Pandemic lifeMy mother-out-law's birthday dinner on Sunday was my first meal inside in a crowded restaurant in a long time.
Previous poll reviewIn
the "Time is" poll, 48.9% of respondents answered "relentless", and 31.9% said "elusive". In ticky-boxes, "blue-haired punk red pandas" and "colouring in" tied for second place (51.1%) after hugs (72.3%).
ReadingFinally finished
Five Red Herrings. It was fine -- I mean, it kept me reading till the end. I missed Bunter being more active, though. Now I'm a quarter of the way into
Have His Carcase.
In audio, I'm still listening to
Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer, read by Candida Gubbins, and I've also started
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang, read by Morag Sims and Will Watt, which is fun so far, though I'm slightly perplexed by the choice to have Alice's dialogue be American but her inner narration to be British. Also, I was hoping Will Watt would get more to do; I've really enjoyed some of his other performances.
Still dipping back into
Take Off Your Pants! by Libbie Hawker. And I forgot to mention last week that I tore through Alison Bechdel's
Spent! a while ago, before returning it to the library at the last minute.
KdramasTyphoon Family is getting a bit "this script was written in crayon", but I'm engaged and I like the main characters. I miscounted the
Mystic Pop-Up Bar episodes; we finished yesterday. It was good but didn't quite hit me in the feels. (I'm a bit neutral on Hwang Jung-eum.)
Other TVNobody Wants This -- season 2 is less of the cross-cultural stuff and more "addressing psychological quirks", which isn't as interesting to me. Oh well.
Half of the latest season of
Slow Horses -- the episodes always feel so short! I guess this is what successful pacing is like. A bit grimmer than earlier seasons, but I'm enjoying Ho a lot. (It helps to have read the book, I think.) We're finishing that tonight.
All of You (Apple+) -- a movie starring Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots, which maxes out on the "pining while fucking" concept. Great chemistry and Big Feels.
Spoilers.
Contains infidelity and an unhappy ending.Rewatched some
Bluey, plus a couple of episodes of
Krapopolis season 3. :-)
Audio entertainmentWriting Excuses,
Letters from an American,
Tech Won't Save Us, and
Ex Urbe Ad Astra.
Writing/making thingsI came up with a great title for a fic I'm working on and am now 20% more motivated to finish it up and post it. Other than that, I feel like I'm still juggling a bunch of things, but my general intention is to finish this one, bash out a flashfic for the FISH challenge on
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fan_flashworks, and then dig into my Yuletide assignment, for which I've been doing canon review.
Note to self: Don't forget about Guardian Bingo!
I bought a pack of coloured pencils yesterday and have been watching a few Youtube "technique" videos and practising blending. I still can't actually draw, but hey.
Life/health/mental state thingsDown Under writers' hour is currently at 10am New Zealand time (8am Melbourne time). In winter, when it's at 8am here, writers' hour is the first thing I do in the day; that means I get started early, spend most of the morning at my keyboard, and sometimes spud in for the afternoon too. In the transitions periods (when only one half of the globe has switched into or out of daylight savings), it's at 9am here, and I generally try to get the dishes done beforehand. This sets the tone for the day -- I do more chores overall, more offline stuff. Now writers' hour is at 10am: I get up and exercise, then sit down mid-morning to write. By the time I'm done, it's 11am, and if I have lunch plans, I have to get my skates on pretty quickly. And because I've primed myself to exercise, I've been going for walks more in the afternoon and generally being more active. Which is great, but... *grabbyhands at keyboard* tl;dr, I am controlled by scheduling.
Good thingsColoured pencils, and colour generally. Guardian and the Slo-Mo Rewatch. Sleep. Podcasts. Kdramas. Biking, TV-watching dates, walking. Chocolate. You all, hi!!
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Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 54
In the last seven days, I've used AI
for work
5 (9.3%)
for fun / personal reasons
0 (0.0%)
for interacting with organisations
0 (0.0%)
against my will
14 (25.9%)
not at all, that I'm aware of
36 (66.7%)
other
1 (1.9%)
ticky-box full of fandom-adjacent profic
15 (27.8%)
ticky-box full of fish fish fish fish fish
19 (35.2%)
ticky-box full of vague groaning noises
19 (35.2%)
ticky-box full of alpine octopuses practising their yodelling
21 (38.9%)
ticky-box full of hugs!
36 (66.7%)
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