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Jul. 21st, 2016 05:08 pmSo, running under the assumption that my feelings of being behind and incompetent are these days largely driven by lack of sleep, and that more exercise means more need for sleep, I'm trying out a seven hours of sleep a night schedule. Normally I need six only, but sure, okay, we'll go with seven. (Braintwin says: Welcome to the rest of humanity. I giggle ruefully.) Today, first day of that proof, seems to work. I got my languages done, I feel relatively okay about myself, at least as good as I'm going to get for now. We'll see how this goes.
I mean, it doesn't help when halfway through the morning someone @'s me on Twitter all "hi we're moving into your area and we'd like you to write for us" and red flags go off, but I message him back all that sounds good what are your rates and he doesn't address that part, just "So happy you're interested please email me here!" and red flags are STILL going off but god help me I do so and get back "We can pay you in exposure!!!!! :D" in five paragraphs all about their Braaaaaand and dude, you're a thinkpiece site I've never even heard of, fuck off.
I forwarded it to the braintwin, who typed me up a suitably polite reply because all I could come up with included various forms of 'fuck'. I also showed the site to another friend whose response was "Oh THAT shithole." Then I went on a brief twitter tangent about guys, work for exposure is bullshit, don't do it, don't offer it. No regrets.
Seriously guys, don't work for exposure. Not even if you're desperate. You can't eat exposure, can't pay your bills with it, so if you're that desperate, go for something that'll pay your bills. If you're that desperate for validation, that's a whole other complicated issue that, I promise you, 99.9999999% of the sites that want you to work for exposure won't actually address.
But on the plus side I got to have a mutual love fest on Twitter with a couple of the actors from Killjoys. (Fancy Lee and Pree's actor. So wonderful. Lovely gentlemen, both.) So that was fun.
And I'm writing more consistently again, at least in the last two days I am. Which is a relief. Hell, I have brain again today to be outraged and recover from the outrage and work, that's also a relief. Plans for tonight will be to get languages, writing, healthy dinner, and some sketching. And if I can manage it, some physics copied over and some cleaning of the house done, maybe some capoeira but that'll be additional. Bit by bit. First the daily routines, then everything else. I think. I'm feeling less tired at least, which makes everything else manageable.
I mean, it doesn't help when halfway through the morning someone @'s me on Twitter all "hi we're moving into your area and we'd like you to write for us" and red flags go off, but I message him back all that sounds good what are your rates and he doesn't address that part, just "So happy you're interested please email me here!" and red flags are STILL going off but god help me I do so and get back "We can pay you in exposure!!!!! :D" in five paragraphs all about their Braaaaaand and dude, you're a thinkpiece site I've never even heard of, fuck off.
I forwarded it to the braintwin, who typed me up a suitably polite reply because all I could come up with included various forms of 'fuck'. I also showed the site to another friend whose response was "Oh THAT shithole." Then I went on a brief twitter tangent about guys, work for exposure is bullshit, don't do it, don't offer it. No regrets.
Seriously guys, don't work for exposure. Not even if you're desperate. You can't eat exposure, can't pay your bills with it, so if you're that desperate, go for something that'll pay your bills. If you're that desperate for validation, that's a whole other complicated issue that, I promise you, 99.9999999% of the sites that want you to work for exposure won't actually address.
But on the plus side I got to have a mutual love fest on Twitter with a couple of the actors from Killjoys. (Fancy Lee and Pree's actor. So wonderful. Lovely gentlemen, both.) So that was fun.
And I'm writing more consistently again, at least in the last two days I am. Which is a relief. Hell, I have brain again today to be outraged and recover from the outrage and work, that's also a relief. Plans for tonight will be to get languages, writing, healthy dinner, and some sketching. And if I can manage it, some physics copied over and some cleaning of the house done, maybe some capoeira but that'll be additional. Bit by bit. First the daily routines, then everything else. I think. I'm feeling less tired at least, which makes everything else manageable.