spaced every 2 days, not every week. I realized a couple days before my parents left, and was behind on the second and third part.

I wrote the professor to apologize, caught up on the first part, and finished catching up on the second part yesterday. I'm still pretty anxious about the upcoming work which involves interviewing, but I'll get by.
I'd been too anxious to look at my grades from the Spring semester. I was convinced (as I often am) that I did not do very well. Miriam looked with me to help, and we found that I had two As for my two classes. For this past semester in particular, I find that really difficult to reconcile with my experience of the classes, but that's probably because I at one of the worst points I've been in for a long time, mental health wise. Still managed to get stuff acceptably done though I guess!

With my parents having left and things less chaotic at home, I've been rearranging. Since Miriam's chronic pain makes sitting in a chair for a long time difficult, she's doing a lot of work from the couch. But we also really like being near each other as we're doing our respective things. So I moved the table we had in the space next to our kitchen into the former office/computer room and moved my computer into its place. Bonus: the computer is now near enough to the router that I can run an ethernet cable!

(I'd say kitchen/dining table, but we never really used it for that. I scored it from our complex's dumpster a couple months ago with the intent of using it for games and meals, but it just kind of collected stuff...)
My parents were staying in the office while they were with us, and between that and moving furniture around, it's hugely disorganized in there right now. I'm going to set up the folding table that I also scored from the dumpster a while back as somewhere to work on electronics. I also need to set up my keyboard (music-type) in there again; right now it's on the floor behind the TV and stuff.

Yesterday and today though, I spent a good few hours organizing my music stuff my parents brought with them. Yesterday I picked up a little two-shelf cabinet on rollers from someone on Kijiji for $10. That's where my receiver, CD changer, equalizer, and turntable are living now.

I spreadsheeted the CDs to figure out what order I want them in, then loaded 236 of them into the changer and typed in labels. The changer has a PS/2 keyboard port, which gives you an idea of how old it is. It's super convenient though. If I was stuck using the rotary knob to enter over two hundred titles, those titles would be waiting to be entered for a very long time.

And that's how *I've* been dealing with the current events dumpster fires and sometimes-crippling anxiety and depression. Feeling like I'm in control of my *stuff* helps me feel a bit more in control of my *life*.

Pictures of organized stuff possibly to follow!

Past and...less past but still obsolete (no HDMI).



My early 1970s Marantz reciever sits above a 2000s (I think) Sony Receiver that I picked up off the curb a few years back

The Sony is running our surround sound setup, and I'm currently using the Marantz for digitizing Lisa's vinyl collection, along with a Realistic linear-tracking turntable (thrifted).

One of the little details I love about the Marantz is the so-very-70s-style red indicator that lights up to tell you when you're listening to something in stereo.