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It's been almost two months since I've posted here?!

That can't be right. But it is??

I mean, I have been in a complete slump for nearly three months now, and today is the first day in ages that I don't feel like a zombie, but still. How did that happen?!

It didn't and doesn't feel like I was away from here for that long at all!

But I guess that's because I've actually been commenting a lot - I've been on DW! I've been reading my flist, and replying to posts and comments! And I've been part of the 60-billion-comment club over at sid_guardian, aka the excellent Guardian discussions happening in the comments of the novel readalong posts, and china_shop's delightful drama polls, where we can't shut up about our fandom. *g*

What I haven't done in all that time is any real writing, other than the one exchange fic that went live last night. Just a bunch of alibi sentences and false starts. Pretty sure that made the zombie issue worse; I always feel worse when I'm not writing. But in addition to the slump, time and energy have both been at a low ebb.

So, uh, yeah. Two months! For reasons, but I'm glad to finally be breaking that streak.

In conclusion, hi, everyone! I hope to actually post more again now, and not fall into a slump again right away. (Fingers crossed!)

Coming soon (I HOPE): Guardian 520 Day Reverse Exchange reveals (preview: I wrote a fic! I got fantastic artwork for one of my fics! There's a delightful bounty of stuff in the collection that I need to sit down to properly enjoy and comment on!) and also other updates.

jazzyjj

Hi everyone. It's not Friday but I have a bit of time to kill, so thought I'd publish a short update for y'all. I was going to do this sooner, but time got away from me again. So here goes.

I had my medical procedure as scheduled, and it went well. As previously mentioned this was an out-patient procedure, so I of course got to go home that day once I was fit to do so. I was apparently given a breathing tube, but I don't remember that because of the anesthesia. But I am more or less fully recovered, and back at my apartment. My post-op went well, and a virtual follow-up appointment with a nurse has been scheduled for me at the end of August. I will follow up with the surgeon in about a year.

That is it from yours truly for today. I will write more later, as nature is calling and bad things will happen if I don't answer the call. Cheers everybody!

Current Mood: satisfied
Current Music: birds chirping outside.

grayestofghosts

I guess I'm feeling kind of gross because I feel like I'm between projects, but not really.

I am Looking At The Novel, being the science fiction novel I've been working on for two years, and think the first few chapters need a heavy revision. So I have been trying to do that, but being on the computer, it's hard, and I'm just... not feeling it? And I'm not sure if I need to pause or need to muscle through it. My insane thought was to make a draft where I just took the passages I really liked, in some kind of opposite kill-your-darlings, and try to weave a narrative through that way, because this piece is really supposed to be running on vibes, so selecting the bestest vibes first from the old draft may be the way to go. Or maybe I should just do normal editing. I don't know. I feel kind of nuts looking at this thing, which is making me wonder if I should just chicken scratch at dirt for a new project that I want to do but isn't formed enough to really start writing.

I also had this insane idea of making a zine of excerpts of notes I've sent to my therapist, which in my case are extremely prolific. I mean it's my writing so I can do what I want with it, right? But as I was starting to compile some stuff it just felt really hard, even if the excerpts I was working with weren't super significant. I was at a local group to write and in the middle of it I was just like, "wow, what the fuck am I doing, this is insane," and had to get up and leave. But maybe it would be worth it to do? I don't know.

There is a zinefest at the end of June so I did want to bring something more substantial than my minizine for trades, but this might... not be it.

Current Music: "Chromatica II," Lady Gaga

grayestofghosts

Among other things, today I got my Tamagotchi Uni, which is a color, wifi-enabled tamagotchi which is going to likely become defunct next year (though there are plenty of non-wifi features that will still be useable, some of the stuff will no longer be).

Part of my reason for getting this is because there's a new Tamagotchi thing being released in like a week, so the Unis are on sale (if you want one, you should get one now), and also considering the tariffs I am unsure if the hot new things is even going to be available in the US at all, or if it is for a non-ridiculous markup, so I figured, if I really wanted one, why wait? Anyway I haven't figured out all the features yet but my tama has already matured into the "child" stage from the "baby." They grow up so fast...

Between this and the mp3 player and my Kobo purchased last year I feel like I am getting more into "small" electronics, or maybe non-smart electronics, or well... I still like electronics, but I want things that do not resemble a phone (I was very dismayed to find my tama playing on a phone already!). I have been looking at the subreddit r/dumbphone and some others and while I don't think I would get a dumbphone any time soon, I'm always so interested in the "every day carry" lays, and how these people often have multiple electronic devices that are not phones. Often e-readers, or mp3 players, or cameras, or hand-held game consoles, or, yes, tamagotchis, which are having a comeback. It's probably the opposite of an environmentally friendly mindset and also going to be increasingly difficult as a hobby in the US if the tariffs keep happening, but electronics used to be... kinda fun before everything was all-in-one? When the device is less all-encompassing you can kind of more appreciate it for what it is. And like, a couple weeks ago me and my partner were having to wait around forever at a T-Mobile, and I noted how every time you had to step into a cell carrier store it always took forever. And I wonder how much of it is because they haven't really updated their customer interface sales model since before your entire life was on your phone, so people always have an insane amount of data to transfer between them, or every phone that's lost is an emergency, so the chronically understaffed stores have to serve every problem.

I don't know. I just know it's a bad time for me to get into this hobby.

Current Music: "American Idiot," Green Day

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