Let's see what happens

[yuuago]

Went to the dentist yesterday. Was mostly good, but now I've made an appointment for a consultation to get an implant to replace that tooth that was removed a few years ago. I wish I could just leave it alone, but they say it'll need to be replaced in order to keep other teeth from moving into that space. Well, fine. I hate having to get fake teeth at my age; seems kind of ridiculous. But if it's necessary, the fine.

Did some shopping. Replaced my earphones. Bought another book and kind of feel guilty about it but not really. I did resolve to cut down on material possessions, and books are included in that, but that can start... next week. Come on, self: Read those books before you get new ones. You have a ton that you want to read anyway, and a goal to read them. Do it.

I really, really want to become better at how I manage my time and what I do with it. If I'm not careful, I could spend hours just doing absolutely nothing. And that's okay sometimes, but not all the time. As long as I'm doing something, though, that's fine. It doesn't have to be anything important; it's okay if all I do is knit and watch Star Trek. Or draw with crayons, heh. Or just - I don't know. Something. Indexing. As long as I'm not staring off into space. I stare off into space too much. So: Do things instead of waiting for things to happen... I need to do that.


With the way LJ has been going up and down and up and down lately, people are scrambling to back things up. I'm no different. I've been going through Delicious and saving copies of all the stuff I have bookmarked. It's a pain in the ass, but what can ya' do, really.

I'm trying not to think too much about "What if" scenarios. That's just bothersome. But it doesn't hurt to be cautious, either.

People at the APH Anon Meme have been kind of flailing around because of all the outages. I'm not sure what we're going to do if LJ implodes completely. Some of them will move to the DW backup, I guess, but others - who knows?

The things I'm hearing about revised Delicious are not good, either. I'm going to have to be extra-vigilant about backing up indexes on there. I don't want to have to move everything to Pinboard permanently, but I need to be prepared to do that if it is necessary.

On the writing front, things are... uh. Going, I guess. Hard to find time for it, but I keep trying. I've been feeling a little bit frustrated with it lately; nothing seems to be turning out the way that I want it to. I have a new thing that I started recently, a kind of "fluff with plot" thing, and while it should be relatively straightforward, it isn't. I keep getting hung up on trying to decide what would be the right way for the characters to act toward one another, the right things that they need to say in order for the story to advance, and I just - I don't know, I'm having a ton of trouble with it. I guess if it doesn't turn out right when I scribble it down, I can fix it in the revising, but I'd rather do it properly the first time.

Comments

[kainoliero.livejournal.com]

I strongly disagree: books are not material possessions, they're friends! And with friends you can never have too many (although I agree that you should pay attention to all of them). :D

[yuuago]

They might be friends, but exactly like with friends, when you live in a tiny room there are only so many of them that you can fit in there before things start to feel a bit... cramped. ;p