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Days are progressing at a break-neck pace in part, I think, because I'm constantly occupied. Long days and short months.
Sitting down to do a journal entry is good, though; it lets me sift through what I've actually been up to. My thoughts instantally go to what I'm working on, and those thoughts are often an undifferentiated mass of technical jargon and expressions of anxiety which isn't useful, really, even when I'm considering that work. I haven't been sleeping that well, lately. One of our cats has taken to licking the wall at at almost exactly 7 AM every morning, only shifting it to 6 AM for a morning because cats don't instinctively grasp daylight saving's time. Otherwise, I wake up in the middle of the night in a cold, anxiety-derived sweat. Frankly, I'm not a fan.
We've had some stray cats we'd been feeding since early-mid summer and, sometime around early October, we finally brought them in with the idea of fostering them. They're adorable, and they've got friendly dispositions - not picking fights with the other two cats (who don't really care to have new cats in the house, and who can blame them) and generally being cuddle bugs. I'm still hoping to find someone trustworthy, as much as I like them. They're so sweet, but we really don't have the room for them, and I've got no intention of becoming a car horder. More than likely, though, they're going to be with us for at least the rest of the season, and probably into winter.
I'd set aside a little money for Metric's latest album, Pagans in Vegas and... it's good for what it is. I've been listening to it on my 40-60 minutes commute to and from campus for about the last week, and I'm hoping it'll grow a little more on me. The music on it seems a little less nuanced, the lyrics are a little less sophisticated, and I guess I'd say that it feels a little less fully realized than their last releases.
I've also gotten a chance to play in a mortals one-shot for Exalted 3rd after the pdf was officially released. The game itself was alright; it was the first time I'd gotten together with the gaming group since before the semester started and one of our players had to move out of town to take up a teaching position. I think I might have been the only person coming to the session with a character that I made myself, as opposed to an ST-made character. At the time I made him, I wasn't sure if we'd end up somehow exalting our mortal characters in preperation for an upcoming Solar game or not, so I just wrote up a character I figured could easily be a Solar PC (and if not, well, there's no shortage of ideas).
Sitting down to do a journal entry is good, though; it lets me sift through what I've actually been up to. My thoughts instantally go to what I'm working on, and those thoughts are often an undifferentiated mass of technical jargon and expressions of anxiety which isn't useful, really, even when I'm considering that work. I haven't been sleeping that well, lately. One of our cats has taken to licking the wall at at almost exactly 7 AM every morning, only shifting it to 6 AM for a morning because cats don't instinctively grasp daylight saving's time. Otherwise, I wake up in the middle of the night in a cold, anxiety-derived sweat. Frankly, I'm not a fan.
We've had some stray cats we'd been feeding since early-mid summer and, sometime around early October, we finally brought them in with the idea of fostering them. They're adorable, and they've got friendly dispositions - not picking fights with the other two cats (who don't really care to have new cats in the house, and who can blame them) and generally being cuddle bugs. I'm still hoping to find someone trustworthy, as much as I like them. They're so sweet, but we really don't have the room for them, and I've got no intention of becoming a car horder. More than likely, though, they're going to be with us for at least the rest of the season, and probably into winter.
I'd set aside a little money for Metric's latest album, Pagans in Vegas and... it's good for what it is. I've been listening to it on my 40-60 minutes commute to and from campus for about the last week, and I'm hoping it'll grow a little more on me. The music on it seems a little less nuanced, the lyrics are a little less sophisticated, and I guess I'd say that it feels a little less fully realized than their last releases.
I've also gotten a chance to play in a mortals one-shot for Exalted 3rd after the pdf was officially released. The game itself was alright; it was the first time I'd gotten together with the gaming group since before the semester started and one of our players had to move out of town to take up a teaching position. I think I might have been the only person coming to the session with a character that I made myself, as opposed to an ST-made character. At the time I made him, I wasn't sure if we'd end up somehow exalting our mortal characters in preperation for an upcoming Solar game or not, so I just wrote up a character I figured could easily be a Solar PC (and if not, well, there's no shortage of ideas).