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Mar. 28th, 2019 12:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeHi I haven't remembered to post an update in a few days how is everyone? :D :D :D
Migraine and back pain took my entire weekend (migraine on friday, worrying about lingering effects on Saturday and back pain was all Saturday and Sunday) so Monday and Tuesday were spent triaging what didn't get done yesterday yay. Good news, I finished the Social Justice Vampire Sean Bean story! Bad news, edits and prep and more edits still did not get done so I'm going to be continuing that into a Camp Nano session where I try to write an entire novel yaaaay. Better news, the novel and one of the novels in edits are one of the few things that just goes flying out of my fingers, so this might be vaguely possible.
Also the Vampire Sean Bean thing, which now needs a title dammit, is going to turn into a romance comedy novel as soon as I can figure out a central conflict. Possibly that central conflict is "I'm too old for this shit." Something for me to think about.
Over the next week, where I have family coming over on the first week or so of Camp Nanowrimo, jury duty to report to on the first of the month, and capoeira classes to still go to. And a roda on Saturday and I think I'm going to decline because by that point I may be evented out and need to frantically catch up on writing. YAY. Fortunately this weekend the only thing that's happening is a pokemon challenge that will only take as long as I feel like walking. Plus I'll be downtown for capoeira class, land of a thousand pokestops, so it shouldn't take long anyway.
Picked up the guitar for the first time since last ... Thursday, I guess, because when I came home I was still migrainy and back pain is not conducive to anything but staying very still and regretting when I have to change positions. Don't Fear The Reaper is getting a bit faster, Wish You Were Here is still giving me fits partly because I'm tired, I think, and partly because I'm going faster than I should be. And I have since discarded Under the Bridge because the fucking tabs are wrong and I need to learn the scale first, and picked up Fortunate Son because it got stuck in my head. After a discussion with Uncle Elf Lord about how no one freaking listens to the lyrics of certain songs like that, like Born in the USA, etc, and end up using them for their jingoistic propaganda. Meanwhile CCR and Bruce Springsteen and anyone who's listened to the songs are all "Excuse me WHAT are you trying to say here?"
Oof. I haven't had a chance to play with the watercolors since I attempted to use them while migrainy, that didn't work too-too well but I also wasn't trying to do much, just practicing how color goes down with them, so that's not awful. I may make some time in the next couple of days. My dental cleaning was rescheduled for tomorrow morning, what fun, but at least it's only a cleaning. I just have too much going on in the next ten days and if someone tries to add one more commitment to my stack that isn't taking me out to dinner for a brief hour or simulwatching something nice, relaxing, and not requiring brainpower I may have to hit them with something large and heavy. Like a car. Or my foot.
(Capoeira class was fun though! I worked hard, I'm getting better.)
Migraine and back pain took my entire weekend (migraine on friday, worrying about lingering effects on Saturday and back pain was all Saturday and Sunday) so Monday and Tuesday were spent triaging what didn't get done yesterday yay. Good news, I finished the Social Justice Vampire Sean Bean story! Bad news, edits and prep and more edits still did not get done so I'm going to be continuing that into a Camp Nano session where I try to write an entire novel yaaaay. Better news, the novel and one of the novels in edits are one of the few things that just goes flying out of my fingers, so this might be vaguely possible.
Also the Vampire Sean Bean thing, which now needs a title dammit, is going to turn into a romance comedy novel as soon as I can figure out a central conflict. Possibly that central conflict is "I'm too old for this shit." Something for me to think about.
Over the next week, where I have family coming over on the first week or so of Camp Nanowrimo, jury duty to report to on the first of the month, and capoeira classes to still go to. And a roda on Saturday and I think I'm going to decline because by that point I may be evented out and need to frantically catch up on writing. YAY. Fortunately this weekend the only thing that's happening is a pokemon challenge that will only take as long as I feel like walking. Plus I'll be downtown for capoeira class, land of a thousand pokestops, so it shouldn't take long anyway.
Picked up the guitar for the first time since last ... Thursday, I guess, because when I came home I was still migrainy and back pain is not conducive to anything but staying very still and regretting when I have to change positions. Don't Fear The Reaper is getting a bit faster, Wish You Were Here is still giving me fits partly because I'm tired, I think, and partly because I'm going faster than I should be. And I have since discarded Under the Bridge because the fucking tabs are wrong and I need to learn the scale first, and picked up Fortunate Son because it got stuck in my head. After a discussion with Uncle Elf Lord about how no one freaking listens to the lyrics of certain songs like that, like Born in the USA, etc, and end up using them for their jingoistic propaganda. Meanwhile CCR and Bruce Springsteen and anyone who's listened to the songs are all "Excuse me WHAT are you trying to say here?"
Oof. I haven't had a chance to play with the watercolors since I attempted to use them while migrainy, that didn't work too-too well but I also wasn't trying to do much, just practicing how color goes down with them, so that's not awful. I may make some time in the next couple of days. My dental cleaning was rescheduled for tomorrow morning, what fun, but at least it's only a cleaning. I just have too much going on in the next ten days and if someone tries to add one more commitment to my stack that isn't taking me out to dinner for a brief hour or simulwatching something nice, relaxing, and not requiring brainpower I may have to hit them with something large and heavy. Like a car. Or my foot.
(Capoeira class was fun though! I worked hard, I'm getting better.)
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Date: 2019-03-28 03:33 pm (UTC)I tried learning "Alice's Restaurant" one time with a bad tab, and I was amazed that the song was so unbelievably difficult, WAY harder than the Eric Johnson tune I was also learning at the time. It turns out it's not that difficult, played correctly. But I sure did pull my hair out trying to learn it off the material I had at the time.
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Date: 2019-03-28 04:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-03-28 04:15 pm (UTC)And, yeah, tabs and notation make learning way easier. Eventually, your ear develops so that lots of things come naturally, but that takes a long time and focus. Good luck!
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Date: 2019-03-28 08:08 pm (UTC)