State of many things

[st_aurafina]

State of the Writing:
I posted a bunch of fics, but have a few more that only need a little bit of work. (Sanctuary wing-fic, this one X-Men/Sanctuary fic I've had hanging around, that Warehouse 13 fic that I thought was finished but actually had [put kiss here] in the body of the text, ffs.)

I'm going to try for a finish-a-thon this Nano. I just totted up my works in progress:
- Post-Winter-Soldier Save Bucky fic now jossed by, I think, four MCU movies, 55K
- Person of Interest 5 Things, with 3/5 of the things done, 15K
- Person of Interest post S5 fixit, 36K
- Person of Interest Sentinel/Guide fic I should never have started but it's so addictive, 5K
- Dracula 2013 Lucy/Mina/Grayson fic 6K
- Original fic, Boarding House of Together They Solve Crime, 50K

That's 167K of unfinished business, holy shit. That's not right. Something has to change here. I think I'm staging an intervention on myself.

Yuletide assignments were super early this year, huh? Mine is great - I'm excited about getting started on that, plus the letter reads like I wrote it. We're obviously very in sync, my recipient and I. For myself, I got my letter in right on the buzzer - Dear Author.

And I have a pinch hit for femslashex that I absolutely need to get cracking on. Now.

State of the Garden:
- celery going strong
- snow peas starting to take off
- weird crinkly spinach in that stage where the more you pick, the more grows
- broccolini is down to one plant, but it still has... brockles?
- bok choy gone (it was a really good winter crop though.)
- seeds for button squash, butternut pumpkin, green zebra tomato, apple cucumber and leek are tiny but strong
- 2 zucchini seedlings are in and planning their strategic advance on the house
- coriander is going
- we put in some beetroot seedlings, mostly because apparently the greens are nice in salad? IDK.

State of the Me:
- I hurt my shoulder and the physiotherapist uttered the dread incantation 'rotator cuff'. It's not too bad, just inflamed, definitely not torn, but I'm being extra careful. I feel like I'm in a bad Victorian novel, always checking that my shoulder blades are down and back.
- The plebiscite on same sex marriage went down in flames, thank goodness, but that and world events in general have left me feeling fairly hopeless about the future. I'm still trying to get over the discovery that I live in a world where #nottheonion is a thing we need when reading news.
- I'm feeling generally flat and uncommunicative but I am trying to push out of it. I have NaNo write-ins I want to attend in Geelong. I've scoped out the locale, it looks nice and fairly accessible. I'm still nervous about it. Socialising is nervewracking, even when I want to do it.
- Pokemon Go is giving me life. Even though fewer people are playing, it takes the edge of my anxiety when I go to a new place, because I can scope out the poke-landscape.

State of the Cats:

Spring is here and we opened a window. Now Baggins is bogarting the smell hole.

[Two cats in silhouette on a window sill. One is at the open window and the other is tapping him politely on the shoulder.]

Comments

[adafrog]

Socialising is nervewracking, even when I want to do it.
I totally hear you on that one.

Good luck with the nano-catch up. I can't believe it's so close.

[st_aurafina]

Good luck with the nano-catch up. I can't believe it's so close.

Thanks. And I know! I feel like I just finished last year's. Too fast.

[retsuko]

Aw, your kitties! :)

I've been feeling quite pessimistic about the state of the world, too. Going off social media once a week has helped a lot, although not as much as I'd hoped.

Props on all your fics!

[st_aurafina]

I have the best kitties! (Everyone has the best kitties!)

I don't do much social media, thank goodness - I think if I was active on Twitter right now, I'd implode from all the misery in the world. But I'm taking breaks from news, especially when it's news I can't do much about like the US election, and that's helping.

Thanks! Here's hoping I can finish a few of those fics.

[senmut]

+hugs+

[st_aurafina]

*hugs you back*

[lilysea]

world events in general have left me feeling fairly hopeless about the future. I'm still trying to get over the discovery that I live in a world where #nottheonion is a thing we need when reading news.

Socialising is nervewracking, even when I want to do it.

Oh, how I hear you!

*solidarity*

[st_aurafina]

*solidarity fist bump* I wish there was some easy workaround for socialising.

[umadoshi]

*quiet hugs*

[st_aurafina]

*squishes gently*

[musesfool]

*hugs*

[st_aurafina]

*hugs hugs*

[lurkingcat]

Socialising is nervewracking, even when I want to do it.

This. So much this. And much like you I'm using Pokémon Go as a way of coping in new places. Also on bus journeys.

Your cats are awesome. Such a polite tap on the shoulder there.

[st_aurafina]

I have very polite cats. Except when it's time to barf on the carpet. That's just rude.

[kindkit]

The state of the world seems unusually depressing right now. The US election in particular casts a pall over everything--I keep telling myself that Trump is losing support, and that my fellow US citizens are not actually manipulable and mindless enough to elect him. But then, that's what I told myself about George W. Bush back in 2000. *shudders and wishes the election was over*

I hope your shoulder heals fast and well. Also: yay kitties! Yay garden! Yay writing!

[st_aurafina]

I said the same thing about Brexit, which is what's what's scaring me about Trump, that the polls are lying, or people are being shy about their position.

*crosses fingers for you* At least it will be over soon.

[yuuago]

Kitties!

Wow, is that ever a large amount of stuff in-progress. GODSPEED.

And yikes, does that shoulder injury ever sound inconvenient. Take it easy! :V

[st_aurafina]

Kitties make everything better! Even my shoulder, hopefully.

[vass]

- Original fic, Boarding House of Together They Solve Crime, 50K

I remember that one! It was cool. I'm so glad you want to continue it.

- broccolini is down to one plant, but it still has... brockles?

It's still somewhat brockly but not very brockly?

- I hurt my shoulder and the physiotherapist uttered the dread incantation 'rotator cuff'. It's not too bad, just inflamed, definitely not torn, but I'm being extra careful. I feel like I'm in a bad Victorian novel, always checking that my shoulder blades are down and back.

Oh, ow. That sucks. And leaves one with so few comfortable positions to sit or lie.

- I'm feeling generally flat and uncommunicative but I am trying to push out of it. I have NaNo write-ins I want to attend in Geelong. I've scoped out the locale, it looks nice and fairly accessible. I'm still nervous about it. Socialising is nervewracking, even when I want to do it.

♥ I hear this. And have missed you, but know about the nervewrackingness of socialising, even when one wants to.

- Pokemon Go is giving me life. Even though fewer people are playing, it takes the edge of my anxiety when I go to a new place, because I can scope out the poke-landscape.

Yay for new poke-horizons. I have a shoulder-Pikachu as of last week.

[Two cats in silhouette on a window sill. One is at the open window and the other is tapping him politely on the shoulder.]

That's a great photo. Hi cats!

[st_aurafina]

I have a magikarp flopping alongside me. It will be worth it. I'm over halfway to a gyrados now.

Are you enjoying the Halloween event? I have sadly run out of balls - it's hard when you've only got one pokestop nearby!

[vass]

Over halfway to a gyarados? That is a LOT of walking. I am impressed. And also lacking in balls. I seem to remember that you guys walk Chewie. And now you're taking a fish for walks alongside him.

I'm enjoying the event. I got my first drowzee and meowth and cubone, and some nice candy. :D