Batrick’s Storage Unit of DOOM

Jul. 2nd, 2025 07:51 am
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I can’t get the pictures to load on Imgur, but I do have pics of Bat’s 10’x25’ storage unit, packed chin-high with decaying cardboard boxes and trash bags full of a mish-mash of possessions packed, at the last minute, in no logical order. How did Bat come to be in possession of a full storage unit of DOOM? Some of that is AuDHD executive dysfunction, and some of it is life circumstances being hard for someone with those disabilities to navigate. You may have seen the ADHD aphorism “DOOM” ie. “Don’t Organize, Only Move”? Well, you’ll be seeing it a lot in this post.

I will tell the sad tale behind a Read more... )
Wow, long post is long.

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Jul. 1st, 2025 09:01 pm
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Today has been a day of cramps, grocery shopping, more cramps, talking to people on the phone, learning to debone a chicken, and having figured out when to do class work to get ahead of schedule without getting a headache from the overhead fan throwing flickering shadows over everything when the sunshine is coming in the clerestory window.

Let’s hope that works out tomorrow.

Rebuilding journal search again

Jun. 30th, 2025 03:18 pm
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We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.

Just Create - Netsuke Edition

Jun. 28th, 2025 02:08 pm
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(One of these days I'll run out of random objects within my eyeline to name the weekly post after)

What are you working on? What have you finished? What do you need encouragement on?

Are there any cool events or challenges happening that you want to hype?

What do you just want to talk about?

What have you been watching or reading?

Chores and other not-fun things count!

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Friday Five - Teaching Edition

Jun. 27th, 2025 09:23 am
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Questions from [community profile] thefridayfive:

1. Who was your favorite teacher? and 2. Why was that teacher so special?

Without a doubt, it was Patricia Adams Lent, who taught my AG middle school English classes from 6th-8th grade. She recognized that I was a socially awkward oddball stuck in my own head, and she was so very, very kind to me when I had no real friends. She was a rigorous instructor, she helped form/improve my writing/editing skills, but also was a very much a teacher of critical thinking. Outside of that, she led drama activities, a literary magazine, and even enjoined me for bike rides in the countryside outside of class. On my middle school graduation, she made me an actual walking stick (made from an apple tree, carved and cured and polished and with my name and the dates carved in it).

3. Do you think teachers get paid enough? Well, having very close family as teachers I must say I am pretty well-acquainted with the responsibilities and the paycheck, and no, it is not nearly enough, not for the extra work and activities that are required, not for the enormous disrespect and wringers that they are put through by students and parents and administrations and political pontificators. There's so much less freedom in teaching than there used to be, which seems such a disservice to all involved.

4. Do you have a favorite year of school? Not really. School was mostly miserable for me, I connected more with the adults than the other students, with a few exceptions, so I mostly focused on the work. I did enjoy the last two years as I was starting to finally feel more comfortable with myself, but given that I cocked everything up right after high school, I don't look at that former version of myself very kindly. (They were intelligent but also young and naive, I really should forgive them someday.)

5. If you could travel back in time and tell yourself something now that would have helped you get through school, what would you say? Calling on Mr. Rogers, I guess I'd say "Look for the helpers." They are the only ones to have helped me survive it.

Things and stuff, stuff and things.

Jun. 23rd, 2025 10:14 pm
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I got the I’m-not-judging-your-life-choices face from my cardiologist last week, and since then have been taking my meds every four hours like clockwork, as instructed. It has really helped with the anxiety and random periods of shakiness I’ve been getting, so I guess she knew what she was talking about. 😅

I want to have either a Crow Party or a Goblin Market, sometime in the fall. But I know like zero people here, so I am asking around about how to do that in a strange mid-sized city. I was advised by one of my sagely and wise friends to get to know local bartenders at music venues, as they will have a good idea of local players, and I am also thinking of asking local pagan artists if they are vending anywhere this fall that might be amenable to my having a small, possibly-kid-friendly time slot in their event.

Other ideas of how to accomplish this are also welcome in case I strike out with the few artists whose business cards I have from the Solstice event I went to.

Fun in the sun? Well, kinda.

Jun. 21st, 2025 07:19 pm
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I went to a Summer Solstice festival, and had a gyro and didn’t get a headache despite walking around in the sun and heat! I bought a great big labradorite pendant for me, and a palm stone for a friend, and some hot sauce and a laser carved magnet for a different friend. I am ahead on getting people gifts this year! And I supported independent artists, so yay for that.

In homework news, I am done with the stupid answers to the Vision Board for Basic Ass People journal questions, as of this evening, so now that whole project is done. I have about half the material reviewed for the Science of Movement mid-term, and I’m about to start in on the A+P homework tomorrow morning.

In other news, Vahdam Teas’ Vanilla Matcha is delicious and amazing. And now? Now I knit.

Just Create - Wolf Edition

Jun. 21st, 2025 01:32 pm
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What are you working on? What have you finished? What do you need encouragement on?

Are there any cool events or challenges happening that you want to hype?

What do you just want to talk about?

What have you been watching or reading?

Chores and other not-fun things count!

Remember to encourage other commenters and we have a discord where we can do work-alongs and chat, linked in the sticky

June 19th

Jun. 19th, 2025 06:38 am
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I wish a joyous and free Juneteenth to all who celebrate liberation.

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