sure why not

Fri, 27 Oct 2017 03:51:23 GMT

Because I didn't have enough to be doing I decided that I wanted to start learning Japanese. Ha. Sure, why not? I'm using Duolingo, which is... interesting, as this is my first time using it for its intended purpose (learning a new language) rather than for the purpose of trying desperately not to forget absolutely everything I ever learned in high school and college French. I'm not sure I love their system, and for my purposes (potential travel) it would be more useful to learn verbal language only and use Romanized spellings rather than making me learn hiragana, but I an enjoying learning hiragana even though it slows down my intention, so... whatever!

The "everything else" that I'm doing at the moment is fact-checking clean-up ("Did they really mean this? Did they specify that? Can you get this person who it was nearly impossible to pin down last time to email you again to confirm this?"), transcription (oh god so many meetings), fertility appointments (catheters of personal fluids being stuck up places you really don't want to hear about, I'm sure), and theoretically doing some writing of my own again at some point, although probably not for NaNoWriMo this year. Unless I panic and sign up in the next week because I can't stand the thought of not doing it for the first time since 2002. And, of course, keeping up with whatever the retainer clients need from me (right now not too much, but that could change at any moment).

I'm also trying to set up my character for a new tabletop campaign set in the Fallout universe. Oh, and I have readings for docent training next week, but that's not until next week. I can deal with that.

I'd like to make some new icons, as well, and I should get back to work on my next set of Christmas socks. But those are kind of lower priority than all the stuff that's more immediate. At least they are until I crash and desperately need knitting time. ...If you just recently added me, I swear most of my posts are fandom-related, lately. But for some reason (avoiding transcription...) I felt chatty tonight.

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Fri, 12 May 2017 02:28:52 GMT

Theo is completely healed up from the surgery to remove his tumor, so now it's time for the other cat, Random, to have an eye infection of some kind. Yay, more vet visits! (Booooo.)

And this time won't be with the cat who turns into a melted marshmallow at the vet, but the one who makes even experienced vet techs and veterinarians think that we picked up an angry feral on the way to the clinic.

In unrelated news, American Gods is predictably (and, occasionally, unpredictably) fantastic, iZombie continues to be delightful, and I got a part time job as the administrator for the editing guild that I've been on the board of for the last few years, which means I can continue my freelance editing career with slightly less guilt and panic about regular income.

Also, I had a very cute but slightly harrowing tour group at the museum today. It turns out that it's very difficult to run a tour for a group that runs the gamut from three late-teens all the way down to what I would guess were second graders. Super nice kids, really lovely, but trying to gear the tour to such a broad group really put me off my game. I'm very glad the tour next week and the two the week after that are supposed to be more traditional single-age groups.

And now, back to the transcription client.

(I am very glad that Mother's Day is going to be over soon. I'm hoping someday it won't be a thing I dread, but... so far, definitely still a dreaded thing.)

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