OUTSIDE IS LAVA
Oct. 17th, 2020 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
st_aurafinaI'm not doing Yuletide, I'm not doing NaNoWriMo - I'm sad about that but also relieved. I have dropped off posting to ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
podcastjoy as well, which I feel more guilty.
I read this twitter thread by![[twitter.com profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
ProfAishaAhmad and empathised with it a lot: The 6 month mark in any sustained crisis is always difficult
I'm getting by, but more and more it feels like I'm jettisoning things that are too much. I need to feel okay about that - it's a global fucking pandemic. Astalkingtothesky said, we know we can do these things, we don't have to prove it to anyone. Especially not ourselves.
Work continues, busy and weird. It changes week to week depending on what part of the state is locked down and to what degree. There still haven't been any cases in my small town of a thousand people. Everyone is frazzled. I keep buying take-away dinners for staff members, to help keep the pub afloat. I worry about my staff, especially front-of-shop who meet angry customers head-on.
But cats are lovely,lilacsigil is lovely, my home is lovely and I wouldn't want to leave it even if I could. My ADHD medication is the absolute fucking best. lilacsigil somehow browbeat a private hospital into letting me join their rehab water physio class, so I'm still walking, whereas last lockdown, I ended up using a walking stick as my knees gave up. Things are okay. I'm getting by, and I hope that you are too.
I'm not doing NaNo but I am, surprisingly, working on my 2012 NaNo project. A friend of mine is offering one-on-one novel workshops, and I took her up on it, and it's been astonishingly helpful. I've done more on this project than I have on any other. I've plotted to the end. I'm tweaking character motivations. I'm planning out more stories. It's outrageous how useful it is to be talking to someone, and having that someone keeping notes while I waffle on. I get those notes at the end of a session and I'm always amazed at how much material I've yeeted at her in what feels like a conversation.
(This is her flyer, if anyone is interested. She does NaNo prep, too, I believe:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sXlJblXdqjc5qJ8dZcZ8t6ysehMAxvQuiHP3sN0Wvhs/edit )
I am trying to keep up with my flist and trying to remember to comment in at least a couple of places each day. (And I'm running the POI big bang?? Somehow?? But that's pretty low-key, everyone has been lovely.)
I don't know when I'll be updating again, so I'm going to send all my love to you guys in the US. I will be thinking of you in November, and keeping my fingers crossed for a sane result.
Ohhh, and my icon is from a fantastic bit of graffiti you can see from the highway to Warrnambool. I love it. The other side of the railway bridge says "Wash your hands!" and the top says "Stay safe!"
<3
podcastjoy as well, which I feel more guilty. I read this twitter thread by
I'm getting by, but more and more it feels like I'm jettisoning things that are too much. I need to feel okay about that - it's a global fucking pandemic. As
talkingtothesky said, we know we can do these things, we don't have to prove it to anyone. Especially not ourselves. Work continues, busy and weird. It changes week to week depending on what part of the state is locked down and to what degree. There still haven't been any cases in my small town of a thousand people. Everyone is frazzled. I keep buying take-away dinners for staff members, to help keep the pub afloat. I worry about my staff, especially front-of-shop who meet angry customers head-on.
But cats are lovely,
lilacsigil is lovely, my home is lovely and I wouldn't want to leave it even if I could. My ADHD medication is the absolute fucking best. lilacsigil somehow browbeat a private hospital into letting me join their rehab water physio class, so I'm still walking, whereas last lockdown, I ended up using a walking stick as my knees gave up. Things are okay. I'm getting by, and I hope that you are too. I'm not doing NaNo but I am, surprisingly, working on my 2012 NaNo project. A friend of mine is offering one-on-one novel workshops, and I took her up on it, and it's been astonishingly helpful. I've done more on this project than I have on any other. I've plotted to the end. I'm tweaking character motivations. I'm planning out more stories. It's outrageous how useful it is to be talking to someone, and having that someone keeping notes while I waffle on. I get those notes at the end of a session and I'm always amazed at how much material I've yeeted at her in what feels like a conversation.
(This is her flyer, if anyone is interested. She does NaNo prep, too, I believe:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sXlJblXdqjc5qJ8dZcZ8t6ysehMAxvQuiHP3sN0Wvhs/edit )
I am trying to keep up with my flist and trying to remember to comment in at least a couple of places each day. (And I'm running the POI big bang?? Somehow?? But that's pretty low-key, everyone has been lovely.)
I don't know when I'll be updating again, so I'm going to send all my love to you guys in the US. I will be thinking of you in November, and keeping my fingers crossed for a sane result.
Ohhh, and my icon is from a fantastic bit of graffiti you can see from the highway to Warrnambool. I love it. The other side of the railway bridge says "Wash your hands!" and the top says "Stay safe!"
<3