16 july 2021
Been dogsitting the last two days- the dog is such a sweetheart. Currently cuddled up by our feet being adorable. I think she wants the pasta we're having for lunch. Mmm, pesto. Needs more salt though.
Is it just me, or does salt from a grinder taste better somehow? It's weird. Same for pepper, though that's less noticeable. It's also weird that we use rocks/crystals for seasoning and it's totally normal. I swear we're always craving salt.
First harvest in botany today! Uncommon rainbow pachypodium was our first plant, on to the second. Kind of sad to say goodbye to the first one but that's just how plants are. Enjoy them and love them while they last, let them go when it's their time. Same for a lot of things, really. Everything dies eventually, and that doesn't mean you shouldn't love and care for them. It makes them matter more sometimes because it won't last forever. Things gain meaning when they're temporary.
Feeling sad and tired today. It's okay, not the catastrophic kind of sadness, more the sort that's like quiet grief or something. It's hard to describe beyond the sense that something is missing and we have no clue what it is. Just have to push through it and let it be felt, take more time with the little things. Going to screw around on a Windows VM and see if we can break it to learn what makes it work. Really would rather not use Windows at all, but again, kind of have to learn it properly for compsci. I heard Clippy's coming back as a paperclip emoji though. Used to love/hate the little guy. We're not that old, but apparently we're at a point where people have never heard of Clippy.