Previous poll reviewIn
the Lists poll, 59.3% of respondents make to-do lists on their phone/computer/device, 40.7% use scraps of paper, and 18.5% have a planner or other organisational system. (These options are obviously not mutually exclusive.) "I park items on my to-do list so I don't have to worry about forgetting them" was the most popular purpose of to-do lists, with 61.1%, followed by 44.4% who refer to their to-do lists and try to complete the items thereon, and 24.1% who agree with me that "putting an item on the list is sort of the same as doing the thing."
In ticky-boxes, hugs came first with 75.9%, followed by a near-four-way tie. Thank you for your votes! <3
ReadingAm I reading anything except
Guardian? Doesn't seem like it. ETA: Just started
A Horse and his Boy by C.S. Lewis.
Kdramas Asian dramasI'm watching my first Japanese drama,
Aoshima-kun is a Bully!, on VIKI. It's a sweet m/f office romance with a 9-year age gap. The production values aren't super-shiny, but it hangs together fine. I like older woman/younger man stories for a number of reasons; it might be the first drama I've seen where the woman is like, yes, I do like you, and it's nice when you stay over, but also I
really miss having tons of alone time. And I like that the male lead keeps turning to his two step-mothers for relationship advice, aw. Non-standard family relationships for the win!
More of the
Sell Your Haunted House rewatch.
Other TVFinished
The Pitt, which was as excellent as everyone's been saying. The ending felt earned, and I'm glad they gave it space to breathe. Now Andrew and I are floundering a bit, unsure what to watch next. (We've spent the last couple of evenings listening to Youtube writing lectures, see below.) We're up to episode 3 of
Doc, which is fine but by-the-numbers, and suffers greatly in comparison to
The Pitt.
Still watching
Krapopolis. Losing interest in
Ghosts (UK), though it's interesting discussing why it isn't working for us. Started
The Dope Thief, but I was finding the bad decisions and impending disaster too stressful and couldn't finish episode 1. The new
Doctor Who, which, the main characters were great, and everything else feels messy to me.
A friend came over, and we watched the first episodes of
Deadloch (a rewatch for me) and
Jentry Chau vs the Underworld which I was too tired to judge.
Also:
Frankie and Johnny (1985) starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino, a romance in which the female lead should have taken out a restraining order (interesting comparing it to
Aoshima-kun, in which "mature woman stays single" is presented as a viable choice, not a death sentence), and
Dead Again (1991) a "neo-noir romantic thriller" starring Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh as reincarnated lovers who look identical to their past-life selves (so I couldn't help connecting the dots to
Guardian in that regard). Neither film has aged well.
Guardian/FandomWorking on my 520 Day Guardian fic. Having some lovely discussions on
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sid_guardian. Didn't sign up for
bitesizedfandomsex in the end, because the sign-up summary didn't look promising. That's okay.
Audio entertainmentWriting Excuses this week was about 3rd person omniscient, and it made me go back and start to re-read this week's
Guardian chapters with voice in mind. Wow, priest is so good at this. It feels very natural, even to me who mostly reads 3rd limited. The example that came to mind most when I was listening to the podcast was actually
The Spear Cuts Through Water, where a lot of the omniscient/non-main-character voices are there to support the worldbuilding and theme; that works so well. But in
Guardian, it's not a theme thing; priest is just telling the story.
The Daily Stoic on Virtue Ethics, which wasn't as explanatory as I was hoping.
And a bunch of Brandon Sanderson's Youtube lectures on plotting which, as I've mentioned previously, I'm trying to apply to a 4k fic. (I broke it into segments and reassembled them, theoretically with more build/progression; now let's see if this thing will fly.)
Writing/making thingsMy writing energy is pretty good. I'm getting things done and having a good time doing so. I have two things I want to finish this week (one is most of the way there; the other, I'd be happy if I could get a complete draft), and if I have time after that, I'll write another flashfic for the Pink round on
fan_flashworks. I'm thinking of doing something with P!nk song titles or lyrics.
Life/health/mental state thingsI seem to be permanently not on top of things, ahhhhh! How is it mid-April already?? Every so often I look at my consolidated to-do list and go, "Okay, okay, I did a couple of these
by accident, I can cross them off." I don't think that's how to-do lists are supposed to work.
I did manage to get my four-year term submission in yesterday, so that's something. (It was very cranky.)
CatsHalle's on 3x daily medication for the next 5-7 days. She is so good about it. I can't get over how chill and compliant she is, especially compared to our previous demon siblings.
KoreanI got a bilingual children's picture book out of the library, and yeah, it's above my (very low) reading level. But I've also printed out the Korean subs for episode 8 of Guardian, and that's a bit more successful, since I know pretty well how it goes. I just need to make some more time.
Good thingsBiking weather. Library books. Writing. Guardian. Guardian fanart. Cooking experiments. Podcasts and Youtube. Polls. Movie night with my sister. Figuring out I can play file types that aren't supported by my TV through my Blueray player. Flowering hibiscus and fruiting lemon tree. Boy and cat.
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In general
View Answersfresh vegetables, bought
47 (90.4%)
fresh vegetables, homegrown
23 (44.2%)
frozen vegetables
24 (46.2%)
no vegetables
2 (3.8%)
other
4 (7.7%)
ticky-box of hanging in there until things settle down and I can sort my life out
33 (63.5%)
ticky-box of a lion librarian strangely obsessed with books/DVDs/resources on penguins
24 (46.2%)
ticky-box full of polls
25 (48.1%)
ticky-box full of sunbeams playing in a tree, daring each other to peek around the shadowed side
33 (63.5%)
ticky-box full of hugs
41 (78.8%)
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