Last Monday of the Week - 2022-03-07

Did I do anything this past week? this remains to be seen

Posting Update
One chapter this week

 

Serpent's Mouth, Serpent's Teeth - Chapter Five - The Duel

Honestly not that much to say about this chapter lol. It exists. It was posted. A lot of the scenes feel weirdly short / the chapter feels thin on the ground despite being pretty long. The Yang and Ansbach scenes are ok, as are some of the Magdalena -Yang interactions, but like I said, they're all pretty short. It's like I'm flashing a whole bunch of plot points at the reader just to remind you that they exist. Idk if this is effective storytelling, but at least I got the chapter out the door. Heyo.

 

 

I neither consumed any new media this week nor did I paint a picture. Well I started a picture but I'm nowhere near finishing it.

Life Update
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh. God this last monday of the week is pretty skimpy hunh. I have so little recollection of doing anything this past week. I mean i know i went skating twice (in providence, outdoors; it made my feet hurt a lot a lot but was otherwise fine) and swimming also. I went to a vintage market and drank a weird cocktail (i think it was a cosmo) that was really good and that I want to make at home, though I don't have any of the ingredience and also don't know anything about making mixed drinks (I am not a very big drinker lol). at the vintage market I did not purchase anything b/c it was too crowded and therefore unfun to actually look at the clothes, and the thing I went there to see if I could find (a fun mug to keep at my desk at work) did not exist. I also went to savers but they didn't have any fun mugs either. I got bubble tea a lot b/c I was in providence 3x this week and if I'm all the way up in providence I might as well get bubble tea while I'm there.

I got up wicked early to go swimming today (only the before work timeslot had spaces open so I had to go to that one instead of after work) which was fine and peaceful (no children in the locker room turning the lights on and off etc) but i'm not sure it's worth the whole "get up at 5:30" thing that it requires. also it made me soooo sleeby during work, but that also could have been b/c i spent all of last night being struck with "sunday night, can't turn brain off" problem. which is a chronic sunday night experience.

Anyway basically all of the things I do are like "this would be more fun if I had a friend to do it with me" but I'm very olone lol. 

Played dnd on saturday. it was fine. Watched the end of logh S1 with nottanewtype  and etoileternum  on sunday. drank some wine, which i think made sunday the most alcohol i have consumed in a day (2 glasses of wine + the sample mixed drink at the vintage market) the most alcohol i've drank in a day in years (I think the last day i worked at hell school i may have drank more, which was in 2018, and maybe that time in singapore when i was at the club and drinks were free for women lmfao, which was in 2013). anyway i'm really enjoying having a group watchthrough. love to have people to talk about logh with. had a good convo on my discord afterwards too so that was fun even if i was not as coherent as I could have been.

struggling to motivate myself to get much of anything done but that's par for the course too these days isn't it. been also feeling very "left behind" by everyone, which i know in part is a feeling that i've made up in my brain but is also. a feeling that i cannot escape. 

What's On the Docket

• swimming on thursday (i almost missed getting a slot reserved but whoof i just snagged the last one. thank u noodle for remembering here)
• dentist on friday. this is actually good b/c it means i had an excuse to take friday off work. i will probably go skating afterwards, or do something else fun
• start logh s2 watch through with fronds on friday night
• dnd saturday (I still need to come up with a character concept for our next game)
• skating sunday?
• finish smst ch6, which is the kircheis cahokia chapter
• space swap assignment
• OR start smst ch7. I've decided to push off going back to EHI just so that I can finish this "arc" of SMST-- I'm really really looking forward to writing this chapter
• finish my dusty & reinhard & muller painting that i'm working on. i don't love it but it's just trapped in ugly painting stage honestly. i'm sure in reality it will be totally fine. anime people are hard to paint in my somewhat more realistic style but i enjoy painting more than i enjoy doing lined drawings. what i really should do is studies, but all i feel inspired to paint is anime people so.
• i need to like. clean my house and do laundry and grocery shop etc. all things i hate.
• need to return a pair of roller blades that i could not jam my feet into 😔