Brief catchup
Aug. 26th, 2020 11:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayThere was no poop in yesterday's extended family Zoom! That was because the other family with a baby are caravanning in North Wales right now (in the middle of this storm, with a baby and two other small children - fun times!) and my sister was so tired she kept nodding off during the Zoom.
But gosh she was determined to talk to adults about something that wasn't a baby. Poor love, she adores her baby but she's missing non-baby adult time.
My work calendar has been shockingly bare for the last week and there has been no screaming in my inbox. Coincidentally, the MD for one of the companies and the group head of finance are both on holiday. Gee, I can't imagine why my schedule is so much easier to manage!
I might actually hit my deadlines for the project I'm currently working on. Can they stay on holiday please? For the next six months?
Before the lockdown, there was a plan that I would take long-term loan of my dad's electric piano. This weekend, I need to get the spare room tidied up a bit so I can finally move the piano here. It will give me another thing to work on and I miss making music. It's a surprisingly good way to get outside your head for a while and I've always found it much better than meditation for that instinct.
The electric piano is a good one, responds almost like a real piano, but has the advantage of being able to plug in some headphones so I don't disturb the neighbours as I get my fingers back into some vague semblance of competence.
In fandom things...
I have hit the 8k words mark on the Guardian fix-it fic I'm writing and I'm finally getting to the fun parts to write. I think this will definitely be a long fic, because I know I'm only a third of the way through the plot right now and it's probably going to expand as I write. It's completely self-indulgent, unusually angsty for me in places, and I'm enjoying playing in a fandom where intensely romantic love between my ship is practically canon because I can just indulge all my favourite things without holding back.
(I am not writing Untamed fic. I AM NOT. Even though it also has licence to get intense and powerful on the romance front. Argh.)
One of my new favourite fic writers has just published a new 66k story, but I've also just started Briarley by Aster Glenn Gray so the fic will wait until I've finished that.
Gosh, I love having a fandom with excellent longfic writers :D
I'm told The Untamed also has reams of excellent longfic. Hooray for fandoms!
But gosh she was determined to talk to adults about something that wasn't a baby. Poor love, she adores her baby but she's missing non-baby adult time.
My work calendar has been shockingly bare for the last week and there has been no screaming in my inbox. Coincidentally, the MD for one of the companies and the group head of finance are both on holiday. Gee, I can't imagine why my schedule is so much easier to manage!
I might actually hit my deadlines for the project I'm currently working on. Can they stay on holiday please? For the next six months?
Before the lockdown, there was a plan that I would take long-term loan of my dad's electric piano. This weekend, I need to get the spare room tidied up a bit so I can finally move the piano here. It will give me another thing to work on and I miss making music. It's a surprisingly good way to get outside your head for a while and I've always found it much better than meditation for that instinct.
The electric piano is a good one, responds almost like a real piano, but has the advantage of being able to plug in some headphones so I don't disturb the neighbours as I get my fingers back into some vague semblance of competence.
In fandom things...
I have hit the 8k words mark on the Guardian fix-it fic I'm writing and I'm finally getting to the fun parts to write. I think this will definitely be a long fic, because I know I'm only a third of the way through the plot right now and it's probably going to expand as I write. It's completely self-indulgent, unusually angsty for me in places, and I'm enjoying playing in a fandom where intensely romantic love between my ship is practically canon because I can just indulge all my favourite things without holding back.
(I am not writing Untamed fic. I AM NOT. Even though it also has licence to get intense and powerful on the romance front. Argh.)
One of my new favourite fic writers has just published a new 66k story, but I've also just started Briarley by Aster Glenn Gray so the fic will wait until I've finished that.
Gosh, I love having a fandom with excellent longfic writers :D
I'm told The Untamed also has reams of excellent longfic. Hooray for fandoms!
