Eccetera and Errata

[Sorcyress]

Didn't sleep much last night. Too wound up from stuff. I am weirdly unhappy that three hours has not been enough time for more information to come out about anything. SamSam read my cranky email to dance-exec-committee and their response was "I admire so much your willingness to be in conflict with people and say the things that you believe." which pairs nicely with Clayton(workbestie) last week telling me that he admired how well I could draw boundaries with admin while still being nice.

I like that people are expressing direct admiration for me for the ways I am sharp. That feels like a good recognition of self.

I think a lot of it boils down to "I can be in conflict with others, or I can be in conflict with myself, guess what, we're a mess around here but we're a stable mess, let's fuckin' go".

[Sorcyress]

Dance meeting last night went far better than it had any right to. Meanwhile, 750words had an update and fucked up the text entry again so that hitting enter does two line breaks instead of one. I am so tired of websites that automatically format my words.

Mom has an appointment with the oncologist for October 1st. Yay for not being too long from now, yay also for the inherent hope in "if the hospital does not want to see you IMMEDIATELY that is probably a good sign".

Still playing too much phone games.

[erikavonkaiser]

What phone games ya playin?

[Sorcyress]

Phone games: I'm slowly trying to get 100% achievements on Luck Be A Landlord. This is not a productive use of my time, but sunk cost has me well into the home stretch of "now I just need to win 700 games [and get the stupid two-coal-to-diamond one]"

I also play a lot of Brick Breaker Quest. It makes good noises and the colours go all flashy. I am a dopamine seeking monkey.

When my brain is in slightly better modes, I play a bunch of the Conceptis puzzle games. Cross-a-pix and Fill-a-pix are my favourites, but Tic-Tac-Logic is a close follow.

[Sorcyress]

Other life:

My sleep has been absolute piss. On the plus side, I slept like fifteen hours total on Sunday. Last night was not particularly better --Austin came over and was going to help me clean my room, but he wound up crashing at like...eight. I did a small amount of room cleaning and a lot of listening to music while staring out into space and crawled into bed at about ten. We kept waking each other up by being not-quite-compatible sleepers tonight.

New plan is more room cleaning tonight, hopefully with more music. Maybe less staring out into space.

Did a thing for a former student. Happy I was able to do it. Sad that I had to do it. Hope it helps them.

No news from mom. I texted late last night, they got back to me later saying they'd been doom scrolling but now are off to bed. Everyone is disasters. Alys texted me also very late last night to check in. Sounds like she's doing mostly okay with it. I should reach out to Shan and send some love thatway too.

Blah

[Sorcyress]

Sleep still piss, but last night dance was so good. Seven couples, including me! We did seven dances (I am for 6, but frequently get 5)! I picked a good theme and we had good dances within the theme! I probably turned a profit, which like, not that I'm super thorough about tracking $$ but it's nice when I successfully pay for the venue!

(note to self, a future theme should be "let's do the top ten dances from the various Lists")

Also watching Taskmaster with Tailsteak was good --we're actually onto the season currently airing, and bless the TM YouTube for getting episodes out basically simultaneously. So we watched S20E04. I say this most seasons, but gotdamn do I adore these comedians. Sanjeev especially has an energy I really appreciate, in that he is clearly too old to remotely take Greg seriously, but also is being generally somewhat thoughtful about the tasks. Tailsteak declared that Phil looks like a Discworld character, and we can't unsee it.

Time for work and then (hopefully) last appointment post-op from the yeeterus!

Mom saw the oncologist and they're gonna do a removal of basically everything relevant, and then hopefully that'll be enough and they won't even need chemo? Probably but not definitely radiation? This all seems like a good thing.

[Fetian]

ash and I were saying Phil looks like he's from the 70s, which amounts to the same thing. This is a really good season so far, the contestants have great energy

Good vibes and fingers crossed for your mom's treatment, I'm glad things were caught early

[Sorcyress]

Therapy this afternoon which is good. Have a lot of things on my mind, would like to be better organized in general about Doing Therapy. On the plus side, I can at least report positive progress on like, the various bicycle projects that I was complaining about last week (and also that mom is hopefully gonna be okay.)

Last night I got all my music collated, and was reminded that The Version Of The Big Import Project But With Mix CDs is still haunting me. So many things I could be doing with my time that aren't phone games! Hm.

(I also finally put away all the laundry, which was good).

[Sorcyress]

Yesterday was so-so. Upsides include finding music on the bike path and a good therapy. Downsides include way too much brain-down-time. Working on it.

I reorganized my phone, so maybe that will help. I also picked up Habitica for the first time since maybe early 2020? Maybe longer? Only slept like 4.5 hours though, so that's gonna drag me down.

There's an email from Tho waiting in my inbox. I'm trying to decide what I will use that as a bribe for.

[Sorcyress]

Had a really lovely weekend with SamSam's family. Highlights:

*Nine of us biked to the beach together, me taking the tail with my giant ass-cargo bike. The roads were mostly dirt, sand, and gravel, it was a terrible choice, I had a wonderful time. Seeing the ocean was real good and I liked also watching the hermit crabs run around in the tide pool --there were so many!

*Later four of us biked to the cranberry bog to pick berries. This would've worked better had we not gradually realized that every batch of berries was comorbid with a small little section of poison ivy. We rinsed our hands and managed to all avoid getting rashes, but then we had to decide what to do with the berries we had already gathered. Sam was first to get rid of theirs, and tossed them into the pond. YES GOOD SUCH GREAT NOISES, the rest of us immediately followed.

*Ben and I managed to drag four total beginners through ringing Erin on bodies. Ringing on bodies is the best and I had forgotten how much easier it is to do with dancers, and that's so good. I took some notes about how to do it, so hopefully that will go better in the future. I still have not yet internalized what direction to set up/start plain hunt though (we walked the wrong way to begin and had to switch the orientation of the set)

*Elanor and different-Ben wrote a little fifteen minute play for us all to perform. I believe there was only one person who was consistently in the audience, the rest of us all kept running up and down to/from the stage for our parts. There was one table-read and zero rehearsals. My script got caught in the curtain while it was opening so I had to awkwardly lean behind me to look at my scene-partner's. It was very stupid and delightful! It felt excessively Melendy (honestly, a lot of the weekend did, and now I'm craving rereading a bunch of those).

*After, Steve taught us a game at a pool table that involved trying to roll the cue ball (by hand) to hit the single other ball before that other one stopped moving. Once you got them to hit, it was the next person's turn to grab the cue ball from wherever it was, and send it off. We played largely non-competitive and got eight of us going in a little cycle for a while. Extremely satisfying game!

*I played Crokinole yesterday morning with Sam. I'm rubbish at it, but it's a very tactilely satisfying game so now I want to play more. I wonder if I can become a secret crokinole sharp using common household items?

*Thom and Liz bundled me and Laurel off after dinner on Saturday to Plan Their Wedding Dance. It was very cute to be in that space with people I love and doing something I have a lot of expertise in and bouncing that expertise off someone else with a lot of expertise. I think it'll be a nice little dance! There's gonna be a small group of Scottish dances for people who know what they're doing first, and it was extremely funny for Thom to name dances, me or Laurel to go "wait how's that one go?" and Liz to immediately start singing the tune, which is not...not how they go, but is absolutely not what either of the callers were requesting.

There's probably more, but that's the big things I can remember this morning. Now it's time to head to work and do some of the grading I completely neglected.