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[aesmael]

I should post more here... I should have more to post anywhere. But mostly it would just be repetitious grumbling that I feel too tired and worn down to make proper posts any more.

OK! So here's a thing. At the moment I have two major assignments due on 2014-10-07, so I'm trying to devote a week to each of them and have some time left over to do whatever polishing is needed.

Took a walk this morning, which I've been trying to do whenever I don't have work or some morning outing. I always feel better after, plus it gives me an excuse to catch up on podcasts. At the moment I'm listening to episodes of The Philosopher's Zone, Planetary Radio, and Escape Pod from 2005. Those also give me an excuse to make lists and put things in order which is often a soothing activity.

I've effectively abandoned the Sunday Story Ratings project on account of being so intermittent and behind on it that it was becoming a hopeless amount of work. Instead I'm trying to keep a sort of reading journal, meaning I just post whatever I think about what I'm reading on bloggier sites. Mostly a lot of short stories at the moment, so when I'm done with those I'd like to compile an index of my thoughts on each story and write something about what I thought of the book overall (mostly, when I finish remembering to cross-post to here the entries I originally made in July and August).

A while back I lost all the music I had on an external hard drive. I still had a back-up elsewhere, or the rest was readily and freely re-downloadable. Mostly what I had lost was the effort I put into cataloguing and organising the collection. I have recently been trying to listen to (to make sure it is of good quality and does not need re-ripping) and catalogue an album or folder of music each day. During assignment crunch times I just listen to a whole succession of them and worry about the cataloguing later.

Most recently I have been trying to learn how to database. This takes the form of putting together a database of stories I have read since I started reading books again in 2011; it also suits my organisational urges to let me track details like stories published in multiple locations or how many I have read by particular authors, and so forth.

Trying to learn how to play Go again, now that I believe I can handle losing better.

These are all things that I don't find lending themselves easily to little on-going posts. But mostly I'm just finding myself tired between work and school.

Comments

[cmcmck]

It'd be nice to hear more from you, but busy is busy! :o)