One of Those Days. The winter melancholy and ennui have descended
Woke up at about 8 -- naturally, not due to cat -- and spent some time listening to podcasts, reading Babel (new book I've borrowed from the library), and skimming some linguistics textbooks, but after a few hours I was too tired to absorb anything so decided that I would go back to sleep. After all, I thought, I didn't have anything scheduled for today
Unfortunately there was in fact an Arcadia recording scheduled for today, that I woke up 45 minutes late to. Rather than rescheduling, it's been set as a 'record your parts individually and we'll edit them together in post', which I am nervous about -- everyone else is very confident about we the actors' ability to predict how each others' lines will be read since we have been recording together for over three years now, but it actually happens that that actor very often surprises me with their line reads. But I'm sure it'll be fine -- I'll do my best, and if it sounds weird then ash will tell me and I'll redo things.
Disappointed in myself for fucking that up -- I have been keeping track of that session and trying to keep it in mind, but confused myself both by spending all day yesterday feeling like it was Wednesday (and therefore the day the session was scheduled on already happened), and it happens that there used to be a Breathing Space session scheduled for today as well, but got cancelled, and somehow figuring that out crossed wires in my head (because I was stressed about the session not actually being cancelled, so kept reminding myself that if it were a real session that ash would have reminded for it, and he hadn't, and ergo I didn't have to worry about it). And I somehow missed ash's reminder for the arcadia.
Just a mess from several angles.
Oh, on top of all of that, actually recording has been a mess -- I talked about this before, but in short the desktop hasn't been available for recordings due to backup nonsense, my laptop can't be used for recordings because discord won't accept input through my OS, ash loaned me a computer that now can't be used for recordings because after setting it up it stopped recognising either my microphone or my headphones, and now the laptop Erik loaned me has had the same issue of getting set up, working fine, and then no longer recognising my microphone or my headphones. I do not know what is going on but it sucks quite a lot! I have now set up my steamdeck for recording and if when I turn it on to record later tonight it has stopped recognising my microphone I will scream. I fortunately don't have to have headphones for a solo recording, so I don't need to worry about those not working for a while.
In, uh, four days, per sesh.
Anyway, aside from all that, today has been. Blah. I've just been sitting here all day not doing anything, which is a pity because I would have liked to have done things, and would have liked to have spent time with ash if he were up for it. It was supposed to rain today, but didn't, but feels like a rainy sort of day despite.