Life and Such
Oct. 26th, 2019 03:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse I managed to get up fairly early this morning, which was my intention, because I wanted to have some time to reread my current WIP from the beginning. My muse took me somewhere unexpected during rewrites, so I wanted to go back and be certain to sew in some foreshadowing so the event wasn't entirely WTF!!??
But, the I was derailed by the fact that Mason had to work at the Science Museum from 10 am to 2 pm, and I never entirely got back to things (so far, at any rate. The day is far from over, and I've been doing a lot of writing at night, despite evening not being natural to my writing circadian rhythm.) My progress on this novel revision has been VERY SLOW, probably because I am rewriting so much of it from the ground up, but it also makes me very nervous not to be further along. I did have to ask for an extension already, but now I'm worried that I didn't give myself enough time, even with that.
Ah well, it's good to be working on it. I've even had quite a bit of fun, so that's awesome.
In other news, I spent some time on Friday trying to find more language learning apps. I probably need to learn to WRITE Kanji. I have a ton of resources for practicing the stroke order of various kana, but nothing for Kanji. I'm not imagining that I'm going to have to write Kanji a lot, but sometimes when I'm trying to memorize stuff for Memrise I end up just writing a scribble where the Kanji would go. If people out there have advice, I will happily take it.
We watched Spider-Man: Far From Home on Friday night when Mason was off at a debate tournament. I liked it? I mean, I don't seem to be able to make it to the Spider-Man movies in the theater, but I really enjoy them when I watch them at home. They've finally 100% nailed the right person to play Peter Parker, and that's a huge part of my enjoyment. Likewise, even though I know it's partly what Eleanor DISLIKES about the movies, I actually enjoy that the Spider-Man movies are all high school centric. To me, that's who Spider-Man is?* (*Except when s/he isn't, ie the Spider-Verse, which was the BEST EVER Spider-Man movie, fight me.)
I've been watching people's Yuletide letters start to roll in. I doubled checked to make sure I was signed up as a pinch hitter for this year, and I seem to be. So, that will be fun, once those start, as well.
Friday was also our writerly get-together withnaomikritzer , pegkerr and Eleanor. We mostly talked about our sick friend, Terry, and politics. Naomi is working on a hilarious piece about which PTA parent all the various Democratic candidates would be (i.e., Elizabeth Warren being the Most Involved Parent in Actual Useful Ways). I hope she can find a place to sell that, too. I've heard it twice now and it's hilarious (and accurate.)
We're going to have shrimp po' boys for dinner tonight. Luckily, it's a very throw-it-together kind of meal because what I actually want to do right now instead of cooking is NAP.
But, the I was derailed by the fact that Mason had to work at the Science Museum from 10 am to 2 pm, and I never entirely got back to things (so far, at any rate. The day is far from over, and I've been doing a lot of writing at night, despite evening not being natural to my writing circadian rhythm.) My progress on this novel revision has been VERY SLOW, probably because I am rewriting so much of it from the ground up, but it also makes me very nervous not to be further along. I did have to ask for an extension already, but now I'm worried that I didn't give myself enough time, even with that.
Ah well, it's good to be working on it. I've even had quite a bit of fun, so that's awesome.
In other news, I spent some time on Friday trying to find more language learning apps. I probably need to learn to WRITE Kanji. I have a ton of resources for practicing the stroke order of various kana, but nothing for Kanji. I'm not imagining that I'm going to have to write Kanji a lot, but sometimes when I'm trying to memorize stuff for Memrise I end up just writing a scribble where the Kanji would go. If people out there have advice, I will happily take it.
We watched Spider-Man: Far From Home on Friday night when Mason was off at a debate tournament. I liked it? I mean, I don't seem to be able to make it to the Spider-Man movies in the theater, but I really enjoy them when I watch them at home. They've finally 100% nailed the right person to play Peter Parker, and that's a huge part of my enjoyment. Likewise, even though I know it's partly what Eleanor DISLIKES about the movies, I actually enjoy that the Spider-Man movies are all high school centric. To me, that's who Spider-Man is?* (*Except when s/he isn't, ie the Spider-Verse, which was the BEST EVER Spider-Man movie, fight me.)
I've been watching people's Yuletide letters start to roll in. I doubled checked to make sure I was signed up as a pinch hitter for this year, and I seem to be. So, that will be fun, once those start, as well.
Friday was also our writerly get-together with
naomikritzer , pegkerr and Eleanor. We mostly talked about our sick friend, Terry, and politics. Naomi is working on a hilarious piece about which PTA parent all the various Democratic candidates would be (i.e., Elizabeth Warren being the Most Involved Parent in Actual Useful Ways). I hope she can find a place to sell that, too. I've heard it twice now and it's hilarious (and accurate.) We're going to have shrimp po' boys for dinner tonight. Luckily, it's a very throw-it-together kind of meal because what I actually want to do right now instead of cooking is NAP.