Positivity
Sunday, 24 February 2013 12:45![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lea_hazelIt's really easy for me to cycle from positivity to negativity without intending to. Let's see what happens when I try the reverse process deliberately.
I've received my first![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
purimgifts fic and it is more than I could have possibly hoped for. The author took my favorite out of all the optional requests I listed and ran with it in an incredible way that never would have occurred to me. This is why fanfic exchanges exist and everyone should read it: At her feet part one of Blood and Milk. Everyone agrees that this story is amazeballs! It's not just me!
One fabulous thing about this story is that it gives me feels about a post-apocalyptic urban fantasy story that I wanted to write, but not in a way that makes me want to pick that idea back up in earnest. Which is good, because I have plenty on my writing plate and I'm trying to be disciplined both in terms of actually writing and in terms of maintaining focus on a limited number of projects. Last week I put everything into getting PG done and now I have to stick to the priorities I set myself. Meanwhile I also have a lightweight anonymous kmeme fill that's designed to fulfill the need for writing that is easy and fun, but does not challenge me creatively in particular.
Tuesday classes start again and I am choosing to think of this three-week period as one in which I accomplished some things, as opposed to one in which I failed to accomplish everything. I am clever enough to see when I've taken on too much out of a misplaced emotion that I don't understand. I am also clever enough to create schedules that will alert me to things that need to be done before the last minute, and then use them. Letting one thing almost slip does not mean I failed forever.
This semester I'm taking astrobiology, which should be pretty cool. I have more exams than I'd like, but over a longer period of time. Also, I think I definitively proved that, while I'm much better at writing papers, they do come with their own particular stressors.
Not everything has been handled but things are basically okay. There are contingency plans to deal with everything. Today and tomorrow are a holiday. I can go to a party or not go to a party. I can dress up or wear jeans. I can go out for coffee with someone or politely turn them down. I can entertain myself by writing or by reading or by playing mindless video games and that's okay.
I've received my first
purimgifts fic and it is more than I could have possibly hoped for. The author took my favorite out of all the optional requests I listed and ran with it in an incredible way that never would have occurred to me. This is why fanfic exchanges exist and everyone should read it: At her feet part one of Blood and Milk. Everyone agrees that this story is amazeballs! It's not just me! One fabulous thing about this story is that it gives me feels about a post-apocalyptic urban fantasy story that I wanted to write, but not in a way that makes me want to pick that idea back up in earnest. Which is good, because I have plenty on my writing plate and I'm trying to be disciplined both in terms of actually writing and in terms of maintaining focus on a limited number of projects. Last week I put everything into getting PG done and now I have to stick to the priorities I set myself. Meanwhile I also have a lightweight anonymous kmeme fill that's designed to fulfill the need for writing that is easy and fun, but does not challenge me creatively in particular.
Tuesday classes start again and I am choosing to think of this three-week period as one in which I accomplished some things, as opposed to one in which I failed to accomplish everything. I am clever enough to see when I've taken on too much out of a misplaced emotion that I don't understand. I am also clever enough to create schedules that will alert me to things that need to be done before the last minute, and then use them. Letting one thing almost slip does not mean I failed forever.
This semester I'm taking astrobiology, which should be pretty cool. I have more exams than I'd like, but over a longer period of time. Also, I think I definitively proved that, while I'm much better at writing papers, they do come with their own particular stressors.
Not everything has been handled but things are basically okay. There are contingency plans to deal with everything. Today and tomorrow are a holiday. I can go to a party or not go to a party. I can dress up or wear jeans. I can go out for coffee with someone or politely turn them down. I can entertain myself by writing or by reading or by playing mindless video games and that's okay.
