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Another new year of me has come around again, and I keep remembering how my best friend from middle & high school used to call me up on my birthday & refer to me as "O Ancient One" because I was about 8 months older than she was. Probably partly because of the comparisons brought up by having a nearly-teen around living her own chaotic life.
I feel like my introspections are still stuck in the projects queue; ( ongoing crap, which is the state of the world... )
Things I have been considering, & may yet do something with include:
*The Baltimore Gamer Symphony Orchestra meets... just across from where the Key Bridge *was* (but I have driven farther to get to weekly meetings before; I've just gotten lazy) and they require no auditions and even have a choir that theoretically one can manage to be part of *at the same time.* And I do miss having scheduled & group music...
*I need to *actually talk to* people about writing community, which of course I have been saying for years, & I think what I need is a general progress-sharing & brainstorming cheering section space or even just an update window on other people who are writing regularly, because it's the momentum that is hard, but I don't really know how to create that or with whom because none of the standard "writing group" models is going to recreate 2000s NaNo lj or pausing every couple hard-won paragraphs in a college paper to exchange random e-mails with a friend who's working on their own. (and both papers & NaNo ultimately got written because of deadlines, sigh.)
*I keep meaning to say to my family that I'm good for 2-3 nights of dinner plan a week, & if each of them take a day then we can declare one "seagull night" (seagull says "get yer own!") & a take-out day per week and stop having to make last-minute food decisions when we're already hungry and/or done braining until after food.
*Still working on plan: make the basement suitable for habitation &/or sudden arrivals of kids who live within walking distance. (at least the pre-Christmas clean-up has led to a slightly less problematic living room space, temporarily...)
*likewise, attempts to join/create/promote local community continue to be an unchecked ticky box.
*[complicated mutterings/rant about having a useful website] [slightly further shadowed by watching a nature writer/artist's website get devoured & replaced by the internet asbestos machine]
*wholesale deleting my phone games in the hopes of redirecting my flow-state downtime towards... something else??
The list will always be longer than I have world & time to devote to it, but we knew that already.
I feel like my introspections are still stuck in the projects queue; ( ongoing crap, which is the state of the world... )
Things I have been considering, & may yet do something with include:
*The Baltimore Gamer Symphony Orchestra meets... just across from where the Key Bridge *was* (but I have driven farther to get to weekly meetings before; I've just gotten lazy) and they require no auditions and even have a choir that theoretically one can manage to be part of *at the same time.* And I do miss having scheduled & group music...
*I need to *actually talk to* people about writing community, which of course I have been saying for years, & I think what I need is a general progress-sharing & brainstorming cheering section space or even just an update window on other people who are writing regularly, because it's the momentum that is hard, but I don't really know how to create that or with whom because none of the standard "writing group" models is going to recreate 2000s NaNo lj or pausing every couple hard-won paragraphs in a college paper to exchange random e-mails with a friend who's working on their own. (and both papers & NaNo ultimately got written because of deadlines, sigh.)
*I keep meaning to say to my family that I'm good for 2-3 nights of dinner plan a week, & if each of them take a day then we can declare one "seagull night" (seagull says "get yer own!") & a take-out day per week and stop having to make last-minute food decisions when we're already hungry and/or done braining until after food.
*Still working on plan: make the basement suitable for habitation &/or sudden arrivals of kids who live within walking distance. (at least the pre-Christmas clean-up has led to a slightly less problematic living room space, temporarily...)
*likewise, attempts to join/create/promote local community continue to be an unchecked ticky box.
*[complicated mutterings/rant about having a useful website] [slightly further shadowed by watching a nature writer/artist's website get devoured & replaced by the internet asbestos machine]
*wholesale deleting my phone games in the hopes of redirecting my flow-state downtime towards... something else??
The list will always be longer than I have world & time to devote to it, but we knew that already.