I seem to have mostly dropped off this blog for for the past two or three weeks, and I hadn't posted a life update for a while before that.<\/p>\n
The big-picture version of what's been up with me:<\/p>\n
A couple weeks ago, I attended an anniversary celebration and then attended WisCon. I had a good time with new friends and old. I was on two really good panels and one okay one. It continued to be a little weird to be at a convention without being an Editor.<\/p>\n
After WisCon, I spent most of a week in Chicago; saw Stephanie, then stayed with Mary Anne and her family for several days. Was nice. Next year, thinking of staying in Chicago for a couple weeks post-WisCon.<\/p>\n
Came home a week ago, and have been drifting through the days in a sort of a dazed haze. Have had about four to five hours' sleep almost every night for about three weeks now, with a couple of nights of six; I'm functioning okay, but had to resort to caffeine on three consecutive days this past week (I normally don't drink it at all). I seem to still be more or less on Chicago time, waking up around 6 a.m. most days, having a hard time keeping my eyes open after around 11 p.m.<\/p>\n
I've been going through some interesting paradigm shifts and potential changes of self-definition lately. At some point I'll talk about them. Among other things, at WisCon I danced in public (party dancing, not waltzing or English dancing), while wearing a skirt, despite having told people all my life that I don't dance. (I'm working on a longer post about this.) And I've recently obtained several new items of clothing—sandals, shoelaces, shorts, swimsuit, messenger-ish bag, shirt—in styles that I've always strongly resisted in the past. (Hoping to write about this soon too.)<\/p>\n
I've been neglecting the art class, and haven't made any progress on my novel since before WisCon, and haven't done much Duolingo in a couple weeks. But this past week I walked to work a couple times, and I've been reading (finally finished a nonfiction book I started reading a year ago, and started reading a couple new fiction books), and watching Scandal<\/cite> and Dr. Who<\/cite>. And the handyman came (with his daughter\/apprentice) and fixed a bunch of longstanding issues around the house. So there's been some progress. Oh, and I've been helping Mary Anne set up various email-related things for Jaggery.<\/p>\n My approximate plans for this weekend: A roleplaying game via video chat; watching the Tony Awards with Lori; the long-delayed art assignment; make some progress on paper-sorting and boxes in garage; try to get some writing done; try to sleep.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I seem to have mostly dropped off this blog for for the past two or three weeks, and I hadn’t…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}