Reorganising
Mar. 23rd, 2019 07:33 amI have been updated DW on a Thursday to follow on from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lassarina 's 'What are you playing Wednesday' but that takes up my Thursday 'writing slot'. I am also working my way through my Triple Goddess tarot deck on Fridays but, again, it takes up my writing slot. And I've been struggling to find the energy for writing on Monday - Wednesday. All of this has meant that I haven't done any writing, or even a pretence at it, for weeks.
I am, therefore, moving DW to Saturday when, theoretically at least, I have a bit more space, and the Tarot thing to Sunday. This will give me five chances during the week to make some words. We'll see...
I met up with my favourite colleague on Wednesday. It was so good to see him and he seemed very relaxed and even cheerful, more so than I've seen him in a long time. Of course the middle part of last year was Not Fun At All for him - or for those of us who give a shit about him. However, being freed from the responsibility of work has opened up some interesting opportunities that he has fully embraced. He's enrolling for a PhD thing in the summer, so there will be future opportunities and plenty of coffee to be had!
Particularly gratifying, from an ego pov, were hugs two hugs and that he stayed an extra five minutes. These sound like small things but they suggested that he really did value meeting up with me. I've always known he enjoyed my company but sometimes it's felt as if he was too keen to get away, even when he really didn't need to. Of course, it was still up to me to set the meeting up...
It's a complex relationship between two people who, on paper, seem to have little or nothing in common - except a love for Doctor Who. I know people who know us both scratch their heads over it. But there's that thing of 'opposites attract' I suppose. I've learned from him and I know he's learned from me, too - although it took a fair amount of alcohol and a hotel room for him to admit it! Geez - that was ten years ago...
I mentioned that I have both a mentor at work and a spiritual director for 'holy' stuff and he said it made me sound high maintenance. I said I wasn't - or at least didn't think so. He just gave me a look. I know he was teasing but it's made me wonder... But getting caught up in 'am I or aren't I?' is likely to create a high maintenance situation!
As well as playing A LOT of DAI, I've been watching 'Titans' on my line manager's recommendation having finished 'The Umbrella Academy'. I recommend both. As a 'not really a superhero fan' type person, I've enjoyed them a lot. Although 'Titans' does seem to be all about Dick rushing off to do stuff, meeting up with the others and moving them somewhere else, then him rushing off to do stuff on his own again. After watching programmes with female protagonists (Jessica Jones, Wynonna Earp, Star Trek: Discovery), after enjoying the two female characters in Titans, I'm a bit disappointed by Dick's machismo. Hopefully, it'll backfire at some point.
Oh, and I got a review for 'I Miss You' on fanfiction.net (look up Rosa Heartlily - finding individual stories is almost impossible on that site), which gave me a real kick. Which reminds me, I want to find the reviewer and take a look a their stuff...
So, that's life at the moment. See you next Saturday!
lassarina 's 'What are you playing Wednesday' but that takes up my Thursday 'writing slot'. I am also working my way through my Triple Goddess tarot deck on Fridays but, again, it takes up my writing slot. And I've been struggling to find the energy for writing on Monday - Wednesday. All of this has meant that I haven't done any writing, or even a pretence at it, for weeks.I am, therefore, moving DW to Saturday when, theoretically at least, I have a bit more space, and the Tarot thing to Sunday. This will give me five chances during the week to make some words. We'll see...
I met up with my favourite colleague on Wednesday. It was so good to see him and he seemed very relaxed and even cheerful, more so than I've seen him in a long time. Of course the middle part of last year was Not Fun At All for him - or for those of us who give a shit about him. However, being freed from the responsibility of work has opened up some interesting opportunities that he has fully embraced. He's enrolling for a PhD thing in the summer, so there will be future opportunities and plenty of coffee to be had!
Particularly gratifying, from an ego pov, were hugs two hugs and that he stayed an extra five minutes. These sound like small things but they suggested that he really did value meeting up with me. I've always known he enjoyed my company but sometimes it's felt as if he was too keen to get away, even when he really didn't need to. Of course, it was still up to me to set the meeting up...
It's a complex relationship between two people who, on paper, seem to have little or nothing in common - except a love for Doctor Who. I know people who know us both scratch their heads over it. But there's that thing of 'opposites attract' I suppose. I've learned from him and I know he's learned from me, too - although it took a fair amount of alcohol and a hotel room for him to admit it! Geez - that was ten years ago...
I mentioned that I have both a mentor at work and a spiritual director for 'holy' stuff and he said it made me sound high maintenance. I said I wasn't - or at least didn't think so. He just gave me a look. I know he was teasing but it's made me wonder... But getting caught up in 'am I or aren't I?' is likely to create a high maintenance situation!
As well as playing A LOT of DAI, I've been watching 'Titans' on my line manager's recommendation having finished 'The Umbrella Academy'. I recommend both. As a 'not really a superhero fan' type person, I've enjoyed them a lot. Although 'Titans' does seem to be all about Dick rushing off to do stuff, meeting up with the others and moving them somewhere else, then him rushing off to do stuff on his own again. After watching programmes with female protagonists (Jessica Jones, Wynonna Earp, Star Trek: Discovery), after enjoying the two female characters in Titans, I'm a bit disappointed by Dick's machismo. Hopefully, it'll backfire at some point.
Oh, and I got a review for 'I Miss You' on fanfiction.net (look up Rosa Heartlily - finding individual stories is almost impossible on that site), which gave me a real kick. Which reminds me, I want to find the reviewer and take a look a their stuff...
So, that's life at the moment. See you next Saturday!
