Shitty Brain Time

So, as the title says. Yeah. Not the best time. My sociophobia has been acting up for months, and now my general anxiety level is picking up too, since it’s time for exam registrations etc and there’s Too Many Unknowns, which my brain hates, leading to it convincing itself that I’m going to fail miserably. The next four months are going to be fun, so don’t worry if I’m getting a bit more quiet than usual. I wish people would come up with better ways to assess skill.

But, on a more positive note, my vacation in Gdansk went well! I wrote a travelogue, which I’m probably going to post here when I’ve polished it a little. It’s not the best, since I haven’t written one in a while nor read one in ages, but feel free to read it if you’re interested. I mostly write those for myself, since my memory is not the best due to the reasons expressed by the title.

Also, since I am not going to make my getyourwordsout goal for exam reasons, I’d set myself a very modest one in its place: 25k, or a third of my original pledge, which I’d struggled to meet outside of NaNoWriMo last year. But this year, I didn’t struggle. I hit it this month! I’m almost up to 30k, finished the first draft of a ficlet for fandomgiftbasket yesterday and am generally pretty happy with how my writing has been going this year.

Apart from that: currently drowning in blueberries from our neighbour, managing my mum’s new toy (camera for animals – if you’re interested in grainy hedgehog footage, I can post the links here as well), finally managed to acquire wool but haven’t started on a project yet, and tried rowing for the first time last week for work-reasons (first impression: fun!)