I actually was decently productive today!

This morning I cleaned out the entire kitchen, so it looks actually quite nice at the moment.  Did so while listening to Star Wars songs, which made it feel more epic than it actually was but hey...anything that gets me doing shit is always good.  Plus I've found that I don't like cleaning when other people are home?  I'm not entirely sure why, to be honest...I just feel tenser when there are others around and I'm trying to clean (more so for common spaces than my room).

But yeah, so that is good; I started in on the living room also but I kinda was all...mentally done cleaning by that point, so maybe I'll do that later on in the week.

(And then I told roommate M later when she got home that I really would like for it to stay that way, which includes putting things away, washing dishes within 24 hours of using them, wiping down countertops, etc., etc.  Luckily, she responded that if she didn't comply with any of my rules, I could feel free to yell at her, which I appreciated...it showed that she's willing to go along with the plans I set out.)

I read three articles (so far; might try to read another before bed), and while I would have liked to have read more, it's better than nothing.  I'm trying to bolster now my race and politics literature, and then for anything I want to do I want to take an intersectional race+gender approach, so I'm trying to look mostly at things like that.

I was also good in that I stayed in the living room rather than my bedroom today.  More work was done and I felt less trapped.

And I read a lot of The Force Awakens novelization!  It's good for me to continue reading for fun also, so I'm going to try and do that as much as possible.


Roommate B still hasn't come home at all which...I guess I shouldn't care but I've barely seen him since I've returned, and it kind of sucks when your best friend in the area seems to not care enough to see you as much once he finds a girlfriend.

Which is, I suppose, the story of my life.