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shivverWhile I am thoroughly enjoying staying at home all the time and not having to go to work (because we work remotely) or meet up with people, I am feeling the effects of time dilation. I'm doing pretty well being aware of what day of the week it is, but still, it seems like the work week lasts forever, and then the weekend lasts forever as well. The latter is great; the former not so good.
What really astonished me, though, was that I realized today that Gallifrey One was only a little over two months ago, which means that it was two months ago that I met Christopher Eccleston, Mark Strickson, and Gary Russell. Two months! It feels like it's been a year!
(To be perfectly honest, I did actually meet Gary Russell at my first Gallifrey One, four years ago. I just didn't really know who he was at the time. This time, I knew exactly who he was, and meeting him was far more important to me than even meeting Christopher Eccleston.)
My husband and I have found that we have not lapsed into the bad habits we thought we would when shelter-at-home began. We'd just come back from Seattle with all kinds of goodies and we were afraid we'd just eat them all and gain thirty pounds. Well, we did finish off a good portion of it, but over the course of a couple of weeks, rather than all at once, and we still have a bit left which we are not interested in eating. We have no sugary foods in the house and have been pretty good at moderating the amount of junk food we eat. And we've been taking long walks every day: we started out at about a 2.25 mph pace which left my husband winded halfway through (I generally have better lung capacity than he does, probably because I'm a woodwind and brasswind player), but now we're at a 3 mph pace. He's usually winded by the time we've completed our walks, but that's because talks all the way through them. ;)
We also haven't been buying much. I've been thinking of ordering some calligraphy supplies from John Neal Booksellers but so far haven't really cared to actually do so. We've done a few purchases in our favorite mobile games, but not a whole lot. And that's it. Normally, we (okay, this is all me, so "I") would have packages arriving at least once a week. Considering that we're actually at home and doing stuff, I am amazed that we aren't ordering anything.
Camp Nanowrimo has been keeping me writing, if only because I want this last participation to succeed. I'm still pretty frustrated with their website and their removal of the things that made Camp useful to me, so this definitely will be the last time. However, keeping track of how many words I write every day has been keeping me working. Some days, I only do a few (I believe the worst day was 26 words), but it's still progress, and amazingly, I finished the first draft of one of the two stories I was working on today. I only have 800 words to go to complete my Camp goal, and then I close that forever and edit up that story for posting!
I do think, though, that I should set up a spreadsheet for keeping track of daily word progress. It has helped me that much.
What I do need to do, though, is find an incentive like that for calligraphy practice. I do not practice enough, and there is so much I want to learn that I need to make myself to do so. There's a private Facebook group for this - the leader, who's a famous calligrapher, provides a prompt every week, and if you don't produce a finished piece every week, you're dropped from the group immediately. Totally not for me, and I finally realized why. I don't actually enjoy doing calligraphic art, you know, the whole "take a phrase and put it on a background and make it all pretty" thing. Part of it is that the pieces that I do see is totally foreign to my tastes: it's always some inspirational or spiritual phrase meant to make you feel good, and that's just not me. But really, the main thing is that I like to write, not embellish. I enjoy writing something out, like a paragraph from a book, or a DW quote, or a poem, or the names of all of the Doctor's companions, and coming out with a block of text. I enjoy looking at the text of an illuminated manuscript rather than their decorated versals.
Maybe what I need to do is keep a log of how many words I scribe every day, just like I do for writing.
We're almost at the end of our rewatch of Stargate SG-1. All of the recurring guest characters are being killed off or otherwise written out of the show (and just like last time, I cried when Dr. Frasier died), which means the Go'auld arc is coming to an end and the Ori arc is starting, so we'll be jumping off soon. Now what? We should pick up Sapphire and Steel. Hm, though we started the BBC Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy and we should finish that first. Any suggestions?
What really astonished me, though, was that I realized today that Gallifrey One was only a little over two months ago, which means that it was two months ago that I met Christopher Eccleston, Mark Strickson, and Gary Russell. Two months! It feels like it's been a year!
(To be perfectly honest, I did actually meet Gary Russell at my first Gallifrey One, four years ago. I just didn't really know who he was at the time. This time, I knew exactly who he was, and meeting him was far more important to me than even meeting Christopher Eccleston.)
My husband and I have found that we have not lapsed into the bad habits we thought we would when shelter-at-home began. We'd just come back from Seattle with all kinds of goodies and we were afraid we'd just eat them all and gain thirty pounds. Well, we did finish off a good portion of it, but over the course of a couple of weeks, rather than all at once, and we still have a bit left which we are not interested in eating. We have no sugary foods in the house and have been pretty good at moderating the amount of junk food we eat. And we've been taking long walks every day: we started out at about a 2.25 mph pace which left my husband winded halfway through (I generally have better lung capacity than he does, probably because I'm a woodwind and brasswind player), but now we're at a 3 mph pace. He's usually winded by the time we've completed our walks, but that's because talks all the way through them. ;)
We also haven't been buying much. I've been thinking of ordering some calligraphy supplies from John Neal Booksellers but so far haven't really cared to actually do so. We've done a few purchases in our favorite mobile games, but not a whole lot. And that's it. Normally, we (okay, this is all me, so "I") would have packages arriving at least once a week. Considering that we're actually at home and doing stuff, I am amazed that we aren't ordering anything.
Camp Nanowrimo has been keeping me writing, if only because I want this last participation to succeed. I'm still pretty frustrated with their website and their removal of the things that made Camp useful to me, so this definitely will be the last time. However, keeping track of how many words I write every day has been keeping me working. Some days, I only do a few (I believe the worst day was 26 words), but it's still progress, and amazingly, I finished the first draft of one of the two stories I was working on today. I only have 800 words to go to complete my Camp goal, and then I close that forever and edit up that story for posting!
I do think, though, that I should set up a spreadsheet for keeping track of daily word progress. It has helped me that much.
What I do need to do, though, is find an incentive like that for calligraphy practice. I do not practice enough, and there is so much I want to learn that I need to make myself to do so. There's a private Facebook group for this - the leader, who's a famous calligrapher, provides a prompt every week, and if you don't produce a finished piece every week, you're dropped from the group immediately. Totally not for me, and I finally realized why. I don't actually enjoy doing calligraphic art, you know, the whole "take a phrase and put it on a background and make it all pretty" thing. Part of it is that the pieces that I do see is totally foreign to my tastes: it's always some inspirational or spiritual phrase meant to make you feel good, and that's just not me. But really, the main thing is that I like to write, not embellish. I enjoy writing something out, like a paragraph from a book, or a DW quote, or a poem, or the names of all of the Doctor's companions, and coming out with a block of text. I enjoy looking at the text of an illuminated manuscript rather than their decorated versals.
Maybe what I need to do is keep a log of how many words I scribe every day, just like I do for writing.
We're almost at the end of our rewatch of Stargate SG-1. All of the recurring guest characters are being killed off or otherwise written out of the show (and just like last time, I cried when Dr. Frasier died), which means the Go'auld arc is coming to an end and the Ori arc is starting, so we'll be jumping off soon. Now what? We should pick up Sapphire and Steel. Hm, though we started the BBC Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy and we should finish that first. Any suggestions?
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Date: 2020-04-27 05:15 pm (UTC)Sapphire and Steel is on my to-watch list as well.