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the alloy of law audiobook experience has been paused because i need more time to process the first trilogy so i can appreciate this one without just thinking about Sazed and Vin all the time, you know?

brain is gross so nothing creative is happening, we're just playing Skyrim. my character is named Death's Arrow and she will slaughter an entire bandit camp before anyone notices what's up.

a couple years ago i modded Skyrim so hard i broke it and put it down for a couple years. finally fixed it last week. turns out i really do turn to Skyrim whenever i'm experiencing job-related anxiety.

i want to do a proper mage run at some point and started one, but eventually caved in favor of the supremely satisfying stealth archer setup. i'm trying to level pickpocketing so i'm financing my real estate empire by taking people's pocket change. dear lord i love this game so much.

still not sure how real i wanna get about my day job on here, but suffice it to say that i stood up for myself and am thriving, though i would like to go a full year without having to record a conversation between me and a man in charge of me.

how did i sleep on Dance Fever for so long???

alloy of law proceeds - haven't quite started caring about these new characters yet but i'm sure i'll get there. it's extra hard when they mention my beloved, tragic friends from the first era. :(

officially finished the first Mistborn trilogy. made my library page serviceable to distract from the emotional pain.

this year already feels draining and oppressive in the exact same way 2012 did.

there's some new half-finished stuff around here - writing is hard :P i'll try to get them cleaned up and filled out this weekend.

i think a trekkie page is coming soon. just watched "Yesterday's Enterprise" and didn't expect them to wallop me to tears in the last five seconds, holy shit.

weeks ago i dreamed about a bunch of little white mice sleeping on a cozy leaf, their tails wrapped around the stem, and yesterday for some reason i decided i had to do something about that:

haven't picked up the pastels in a while so this felt nice - kitchen table, Glass Animals on the speaker, flow state, all that good stuff.

i intend to finish shotgunning Well of Ascension tonight - thoughts tomorrow probably. i am having many feelings about this series and may find a way to put them on the ol webbed site somewhere.

three blessed days off in a row after my shift tomorrow, which means i can maybe finish some sitely things that have been kicking around half-done.

not bored, just boring. a little antisocial lately - hopefully i'll feel better when the sun starts coming back out.

observations from recent media:

• if people explained things to me the way Geordi explains things to Data, i think i would almost feel like a normal person
• "The Price" is a singularly rancid episode of TNG
• if you're reading Mistborn and have a death wish, take a shot every time Vin frowns
• i don't think i would be this invested in Brando Sando if i didn't go the audiobook route tbh
• (that said, i did in fact suffer through the first dozen or so Dresden Files books before they got good, so maybe i'm a glutton for punishment)

finished the audiobook late last night. the writing is so clunky but the bastard pulled me in anyway and had my jaw dropped throughout the last five chapters. (un?)fortunately this means i now have to finish the series - wish me luck.

there's a food pantry on my block and people have started leaving their unwanted and damaged books. i think even the public library is putting some of their old old books out there. i leave anything that seems enjoyable to somebody - kids' books, romance novels - but i've been bringing home the old stats textbooks and hardcover volumes of war stories and other such unwanteds.

in other news, cyberpunk: edgerunners hurt my feelings deeply and i have yet to recover.

listening to If Books Could Kill and doing offline things mostly. my back is messed up (?!) and i'm trying to go easy on it.

working on a couple sitely things behind the scenes, stay tuned.

brain is having a quiet period so we're doing repetitive work and learning things instead of creating for a little while and that's okay.

i did boot up Curse of Blackmoor Manor and realized with delight that i remember very little of it. if we get the snow day i'm hoping for later this week i'll try to sit down and work on that one for a while.

oh, and i've been enjoying Narrative Art History lately. good stuff.

oof ouch owie my free time.

i am buckled in!

did some end-of-year archival - ready for this place to fill up again. :)