Good and Ugly
Mar. 24th, 2010 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glasmalereiThe good:
• I've ported everything I've written this year over to a little program called Voodoo Pad which is a sort of pseudo wiki which can be run off of a thumb drive (and runs much faster and lighter and less prone to twitchiness than Scrivner does, alas. Scrivner doesn't like running off a thumb drive, particularly once the file gets rather large.) So I've got a front page of month links that go to calendars of that month and one entry a day for writing in. This works for me.
• Speaking of writing, I've managed 750+ words a day for the last few days, which I'm pleased with. When totaled up, I've written more than 63k since the beginning of the year. This is BIG, for me.
• I'm creeping back into doing art again. Some days are good, other days my elbow goes "oh no you didn't!" =P But overall, it's good, as I don't seem to have backslid dramatically in the meantime. (yes, this can and does happen sometimes if I don't draw for long periods.)
• I also installed an event calendar for myself on my personal wordpress page. (Yes, yes, there's always google docs and google calendar. I really don't like either one. Something about the look and feel of them just turns me off.) I've input all my deadlines and class dates and times and turned it into my browser homepage. I'm so organized it's painful!
The ugly:
• Adobe is launching CS5 in 18 days. CS4 hasn't barely been out for a year. The package and upgrade is stupidly expensive, even with my student discount, and I have to get the Design Premium package, which is more so, because I need Flash and Dreamweaver for classes. If Adobe wasn't the only game in town, I'd BITE them. v_v
• I feel fat. I am, technically, somewhat overweight, but right now I feel fat and I don't like what I see in the mirror any more. There's this little roll around my belly that I hate, and it does horrible things to my cheeks and my chin (unless I'm actually brightly awake and perky, in which case I can compensate for it. But first thing in the morning when I'm half awake? Blargh.) I am having to remind myself that eating less is NOT the answer if I don't want my blood sugar to yo-yo all over the place, so the only thing I can do is exercise MORE. I also have to work, and I have to go to school. I *will* write and draw, even if it kills me, because I won't sacrifice my creativity for mundania. Obviously the solution is that I need more #$%^!@ hours in the day. x_x WHY DO WE NOT HAVE A 36 HOUR DAY???
• Materials class. Environmental Science class. Political Science class. Do I really need to say any more??? x____x
In Conclusion: This is where I've been, no I haven't been much online, see above about needing more hours in a day just in order to get stuff done and still take care of my health in a reasonable fashion. ARGH. DO NOT WANT. v_v Why does life have to be so complicated?
• I've ported everything I've written this year over to a little program called Voodoo Pad which is a sort of pseudo wiki which can be run off of a thumb drive (and runs much faster and lighter and less prone to twitchiness than Scrivner does, alas. Scrivner doesn't like running off a thumb drive, particularly once the file gets rather large.) So I've got a front page of month links that go to calendars of that month and one entry a day for writing in. This works for me.
• Speaking of writing, I've managed 750+ words a day for the last few days, which I'm pleased with. When totaled up, I've written more than 63k since the beginning of the year. This is BIG, for me.
• I'm creeping back into doing art again. Some days are good, other days my elbow goes "oh no you didn't!" =P But overall, it's good, as I don't seem to have backslid dramatically in the meantime. (yes, this can and does happen sometimes if I don't draw for long periods.)
• I also installed an event calendar for myself on my personal wordpress page. (Yes, yes, there's always google docs and google calendar. I really don't like either one. Something about the look and feel of them just turns me off.) I've input all my deadlines and class dates and times and turned it into my browser homepage. I'm so organized it's painful!
The ugly:
• Adobe is launching CS5 in 18 days. CS4 hasn't barely been out for a year. The package and upgrade is stupidly expensive, even with my student discount, and I have to get the Design Premium package, which is more so, because I need Flash and Dreamweaver for classes. If Adobe wasn't the only game in town, I'd BITE them. v_v
• I feel fat. I am, technically, somewhat overweight, but right now I feel fat and I don't like what I see in the mirror any more. There's this little roll around my belly that I hate, and it does horrible things to my cheeks and my chin (unless I'm actually brightly awake and perky, in which case I can compensate for it. But first thing in the morning when I'm half awake? Blargh.) I am having to remind myself that eating less is NOT the answer if I don't want my blood sugar to yo-yo all over the place, so the only thing I can do is exercise MORE. I also have to work, and I have to go to school. I *will* write and draw, even if it kills me, because I won't sacrifice my creativity for mundania. Obviously the solution is that I need more #$%^!@ hours in the day. x_x WHY DO WE NOT HAVE A 36 HOUR DAY???
• Materials class. Environmental Science class. Political Science class. Do I really need to say any more??? x____x
In Conclusion: This is where I've been, no I haven't been much online, see above about needing more hours in a day just in order to get stuff done and still take care of my health in a reasonable fashion. ARGH. DO NOT WANT. v_v Why does life have to be so complicated?
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Date: 2010-03-24 07:03 pm (UTC)Weird.
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Date: 2010-03-24 07:07 pm (UTC)