Spring cleaning

Every couple of weeks I get horrified at the state of my place, and try desperately to restore it to acceptability, and vow to do better from now on. And I never do.

I wish I knew how to make it stop.

Domesticity, part 2

Having held my credit card for six months, at last, I was able to look up my credit score. And it's surprisingly okay; under the line of where I'd want it to be, but just barely, and mostly because my credit history is so short.

Which is good; when I was apartment-hunting, they wanted you to make 3 times the rent or have a good credit score. I don't need to make 3 times the rent to afford a place, because I'm cheap... and if I end up relocating, getting someone to co-sign would really be a pain. Plus, I'm gonna need a car loan one of these days!

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I am officially in platonic academic love with Stephen Krashen, advocate of bilingual education, reading a lot, and not the Accelerated Reader program. There are a lot of good articles on his web page, and a whole book!

For the last five years, I have been ordering and reading Star Trek novels in French and German from Amazon, translations from English. They are inauthentic, have no cultural information, and make little contribution to my intellectual life. But they are easy to read (I have a great deal of background knowledge in this area), and very pleasurable. Narrow reading works.

(Shifty eyes) That doesn't sound like me one bit, no, not at all...