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[sorcyress]

Spent close to an hour getting my AnimalCrossing house _really_ in order, and now it is way past my bedtime, but I do feel oddly like that was a productive work which made me happy. Also my house is _fucking baller_ honestly! I have all six rooms done up to some extent or another and there are books scattered everywhere and insecty things, and I made an actual kitchen, and my bedroom has a double-long bathtub because why the fuck not, and there's a playroom and the *fantastic* rave room downstairs (which looks so great with the lights and I desperately need to get every other colour of them!)

Also jesus, my classroom upstairs just makes me so overwhelmingly happy every time I look at it. I don't know how I'm possibly gonna cram more bookshelves in there once I need to put up more insect models!

And I've now put my chemistry set into what once was the insect room, and that room is just dirt and fire and chemistry and a small handful of bugs and I *really* like it!

Also, now nearly every room has good time walling and flooring going on! I'm gonna keep buying more of them (slightly addictive) but I am so pleased with *that* aspect of it all as well!

Yeah, I'm happy. It was a good day today!

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Other things that were good:

*Finished all my lessons for the week, even though I didn't wanna. Must do a lot of grading this week to catch up, Ought to reach out to damn near all my students as well, just to try and check in before said grading.

*Had *seven* separate meetings today, jesus shit. Calculus (one student), Algebra (one student), NEST (the English-learner teacher team), Self-Care Meeting (with NEST), therapy (one therapist, one very rambly patient), Office Hours (one student), Secret SCDthing Planning Meeting. I was on zoom/gmeet for six fucking hours today, and that is too many. At least Tuesday is usually my worstday for this, and next week should be oh yeah...differently bad, since I've got queermeeting next Tuesday for like two hours between NEST and office hours. Sigh.

*Ezri fed me good foods and also I washed some dishes at some point, which is A Good.

*At therapy, Jenn and I worked out a potential strategy thing to help me with the instinct to play dumb phone games all the time. We will see if it works!

*Secret SCDthing Planning meeting went _much_ better than it could've and I am really excited and also I feel really good about having had an idea and having had time to work on the idea with other people and make the idea much better. Dear self: Other people are useful and helpful and you do not have to do everything alone. The "dumbass" at the end of that sentence is heavily implied.

Okay, I love you, bye bye!

~Sor
MOOP!

Comments

[lauradi7dw]

I wonder sometimes, without any Animal Crossing or coding experience, whether it would be possible to make the ringingroom.com ringing rooms look more like real ringing rooms. The kind of crossover required might be impossible.

[sorcyress]

I think Minecraft would be more the thing for it than AC --I know a clever enough Minecrafter can make "note bricks" that make noises, and you have much more freedom of building.

(I -very- briefly looked at how I could do this, determined I have no idea how to use Minecraft, and a week later ringingroom was announced.)

Minecraft also is a much more affordable thing to get --it costs about $20 and runs on many modern computers (and tablets?), where Animal Crossing is closer to $60 and only runs on the Switch (which is another $300).

~Sor

another gaming reference

[lauradi7dw]

I had not heard of Roblox before today, when I saw this in Simon Linford's blog post
>>Rebecca Banner and her son Dan made a bellringing simulator game in Roblox, the online gaming platform. Apparently they are working on something much more complicated aimed at teaching non ringers to ring! Sounds like an entry for the ART Awards if that one comes off.<<

[choco_frosh]

Had *seven* separate meetings today, jesus shit.
:(

[sorcyress]

Yeah, it is unfortunately normal for me. I'm not chuffed about it. Right now my "usual" week is 8.5 hours of meetings across four days, plus an hour for therapy, plus 1.5-2 hours for familychat.

...Plus 2 hours of PD for each of these four weeks, plus half an hour for RSCDS, plus an extra hour for RSCDS but local, pluse two hours for bells (which is merely voice) plus an hour for SCD Meetings...

[chamaenerion]

Not sure where else to share this, but songbird_becca is very frustrated about how much harder it is to get turnips in real life right now (except imagine that expressed with a lot of swearing).

[sorcyress]

*laughs* poor Becca! We'll have to keep eyes out if we see them at the grocery stores (they're not part of our usual grocery)

[(Anonymous)]

We actually drove out to Kimball Fruit Farm in Pepperell today, and one of the things we got was turnips. (We also saw a killdeer with four adorable chicks in their parking lot!)

[chamaenerion]

That was me, but logged out by accident!

[sorcyress]

Secret SCD thing was almost certainly the online Pinewoods and most especially trying to do the ceilidh for it.