sorcyress | What I'm working on (Reply)

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back down from active Special Interest to the background for a while, and that means my spreadsheet is slowly sliding out of date.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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