![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Jun. 15th, 2021 11:49 pmwow, has it been only a week?
Anyway, had some good talks with Spouse last Thursday and Friday -- he made a list of reasons why he firmly believes that the world will end imminently, and ... it's the usual stuff that he's been talking about for the last 5 years, so I pointed out some counter-examples. Then I pointed out that this is not a new conversation that we're having, and that when we actually talk about it, he's usually ready to agree that the world's end isn't imminent, but then 2 minutes later he'd say something like "well there will be no schooling in our doomed future." So then we talked about how he's gotten into a habit of falling back on pithy despair instead of actually considering hope seriously, and how he discounts hopeful news in the same way that he discounts his own daily accomplishments. So I think he's at a better place now. And I'm getting better at calling him on his BS. That was a pretty emotionally draining couple of days.
I've been plugging away at fics for the STS event, but I think I've hit burnout (probably because I decided to write 9 fics). So I'm going to give myself a week off from that, focus on getting my grades in, and then maybe come back to it next week (and maybe drop 2 or 3 of the fics)
This Saturday I'm also flying with Spouse and Miss Rutabaga to Chicago to visit the fam. Yay???
Can't believe this week is already half over. I feel like I should muster the energy to power through, but also: I don't wanna.
( todos )
Anyway, had some good talks with Spouse last Thursday and Friday -- he made a list of reasons why he firmly believes that the world will end imminently, and ... it's the usual stuff that he's been talking about for the last 5 years, so I pointed out some counter-examples. Then I pointed out that this is not a new conversation that we're having, and that when we actually talk about it, he's usually ready to agree that the world's end isn't imminent, but then 2 minutes later he'd say something like "well there will be no schooling in our doomed future." So then we talked about how he's gotten into a habit of falling back on pithy despair instead of actually considering hope seriously, and how he discounts hopeful news in the same way that he discounts his own daily accomplishments. So I think he's at a better place now. And I'm getting better at calling him on his BS. That was a pretty emotionally draining couple of days.
I've been plugging away at fics for the STS event, but I think I've hit burnout (probably because I decided to write 9 fics). So I'm going to give myself a week off from that, focus on getting my grades in, and then maybe come back to it next week (and maybe drop 2 or 3 of the fics)
This Saturday I'm also flying with Spouse and Miss Rutabaga to Chicago to visit the fam. Yay???
Can't believe this week is already half over. I feel like I should muster the energy to power through, but also: I don't wanna.
( todos )
