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The emergence of microblogging has made me all too aware of the fact that 90% of the things that would have gone into my blog two years ago now just ends up on Twitter or Tumblr instead, making the barren stretches of non-posting on this blog that much more obvious. Some inconsequential and mostly unrelated things:

1. I’m nearly done the top for the quilt I’m making my sister. I work on it with great enthusiasm only to drop it again for several weeks. I’m still trying to figure out how I want to piece the back, but mostly my only inclination at this point is to use a lot of the half-yards that I have kicking around that I’ll never use because I’ve grown bored of the fabrics.
2. My weeknights are now turning into evenings filled with soccer and Star Trek, the latter of which you’ve undoubtedly noticed if you’re friends with me on Twitter. I’m nearly done Season 6 of The Next Generation and basically there is something that kills me in just about every episode.
3. Champions League and Europa League have started back up again and so I find myself on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays coming home and downloading the games even if none of my teams are playing. (Actually, I didn’t even bother with the Sparta Prague v Liverpool game last week because it was a 0-0 draw and I heard it was terrible.) Fernando Torres, whom I just can’t seem to quit, is facing off with Chelsea against Copenhagen tomorrow; half of me wants Chelsea to lose because of schadenfreude and the other half of me wants desperately for Torres to score a goal, finally. (Of course, they could do both!) I’m actually taking the afternoon off on Wednesday so that I can watch the Inter Milan v Bayern Munich match at the pub with my sister and my mom, who also both happen to be off.
4. Audrey baked vegan gingersnaps last night, the vegan part only being relevant because I had no eggs and we needed an eggless recipe. They were pretty good. I may or may not have had six for breakfast this morning.
5. A coworker approached me last week and said “You seem like the kind of person who would like post-apocalyptic Young Adult fiction…” and handed me the first book in The Hunger Games trilogy. Despite the fact that it’s written in present tense and in the first person — two things guaranteed to make me close a book after three paragraphs — I’m actually enjoying the series, even if there are lots of highly predictable elements. (This is what you get for being an adult reading YA fiction.) I finished the second book earlier this evening and will probably start on the third tonight. I can’t remember the last time I read any fiction.
6. I’m working on sorting out my RSS feeds (finally). My rather haphazard history of using different blogging platforms for different purposes has led to this blog eventually becoming very muddled and since now I have all my regular blogging infused with my movie reviews, I want to eventually be able to offer a movies-only RSS option for the people who could not care less about sewing or soccer.
7. Speaking of movies, I haven’t been in a month. That’s a new record for me. I’m just… disinterested, and not because everything that comes out in February is terrible.

In retrospect, I suppose one could always make shorter, more frequent posts rather than longer, infrequent ones. Sometimes I suffer from lack of motivation, in case that was not abundantly clear.