A Brief Update
Oct. 3rd, 2025 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nyyki2025-10-03
We found the post office. This means that tonight I will, with luck, sleep and stay that way all night. Chances are good that with this kind of interval it’ll hit me kind of hard, which I don’t see as a problem (because I don’t see anything these days – I hope you didn’t fall for that one).
I think I’m getting the writing ball rolling again. I’m working on something I’ve had for a while – I started it back on 10/16/2021, so it’s another refugee from what I think of as The Transplant Year. This one is very much modern fantasy – it’s set in the World of Darkness, after an apocalyptic event in 2000 that my awakened mage was directly involved in (I miss M:TA). I’m thinking that I’m not far from the end of this.
Speaking of which, I created a spreadsheet (you know, like you do) to get all the page and word count data from my soft apocalypse built around an antihero fix-up novel, and it’s at 436 pages and over 150,000 words. It too is nearing its end, and I know people will be a bit bummed when I’m done with this character – a friend of mine told me after the first installment that she loves reading about her, but she wouldn’t want to have her as a friend.
That’s the writing news; in other news I’m doing more cooking instead of letting my roommate pick things up, because I want to eat healthier and cheaper.
I’m aware how isolated I am – I was quarantined in the hospital for three and a half days, and I had more people coming into my room than I’ve interacted with in the last three weeks. This is not good, and I’m open to reasonable suggestions for that. Note that getting more involved online isn’t in the category of reasonable suggestions, because that’s a huge expenditure of effort for what’s shown itself to be little to no return – Been there, done that, keep the T-shirt because I don’t wear them unless I’m performing heavy labor. I also think I need more NT friends – I can code switch for the neuro-spicy, but that takes spoons in excess of the spoons I get from social interaction (It’s an extrovert thing…) so recharging all the way is sometimes welcome.
It's going to be a hard week for book listening – I’ve got two post 007 novels, one of which I’m a quarter of the way through already, along with one science fiction story, the latest Jurassic World movie, and a documentary of Devo. That’s not going to last long at all at my listening speed. I want to wait to dive into the three seasons I picked up on Wednesday of DS9, because I don’t want to start it and get hung waiting for seasons 4-7. It’s taken forever for these three seasons, so who knows how long it might take for the rest of it.
We found the post office. This means that tonight I will, with luck, sleep and stay that way all night. Chances are good that with this kind of interval it’ll hit me kind of hard, which I don’t see as a problem (because I don’t see anything these days – I hope you didn’t fall for that one).
I think I’m getting the writing ball rolling again. I’m working on something I’ve had for a while – I started it back on 10/16/2021, so it’s another refugee from what I think of as The Transplant Year. This one is very much modern fantasy – it’s set in the World of Darkness, after an apocalyptic event in 2000 that my awakened mage was directly involved in (I miss M:TA). I’m thinking that I’m not far from the end of this.
Speaking of which, I created a spreadsheet (you know, like you do) to get all the page and word count data from my soft apocalypse built around an antihero fix-up novel, and it’s at 436 pages and over 150,000 words. It too is nearing its end, and I know people will be a bit bummed when I’m done with this character – a friend of mine told me after the first installment that she loves reading about her, but she wouldn’t want to have her as a friend.
That’s the writing news; in other news I’m doing more cooking instead of letting my roommate pick things up, because I want to eat healthier and cheaper.
I’m aware how isolated I am – I was quarantined in the hospital for three and a half days, and I had more people coming into my room than I’ve interacted with in the last three weeks. This is not good, and I’m open to reasonable suggestions for that. Note that getting more involved online isn’t in the category of reasonable suggestions, because that’s a huge expenditure of effort for what’s shown itself to be little to no return – Been there, done that, keep the T-shirt because I don’t wear them unless I’m performing heavy labor. I also think I need more NT friends – I can code switch for the neuro-spicy, but that takes spoons in excess of the spoons I get from social interaction (It’s an extrovert thing…) so recharging all the way is sometimes welcome.
It's going to be a hard week for book listening – I’ve got two post 007 novels, one of which I’m a quarter of the way through already, along with one science fiction story, the latest Jurassic World movie, and a documentary of Devo. That’s not going to last long at all at my listening speed. I want to wait to dive into the three seasons I picked up on Wednesday of DS9, because I don’t want to start it and get hung waiting for seasons 4-7. It’s taken forever for these three seasons, so who knows how long it might take for the rest of it.
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Date: 2025-10-05 12:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-10-05 12:53 pm (UTC)I slept okay, both last night and the one before. I'm still waking up too early, so my sleep is shortened -- I want that fixed too, because walking around tired isn't good -- I can't drive like that, nor operate heavy machinery, perform surgical procedures, nor advise world leaders on weighty topics when I'm sleep deprived.
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Date: 2025-10-05 01:31 pm (UTC)Somehow I still think you would give better advice to certain world leaders than they are currently getting. I’m just saying.
Have a pleasant day -Heidi
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Date: 2025-10-05 02:38 pm (UTC)Be that as it may, still may it be as it may be. And I was sure you'd comment on that fourth item. I don't know that you'd like what I advise them to do though.