sunday journal on a monday (again)
May. 20th, 2024 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gnatpackShould this maybe just be a Monday tradition? Looks like it. Am I going to keep calling it a Sunday journal? Definitely.
It's starting to get warmer. Or at least, warmer more consistently. We've been having days in the 90s since February, a fact which I try not to give too much thought. Now the gulf between days with highs in the 90s is getting smaller. With the house as poorly insulated as it is I can only hope that there are still a few cool days left before summer really starts to kick off.
Classes were supposed to start in June for the summer semester, but after weighing everything I've decided it's probably better to not deal with all that. In general it was probably foolish of me to sign up for a class that was two hours every morning, Monday through Thursday, during a time of the year when the heat makes life in general unbearable. Add on writing a script for the show I'm doing and planning a bathroom remodel and the idea of taking a bunch of intense classes feels like torture.
I'd love to lay some brick paths in the garden before it gets too hot to do any work outside, but we'll see if the budget agrees with my plans. Watching Gardener's World on Tubi has gotten me a little bit obsessed with garden design. Unfortunately summers in this region are becoming more and more miserable. On the plus side it gets hot enough that cooking outside is pretty easy, which at least saves money on electricity.
Just to change things up a bit I've been playing Sims 4 the normal way. Usually I just spend all of my time remodeling buildings and giving preexisting families redesigns, but so much of my life right now is about design and planning that it's nice to do something to just totally unplug my brain. My current household are a brother and sister who live in a duplex above a family; the brother has a villainous valentine aspiration so obviously there will be shenanigans if I get my way.
Pride is next month, which also opens up my eternal quandry: do I want to go to local events? Last year I went to their showing of Rocky Horror and discovered I don't really like those kinds of interactive shows. Everyone thinks they're the cast of Mystery Science Theater but they're not... actually funny. The other issue is that these are usually events with a small turnout and I don't have much of a choice but to go alone. Which makes them boring at best. Even worse, the other people there tend to be people I went to high school with who don't recognize me after a decade. Awkwardness all around.
That's a few weeks away at least, so there's time to ponder. In the meantime I'll be spending the next two weeks trying to write as many scripts as I can for our series before things officially go live. Obviously it would be ideal to have more of a head start, but we only had two weeks' notice of when things would be going live so.... here we are. So far so good, though.
It's starting to get warmer. Or at least, warmer more consistently. We've been having days in the 90s since February, a fact which I try not to give too much thought. Now the gulf between days with highs in the 90s is getting smaller. With the house as poorly insulated as it is I can only hope that there are still a few cool days left before summer really starts to kick off.
Classes were supposed to start in June for the summer semester, but after weighing everything I've decided it's probably better to not deal with all that. In general it was probably foolish of me to sign up for a class that was two hours every morning, Monday through Thursday, during a time of the year when the heat makes life in general unbearable. Add on writing a script for the show I'm doing and planning a bathroom remodel and the idea of taking a bunch of intense classes feels like torture.
I'd love to lay some brick paths in the garden before it gets too hot to do any work outside, but we'll see if the budget agrees with my plans. Watching Gardener's World on Tubi has gotten me a little bit obsessed with garden design. Unfortunately summers in this region are becoming more and more miserable. On the plus side it gets hot enough that cooking outside is pretty easy, which at least saves money on electricity.
Just to change things up a bit I've been playing Sims 4 the normal way. Usually I just spend all of my time remodeling buildings and giving preexisting families redesigns, but so much of my life right now is about design and planning that it's nice to do something to just totally unplug my brain. My current household are a brother and sister who live in a duplex above a family; the brother has a villainous valentine aspiration so obviously there will be shenanigans if I get my way.
Pride is next month, which also opens up my eternal quandry: do I want to go to local events? Last year I went to their showing of Rocky Horror and discovered I don't really like those kinds of interactive shows. Everyone thinks they're the cast of Mystery Science Theater but they're not... actually funny. The other issue is that these are usually events with a small turnout and I don't have much of a choice but to go alone. Which makes them boring at best. Even worse, the other people there tend to be people I went to high school with who don't recognize me after a decade. Awkwardness all around.
That's a few weeks away at least, so there's time to ponder. In the meantime I'll be spending the next two weeks trying to write as many scripts as I can for our series before things officially go live. Obviously it would be ideal to have more of a head start, but we only had two weeks' notice of when things would be going live so.... here we are. So far so good, though.
