surely not EVERYBODY was kung fu fighting
May. 29th, 2021 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hiddenramen Things have been hectic lately, it's been a minute since I posted one of these.
I get to thinking sometimes that life feels a lot like an interval exercise: an endless loop of fast and slow, fast and slow. But I think that's probably just me—campaign work is like that, and I think I got so used to it that it's hard to change. One minute everything's so fast paced you can't breathe, and the next minute you're unemployed with a three month contract buyout and your win bonus, trying to win back the affection of a cat you haven't seen in a year.
I'm in the slow for the moment, though, and I'm getting better about slowing down what's fast. I got a new job I'm excited about—I was doing freelance graphic work for a few companies I knew from my days working for Harley, and that worked out well during the pandemic, but I'm all vaxxed up now, and I wanted something a little more stable. The new job is working in printing and bookbinding, which is wildly fun to me. All my friends think it sounds boring and slow, especially compared to some of the other gigs I've worked, but that's what I like about it—there's nothing complicated. Just ink and paper, needle and thread, and mostly just me, alone in a workshop, listening to music and managing my own workload.
I've been writing sporadically, but not as much as I wish I was. I'm trying not to be too hard on myself about that—focus on writing the things I should write (the things I'm passionate about), and how I should write (for fun and enrichment), and not that I should write, because that's what writers do, and whatever vague ideas about identity I have for myself hinge, in some respect, on the idea of myself as a writer.
I get too in my head about it, sometimes: it kills the joy, and the joy's the whole point. I've also been thinking about switching ADHD medications, trying for something with a little more oomph. It's hard, sometimes, to make ADHD medication work, since I've got a rare heart defect called Wolff-Parkinson White Syndrome, and it makes taking stimulants complicated. I think it might be worth it, though. I'd like to feel more productive than I have been.
Aside from all that introspective bullshit, I've been watching Warrior on HBO Max lately—a fantastic show, if it's the kind of thing you're into. The fight choreography is beautiful, it's excellently written and directed, and the storyline is set during the Tong Wars, which is fairly fresh ground as far as organized crime stories go. American media has plundered the Italians and the Irish for all their worth, but the Chinese organized crime elements present at the turn of the century and into the twentieth were just as fascinating. It'd make a fun MDZS AU, actually—that might be fun to write.
Anyway, that's all I've got for this update: what's everyone else watching lately? Anything fun?
I get to thinking sometimes that life feels a lot like an interval exercise: an endless loop of fast and slow, fast and slow. But I think that's probably just me—campaign work is like that, and I think I got so used to it that it's hard to change. One minute everything's so fast paced you can't breathe, and the next minute you're unemployed with a three month contract buyout and your win bonus, trying to win back the affection of a cat you haven't seen in a year.
I'm in the slow for the moment, though, and I'm getting better about slowing down what's fast. I got a new job I'm excited about—I was doing freelance graphic work for a few companies I knew from my days working for Harley, and that worked out well during the pandemic, but I'm all vaxxed up now, and I wanted something a little more stable. The new job is working in printing and bookbinding, which is wildly fun to me. All my friends think it sounds boring and slow, especially compared to some of the other gigs I've worked, but that's what I like about it—there's nothing complicated. Just ink and paper, needle and thread, and mostly just me, alone in a workshop, listening to music and managing my own workload.
I've been writing sporadically, but not as much as I wish I was. I'm trying not to be too hard on myself about that—focus on writing the things I should write (the things I'm passionate about), and how I should write (for fun and enrichment), and not that I should write, because that's what writers do, and whatever vague ideas about identity I have for myself hinge, in some respect, on the idea of myself as a writer.
I get too in my head about it, sometimes: it kills the joy, and the joy's the whole point. I've also been thinking about switching ADHD medications, trying for something with a little more oomph. It's hard, sometimes, to make ADHD medication work, since I've got a rare heart defect called Wolff-Parkinson White Syndrome, and it makes taking stimulants complicated. I think it might be worth it, though. I'd like to feel more productive than I have been.
Aside from all that introspective bullshit, I've been watching Warrior on HBO Max lately—a fantastic show, if it's the kind of thing you're into. The fight choreography is beautiful, it's excellently written and directed, and the storyline is set during the Tong Wars, which is fairly fresh ground as far as organized crime stories go. American media has plundered the Italians and the Irish for all their worth, but the Chinese organized crime elements present at the turn of the century and into the twentieth were just as fascinating. It'd make a fun MDZS AU, actually—that might be fun to write.
Anyway, that's all I've got for this update: what's everyone else watching lately? Anything fun?
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Date: 2021-05-31 06:52 pm (UTC)(Also, have now finished ep 1 of Warrior and enjoyed it!)