2024 52 Card Project: Week 33: Dull
Aug. 23rd, 2024 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrI had trouble coming up with a topic for a collage this week. This happens occasionally. I mentioned this problem to Eric and said idly, "Maybe I could do one on fruit flies. [I've been fighting a serious fruit fly infestation.]
Eric made a face, as well he might. "Seriously?"
I can see his point.
Really, nothing happened last week. I continue to struggle a bit with my health (the coughing continues) and my sleep disorder, so I didn't go out to do anything interesting. I often was in my pajamas by 6 or 7 pm and read in bed (and then, usually, would wake up at 2:30 am and lie awake for hours). Ugh.
As I was scratching for ideas (and coming up scratch), it occurred to me how dull my life has seemed lately.
So I made a card about dullness. How do you make a collage about dullness?
Laundry. Bills.
Nothingness.
Not depression, I hasten to assure you. I honestly am not depressed at all.
I just don't have anything interesting going on right now.
Blah.
Maybe next week will be better.
Background: rain-soaked blurred view out a window. Foreground: basket of laundry with a fruit fly trap beside it in the right corner. Center: bills. Upper center: checkbook.
Dull
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Eric made a face, as well he might. "Seriously?"
I can see his point.
Really, nothing happened last week. I continue to struggle a bit with my health (the coughing continues) and my sleep disorder, so I didn't go out to do anything interesting. I often was in my pajamas by 6 or 7 pm and read in bed (and then, usually, would wake up at 2:30 am and lie awake for hours). Ugh.
As I was scratching for ideas (and coming up scratch), it occurred to me how dull my life has seemed lately.
So I made a card about dullness. How do you make a collage about dullness?
Laundry. Bills.
Nothingness.
Not depression, I hasten to assure you. I honestly am not depressed at all.
I just don't have anything interesting going on right now.
Blah.
Maybe next week will be better.
Background: rain-soaked blurred view out a window. Foreground: basket of laundry with a fruit fly trap beside it in the right corner. Center: bills. Upper center: checkbook.
Click on the links to see the 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 52 Card Project galleries.
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Date: 2024-08-23 06:48 pm (UTC)We have homemade traps in place and a couple of other mitigations that seem to be working.
But I am having trouble with it all, because fruit flies are actually very interesting. The suite of sleep genes is so very old that fruit flies have essentially the same ones as human beings do, and have been used in sleep studies where the researchers became very much attached to them, one researcher even exclaiming at some point, "They're people! They're little people with wings!"
It is sad that I can't have little people with wings in my house, but they don't understand boundaries.
P.
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Date: 2024-08-24 04:45 am (UTC)K.
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Date: 2024-08-24 11:57 pm (UTC)