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HELLO LJ. I am still alive, and I am clinging -- desperately clinging -- to what remains of the illusion that I might have some decent amounts of free time during my psych block.
Speaking of: psych! I enjoy it! I can definitely see myself one day being paid to talk to people about their brain chemistry and listen to the awful stories of their shithouse lives (seriously, SHITHOUSE, my god). I would probably need to grow some thicker skin and acquire some heavy-duty coping mechanisms, but it's so interesting, and there are so many people who are so sick, and really not enough people working in the field.
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I'm still writing, slowly like a slow slow thing. Arthur and I are friends now, I no longer feel the same urge to denounce him as the most impossible narrator in the world, but this fact doesn't magically bestow upon me the ability to switch my brain with convenient ease from Medicine Mode to Writing Mode, which I'm coming to realise is the main problem with my productivity. Even if I have an hour to spare after doing my academic work, it doesn't mean I can turn away from soaking up facts about mood stablisers and alcohol withdrawal and immediately be all, bing! now I will instantly immerse myself once again in fic! That requires time, and tea, and music, and maybe some reading, and often by the time all of that is sorted it's pretty much bedtime.
Bah. I'm sure other people have this problem. What helps you flick the switch?
Speaking of: psych! I enjoy it! I can definitely see myself one day being paid to talk to people about their brain chemistry and listen to the awful stories of their shithouse lives (seriously, SHITHOUSE, my god). I would probably need to grow some thicker skin and acquire some heavy-duty coping mechanisms, but it's so interesting, and there are so many people who are so sick, and really not enough people working in the field.
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I'm still writing, slowly like a slow slow thing. Arthur and I are friends now, I no longer feel the same urge to denounce him as the most impossible narrator in the world, but this fact doesn't magically bestow upon me the ability to switch my brain with convenient ease from Medicine Mode to Writing Mode, which I'm coming to realise is the main problem with my productivity. Even if I have an hour to spare after doing my academic work, it doesn't mean I can turn away from soaking up facts about mood stablisers and alcohol withdrawal and immediately be all, bing! now I will instantly immerse myself once again in fic! That requires time, and tea, and music, and maybe some reading, and often by the time all of that is sorted it's pretty much bedtime.
Bah. I'm sure other people have this problem. What helps you flick the switch?