Snowflake Challenge #1
Jan. 1st, 2021 05:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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So, in a probably doomed attempt of Posting and Interacting and Doing Something Else Besides Work Please God, I've decided to have... Maybe... A little go at the...
For the first time ever. I've given it a pass in the past because the timing is murder for anyone working in HE but screw everything this year, and my 90h of overtime in particular. So there.
The first challenge was an introduction so I took the opportunity to write a new Welcome Post and update my profile ever so slightly. Achieve!
In other news, I am WRITING AGAIN HALLELUJAH. Which is both fantastic and depressing, because it took me 1.5 weeks of recovery/holiday to get to the point where words were cooperating again. And now I want to write All The Things but I know that from Monday work is going to try to kick my ass so hard again :( Anyway, I have signed up to another try at![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
getyourwordsout. I did not achieve my goal last year because 2020, but I did write 86k of fic anyway so fuck you universe. There will be the usual fanworks round-up meme soon. Well, this month?
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So, in a probably doomed attempt of Posting and Interacting and Doing Something Else Besides Work Please God, I've decided to have... Maybe... A little go at the...
For the first time ever. I've given it a pass in the past because the timing is murder for anyone working in HE but screw everything this year, and my 90h of overtime in particular. So there.
The first challenge was an introduction so I took the opportunity to write a new Welcome Post and update my profile ever so slightly. Achieve!
In other news, I am WRITING AGAIN HALLELUJAH. Which is both fantastic and depressing, because it took me 1.5 weeks of recovery/holiday to get to the point where words were cooperating again. And now I want to write All The Things but I know that from Monday work is going to try to kick my ass so hard again :( Anyway, I have signed up to another try at
getyourwordsout. I did not achieve my goal last year because 2020, but I did write 86k of fic anyway so fuck you universe. There will be the usual fanworks round-up meme soon. Well, this month? ***
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on 2021-01-01 09:22 pm (UTC)Work life balance, particularly when going to work doesn't currently involve leaving the house, is DIFFICULT right now - we have to log all our hours and I'm very aware that I need to model good behaviour around my hours so I can make sure my team aren't working too much which helps, but it's HARD. GOOD LUCK. One's productivity is significantly better with decent balance, but just... stopping isn't really always an option.
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on 2021-01-01 11:05 pm (UTC)Yeah, having no separation between work and home is really affecting that. It's just been get up, laptop for work, eat, laptop for fun, sleep, maybe go and run around the same part for a bit. I bet having to role model decent working hours helps a lot though in terms of accountability. But yeah, there's the whole thing of 'I either work over time to get thing thing done or it won't get done on time' and being late or not prepared causes additional stress.
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on 2021-01-02 12:19 am (UTC)I’m glad your words are back though boo work!
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on 2021-01-02 12:50 am (UTC)Hello from the snowflake challenge, nice to meet you, and also congrats on words again!! \o/
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on 2021-01-02 10:51 am (UTC)And thank you, very happy to be producing some words again :) Snowflake challenge should help with the 'keeping connection to people' as well.
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on 2021-01-02 04:55 am (UTC)The Snowflake challenge thing looks interesting, have been thinking I should be more interactive and connect with people more often. Maybe I should investigate, especially if it's not too demanding;)
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on 2021-01-02 10:47 am (UTC)Ooooh, you should definitely do it!!! *cheers you on*
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on 2021-01-02 10:19 am (UTC)Now, I'm off to go read your welcome post.
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on 2021-01-02 04:31 pm (UTC)Good news about the writing muse making a reappearance. Not such good news about work about to start again, though if you keep racking up overtime at that rate you'll need a year off...
After my December music I am having a few days of rest before embarking on anything. However, my resolutions are to write more (or rather, more widely), post a lot more (I tend to live in comments to other people's posts) and buy less - especially books both printed and digital until my tbr pile gets to some kind of sane proportions. Note the posting resolution...
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on 2021-01-03 01:49 pm (UTC)Yeah, I have to say I'm not looking forward to work tomorrow AT ALL. I'm currently determined to keep to reasonable hours but have very low success rates with that sort of resolution so... The problem with overtime hours is that I don't think there is anytime I could actually take them back, considering I still have most of my annual leave to use before end of August.
Those are all excellent resolutions. I joined
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