{"id":19283,"date":"2022-01-22T14:45:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T22:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=19283"},"modified":"2022-01-22T14:45:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T22:45:55","slug":"life-updates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2022\/01\/22\/life-updates-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Life updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>My return to work has taken up most of my brain and energy and time for the past three weeks, but I\u2019m gradually getting back to a state of being able to do and think about other stuff too.<\/p>\r\n<p>Some assorted updates:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>I joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/alphabetworkersunion.org\/\">Alphabet Workers Union<\/a>. I haven\u2019t <em>done<\/em> anything as a union member yet, but hoping to get more involved over time.<\/li>\r\n  <li>My brother Jay brought me an amazing trove of old family letters, so I\u2019m embarking on a new phase of my family-history digitizing project. More on that soon. I need to decide how often to post the letters; there are about 150 of them, covering 15+ years.<\/li>\r\n  <li>I acquired a new oven, after several months of my old one being unusable due to the control-panel display not working.<\/li>\r\n  <li>I ordered a new dishwasher; in theory, it should show up in two or three weeks.<\/li>\r\n  <li>I\u2019ve been playing a lot of little-thought-required iOS puzzle games, due to lack of brain for much of anything else outside work.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Jay and Holly gave me their lovely huge bookcase with glass-fronted doors and glass shelves and built-in lights, which now takes up one whole wall of my room. The rest of my room is now even more cluttered and unnavigable than before, because I shoved a lot of stuff around to make things fit (am slowly working on clearing out space), but the bookcase is gorgeous and it makes for a much nicer video-call background than my bed does. Thanks to J and H for giving it to me and moving it, and to Kam for placing and assembling it with me and earthquake-safetyizing it. I may post photos eventually.<\/li>\r\n  <li>In December, Mary Anne and I started seeing a couples counselor (after months of looking, we finally found someone who\u2019s licensed in both California and Illinois), and I separately started seeing a different talk therapist on my own. I think both are helping. My therapist has introduced me to several new-to-me paradigms and tools, which I hope to post about sooner or later.<\/li>\r\n  <li>I\u2019m not leaving the house much. I may start to do so more as omicron recedes and as I get more settled back into work; we\u2019ll see.<\/li>\r\n  <li>I\u2019m not getting enough exercise, but am trying to get back in the habit of walking on the elliptical regularly. I would like to get back in the habit of playing Beat Saber, which is one of the few forms of exercise that I actively enjoy, but I\u2019ve been oddly resistant to doing VR stuff in the past few months.<\/li>\r\n  <li>I continue to practice piano nearly every day\u2014one of the very few self-improvement things I\u2019ve ever done that I haven\u2019t had a hard time keeping going at. Not sure why. Partly just because I really like it.<\/li>\r\n  <li>I think I mentioned here, at some point, that I bought a guitar? I\u2019ve been intermittently practicing the basics of that, though not as often as I intend to.<\/li>\r\n  <li>After a burst of Duolingo activity for a while, I\u2019m back to very intermittent. But at least I haven\u2019t dropped it entirely, the way I usually do after a period of activity there.<\/li>\r\n  <li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/speculativeliterature.org\/ep-34-show-notes\/\">latest episode of the Mohanraj and Rosenbaum Are Humans podcast<\/a> is a 90-minute-long discussion about revisions and workshopping, with me as a guest. Recorded October 25, 2020, a bit over a year ago, or about 80 years ago in pandemic years. Labeled as part 1, so I\u2019m assuming there\u2019ll be a part 2 later, but I don\u2019t remember clearly.<\/li>\r\n  <li>In the past couple weeks, I haven\u2019t done any of the volunteer work I signed up for with WisCon and the Otherwise Award, but I\u2019m hoping to make progress on both of those this weekend.<\/li>\r\n  <li>My reading-unread-books project continues, but very slowly. I\u2019m tracking numbers in a spreadsheet now, and I\u2019m still on track to finish in mid- to late-2025, but I feel like forward motion has slowed to a crawl. Possibly in part because I\u2019m now on my third nonfiction book this month; in general, nonfiction books and I don\u2019t tend to get along all that well, and I tend to read them slowly if at all.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Have watched a bunch of interesting movies and TV shows in the past couple months, but haven\u2019t managed to post anything about most of them. Hoping to do that soon too.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Still not sleeping well, due to new early-for-me morning meeting schedule, but trying to get to sleep earlier and wake up earlier in general. (No advice, please.)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>\u2026I finished writing that last item in the late morning this morning, and promptly fell asleep for a couple of hours. Oh, well, probably good for me. Anyway, I think I\u2019ll take that as a sign that it\u2019s time to finish and post this, and move on to other tasks.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19283","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\/19283","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=19283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19285,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19283\/revisions\/19285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}