Got through a long lab, so I can just be an eepie meepie cozy little meowmeow at home. End of the week is in short reach. That’s the good news.
I found it very embarrassing how frequently people commented on my writing by hand in the lab. (We had about two hours of sit around and wait time while the gels were loaded on the rocking table.) Like, three different people were shocked, somewhat curious, but also treated it like a bit of a zoo to gawk at and one just watched me write in dead silence for a very long time (about five minutes) because she found it ‘so satisfying’ to ‘watch how smoothly you wrote,’ which was kind of nice but also, felt a bit odd, to be under such intense scrutiny.
This was with a gel pen, too. I had used my fountain pen briefly before noticing it’d clogged, sadly, so I’ll need to wash my collection tonight except for my Preppy- which has taken to the shimmer inks like an angel, and it got even more stares. A few mentioned they hadn’t written in forever because it hurt their hands/they could ‘only think of the carpal tunnel you must have!’ and went on and on about how bizarre and strange it was that ‘you like, write, like an author??? You just write for fun??’ and I felt like a total freak.
I don’t think they meant it badly, though. And it was kind of sweet how interested they were. But it was very, very odd.