Life is mostly good and very tiring

Yesterday I wound up cleaning my room right when I got home --I was very very tired and wanted to play video games, and I had a "can't do video games until I complete my short and reasonable list" thing going on. Cleaning my room was the last thing on the list, because I was having Austin over, and didn't want the place to be a complete disaster like it was when he visited on Friday.

(Austin is not judgemental about my room --none of my partners are-- but I still like having enough space available for him to like...put his things down and be cozy.)

Cleaning my room felt Real Good and I'd love to see if I can do more of that. It wasn't an official Power Hour, but it could've/should've been --yes, I was listening to music, but I am allowed to use the computer for music during Power Hours as long as I am not engaging with the computer beyond hitting "skip song" occasionally.

(Probably the fact that I was listening to music was part of why it felt real good. I know I say this probably once a month, but hey babe, your brain does better when you have tunes.)

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Also good was curling up with Austin in the evening, ready to watch some more Over the Garden Wall, when his eye was caught on the LEGO spaceship we made a couple months ago, and he suggested doing more of that instead. We've both seen OtGW before, so there was no detriment to scampering downstairs to my way-huger-than-it-should-be stash of unassembled LEGO sets and doing some construction.

We chatted as we worked, about LEGO and creativity and other life things, and it was really cozy and nice!

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This week has Quite A Lot Of Stuff going on, but most of it is stuff I actually want to be doing. Date night with mek on Friday (we're gonna watch Beetlejuice, since I've never seen it!), Thursday night dinner with Ruthie and Jo, giving blood on Wednesday, tonight is therapy and DnD and TMC meeting all run together way too tight. I think it would probably be a Very Good Idea to go home as soon as possible after work and do therapy from home rather than classroom, but that sorta depends on whether I actually use some of my class 6 prep-time to like...prep lessons.

Teaching is so much to do, all of the time. A friend texted me this morning being all "I just had my first parent-teacher conferences [from a tutoring job], I don't know how you do this full time" and yeahhhhhh. I don't either. But I'm taking a day off on Thursday. I think my goal is to try and take one sick-of-it day a quarter or so. My sick leave rolls over each year until I accrue 200 days, and the fact that I wear a mask every day at work means I really _really_ have not been spending the allocated 15 days per year. I am willing to spend five on my mental health and accumulate to my cap at a slightly slower pace.

(I also finally signed up for my religious days this year. May 1st again, and December 2nd, because that's the 17th anniversary of breaking up with kSatyr, and we're starting to hit numbers that I am having a _lot_ of feelings about again. "Doing internal cleansing against the sins that have been done to me" feels awfully religious even if the practicality of it is "lying in bed eating bonbons and playing video games".)

I need to write a proper post sometime about dancing, it's been on my mind in a real good way lately. November 7th is my next GenderFree SCD class, if y'all are in town and want something fun for a Thursday night.

~Sor
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What I'm working on

I feel complicated every time I realize the number of long-term projects I am balancing in the back of my head. Here's some stuff I'm working on!

• Work always has an infinite number of these, but really, the less said the better. They're not *always* grading, but they are frequently grading. I'll keep going, up and down, until the year is done and then the majority of it will reset for the future.



• The phrase is "Inbox Zero is a Laudable Goal" and I made astonishingly good progress last May. Like, quite nearly 10,000 unread emails archived and dealt with worth of progress. But then came the summer and I'm back up around 7k unread and the project remains.



• There is a secret project I keep touching, every once in a while, most recently this past spring. Someday I will be able to talk about it, and I will be very very happy when I do. I'm about 7% done. [yes yes, futureSorcy, I am slowly getting smarter about being cryptic in here, and I will drop a screened comment with a reminder of what the hell I was talking about.]



• I take _so_ many photos and sometimes I want to be able to show them to people. The first steps are getting them organized, and I did a lovely good first chunk --like 1600 photos! out of what I expect will ultimately wind up being the high five or low six digits. This is awkward because it has to happen on my home computer, and it has to happen at times when I am not particularly being overlooked, because the whole point of the project is that I don't have a sorted gallery that I can show people. I did do a small chunk on the train home from MD this most recent time, but there's always more.



• My music library is Deeply Unsorted, not aided by doing a really good push to get ALL of my CDs ripped and onto my external hard drive --success! good job Kat!-- and then accidentally deleting all my playlists --fool! how dare!-- which I'm not particularly broken up about, because they weren't really all that useful or organized in the first place. So this feels like a forever project, because really, I have like 14k tracks and that's a lot of things to organize, especially when there are always good new concepts for playlists.



• I have cooled on my dice collection a bit --don't get me wrong, I still Deeply And Totally Love Plastic Polyheadra Forever and always will. But they've slipped back down from active Special Interest to the background for a while, and that means my spreadsheet is slowly sliding out of date. I'll fix it up at some point.



• Sometimes I consider making a spreadsheet of literally everything I own? There is no reason for this except liking spreadsheets, and I suppose it would be useful if my house burned down. But mostly it's the liking spreadsheets and categorizing things and finding all that soothing. I will probably work on this more sometime when I am in more-need of self-soothing or regulation.

And despite all the above always existing as things I can do, my brain decided a few days ago "hey, WritingMonth is coming up, you wanna give WriMo a shot again and do some fiction?" and no brain, I am tired all the time and haven't written fiction basically at all since starting my full-time dream job.

....but my brain does keep saying it, and thinking about lower lift things ways it could manage it. We'll see. Can I put original works on Ao3, if I wanted a place to archive some self-indulgent fluff? Hm.

(I am not going to write 50k words of fiction in the month of November. That would be ludicrous. Repeat as necessary. Anyways, what are you working on these days?)

~Sor
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