Eccetera and Errata

[Sorcyress]

I am still overall Sad(tm) which is annoying. Yesterday I had a list of "things to do and if I meet these goals I can spend an hour or two playing Stardew Valley" but when I originally made it, I completely forgot about the existence of graduation. So that was suddenly a big extra chunk of time, and then Austin wanted to go get ice cream (as a compromise to our regular date this week, since he's recovering from a cold and doesn't want to stay over, which like, fair, I also don't want that if he's contagious) and so I didn't get home until like 9:45pm, and then by the time I finished all my house chores and stuff, it was like 10:30 and I kinda felt like it wasn't worth just doing a half-hour of Stardew. I should time myself, because that's probably A Day (I find it slightly irritating that it seems like you have to complete the game in day chunks, because it only saves when you sleep) so maybe I should've done the thing anyways. :/

On the plus side, not playing video games meant I went to bed on time. I just feel faintly miserable about it, and it feels very unfair that I Did All The Things On My Reasonable To Do List and earned a reward but didn't actually get the reward. Yes yes, doing things is its own reward but also fuck off I want rewards.

(This is all extremely first world problems but if I don't complain about those then I have to complain about actors getting murdered in homophobic hate crimes for the start of pride, or how scared I am I'll lose the chance to yeeterus before my scheduled surgery in August or whatever, and I don't really feel like complaining endlessly about How Bad The World Is. It's bad! Let's complain about things that at least feel kinda within my local area of control.)

[Sorcyress]

Did manage to get through some stuff and play some Stardew last night. I won a blue ribbon at the fair! Apparently my grange display was 94 points, which seems very high

In other Stardew news, my sleep schedule has gotten pretty awful now that I seem to have decided "yeah, I'm perfectly willing to take the 10% hit to cash-on-hand in order to finish planting one-more-thing. Fall has a lot of plants, is what I'm saying. I am hoping/expecting winter to be a little calmer.

I got a recipe for Extremely Good Sprinklers (the ones that do 24 squares) and they require iridium, which I've never seen, but dannnng do I want. I think looking up how to get it counts as "spoilers" so I'll have to keep hacking my way down the mine or maybe check if Clint or....carpenter lady have it in stock.

(I feel some kind of amused at the fact that I'm actually learning the names of some of the townspeople.)

[Fetian]

94 is not terribly off from a max score!

Have you been doing the community center stuff?

[Sorcyress]

I have been doing the community center stuff! I've gotten all the "easy" seasonal things so far, and am starting to do some of the more esoteric stuff. I haven't done fish yet, because fishing is not my favourite (although I saw a hint online that suggested "touchscreen is easier" and they were very correct)

[Sorcyress]

LCFD weekend was good

I have one more day of winter in Stardew Valley, and then it is spring again, and I am trying to be thoughtful about How To Properly Spring, which I like, I like that I have pretty stubbornly been trying not to use guides and have therefore slowly learned some stuff naturally.
I reached the bottom of the mines.
My next goal is to learn how to cook I guess.

[Fetian]

You should find some cat ears to wear while you do it

[Sorcyress]

On the one hand, I am fucking thrilled that "when we fight we win" is true for our union, and the contract we agreed on with the district is genuinely great as hell and will make a lot of really good impacts on a lot of people's lives.

On the other hand, the district came back with the final "we agree" at one forty-four AM, meaning that yesterday I was in the school building for eighteen hours total, and I will have been out of the school building for a maximum of six.

But then, no one said "when we fuck around and half-ass it we win" so there we go.

[Sorcyress]

Day three of vague headache. Lots better than it's been, hopefully it will not be too brutal at work.

Two more days of work. Then everything else.

[Sorcyress]

I'm into the everything else part of life!

I finished work, and cleaned up my classroom and went home just before 7 on Tuesday. Then I spent the night at Austin's, and hung out with him and the doggie since Phoebe is out of town and so he can't abandon Mocha to visit me for twelve hours. I showed him my Stardew valley farm, and then we watched a taskmaster and went to bed.

On Wednesday I walked Austin most of the way to his work shuttle, and then he had to run for it but we had run into friend Kyle on the path so I walked Kyle most of the way to his work, which turns out to be an office building abutting a new little nature preserve I hadn't seen before. So I wandered around that for a while, then went home and played lots of Stardew. A little bit of hanging with the local toddler and her mom, and then back to Austin's again for more hangouts.

On Thursday I did so! many! things! and it was exhausting. But the last of the things was having my end-of-season party for my dance class, which had two live musicians and twenty live dancers show up and it was so good and everyone had fun including the two completely new dancers who'd never done it before (:o). I am very pleased, and about half the class went out for ice cream afterwards which was also very nice.

And then Friday I woke up and did like four hours of packing/room cleaning, and scooted out the door and now I'm in Providence with Tues! We're going to try and do Pride this afternoon, and then tomorrow we take a train to Springfield and get picked up by Tuesday's mom to drive us to one of the finger lakes in New York where Tues's extended family hangs every summer. I will do puzzles and read books and it will be nice!

[Sorcyress]

My mom has cancer[1] and my hobby is starting to have the "wait, maybe trying to be inclusive and not use gendered role terms was bad actually" conversation, which is the worst possible version of this conversation.

I would like this all to not.

Maybe my overall brain/structure/routine is enough returned that I can read here again? That would be nice, I would like to know what is going on in the lives of my friends. : (

-Sor

[1] Endometrial, caught fairly early, haven't had The Serious Planning Talk with the oncologist so we don't exactly know what de-cancerification is going to involve, everything will probably be fine. I hate this though, it's not something I wanted to be stressed about.