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summercomfort) wrote2019-12-23 02:22 pm
summercomfort) wrote2019-12-23 02:22 pm
Happy Monday!
You know, it's actually a good thing when I am able to make a to-do list, because it means that I have some time to actually sit down and sort out my todos, instead of running around being purely reactive.
I'd originally felt some trepidation about basically dropping all 3 of my modding events, but it's meant that I've had more time to enjoy fics in the summer, and more time to actually create things in the winter. I have one of my holiday fics drafted to 90%, and the other one is pretty much finished. (Well, to the point where I've created the AO3 draft and embedded the artwork, but now I'm like "should I go through and amp up the throughlines a bit more?" and thanks to the magic of fandom, was able to find a helpful beta in like, 10 seconds. Thank you, fandom!) Anyway, one is posting on the 28th and the other is posting on the 31st, so I still have some bit of time.
This whole staying at home for the holidays thing is turning out to be not as bad as I'd feared. I was worried that Hoosband wasn't going to take days off, which would mean many days of quantity time with the Rutabaga. (While I love her and she is a great child, she remains 3 years old and I can handle her for maybe 3 hours before really needing a break). But he took 4 days off! Which, coupled with the ones already given by the company, means that I only have 2 days of quantity time (Jan 2nd and 3rd). Huzzah!
I've also been thinking of a reasonable flying policy that is something between Hoosband's "The world is dying and I shall never fly again" and "Screw climate change, I go where I wanna go." The one that I'm kind of turning over in my head is:
1 year of no flying
1 year of ~10 hours of flying (basically either 1 trip to the east coast or 1 trip to Chicago + a short flight to either Portland or LA, although with those we can probably take the train pretty easily)
1 year of ~25 hours of flying (basically a trip across one of the oceans)
Of course with all the requisite carbon credits or whatnot. I guess the basic idea is to think of one month as having accrued ~1 hour of fly time, which can then be spent with discretion. I think this would allow for me to bring Rutabaga to see cool places and family at a reasonable pace, while also forcing me to spend more time on the ground after we fly somewhere. (As in -- fly to Chicago for 3 weeks with grandma and visiting of friends in the midwest instead of a 3 day sprint.) Yes. This sounds reasonable.
Tonight:
- Spend at least 1 hour grading every night
- Add a few scenes to Steve fic so that Steve has actual angst.
- Finish cat hat for Rutabaga
- Wrap the present for J and maybe hem all the pants later?
Tomorrow:
-Read through Sam fic and add in the various scenes I didn't bother to write the first time around (like kissing. What is kissing, even.)
- Start reading C's Chinese fic
- Finish drawing the art for kombat
- Pack up China Comics for mailing
Later:
- draft some more climate-related comics? (flight, plastics, food...) Or maybe finish inking the extant Rutabaga comics and just Get It All Done? (mebbe both, since one is drafting and one is inking)
- start knitting a hat for J?!!
- hem pants. All the pants. There's like, 10 pairs of pants for me to hem.
- grade the Chinese School stuff, email out the make-up exam, and fix payroll issues.
- think about how much time I want to spend on the Abrahamic religions in the spring semester, possibly do some tweaking of The History Proposal
I'd originally felt some trepidation about basically dropping all 3 of my modding events, but it's meant that I've had more time to enjoy fics in the summer, and more time to actually create things in the winter. I have one of my holiday fics drafted to 90%, and the other one is pretty much finished. (Well, to the point where I've created the AO3 draft and embedded the artwork, but now I'm like "should I go through and amp up the throughlines a bit more?" and thanks to the magic of fandom, was able to find a helpful beta in like, 10 seconds. Thank you, fandom!) Anyway, one is posting on the 28th and the other is posting on the 31st, so I still have some bit of time.
This whole staying at home for the holidays thing is turning out to be not as bad as I'd feared. I was worried that Hoosband wasn't going to take days off, which would mean many days of quantity time with the Rutabaga. (While I love her and she is a great child, she remains 3 years old and I can handle her for maybe 3 hours before really needing a break). But he took 4 days off! Which, coupled with the ones already given by the company, means that I only have 2 days of quantity time (Jan 2nd and 3rd). Huzzah!
I've also been thinking of a reasonable flying policy that is something between Hoosband's "The world is dying and I shall never fly again" and "Screw climate change, I go where I wanna go." The one that I'm kind of turning over in my head is:
Of course with all the requisite carbon credits or whatnot. I guess the basic idea is to think of one month as having accrued ~1 hour of fly time, which can then be spent with discretion. I think this would allow for me to bring Rutabaga to see cool places and family at a reasonable pace, while also forcing me to spend more time on the ground after we fly somewhere. (As in -- fly to Chicago for 3 weeks with grandma and visiting of friends in the midwest instead of a 3 day sprint.) Yes. This sounds reasonable.
Tonight:
Tomorrow:
-
- Start reading C's Chinese fic
- Finish drawing the art for kombat
Later:
- draft some more climate-related comics? (flight, plastics, food...) Or maybe finish inking the extant Rutabaga comics and just Get It All Done? (mebbe both, since one is drafting and one is inking)
- hem pants. All the pants. There's like, 10 pairs of pants for me to hem.
- think about how much time I want to spend on the Abrahamic religions in the spring semester, possibly do some tweaking of The History Proposal
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