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Dec. 29th, 2012 12:24 am-i keep not blogging about the good times and now I am a barely-functional insomnia zombie and there are no times, good or otherwise. AWESOME.
-Christmas was quiet and non-sucky but I feel like I failed at it, I still need to mail some stuff and reply to a couple of email messages. The Solstice was better; I was up until it was light, then slept for a while and got up in time to go say hello to the sun again. I am amazed how hard winter snuck up on me this year - I mean, I grew up in the 53rd parallel so the amount of daylight we get down here ought to be positively generous, but ATL has evidently spoiled me. I felt like that feeling of solstice wellbeing would last, but I can't even tell because I have not been sleeping enough and can no longer register the passing of time. I've been reading a lot, pinwheeling words - tonight I am going to shelve the 3.5k draft I have been chipping at all week, because I finally figured out why it is awful and it doesn't need the framing device that was the only redeemable thing about it. rinse/repeat otp.
-HUGE thanks to the people who sent me cards even though I wasn't sending them myself this year - they were very lovely. Also thanks to the lovely person who reread Merry Fucking Christmas on Christmas Day just for the hell of sending me a merry f'ing xmas comment.
-what is it with all the good films this year? I've seen another three since I last updated this thing. The Hobbit was tons of fun (and there were cosplayers, who almost got thrown out because what America learned this summer was that guns do not kill people, corseted cosplay elves kill people); Argo was some impressively tense CIA marketing with some fantastic blending of contemporary news media, but I wouldn't bother seeing it twice; Django Unchained, I am going to be seeing at least twice. It keeps trying to appal you, and succeeding. Cloud Atlas finally has a UK release date, Feb 22nd. Seriously, what happened? 2011 only produced three films that were worth keeping my eyes open for, and one of those (The Black Swan) I didn't even see until this November.
-the MGS fancalendar is beautiful, everyone who contributed is beautiful. I am so very very happy I enabled this thing.
-I need to do a proper linkdump, I know I know, but for now I'll just quote David Wong's modest proposal:
(It's not the exact same thing but I do take a lot of joy in doing new things writingwise year on year, and on upping my wordcount ceiling. There is that 'achievement unlocked' feeling you get for pulling off even stupidly basic stuff for the first time, plus there's the perpetual kink ticklist. They are not significant achievements but even the littlest new thing feels meaningful to me ;_; )
-Christmas was quiet and non-sucky but I feel like I failed at it, I still need to mail some stuff and reply to a couple of email messages. The Solstice was better; I was up until it was light, then slept for a while and got up in time to go say hello to the sun again. I am amazed how hard winter snuck up on me this year - I mean, I grew up in the 53rd parallel so the amount of daylight we get down here ought to be positively generous, but ATL has evidently spoiled me. I felt like that feeling of solstice wellbeing would last, but I can't even tell because I have not been sleeping enough and can no longer register the passing of time. I've been reading a lot, pinwheeling words - tonight I am going to shelve the 3.5k draft I have been chipping at all week, because I finally figured out why it is awful and it doesn't need the framing device that was the only redeemable thing about it. rinse/repeat otp.
-HUGE thanks to the people who sent me cards even though I wasn't sending them myself this year - they were very lovely. Also thanks to the lovely person who reread Merry Fucking Christmas on Christmas Day just for the hell of sending me a merry f'ing xmas comment.
-what is it with all the good films this year? I've seen another three since I last updated this thing. The Hobbit was tons of fun (and there were cosplayers, who almost got thrown out because what America learned this summer was that guns do not kill people, corseted cosplay elves kill people); Argo was some impressively tense CIA marketing with some fantastic blending of contemporary news media, but I wouldn't bother seeing it twice; Django Unchained, I am going to be seeing at least twice. It keeps trying to appal you, and succeeding. Cloud Atlas finally has a UK release date, Feb 22nd. Seriously, what happened? 2011 only produced three films that were worth keeping my eyes open for, and one of those (The Black Swan) I didn't even see until this November.
-the MGS fancalendar is beautiful, everyone who contributed is beautiful. I am so very very happy I enabled this thing.
-I need to do a proper linkdump, I know I know, but for now I'll just quote David Wong's modest proposal:
So how about this: one year. The end of 2013, that's our deadline. Or a year from whenever you read this. While other people are telling you "Let's make a New Year's resolution to lose 15 pounds this year!" I'm going to say let's pledge to do fucking anything -- add any skill, any improvement to your human tool set, and get good enough at it to impress people. Don't ask me what -- hell, pick something at random if you don't know. Take a class in karate, or ballroom dancing, or pottery. Learn to bake. Build a birdhouse. Learn massage. Learn a programming language. Film a porno. Adopt a superhero persona and fight crime. Start a YouTube vlog. Write for Cracked.
But the key is, I don't want you to focus on something great that you're going to make happen to you ("I'm going to find a girlfriend, I'm going to make lots of money ..."). I want you to purely focus on giving yourself a skill that would make you ever so slightly more interesting and valuable to other people. "Holy shit, by learning Spanish, I just gained the ability to speak to 400 million people I previously couldn't."
"I don't have the money to take a cooking class." Then fucking Google "how to cook." They've even filtered out the porn now, it's easier than ever. Damn it, you have to kill those excuses. Or they will kill you.
(It's not the exact same thing but I do take a lot of joy in doing new things writingwise year on year, and on upping my wordcount ceiling. There is that 'achievement unlocked' feeling you get for pulling off even stupidly basic stuff for the first time, plus there's the perpetual kink ticklist. They are not significant achievements but even the littlest new thing feels meaningful to me ;_; )