Good! versus Bad!

BAD!

Today started with my boot buckle catching on my tights just as I was putting my boots on to leave and putting a giant run in them. And then I forgot my wallet at home and couldn't buy myself a hamburger for lunch, as I had dearly wanted to. And then we tried to go get some coffee at the Tim Horton's downstairs, but it was closed, as was every other coffeeshop in the entire government (private sector, catch your ass up, it was only 4:15!). And then my blood sugar started crashing (luckily after that I secured a snack and things improved).

GOOD!

I found out in French today (there is a nice Interpreter at work who runs an informal weekly French class on Tuesday lunch) that the French phrase for browsing, as in not-buying-just-browsing, is "leche-vitrine". This translates, literally, to "licking the windows". The complete intensity of that visual metaphor has had me in hysterics all day.

BAD!

My fridge is still broken. I threw out three and a half pounds of ground beef last night and am none too pleased about that. I have huddled all the remaining perishables into the freezer, where there is some faint cold air. I don't know yet when there will be a new fridge, although I am assured it's before the end of the week.

GOOD!

More on the lineup for Clockwork Phoenix 2 over at time_shark's:

I cannot certify this as the absolute final table of contents yet, but it is the list of every story accepted to date. And so, The List So Far:
# Forrest Aguirre (experimeditor), "Never nor Ever"
# Saladin Ahmed, "Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela"
# Kelly Barnhill, "Open the Door and the Light Pours Through"
# Leah Bobet (cristalia), "Six"
# Marie Brennan (swan_tower), "Once a Goddess"
# Gemma Files (handful_ofdust) and Stephen J. Barringer, "each thing i show you is a piece of my death"
# Joanna Galbraith, "The Fish of Al-Kawthar's Fountain"
# Mary Robinette Kowal (maryrobinette), "At the Edge of Dying"
# Claude Lalumière, "Three Friends"
# Ann Leckie (ann_leckie), "The Endangered Camp"
# Tanith Lee, "The Pain of Glass" (a story of the Flat Earth)
# Ian McHugh, "Angel Dust"
# Steve Rasnic Tem, "When We Moved On"
# Catherynne M. Valente (yuki_onna), "The Secret History of Mirrors"

That's just got hot all over it.

BAD!

...aaaand she's coughing again.

GOOD!

My dinner's ready. And I think I am having tea with ksumnersmith tonight.

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So in balance, looks about even.