Nine hundred of his county and the regiment's disgrace

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• Got S moved! One of the weird things about a long distance relationship where you don't go to Events together is you can date someone for a year and have no idea what it's like to do something basic like pack a car together. It was really nice to discover that we do actually work well as a team.
• Went to Youth Trad Song Weekend last weekend! Got complimented by Ms. Sippy-Cup-of-Box-Wine on my version of The Elf Knight, which um wow yay thank you. (Ms. S.C.o.B.W. is a Big Fish in our small pond.)
• I've been struggling really hard at work. Some of it I think is being a former-"gifted"-student who just kind of never had to learn to buckle down and get shit done, and some of it is burnout on doing tedious technical editing day-in and day-out, and some of it might be mental health stuff, and some of it was definitely post-election meltdown.
  
  But! Last week was the final week of this release and I finished everything I absolutely needed to finish. Had a postmortem meeting with my boss where she asked why I'd been scrambling so hard at the end of the release, and I told her I'd kind of been a wreck after the election and had to catch up - and she gave me a big-ass hug and honestly got kind of weepy and kind of gave me a "It'll be okay, we'll protect you!" speech, which was adorable. (I… think people there forget that they have A Genuine Marginalized Person working with them until I remind them? Which is a complicated thing and I don't even know how I feel about it honestly - but yeah, I'll take a hug and some low-key weepiness over a written warning and an employee improvement plan, which is what I thought I'd be getting.)
• My parents were in Boston this weekend. There was this whole fiasco where I asked my mom a few days ago if they were interested in meeting S this trip or wanted to wait, and she got super upset and annoyed, and then the next day emailed and apologized and said "Yes, we want to meet S" - at which point S, quite sensibly, was like "Ok but dude I do not want to meet them right now if that's how they're being." But the visit itself went fine, including like multiple conversations about S during which my parents behaved totally normally and asked all the totally normal questions you'd ask your daughter about a new partner and generally had their shit together. So, uh, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
• I'm trying to dial way back on Twitter and Facebook. Unfollowed a bunch of people on both sites who I don't really have any kind of personal friendship with. Also turned off retweets on Twitter, which is doing wonders for my political and ecological anxiety. Might delete my FB account, might just try to find a browser plugin that will let me block shared/promoted content there too. Left a bunch of slack channels (at this point I'm down to #genderqueer, #loc-boston, #linguisticating) and deactivated my Metafilter account. At this point I'm not even hoping to stop using social media, I'm just hoping to force myself to earn my fix by actually interacting with people I care about, rather than mindlessly reloading.
• Been playing the concertina more again and getting the hang of doing a sort of double-stop-style two-part harmony on it, but then the strap broke.