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scrubjayspeaks) wrote2025-04-27 08:01 am
scrubjayspeaks) wrote2025-04-27 08:01 am
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Done This Week
A steady cooldown all week ended with rain most of Saturday. Spring exerts its presence against the threat of summer.
There were problems all week at work, due to a power issue over the weekend. It made for several hard days. By the end of the week, I guess I was feeling run down, because some bits of bad political news on Friday hit me harder than expected.
I’ve been struggling mentally lately. All I can think of is something ysabetwordsmith says regarding climate change: this is the least-bad it’s ever going to be. Only I’m feeling that writ large in my own life. It’s difficult not to think that circumstances for me will only ever get harder going forward.
I try to focus on small pleasures: new music, seasonal changes, spotting wildlife. It’s just not managing to stave off the existential horror right now.
Lewisia: 3 new pieces written
Day job: 42.5 hours
Cleaning: repaired portions of the soaker hose array in the orchard
Gardening: planted corn and pumpkins in the front patch
Reading: a pair of audiobooks of Sherlock Holmes short stories (maybe I’ve just watched hbomberguy’s Sherlock video too many times, but the contrast between canon Sherlock’s personality and the Moffat version is astonishing)
Listening: All Cylinders by Yves Jarvis (on Bluesky, either Josaleigh Pollett or The Mountain Goats recced this and lo, it is good, it has complex noodling about jazz sections mixed with very boppable bits)
Clock Mouse: 1539 words, a little of which was attempting to take stock of what scenes I’ve (partially) written and a theoretical order for them
Other: unloaded hay twice
There were problems all week at work, due to a power issue over the weekend. It made for several hard days. By the end of the week, I guess I was feeling run down, because some bits of bad political news on Friday hit me harder than expected.
I’ve been struggling mentally lately. All I can think of is something ysabetwordsmith says regarding climate change: this is the least-bad it’s ever going to be. Only I’m feeling that writ large in my own life. It’s difficult not to think that circumstances for me will only ever get harder going forward.
I try to focus on small pleasures: new music, seasonal changes, spotting wildlife. It’s just not managing to stave off the existential horror right now.
Lewisia: 3 new pieces written
Day job: 42.5 hours
Cleaning: repaired portions of the soaker hose array in the orchard
Gardening: planted corn and pumpkins in the front patch
Reading: a pair of audiobooks of Sherlock Holmes short stories (maybe I’ve just watched hbomberguy’s Sherlock video too many times, but the contrast between canon Sherlock’s personality and the Moffat version is astonishing)
Listening: All Cylinders by Yves Jarvis (on Bluesky, either Josaleigh Pollett or The Mountain Goats recced this and lo, it is good, it has complex noodling about jazz sections mixed with very boppable bits)
Clock Mouse: 1539 words, a little of which was attempting to take stock of what scenes I’ve (partially) written and a theoretical order for them
Other: unloaded hay twice
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