February is the worst month.

February is the last official winter month, and the weather is the worst of the three this year. Nothing in it feels like any sort of respite and, the last few years, it doesn't even seem to work into a transition into spring. What gives? Fuck this terrible month. Literally the only good things are that it's Kay's ( Read more... )

November tends to be a difficult month to navigate, and the more stuff I can get out of, the more I tend to enjoy it. Not because I want to get out of literally everything, but because I really only want to focus on one or two events, and anything past that tends to make everything feel like more of an obligation and less like a holiday.

Things ( Read more... )

As mentioned, October wasn't a very productive month and, thinking on it, I really haven't had a particularly personally productive month since I started working. I feel like I felt it more in October, but I also remember feeling pretty unhappy about August's evaporation. None of this is really all that surprising. Kay and I did an audit of our ( Read more... )

August had seemed to have broken the trend of each month being sort of subdivided into two sections, and September seems to have carried on the trend. Nothing in particular actually happened during the month.

The breakdown's pretty straightforward, I guess. I'm finally starting to get my feet at this place, and so the simple act of coming into work ( Read more... )

We come to bury August, not to praise it.

Actually, August was pretty okay - just not especially exciting. That was sort of the goal, to be honest, so here we are in September - probably the best transitional month, imo. That's a wrap.

August was the first month this year with no big split between the beginning of the month and the end. It was ( Read more... )

We gotta face facts that about a quarter to a third of the year kind of sucks based on weather and whether you can handle December. January and February are not good months, and you know this. I hear people tell me they love winter and I know that ain't true because what they love is December and Christmas, and a distant memory of snow. We don't ( Read more... )

I wanted to sit down to write here, and figured I might as well wrap the month up since I'm unlikely to have enough going on that I can really split it between today and the 1st of the next month or whatever. Which I like, to be honest, because no news is usually pretty good news, and I'm generally feeling my self-imposed semi-exile from everything ( Read more... )

I missed posting on my LJ during Jan. so maybe I'll just do a post at the beginning of the new month recapping the entire previous. I posted pretty recently so I can keep it short here, at least.

January felt really strange; there was a dramatic difference between the ending of unemployment - lots and lots of mostly free time but a huge amount of ( Read more... )

This'll probably be my last journal entry of 2017, just because I'll be modestly busy every day until the beginning of next month. I don't really have, like, concrete "resolutions" for 2018, but I have some goals I've been in the progress of making happen already so I like to keep things simple.

I'd like to let myself focus on the things I'm doing ( Read more... )

Finished "A Thousand Plateaus" today which, honestly, I probably did not read in the optimal way - rushing through it at top speed, not differentiating one section from another, and without discussion with anyone else or supplementary reading. I... might have gotten the gist of it. I certainly looked at all of the words in sequential order.

I didn' ( Read more... )