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Sep. 12th, 2020 12:37 amSo, having been yelled at for contemplating picking up Finnish (making, um. enough languages that I'm studying on Duolingo that I have to log in and count them) (13) I finished up with Turkish for the evening and promptly realized that there's a couple of similarities there with Arabic forms of the same/similar words and the more languages I learn, the more I viscerally appreciate how it's all connected. Also ow. I am indeed building a Tower of Babel in my head.
(I exaggerate the ow, it's mostly just hilarious clumsy fun, but if I do stop and think hey maybe normal people don't study thirteen languages on Duolingo at once it gets a bit mind-boggling.)
Did more items in tech school today than I have any other day this week. I was tired, my brain was definitely not functioning as well as it should have been, but I did them. And I think I did them well because once I'd made a couple tired and sloppy mistakes I realized what I was doing, or I went back and read over the lesson and realized what I'd failed to pick up the first time, and I fixed it. So yes. It is getting easier. Next week I may make it a point to ask for help at another time when I don't need it specifically, but if I've been taking maybe an hour on a lab, just to get myself used to the idea of asking for help. Though it's equally possible that I will need it, but if it gets to the end of the week and I haven't yet, note to self.
I'm making some headway again on the House Martell cross-stitch. And I'm sort of kind of collecting the patterns for the rest, and materials and so on. I say sort of kind of because there keep being more rest. And more of them are obscure and one of them is only in the video game, I think, so I don't care about that one. The rest, though. I would absolutely cross-stitch a flag for House Tarth wot. That should keep me busy for the rest of the year into the end of winter.
Which is coming. Heh, there's a post on tumblr going around, I don't know how prescient it is, warning everyone to stock up on their craft supplies for winter. Between that and Fauci warning the US to hunker down for the winter I'm inclined to lay in my stocks just in case? I have a definitely sufficient amount of art supplies though, and the cross-stich will keep me busy there, so that's fine. And I do have yarn coming out my ears, beads and things, but not many of them arranged for specific projects so it's harder to say yes, I could be occupied when I could also easily go through my yarn stash and discover that there isn't anything here I really want.
(Though come to that now that I don't have a store anymore I should probably get a swift and ballwinder.)
I had grand intentions to do writing today, but I ended up just doing a lot of cross-stitch and I think part of that is I'm crashing/decompensating from all the freaking out earlier in the week. I've been so goddamn tired all day, I took a two hour nap in between class blocks, I can't make my brain do much of anything. Plus side, it's the weekend coming up and I can sleep all day if I really want to. I don't, I have things I want to do. But hopefully I can start next week with fewer panic attacks, more stability, more of a sense of being able to handle things, and even a dash of optimism? Is that too much to ask for?
(I exaggerate the ow, it's mostly just hilarious clumsy fun, but if I do stop and think hey maybe normal people don't study thirteen languages on Duolingo at once it gets a bit mind-boggling.)
Did more items in tech school today than I have any other day this week. I was tired, my brain was definitely not functioning as well as it should have been, but I did them. And I think I did them well because once I'd made a couple tired and sloppy mistakes I realized what I was doing, or I went back and read over the lesson and realized what I'd failed to pick up the first time, and I fixed it. So yes. It is getting easier. Next week I may make it a point to ask for help at another time when I don't need it specifically, but if I've been taking maybe an hour on a lab, just to get myself used to the idea of asking for help. Though it's equally possible that I will need it, but if it gets to the end of the week and I haven't yet, note to self.
I'm making some headway again on the House Martell cross-stitch. And I'm sort of kind of collecting the patterns for the rest, and materials and so on. I say sort of kind of because there keep being more rest. And more of them are obscure and one of them is only in the video game, I think, so I don't care about that one. The rest, though. I would absolutely cross-stitch a flag for House Tarth wot. That should keep me busy for the rest of the year into the end of winter.
Which is coming. Heh, there's a post on tumblr going around, I don't know how prescient it is, warning everyone to stock up on their craft supplies for winter. Between that and Fauci warning the US to hunker down for the winter I'm inclined to lay in my stocks just in case? I have a definitely sufficient amount of art supplies though, and the cross-stich will keep me busy there, so that's fine. And I do have yarn coming out my ears, beads and things, but not many of them arranged for specific projects so it's harder to say yes, I could be occupied when I could also easily go through my yarn stash and discover that there isn't anything here I really want.
(Though come to that now that I don't have a store anymore I should probably get a swift and ballwinder.)
I had grand intentions to do writing today, but I ended up just doing a lot of cross-stitch and I think part of that is I'm crashing/decompensating from all the freaking out earlier in the week. I've been so goddamn tired all day, I took a two hour nap in between class blocks, I can't make my brain do much of anything. Plus side, it's the weekend coming up and I can sleep all day if I really want to. I don't, I have things I want to do. But hopefully I can start next week with fewer panic attacks, more stability, more of a sense of being able to handle things, and even a dash of optimism? Is that too much to ask for?