Sister's work made her travel, obviously she got an exposure notification as soon as she got home (and hasn't been feeling well, but it could be covid or could be something else). The handyman who came by the other day to fix my bathroom lights also says he might have covid, and is getting tested today ( Read more... )

So it's halfway through January, and it's even more rubbish than a normal January. It took my sister several days and cancelled flights to get home after Christmas (I was some days later and made it fine), after which she went into the office to work exactly one day, and interacted with exactly one person, all masked up.

Naturally, she has Covid now ( Read more... )

Got my booster jab yesterday, and today was absolutely wiped out. Sister and I both spent most of the day just chilling in bed, then ordered delivery and called it a day. Also had a brutal headache and everything is sore. Worth it, but I hope tomorrow is a bit better. I thought I'd be able to spend the day writing a bit of fanfic and playing ( Read more... )

I've really missed the feeling when a story gets away from you. So far each chapter of Unshaken has ended up with some kind of cohesive theme that I didn't know was going to be there when I set out. I'm just wrapping up eight pages of dream sequence that happened more or less by mistake when I was setting out to write a cute camping scene. A long ( Read more... )

Well, I've put up two more chapters of Unshaken by the Darkness of the World as well as a bit of Anders and the Warden-Commanders' backstory in In the Turning of the Seasons, and I can't even express how much I'm enjoying writing fic again. It's good for my creative engines (and academic ones) to be able to write something that's fun while I'm ( Read more... )

So after last time's angsty 'WHY CAN'T I WRITE ANYMORE' I had a bit of a break from doing work. (Well...I had no deadlines, at least, since there are no breaks in academia, but I decided to give myself one anyway.) I wrote fun things, mostly about D&D characters, and slowly they got better. So there is something to be said for the effects of ( Read more... )

I have a little time to write something and zero motivation to do so, so might as well check in here instead. How are you all coping? While I concede that the last year of not leaving town, of being forced to stay in one place and deal with some things, has not been all bad, I also really miss travelling. My parents are coming to visit in early ( Read more... )

Yesterday, despite not having planned to, I ventured out for more supplies. A neighbour posted on a local group that one of the nearby Target stores had received a shipment containing loo roll, hand sanitiser, cleansers and so on, so I downed my coffee, threw on clothes, and headed out. We are actually reasonably stocked up on many things, but ( Read more... )

Oh look, we're all still here. ;) I work from home most of the time anyway (though there's a very high likelihood that my summer teaching will be cancelled, so that's a thing); I just can't be bothered to write posts ( Read more... )

First: happy 50th anniversay of the moon landing ( Read more... )