Journal of Mistress Kat

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Uhhh, hi. Work is ridiculous. We shall not discuss the number of my overtime hours or the number of smacks moth2fic  and pushkin666 are ready to dole out. Both are high.

Let's just do a little catch-up on them Snowflake challenges.




Challenge #9: Brag about yourself

Have literally done this all weekend which involved writing a promotion letter and then writing it again, twice. It was a lot of transformational leadership and strategic thinking etc. But by necessity I also did a some genuine reflection and in summarising a lot of my experience and resulting key strengths I concluded: "I have spent much of my professional and personal life in the ‘in between’, in the intersections of countries, disciplines, identities and roles. While undeniably a cause for both discomfort and friction at times, such liminal spaces have given me room to grow and shaped my leadership. I seek and make connections, and work to build bridges across perceived boundaries, whether disciplinary, departmental, or those arising from individual differences." So there's that.

I'm proud of my fanfic. I'm proud of my poetry and getting some of it published.

I'm proud of being where I am, who I am, professionally and personally, when it hasn't always been easy.



Challenge 10#: Fandom love letter

I don't have energy or creativity to write anything very witty here so I'll keep it brief. I love fandom because it is an endless source of joy, creativity, distraction and emotional catharsis (for every emotion, from horny to transcendent awe to despair to wheezing hilarity to rage). I love fandom because it's given me a place to belong and people to belong with and to belong to. I love fandom because it's made me learn and challenged me and pushed me out of my comfort zone while at the same time offering the most comforting of zones to hide in when I need it. I love fandom because fandom makes me love being me.

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( Schitt's Creek )***

( The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin )
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Challenge #2 of



was to interact with someone new. Which I have achieved by dropping comments on not just some snowflake_challenge participants but also on the getyourwordsout intro post.

Other exciting activities today have included a vidcall with my god parents, finishing a fic, doing some other writing, reading a book chapter, washing dishes, vidcall with H, some exercise and stretching, absolutely dreading going back to work tomorrow (don't wanna!). Current plan is to just keep entirely emotionally dissociated from work so as not to let it stress me. What could go wrong?

Things in the vague plan/goals/good intentions on the road to perdition list

• Writing
• Signed up to cookbook_challenge  because my recipes are staring at me accusingly. Only at the 1-2 recipes per month though which should be achievable. Going to pick one this week.
• Fanworks round-up meme
• Many photo dump posts (Aug-Dec, you've been warned)
• Jogging, achievable atm because no pain and also new shiny purple trainers. Sadly I did manage to wash my headphones so need to get me new ones
• Survive work
• Reading books

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