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[kittydesade]

Well. Today was interesting. I did get a lot of stuff done, both in the day job and in the write job. But then I saw a tweet starting to go around that amounted to "If you want to be a creative artist quit your day job and just do your art you coward, and anyone who's mad at me is really just mad at themselves because I'm right" and capped off the whole thing with "I'm just a punk who's laying down truth" and I spent the next five hours wanting to scream. That is not punk, that is not good advice, that is damaging and terrible advice, and I went off on exactly one (1) rant. I'm very proud of myself for confining it to one rant.

But I did get a bunch of stuff done. And I got guitar practice in, making it ten days out of twelve, and promptly reminded myself that guitar practice before I start typing on the netbook makes the fingers feel weird. I still need to get my bullet journal set up for February, five days into February so go me. I'm not sure I'll get all that done tonight.

And then yay, tomorrow morning I get three fillings in my teeth, what fun. No, it's necessary I know and it'll be good for me in the long run and prevent more damage to either my teeth or other systems but I'm not looking forward to being an hour or so in the dentist's chair getting weird tastes and nasty mouth vibrations. Or paying to have that happen. Why is this country so fucked up about health care. Heh, fillings in my teeth tomorrow and then a workday and then capoeira and it is going to be the longest day in a while. With a sore face and drooling.

Oh well. I'll get it done and then it'll be done. And overall apart from that and my mother's badly broken freaking arm that she didn't tell me about until after the second X-rays, thanks Mom things haven't been going awfully. I may have out of stress mostly about Mom blown more money than I should have on frivolity in the last couple days but I did have it to blow, and the bookshelves aren't getting done anytime soon. Nngh. Starting to think I should just hire a handyperson instead of trying to shake my uncle into helping me and/or showing me how it's done. I also want to say 'look it's just shelves it's just a bunch of rectangles' but that way lies having shelves fall on you. But. Well.

Things aren't going that bad. It's just that the things that are annoying are very annoying.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

Pro tip: Hungry people with housing instability issues make better art.

[alexseanchai]

...wait

[kittydesade]

Yeeeeeeeep.

[lemon_badgeress]

bookshelves are surprisingly involved. yes rectangles but also issues of what to make shelves out of, how wide, and when will it bend, and also issues of bracing to prevent forward momentum and fix to wall where/how

[kittydesade]

What and how wide have mostly been figured out, but the bracing and the fix to wall especially considering the unusual nature of my walls, that's the part that makes me go "CAN I GET A PROFESSIONAL OVER HERE"

[lemon_badgeress]

*solemn* whenever you’re tempted to rush through and do yourself, picture yourself on the floor covered in piles of books and bits of shelves, big old cartoon lump on your head, while all of us tell you you oughtn’t have done it.

but gosh i hope you can get them sorted soon

[havocthecat]

Oh, fuck the "punk laying down truth," that might be THEIR truth, but it's not MY truth, or your truth, so screw them.

[kittydesade]

I had this long huge screaming rant about how "THIS IS NOT PUNK" and ... I still kind of want to make it but today's going to be long enough so it's deep breaths and ice cream for me.