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February break is coming up! Miss Rutabaga is home on Mon, but thankfully has preschool on Tues-Fri, so I have a little bit of time to do my own projects. I need to remind myself how *little* time that is, and not over-plan. She is also having late start on Tuesday and Thursday (it's a deal that we made with her -- she hates doing the worksheets at school in the mornings, so for those two days, she can stay at home and we do a different set of worksheets. Trying to get her to understand the concept of finishing a task), so those days are more like half days than full days. Maybe what I'll do is allocate those days for grading and lesson prep, which leaves Wed and Fri for non-lesson prep stuff?
I really want to draft out a comic that is a story and not a journal comic style, but I kind of need inspiration. Hopefully by clearing out a day to just focus on comic stuff that will seem more possible?
In other news, I spent last week in the throes of various lockdown-related health issues -- first I'd messed up my right hand from typing and trackpadding too much. Then I slept on my right arm wrong and got whole-arm tinglies for a day. So then I decided to sleep on my left side, but somehow that messed up my back. Which was really icing on the cake of "spending all of last year hunched over a laptop" because my upper back just rebelled. So, after a year of working remote, I finally got myself a thing to put my laptop screen higher so that I don't have to hunch over as much. Of course, having the screen elevated means that typing and trackpadding is worse, so I got an app that allows me to use my phone as a trackpad, and also got a more ergonomic keyboard. (For those wondering -- yes I have a desk that I set up last October, but no I don't use it. Honestly I've never liked working at a desk. I think it's because I like sitting cross-legged because chairs are not designed for short people like me.) Oh! I also got a new mattress so that I'm not waking up with more tension than I went to sleep with. So... yeah, now I feel like I have a whole portable workstation. Now I just have to remember to use it.
( to-do list )
I really want to draft out a comic that is a story and not a journal comic style, but I kind of need inspiration. Hopefully by clearing out a day to just focus on comic stuff that will seem more possible?
In other news, I spent last week in the throes of various lockdown-related health issues -- first I'd messed up my right hand from typing and trackpadding too much. Then I slept on my right arm wrong and got whole-arm tinglies for a day. So then I decided to sleep on my left side, but somehow that messed up my back. Which was really icing on the cake of "spending all of last year hunched over a laptop" because my upper back just rebelled. So, after a year of working remote, I finally got myself a thing to put my laptop screen higher so that I don't have to hunch over as much. Of course, having the screen elevated means that typing and trackpadding is worse, so I got an app that allows me to use my phone as a trackpad, and also got a more ergonomic keyboard. (For those wondering -- yes I have a desk that I set up last October, but no I don't use it. Honestly I've never liked working at a desk. I think it's because I like sitting cross-legged because chairs are not designed for short people like me.) Oh! I also got a new mattress so that I'm not waking up with more tension than I went to sleep with. So... yeah, now I feel like I have a whole portable workstation. Now I just have to remember to use it.
( to-do list )
