Pronoun Trouble

Go check out ao3_isdown! It's a journal that hosts fic prompt memes whenever AO3 goes down.

Prompts for the first meme are open for close to another three hours, as of this post; prompts will be open to fills for another week after the post closes to new prompts.

Anyway, go take a look! I've already made a little fill myself for Avery and Zeek, which I'll cross-post here, uh. Sooner or later, I promise!

Contrary to my expectations, I managed to (effectively*) finish my yarn bowl on Wednesday after all!



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Here's the yarn bowl and also the fish, in their no-longer-current glory; they're in the "greenware" state in this photo, which means they haven't been fired even once yet. I'm pretty sure they're undergoing their first, or "bisque", firing this weekend, and that I'm going to get to do some glazing on Monday, but I'd need to check the schedule to be sure 😂

In any case, I'm pretty pleased with them so far! I'm looking forward to the fun things I'll get to do with them in the glazing stage 😁

I have been informed that the placement of the crochet hook holes and yarn catching wave on the bowl make it look "distressed", and that "it looks like it was dropped and having a crisis about it." I'm sure it'll appreciate all my hard work in the end, though 😜


* I did end up having to stop by very briefly on Thursday afternoon to touch up the base, but that's nowhere near as much work as I was expecting.

Big project for Intro to Human Services: History project (5 to 7 minute presentation, needs visual aid(s)); can work in groups of up to three. I'm working solo, and my project is on the history of the ADA. It's due Monday the 22nd, aaaaand I haven't really done a lot yet 😑 On the plus side, no homework next week?

No big project for Social Problems! I just gotta read another textbook chapter, originally by Thursday but now possibly not until Tuesday. (I may try for Thursday anyway.) No Asynchronous Course Materials this week, because last week's was two-and-a-half hours long.

Big project for Ceramics: Two coil-and-pinch projects due for bisque (initial, pre-glaze) firing by end of day Friday. I've got one finished, and have only barely started the second. To be fair, I tried starting the second twice already, and had to scrap it both times, because I just kept pinching the bowl larger when I was trying to smooth the coils together. And then yesterday, though I finished cleaning up my fish (that I love and can't wait to share), we did some practice of taking stuff out of the kiln, and that ate up some class time I would have otherwise used to work on my bowl.

Our next class period, tomorrow, will be dedicated to Raku firing our test pieces, so I doubt I'll have a lot of time to work then, and will have to leave class ASAP to get to an appointment back home. So I anticipate staying late on Thursday and coming in on Friday, neither of which is an official Ceramics day, to finish my bowl.


I probably should not have slacked off quite as much as I did over the weekend, but slacking off felt so gooooood 😭 Ah, well; back to work!

I've finished both my fics for pokepodproject! The first one (Xatu) is already submitted to the collection, while I want to give the second one (Sneasel) another going-over before I submit it.

I also managed to finish an extra short about Smeargle; I'm waiting to see if Smeargle needs a pinch hit before I submit it anywhere. If Smeargle's covered, the fic will still go up as a Rare Candy.

pokepodproject fics:
- Xatu: Posted!
- Sneasel: First draft finished! Up next: Typing

summerofthe69:
- Fest closed for the year
- Amnesty period open

Homework:
- Keeping up with it 👍
- Good grades so far ✌

Socchan in general:
- Uh...
- Uhhhhh...

(I think it's mostly not getting quite enough sleep? Plus, you know, the background fascism. I read ahead in one of my textbooks, and I'm taking this upcoming Sunday off, so that should help some. Also, Sot69 is done for the year, so I don't have to worry about or work on that at all. Once PokéPod is done, I'll have no major fandom obligations that I can't just schedule posts for, so I'm hoping that I'll be doing better in two weeks.)

Me, today: Okay, this is it! Today, I'm going to be really good, and do my class readings and work on my homework, so I can take tomorrow off and finish anything else up on Sunday!

Me: *spends free time writing fanfic and not!fic instead*

Me: ...Well, that didn't work.

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I'm going to try and at least read a chapter or two of my textbook before going to sleep, if nothing else. Damn you, college homework!

Reading: One chapter of each textbook: Done!

Two to five page autobiography for Human Services: About half done? It's a little over a page, and I've covered a lot of the material I'm supposed to.
Due date: Sunday night, 11:59pm

Watch video for Social Problems: Done
Take notes on video for Social Problems, including at least three observations on specific time stamps: Not yet
Due date: Sunday night, 11:59pm

I'm going to try and get my autobiography at least another quarter done tonight, and then I might call it quits for the evening.

Got my assignments for pokepodproject!

I'm writing about Xatu and Sneasel. Xatu's got a pretty cool design in general, and I've been a fan of Sneasel pretty much since I first laid eyes on it. Reading their 'dex entries and lore on Bulbapedia got me a plunny for Sneasel already, but I'm still working on finding one for Xatu.

If you haven't checked out the fics/podfic from last year, I recommend it! It was a long listen (about ten and a half hours total), but I loved almost every fic, and keep meaning to go back and comment on all of them.

Classes start up again on Monday!

Okay, I'm cool, I'm good, I'm collected; I can do this.

Right now I'm trying to decide if it's worth it to me to start taking the bus to and from classes. There's a specific bus that goes from my hometown to the college campus I'm attending, a thirty minute drive away, and financially it might be a good idea overall. It's just that one of the classes I'm taking would have me out the door by 8:30 AM, and that's a smidge earlier than I like to get up these days 😅

Still, it's doable! The bus stop for the in town bus is under a block from my house, so it's not a particularly arduous walk—or at least it's not too much worse than just walking to where I've parked my car. It would be better for the environment and would save wear and tear on my (aging) vehicle. Even taking the bus three days a week might be good enough.

So my plan is, probably on Thursday and maybe on Friday as well, take the (free) in town bus to the interchange and then back home. If I really want to give a solid go of it, I'll also give the town-to-campus bus a try, but we'll see how I feel about spending $7 on that. I'll also want to start turning the lights out earlier, preferably tonight.

Fingers crossed for cheap textbooks and sparse homework!