out of atuan

left the house! the heat dome finally broke (i love hearing about new types of natural disaster as they're happening to me) and it's still humid but at least it's overcast and a livable temperature. packed up the puter and hiked up to campus to visit the husband and work on some website stuff at a proper desk. it's a thirty minute walk, just enough to break a proper sweat and be really grateful for conditioned air.

sissy moves back out into her new place tomorrow, which is exciting for everyone!

sometimes my brain needs all input and no output for a while. this seems unfortunate from a recovering type-a perspective but i'm trying to take myself less seriously.

i have been socializing more though, and actually having a nice time doing it. two nights out past midnight - an extreme rarity - with friends i'll miss every single shift, alas. i was very demure and held my gin with only mild personal embarassment and lack of spatial awareness.

work is about to kick into high gear for a few months on top of having a bit of management shakeup and massive employee turnover. i'm not really worried but i'm definitely preemptively tired.

see title - murderbot is great and is a rare case where i think the show was done better (at least in some ways) than the book. i'm so glad it got picked back up for a second season because i neeeeed more. five bucks says they combine books two and three.

the summer churn of the american college town is starting and i'm losing a bunch of work friends to bigger and better things elsewhere. it'll be fun to have some new folks coming through but i wish all my favorites weren't disappearing on me all at once.

didn't expect to sink dozens of hours into Palia this month but here we are. my flavor of autism is playing every game like it's a roguelike - iterate, iterate, iterate - so the whole MMO thing is an enjoyable stretch from my comfort zone.

my book pile is starting to appeal to me again. husband has started the Murderbot series and brought a couple home for me, and i'm hoping they'll pull me out of this little minislump. i truly need to block out library time to work on my Left Hard of Darkness close read/thesis/shrine because it's been sitting on my coffee table mocking me for my inadequacy for a good while now.

finally took a long weekend after months and months of wanting one - now that i had an occasion for it, anyway. twas a lovely stretch of cozy autistic pursuits and cozier sleep. not the most exciting way to spend a three-day weekend, but damn if capitalism doesn't make time at home a rare luxury in and of itself.

making some more progress on filling this place a little fuller with words. the games page is on its way.

i really missed having a little blog space on here - i thought i was just going to put everything in the daylog but it turns out that sometimes there are additional thoughts.

since my latest little overhaul i've added lots of stuff to my links page and continued adding titles to the library. the reading urge is slowing down a little in favor of softer and more brainless pursuits, but it'll come back around. i really (like really actually for real) would like to finish my close read of Left Hand of Darkness this month(...???) hopefully. i am notoriously awful with deadlines but i've made a good chunk of progress and really want to write for a while about what that book meant to me.