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Jan. 18th, 2021 09:00 pmGah! Finally! I have done the thing! I have finished my second of five, I guess? projects for tech school and uploaded it and told the school where my Github repository is and filmed and uploaded the walkthrough and did a writeup and it is all done, I have turned it in, I have scheduled my assessment, it can fuck off for now. I'm actually really pleased with it, it ended up being way more elaborate than I think it was supposed to be but all the moving parts move correctly, which is the main thing, rather than trying too much and falling on my face.
And I got it done in time for writing hour, too. After waking up at 4 in the morning with the sweaty anxiety itches, taking Nyquil, passing back out pretty hard and not getting up until about 10, which is when I was supposed to start class. It was a rough night last night. I think it's going to be a rough week, which is why I'm putting my trazodone and NyQuil on standby. Not together, alternating nights. We'll see what happens Wednesday.
And in all of this I'm still managing to get writing work done too; I finally got the two problematic synopses finished at least in a general structure kind of a way. I now need to go through it, tidy it up some, name and organize everything so I'm not flailing about for the basic details I'll be referencing throughout the book like, oh, what is my main character called. (One of the synopses keeps referring to Heroine and Brother, so, um, yeah.) I also found a convenient BuJo spread for writers with one chart axis of chapters and the other chart axis of characters, keeping track of who appears in what chapter, and now I have to do both that one and one there the axis is chapters x secrets and the symbols indicate who's finding out what when. That's MUCH more compact than the way I was going to do it.
It's only Monday but so far it's been a weekend plus one day of successes, and I still feel pretty good about things. Which is doing nothing for my being calm and optimistic about inauguration day, but I'm not sure anything could do that, so I'll take it.
I also started getting my office reorganized with the new small drawers for my art supplies which are, heh, getting a bit out of control. Now I have a place to put some stuff I need to unpack the last three paletteful packs and put them away, find someplace to file the cards that come with them with some tips and hints how to use the materials, and find someplace to file my stack of pen and marker and paint swatches. Did not get this done over the weekend like I should have. Definitely didn't get as much cleaning done today as I wanted to but while I was waking up from the NyQuil I made a start and that's what counts.
I feel so much calmer and more in control, 4am wakeup aside, that I'm a little annoyed it took me three weeks to put together the project. 20 hours more like all told as far as actual coding hours, but those 20 hours were spread over three weeks. Ugh. Still. It's done, it's turned in, and now I get to move on, do some writing, look forwards rather than kick myself for not moving.
ETA: The coup. It was the coup. I started the project on the first of the month and on the sixth of the month we had an attempted coup and I had coup hangover for the next week, that's why it took so long. I have no idea how the fuck I forgot about the coup attempt except that it has just all been Like That for the last, what, since the election? Since before the election? The last four years? I don't fucking know.
And I got it done in time for writing hour, too. After waking up at 4 in the morning with the sweaty anxiety itches, taking Nyquil, passing back out pretty hard and not getting up until about 10, which is when I was supposed to start class. It was a rough night last night. I think it's going to be a rough week, which is why I'm putting my trazodone and NyQuil on standby. Not together, alternating nights. We'll see what happens Wednesday.
And in all of this I'm still managing to get writing work done too; I finally got the two problematic synopses finished at least in a general structure kind of a way. I now need to go through it, tidy it up some, name and organize everything so I'm not flailing about for the basic details I'll be referencing throughout the book like, oh, what is my main character called. (One of the synopses keeps referring to Heroine and Brother, so, um, yeah.) I also found a convenient BuJo spread for writers with one chart axis of chapters and the other chart axis of characters, keeping track of who appears in what chapter, and now I have to do both that one and one there the axis is chapters x secrets and the symbols indicate who's finding out what when. That's MUCH more compact than the way I was going to do it.
It's only Monday but so far it's been a weekend plus one day of successes, and I still feel pretty good about things. Which is doing nothing for my being calm and optimistic about inauguration day, but I'm not sure anything could do that, so I'll take it.
I also started getting my office reorganized with the new small drawers for my art supplies which are, heh, getting a bit out of control. Now I have a place to put some stuff I need to unpack the last three paletteful packs and put them away, find someplace to file the cards that come with them with some tips and hints how to use the materials, and find someplace to file my stack of pen and marker and paint swatches. Did not get this done over the weekend like I should have. Definitely didn't get as much cleaning done today as I wanted to but while I was waking up from the NyQuil I made a start and that's what counts.
I feel so much calmer and more in control, 4am wakeup aside, that I'm a little annoyed it took me three weeks to put together the project. 20 hours more like all told as far as actual coding hours, but those 20 hours were spread over three weeks. Ugh. Still. It's done, it's turned in, and now I get to move on, do some writing, look forwards rather than kick myself for not moving.
ETA: The coup. It was the coup. I started the project on the first of the month and on the sixth of the month we had an attempted coup and I had coup hangover for the next week, that's why it took so long. I have no idea how the fuck I forgot about the coup attempt except that it has just all been Like That for the last, what, since the election? Since before the election? The last four years? I don't fucking know.