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Jan. 24th, 2019 10:31 pmAustin says I should write about "life...the cereal!" which I feel is fairly unreasonable of him, because it's weird soggy tasteless squares with the barest hint of sugary goodness on them.
(Life is okay as a dry munchy snack. It is not an acceptable actual cereal to consume at breakfasttime, as it gets wicked soggy, wicked fast.)
***
Life the not cereal is going solid okay. I have embarked on the very barest first steps of a Big Secret-for-now Time-Sensitive Project. I will need to send some emails for that soon especially because I told my therapist that would be my homework assignment for this week.
(I like having homework assignments, even if I always just get them frantically done at the last minute. It kinda helps me build my focus, I think.)
It's a new semester at school, and I am doing *terribly* in terms of being an On Top Of It teacher. I'm just...a little burned out from the giant stacks of grading I did a couple weeks ago, and then all the midterm bullshit. Plus there are a bunch of students who are requiring Lots Of Individual Attention And Long Conversations and that both eats the hell out of my prep time and kills my motivation brain in a pretty harsh way. So I need to start practicing Good Behaviors instead of reading Narbonic for several hours at a time after school.
This is a difficult situation, as I really enjoy Narbonic and it's been a while since I last re-read it, especially the full-commentary and all the Sundays version. Possibly the last time I did a serious re-read of the commentary'd version was 2010 --I have determined this by checking my chatlogs and finding out when the last time I said "wait, you went to college with Justin Long?" to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
marcmagus.
(It is _far_ more important and interesting to me that Magus went to college with Shaenon Garrity. For lots of reasons, kinda chief among them that he shows up in the backgrounds of Narbonic a few times, and it makes me smile to see his scruffy college braid.)
But I dunno, maybe tomorrow I can successfully institute for myself some nonsense rule like "yes, you can read another year of Narboniarchive, but only if you first actually do all the damn checkies on your dailylist." Because it's just embarrassing to not be grading the entrance tickets, especially when I have new students for second semester, who do not yet realize I'm a giant pile of executive dysfunction masquerading as twenty-eight spiders in a respectable sweater.
***
Upcoming excitement is...meh. There's a demo team thing on Saturday night, for which I will be The Marshmallow. I'm feeling weirdly more uncomfortable/dysphoric about that than usual. Maybe just because I haven't had to be a marshmallow for a long while now, and I hate that dress.
I think this is going to result in me bringing a garment bag to bells on Saturday, which is probably going to be hilarious. The alternative version of this plan, in which I try to *ring* while like a marshmallow, is a terrible idea but kinda tempting anyways. (No, I will not).
There's some work stuff that's vaguely exciting, but mostly my life is gonna be pretty busy-but-quiet for the next while. That's alright then. Maybe see you around?
~Sor
MOOP!
(Life is okay as a dry munchy snack. It is not an acceptable actual cereal to consume at breakfasttime, as it gets wicked soggy, wicked fast.)
***
Life the not cereal is going solid okay. I have embarked on the very barest first steps of a Big Secret-for-now Time-Sensitive Project. I will need to send some emails for that soon especially because I told my therapist that would be my homework assignment for this week.
(I like having homework assignments, even if I always just get them frantically done at the last minute. It kinda helps me build my focus, I think.)
It's a new semester at school, and I am doing *terribly* in terms of being an On Top Of It teacher. I'm just...a little burned out from the giant stacks of grading I did a couple weeks ago, and then all the midterm bullshit. Plus there are a bunch of students who are requiring Lots Of Individual Attention And Long Conversations and that both eats the hell out of my prep time and kills my motivation brain in a pretty harsh way. So I need to start practicing Good Behaviors instead of reading Narbonic for several hours at a time after school.
This is a difficult situation, as I really enjoy Narbonic and it's been a while since I last re-read it, especially the full-commentary and all the Sundays version. Possibly the last time I did a serious re-read of the commentary'd version was 2010 --I have determined this by checking my chatlogs and finding out when the last time I said "wait, you went to college with Justin Long?" to
marcmagus. (It is _far_ more important and interesting to me that Magus went to college with Shaenon Garrity. For lots of reasons, kinda chief among them that he shows up in the backgrounds of Narbonic a few times, and it makes me smile to see his scruffy college braid.)
But I dunno, maybe tomorrow I can successfully institute for myself some nonsense rule like "yes, you can read another year of Narboniarchive, but only if you first actually do all the damn checkies on your dailylist." Because it's just embarrassing to not be grading the entrance tickets, especially when I have new students for second semester, who do not yet realize I'm a giant pile of executive dysfunction masquerading as twenty-eight spiders in a respectable sweater.
***
Upcoming excitement is...meh. There's a demo team thing on Saturday night, for which I will be The Marshmallow. I'm feeling weirdly more uncomfortable/dysphoric about that than usual. Maybe just because I haven't had to be a marshmallow for a long while now, and I hate that dress.
I think this is going to result in me bringing a garment bag to bells on Saturday, which is probably going to be hilarious. The alternative version of this plan, in which I try to *ring* while like a marshmallow, is a terrible idea but kinda tempting anyways. (No, I will not).
There's some work stuff that's vaguely exciting, but mostly my life is gonna be pretty busy-but-quiet for the next while. That's alright then. Maybe see you around?
~Sor
MOOP!