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I obviously had a bad couple of nights in terms of sleep etc., but I'm coping mainly by trying to distract myself.
Distractions I've indulged in:
1. Palia. Still very heavily playing this, especially this weekend, making up for the fact that I didn't play much over the week.
2. Reading the tagset/request summary for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
justmarriedexchange. Probably gonna sign up today or tomorrow, and yes, I did nom Palia, too.
3. Over the last week, I've watched enough Kruggsmash Dwarf Fortress videos that I had to talk myself down from getting the game (for reasons).
4. Finally watched the last season of Community. It sure is a bunch of television episodes.
5. Also catching up on the most recent season of Leverage: Redemption, and yes, there was a moment that made me scream at a pitch audible only to dogs.
6. When I fail to do these things, I read the news, which depresses me.
Distractions I've indulged in:
1. Palia. Still very heavily playing this, especially this weekend, making up for the fact that I didn't play much over the week.
2. Reading the tagset/request summary for
justmarriedexchange. Probably gonna sign up today or tomorrow, and yes, I did nom Palia, too. 3. Over the last week, I've watched enough Kruggsmash Dwarf Fortress videos that I had to talk myself down from getting the game (for reasons).
4. Finally watched the last season of Community. It sure is a bunch of television episodes.
5. Also catching up on the most recent season of Leverage: Redemption, and yes, there was a moment that made me scream at a pitch audible only to dogs.
6. When I fail to do these things, I read the news, which depresses me.
Masterlist
I feel kinda bad about how badly I'm butchering LeGuin's flowing prose for these posts. But I learn by summarising and sometimes even a clunky summary is easier on the brain. And maybe I'll inspire some of youse to go read the original!
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I feel kinda bad about how badly I'm butchering LeGuin's flowing prose for these posts. But I learn by summarising and sometimes even a clunky summary is easier on the brain. And maybe I'll inspire some of youse to go read the original!
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Steering the craft by Ursula K LeGuin is "A revised and updated guide to the essentials of a writer’s craft", and includes writing exercises in each chapter.
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I’ve been working my way through the library’s collection of audiobooks by Cathy Glass, a long-time foster carer in the UK who writes about her experiences with different kids over the years. So here’s a post about some of those.
Most of them have really generic titles (“Cut“, “Neglected“, “A Terrible Secret”, “Girl Alone“, you get the picture), but the actual writing is detailed and engaging. She comes off like exactly the kind of person you’d want in this job: thoughtful and attentive, firm about setting boundaries but patient and tolerant with some pretty gnarly issues, detail-oriented enough to adapt to the new batch of paperwork and scheduling (so much scheduling!) that every case dumps on her. (Obviously this could just be her talking herself up, but I’ll be an optimist and hope it’s true.)
The overall foster system fails these kids in various ways on a regular basis, but there is some comfort if you jump around in the timeline, you see how much it improves over the years. The first book I read was I Miss Mummy, where Cathy’s oldest son is 14, and there are all these procedures and check-ins and reports. Then I jumped back to Cut, where the son is an infant and the kid is her second foster charge ever — and wow, a social worker basically just rolls up to her house and goes “here, this is your problem now.”
Well, I forgot to do a media update again yesterday! Not super necessary because all I have been doing are:
🌿 finished Miss Night and Day & very satisfied with the ending
🌿 started Tale of the Nine-Tailed - it is very gory and low on shenanigans but the worst part is how it's put together? Idk, it jumps between scenes so quickly, my bestie was like "sometimes this show is like a dream with these abrupt scene changes" and, yeah. It keeps making these little jumps like someone's telling you a story and saying "let me skip to the good part!" Lots of peril, often watching through my fingers, but am enjoying it so far. We want the prequel (not 1938) that is about Granny, please. I've had enough Lee Crazy Eyes Rang for a lifetime, and I suspect this is going to go badly for me. I hope Yuri is an Alolan Ninetails.
🌿 been on a tear with language learning, pretty much everything that's not that & kdrama has fallen (RIP writing, RIP Amphibia, RIP music, RIP library books)
🌿 have been playing some stardew (joja run?), though. And neko atsume for a minute.
🌿 I guess I did a lot of deck/gardening stuff - hung my hanging planters, finally. Planted a couple more things. My seedlings under the light are starting to get crazy.
Bonus birds:
Finch party - love the purple finch. Never actually got a pic of him before!
These 2 dunces! Waking me up in the morning, screaming after their mom, as she tries to teach them how to hunt for insects. They were doing laps under my window, screaming why can't she just keep feeding me forever?!?! They're just as big as her, and will bowl her over if she catches something. Very entertaining show (they're back today under the kitchen window, and I'm wondering how long she'll put up with them)!
🌿 finished Miss Night and Day & very satisfied with the ending
🌿 started Tale of the Nine-Tailed - it is very gory and low on shenanigans but the worst part is how it's put together? Idk, it jumps between scenes so quickly, my bestie was like "sometimes this show is like a dream with these abrupt scene changes" and, yeah. It keeps making these little jumps like someone's telling you a story and saying "let me skip to the good part!" Lots of peril, often watching through my fingers, but am enjoying it so far. We want the prequel (not 1938) that is about Granny, please. I've had enough Lee Crazy Eyes Rang for a lifetime, and I suspect this is going to go badly for me. I hope Yuri is an Alolan Ninetails.
🌿 been on a tear with language learning, pretty much everything that's not that & kdrama has fallen (RIP writing, RIP Amphibia, RIP music, RIP library books)
🌿 have been playing some stardew (joja run?), though. And neko atsume for a minute.
🌿 I guess I did a lot of deck/gardening stuff - hung my hanging planters, finally. Planted a couple more things. My seedlings under the light are starting to get crazy.
Bonus birds:
Finch party - love the purple finch. Never actually got a pic of him before!
These 2 dunces! Waking me up in the morning, screaming after their mom, as she tries to teach them how to hunt for insects. They were doing laps under my window, screaming why can't she just keep feeding me forever?!?! They're just as big as her, and will bowl her over if she catches something. Very entertaining show (they're back today under the kitchen window, and I'm wondering how long she'll put up with them)!
It's funny, because I feel like I'm spamming about Ghost ALL THE TIME, but I looked thru my dw to figure out the last photos I posted of her so that I wouldn't repeat pics again and it turns out the last Ghost Post was in February. 🫠
SO! Ghost backlog! With bonus green yard transformation, lol.
March: ( the dead time )
April: ( last snow, first green )
May: ( fully and abruptly GREEN )
SO! Ghost backlog! With bonus green yard transformation, lol.
March: ( the dead time )
April: ( last snow, first green )
May: ( fully and abruptly GREEN )