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10 Jul 2020 18:21* School continues to kick my butt because of the time-suck, not because of the difficulty. And I voluntarily agreed to vaporize the intersession break between summer and fall by becoming a peer mentor, so instead of No Sleep Til Brooklyn it's No Break Til Christmas. I am looking forward to the peer mentorship, though, because I'm a huge fan of passing on the benefits of experience. And I wish I'd had someone when I'd started this program to be that for me instead of the one I got, who was half my age and unable to process the concept of a returning student on top of being primarily concerned with her own grade. (The program has a significant number of people who have decades between their undergraduate degree and this and the utter lack of support I felt was cited in my application.) But the summer semester is halfway done, so... yay.
* I've had to slow my roll with the fic writing in general because of the previous, but I'm also at a point where I need to pause and re-read the last chunk of QH because I need to find dropped threads and other things I've left in unsatisfactory condition. The problem with a story that's 200K words and nowhere near finished is that you can't start at the beginning, you have to find a point and go from there. Doing the big edit on the 2007-2012 chunk of QH, which was eighteen chapters, was enough to propel me through another ten but it's time for a small strategic pause to figure out where the hell I'm going and what happens before I get there. (I have the end state, for the record.) I have a few bits in the QH Scrap file (hi, Sam!) that I ponder posting somewhere but don't because I fear it might give too much of the game away. Also, I'm totally open to requests/suggestions/questions because I do miss stuff even with an outline and what's in my head isn't what's on the page. If you're reading and there's something/someone you want expanded upon, speak up!
* Tumblr's redesign means that Tumblr Saviour is working again but almost nothing else is including XKit. Gosh, I want 'post block' back again. Also 'tag viewer.'
* I have misophonia, which is when noise becomes intrusive to the point of making you lose your shit, basically. I'm an urban child and city noises don't bother me at all and I've lived most of my life under airport landing patterns, so I don't even notice the planes/trains/sirens/traffic. But human noises are a problem for me and I live in a building with thin walls and facing other buildings with backyards. The apartment above mine is a rental and the current tenant is a couple with a 3-year-old, which is as hellish as you imagine. I've written them politely (and vetted by a parent of young children) to please be mindful of the noise because I work from home and am a student and they were initially very receptive and wrote me back saying they'd bought mats for the purpose -- I saw the box when it was delivered. But today I went upstairs to ask them to take away the electronic piano because the kid bashing on the keys is making me anxious in a way that the running around has ceased to be. I was expecting a little Casio keyboard, but when they opened the door I saw a gigantic keyboard on a fancy stand at toddler height taking up significant real estate. Who does this for a toddler? In an apartment? I got a few hours of peace, which allowed me to get some work done, but a keyboard smash late in the day says that they haven't even unplugged the thing and my anxiety is not handling it well.
* I am not a 'trash tv' kind of person, but I will shamefully confess to watching the first couple of episodes of Roswell, New Mexico. I never saw the original, but I'm aware of it and aware of the ways that this reboot is a significant upgrade in terms of reflecting the actual demographics of New Mexico as well as more general cultural progress. But it's totally trashy and I am trying not to wince too hard at the military ignorance or the way they are trying to wedge 1990s references in everywhere. I blame tumblr, but it's really only me.
* I've had to slow my roll with the fic writing in general because of the previous, but I'm also at a point where I need to pause and re-read the last chunk of QH because I need to find dropped threads and other things I've left in unsatisfactory condition. The problem with a story that's 200K words and nowhere near finished is that you can't start at the beginning, you have to find a point and go from there. Doing the big edit on the 2007-2012 chunk of QH, which was eighteen chapters, was enough to propel me through another ten but it's time for a small strategic pause to figure out where the hell I'm going and what happens before I get there. (I have the end state, for the record.) I have a few bits in the QH Scrap file (hi, Sam!) that I ponder posting somewhere but don't because I fear it might give too much of the game away. Also, I'm totally open to requests/suggestions/questions because I do miss stuff even with an outline and what's in my head isn't what's on the page. If you're reading and there's something/someone you want expanded upon, speak up!
* Tumblr's redesign means that Tumblr Saviour is working again but almost nothing else is including XKit. Gosh, I want 'post block' back again. Also 'tag viewer.'
* I have misophonia, which is when noise becomes intrusive to the point of making you lose your shit, basically. I'm an urban child and city noises don't bother me at all and I've lived most of my life under airport landing patterns, so I don't even notice the planes/trains/sirens/traffic. But human noises are a problem for me and I live in a building with thin walls and facing other buildings with backyards. The apartment above mine is a rental and the current tenant is a couple with a 3-year-old, which is as hellish as you imagine. I've written them politely (and vetted by a parent of young children) to please be mindful of the noise because I work from home and am a student and they were initially very receptive and wrote me back saying they'd bought mats for the purpose -- I saw the box when it was delivered. But today I went upstairs to ask them to take away the electronic piano because the kid bashing on the keys is making me anxious in a way that the running around has ceased to be. I was expecting a little Casio keyboard, but when they opened the door I saw a gigantic keyboard on a fancy stand at toddler height taking up significant real estate. Who does this for a toddler? In an apartment? I got a few hours of peace, which allowed me to get some work done, but a keyboard smash late in the day says that they haven't even unplugged the thing and my anxiety is not handling it well.
* I am not a 'trash tv' kind of person, but I will shamefully confess to watching the first couple of episodes of Roswell, New Mexico. I never saw the original, but I'm aware of it and aware of the ways that this reboot is a significant upgrade in terms of reflecting the actual demographics of New Mexico as well as more general cultural progress. But it's totally trashy and I am trying not to wince too hard at the military ignorance or the way they are trying to wedge 1990s references in everywhere. I blame tumblr, but it's really only me.
