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May. 13th, 2014 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyressToday is the first MCAS day, which means that my schedule is all sorts of weird. I still have to come in at the same early hour (I laugh when my friends complain about going in to work early and having to wake up at *gasp* 8:30 --I'm already halfway through first period by then.) but unless I get called in for emergency test proctoring (*crosses fingers oh please god no*) I get some time to myself to catch up on preparing for my classes and the like. And this happens two days in a row! Sometimes, I am very lucky indeed.
(That being said, I just finished today's sudokus in the Metro and I'm now updating 750words, so it's not like I'm exactly taking *professional* advantage of this brilliant new time. But I am certainly taking personal advantage --it's been many sad and uncomfortable weeks since I did 750w regularly, and I miss the habit. I can do most of my grading at home, I can't always have a distraction-free environment to write.)
Lots of people have been asking how life is going, and I have mostly been confused by the question --doesn't everyone just read my livejournal and know what's up? Well sure, but that logic only works if I update more than once a fortnight, and with content at that. (and let's not get into the fallacy that people actually read elljay anymore...)
I've been okay. I'm still really stuck in the braindeath I've been fighting since October or so, and the weather continues to really not cooperate --those two days of Spring were great, but now that it's summer, my brain is melting. Still probably better than being excessively cold though, my lizardbrain shuts down worse when I'm freezing.
Professionally, I have to worry about MCAS, which is about the best thing --it means I'm actually doing math, in a high school classroom, often enough for it to be notable. Currently, I've two sections of Algebra 2, and there of Geometry. It's lovely!
I haven't been dancing very much, which for me translates to about "once a week". Demo team rehearsals are mostly done for the year, which means at least I'm not doing _really hard dance bracketed by biking 4 miles_, but the braindeath and my own malaise are conspiring pretty hardcore to keep me in my house instead of out to the CanAm or MIT1. I made it to both dances last week, and the Highland Ball this weekend, but I missed Scottish last night due to an overwhelming inability to people, and I might miss Squares tonight for same.
(Last night, Sparr had people over for games and I wound up playing, and that worked for...it didn't actually work all that well. I was foggy and distracted and just wanted to play stupid video games. I wish I could reteach my brain to spend its foggy time on writing instead of games. I think it would feel better about things in the long run if I did. I don't even have to write original, I have _so much_ typing to catch up on, things from the last weeks and months that want to be cohesive and properly put together but can't be until they're all in the same, preferably digital, space.)
I've been consuming large amounts of mostly visual media --watching Game of Thrones, playing Heroes of Might and Magic (at a truly alarming and almost dangerous amount, but at least it's not "four hours lost to Minesweeper" bad...yet.), rereading/catching up with Dumbing of Age. I've been on a project to read all the Newbery Award books, that stagnated a bit due to the last one not being very good (and sucking my enthusiasm) and, er, losing track of2 where I put the one I'm supposed to start next.
My room is _unholydeathhatred_ right now, which is probably contributing more to my inability to exist than I am willing to put together and admit. Anyone want to come over tomorrow and just yell at me?
...and the tangent from there deserves its own post. Ta!
~Sor
MOOP!
1: CanAm = Canadian American Club in Watertown, where the Scottish Country Dance meets. Yes, I know we're supposed to be the Cambridge Class. MIT is, of course, where I do Tech Squares.
2: In my defense, I roadtripped to Atlanta, and then drove back and stayed in Maryland for several days and then bussed up to Boston and then pretty much immediately did NEFFA and then started a new job. So, I haven't unpacked, even though I've had more than enough time to, but that's a lot of why my room became unholydeathmessy, and also why I'm having difficulty finding important things, like library books. Gods bless the Minuteman and letting me renew online.
(That being said, I just finished today's sudokus in the Metro and I'm now updating 750words, so it's not like I'm exactly taking *professional* advantage of this brilliant new time. But I am certainly taking personal advantage --it's been many sad and uncomfortable weeks since I did 750w regularly, and I miss the habit. I can do most of my grading at home, I can't always have a distraction-free environment to write.)
Lots of people have been asking how life is going, and I have mostly been confused by the question --doesn't everyone just read my livejournal and know what's up? Well sure, but that logic only works if I update more than once a fortnight, and with content at that. (and let's not get into the fallacy that people actually read elljay anymore...)
I've been okay. I'm still really stuck in the braindeath I've been fighting since October or so, and the weather continues to really not cooperate --those two days of Spring were great, but now that it's summer, my brain is melting. Still probably better than being excessively cold though, my lizardbrain shuts down worse when I'm freezing.
Professionally, I have to worry about MCAS, which is about the best thing --it means I'm actually doing math, in a high school classroom, often enough for it to be notable. Currently, I've two sections of Algebra 2, and there of Geometry. It's lovely!
I haven't been dancing very much, which for me translates to about "once a week". Demo team rehearsals are mostly done for the year, which means at least I'm not doing _really hard dance bracketed by biking 4 miles_, but the braindeath and my own malaise are conspiring pretty hardcore to keep me in my house instead of out to the CanAm or MIT1. I made it to both dances last week, and the Highland Ball this weekend, but I missed Scottish last night due to an overwhelming inability to people, and I might miss Squares tonight for same.
(Last night, Sparr had people over for games and I wound up playing, and that worked for...it didn't actually work all that well. I was foggy and distracted and just wanted to play stupid video games. I wish I could reteach my brain to spend its foggy time on writing instead of games. I think it would feel better about things in the long run if I did. I don't even have to write original, I have _so much_ typing to catch up on, things from the last weeks and months that want to be cohesive and properly put together but can't be until they're all in the same, preferably digital, space.)
I've been consuming large amounts of mostly visual media --watching Game of Thrones, playing Heroes of Might and Magic (at a truly alarming and almost dangerous amount, but at least it's not "four hours lost to Minesweeper" bad...yet.), rereading/catching up with Dumbing of Age. I've been on a project to read all the Newbery Award books, that stagnated a bit due to the last one not being very good (and sucking my enthusiasm) and, er, losing track of2 where I put the one I'm supposed to start next.
My room is _unholydeathhatred_ right now, which is probably contributing more to my inability to exist than I am willing to put together and admit. Anyone want to come over tomorrow and just yell at me?
...and the tangent from there deserves its own post. Ta!
~Sor
MOOP!
1: CanAm = Canadian American Club in Watertown, where the Scottish Country Dance meets. Yes, I know we're supposed to be the Cambridge Class. MIT is, of course, where I do Tech Squares.
2: In my defense, I roadtripped to Atlanta, and then drove back and stayed in Maryland for several days and then bussed up to Boston and then pretty much immediately did NEFFA and then started a new job. So, I haven't unpacked, even though I've had more than enough time to, but that's a lot of why my room became unholydeathmessy, and also why I'm having difficulty finding important things, like library books. Gods bless the Minuteman and letting me renew online.