Somewhat Belated
I guess I'm off the fasting boat this Lent for medical reasons, which means I have to find something else to do. I considered mandatory weightlifting/running. Mens sana in corpore sano etc. I'm already doing that, though. Gotta be able to shoulder my MAS by the 17th. Also, it is apparently important to exercise regularly when you're trying to manage hypoglycemia. I can actually do a pushup now. Like, one.
Oh, shut up. For me, that's progress.
I also considered the old standbys of "give somebody a compliment at least once a day" or "don't fight so much with your siblings" but I've never had much success with those sorts of things. I know that I should be focusing on other people and making myself a better person by acting in a more moral manner, but I've discovered that (at least for me) sins of omission are usually the result of my not taking responsibility for my own state of mind. When I sit on my ass all day avoiding anything that even remotely resembles work, I'm not in any condition to be helping anybody else out. I've found that the best way to act with honor among others is to be satisfied with my private state of mind.
To that end, I've set myself a goal of 1000 words of non-academic writing a day. Writing is the only kind of work I absolutely love, but I still manage to be lazy enough to go for weeks without doing it. Yet it seems to be as necessary to my sanity as sleep or Mass or Scrubs (I don't get that last one either, so don't ask). Getting something out onto the page, even when it sucks (which is usually the case when I'm feeling lazy, which is most of the time) just releases some of the pressure somehow.
So far, I've been pretty successful. I made my goal on Thursday, fell asleep before I got very far on Friday, but nearly caught myself up last night. I'd say I'm about two hundred words behind, but an extra two hundred words today will not be difficult.
Maybe I'm a wimp, but 1000 words seems to be just the right length to challenge me. I usually find myself pooping out around 800. It pushes me a little, but it's doable. So far (and for the foreseeable future) most of what I've written has been for a fic. Supernatural, of course. Working title is "Crazy Bitch" but I'm thinking of changing it to something like "Rivers of Lethe" because I think I found a passage from Paradise Lost that fits thematically.
I've sworn to myself that I won't post this fic until it's finished, and I'm hopeful that my Lenten resolution will force me to complete it. And that will make me a happy panda.
On a completely unrelated note, I was perusing some forums while looking for information on the Kahr PM40 and I came across a thread on Glock safeties. Someone was making the argument that the problem wasn't the lack of an external safety but the lack of proper gunhandling (that is, people keeping their fingers inside the trigger guard when they aren't intending to shoot anything). They mentioned keeping one's "booger hook off the bang switch." I don't know how common those terms are, so maybe I'm laughing at an old joke, but if I haven't heard it it's new to me, so...heh. Fuuuuneee.
On the music side of things, I found a couple really good fanmixes at spn_soundtrack. The title song from Blood of Heroes has rekindled my interest in Megadeath. I'm going to go digging around in the basement to see if I can find Bill's old CDs.
Ladies and gents,
We're still alive
By the skin of our teeth.
Now it's killing time.
Angel in our pocket,
Devil at our side;
We ain't going nowhere
'Cause heroes never die.
The art for that one is pretty sweet too. Then there's Know Your Rights. A collection of songs about running from the law. "Dude, I'm like Dillinger or something." Just an awesome theme for a soundtrack. And the songs are all by artists who have either already been or could be used on the show. "Bad Company" was actually used in the first-season episode "Scarecrow," but it was Meg's theme music. Ever since I bought Bad Company I've associated that song with Dean and Sam (particularly Dean, of course) so I'm happy to see it in a mix. There's also an AC/DC song in there that I've never heard: "Jailbreak." Awesome.
Oh, shut up. For me, that's progress.
I also considered the old standbys of "give somebody a compliment at least once a day" or "don't fight so much with your siblings" but I've never had much success with those sorts of things. I know that I should be focusing on other people and making myself a better person by acting in a more moral manner, but I've discovered that (at least for me) sins of omission are usually the result of my not taking responsibility for my own state of mind. When I sit on my ass all day avoiding anything that even remotely resembles work, I'm not in any condition to be helping anybody else out. I've found that the best way to act with honor among others is to be satisfied with my private state of mind.
To that end, I've set myself a goal of 1000 words of non-academic writing a day. Writing is the only kind of work I absolutely love, but I still manage to be lazy enough to go for weeks without doing it. Yet it seems to be as necessary to my sanity as sleep or Mass or Scrubs (I don't get that last one either, so don't ask). Getting something out onto the page, even when it sucks (which is usually the case when I'm feeling lazy, which is most of the time) just releases some of the pressure somehow.
So far, I've been pretty successful. I made my goal on Thursday, fell asleep before I got very far on Friday, but nearly caught myself up last night. I'd say I'm about two hundred words behind, but an extra two hundred words today will not be difficult.
Maybe I'm a wimp, but 1000 words seems to be just the right length to challenge me. I usually find myself pooping out around 800. It pushes me a little, but it's doable. So far (and for the foreseeable future) most of what I've written has been for a fic. Supernatural, of course. Working title is "Crazy Bitch" but I'm thinking of changing it to something like "Rivers of Lethe" because I think I found a passage from Paradise Lost that fits thematically.
I've sworn to myself that I won't post this fic until it's finished, and I'm hopeful that my Lenten resolution will force me to complete it. And that will make me a happy panda.
On a completely unrelated note, I was perusing some forums while looking for information on the Kahr PM40 and I came across a thread on Glock safeties. Someone was making the argument that the problem wasn't the lack of an external safety but the lack of proper gunhandling (that is, people keeping their fingers inside the trigger guard when they aren't intending to shoot anything). They mentioned keeping one's "booger hook off the bang switch." I don't know how common those terms are, so maybe I'm laughing at an old joke, but if I haven't heard it it's new to me, so...heh. Fuuuuneee.
On the music side of things, I found a couple really good fanmixes at spn_soundtrack. The title song from Blood of Heroes has rekindled my interest in Megadeath. I'm going to go digging around in the basement to see if I can find Bill's old CDs.
Ladies and gents,
We're still alive
By the skin of our teeth.
Now it's killing time.
Angel in our pocket,
Devil at our side;
We ain't going nowhere
'Cause heroes never die.
The art for that one is pretty sweet too. Then there's Know Your Rights. A collection of songs about running from the law. "Dude, I'm like Dillinger or something." Just an awesome theme for a soundtrack. And the songs are all by artists who have either already been or could be used on the show. "Bad Company" was actually used in the first-season episode "Scarecrow," but it was Meg's theme music. Ever since I bought Bad Company I've associated that song with Dean and Sam (particularly Dean, of course) so I'm happy to see it in a mix. There's also an AC/DC song in there that I've never heard: "Jailbreak." Awesome.