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skye_writerI feel like I haven't been doing anything lately. I'm not as energized as I was a few weeks ago, which is annoying, because I'd like to get things done, but they're just not happening anymore.
I got about 75% through Crazy Rich Asians before I decided I didn't want to finish it. Mostly because I was tired of reading about these horrible people being horrible to each other. I get that the author is essentially making fun of the obscenely rich, but it just wasn't clicking for me. I could see that something additionally horrible was about to happen to the heroine and I just... did not care anymore. So that's been shelved DNF on my Goodreads, and hopefully today I can start something new.
I've written a little bit, but not a whole lot. I feel like my enthusiasm for writing has run out, in a way. Hoping to write something today, but we'll see how that pans out.
On the other hand, I have thrown myself back into fiber arts with a vengeance. I mostly finished up the crochet baby blanket I've been working on off and on for most of the last year. I still need to weave in the ends, but it's done, and can be delivered once that last bit of finishing is done. It's meant to be for my brother and SIL's first child, whenever they have one.
After finishing up that project, I picked up some cross-stitch again. I got the Stardew Valley cross-stitch book for Christmas, and I bought up what I needed to stitch a portrait of one of the bachelorettes with my Christmas money. I tried making a start at the project in April, but with everything going on with my grandfather's death my heart wasn't really in it? But the last few days I've gotten quite a bit done on it, and it's really starting to come together, which is exciting.
Speaking of Stardew Valley, I started a new game yesterday, mostly because I found a cool building mod that I wanted to try out. I don't know if I'll be playing a whole lot until I get my new monitor, but I did set up some time to play co-op with a friend of mine today. So that's gonna be fun. :)
I ended up only watching two of those movies I rented. Blade Runner and Loving. Loving was really good, and I thought Blade Runner was just okay?? I watched "The Final Cut" i.e., Ridley Scott's actual director's cut (the version called the "director's cut" was actually a workprint that got released without Scott's supervision; the Final Cut was supervised by Scott). And it was... just okay, to me. I feel like the movie wasn't interested in the same things I was interested in (which was mostly the character of Rachael, the Replicant who didn't know she was a Replicant). Also I wasn't fond of the way the film used Asian culture as a shorthand to exoticize the future Los Angeles. That said, I'm interested in seeing the sequel that came out a little while ago, just to see where they take those themes of humanity in the inhuman, which is something I've always been very interested in both as a writer and a reader/moviegoer.
I have high hopes for today--I'd like to write, start reading a new book, do my chores, cross-stitch some more. Maybe watch another episode of Good Omens, now that I'm done with the movies. My mom wants me to go to a new bakery that opened in town and pick up some cupcakes (which is easier said than done; the bakery's sold out in like two hours every single day since it's opened).
So hopefully I can make all that happen. Anyway. Hope you're all doing well, as ever.
I got about 75% through Crazy Rich Asians before I decided I didn't want to finish it. Mostly because I was tired of reading about these horrible people being horrible to each other. I get that the author is essentially making fun of the obscenely rich, but it just wasn't clicking for me. I could see that something additionally horrible was about to happen to the heroine and I just... did not care anymore. So that's been shelved DNF on my Goodreads, and hopefully today I can start something new.
I've written a little bit, but not a whole lot. I feel like my enthusiasm for writing has run out, in a way. Hoping to write something today, but we'll see how that pans out.
On the other hand, I have thrown myself back into fiber arts with a vengeance. I mostly finished up the crochet baby blanket I've been working on off and on for most of the last year. I still need to weave in the ends, but it's done, and can be delivered once that last bit of finishing is done. It's meant to be for my brother and SIL's first child, whenever they have one.
After finishing up that project, I picked up some cross-stitch again. I got the Stardew Valley cross-stitch book for Christmas, and I bought up what I needed to stitch a portrait of one of the bachelorettes with my Christmas money. I tried making a start at the project in April, but with everything going on with my grandfather's death my heart wasn't really in it? But the last few days I've gotten quite a bit done on it, and it's really starting to come together, which is exciting.
Speaking of Stardew Valley, I started a new game yesterday, mostly because I found a cool building mod that I wanted to try out. I don't know if I'll be playing a whole lot until I get my new monitor, but I did set up some time to play co-op with a friend of mine today. So that's gonna be fun. :)
I ended up only watching two of those movies I rented. Blade Runner and Loving. Loving was really good, and I thought Blade Runner was just okay?? I watched "The Final Cut" i.e., Ridley Scott's actual director's cut (the version called the "director's cut" was actually a workprint that got released without Scott's supervision; the Final Cut was supervised by Scott). And it was... just okay, to me. I feel like the movie wasn't interested in the same things I was interested in (which was mostly the character of Rachael, the Replicant who didn't know she was a Replicant). Also I wasn't fond of the way the film used Asian culture as a shorthand to exoticize the future Los Angeles. That said, I'm interested in seeing the sequel that came out a little while ago, just to see where they take those themes of humanity in the inhuman, which is something I've always been very interested in both as a writer and a reader/moviegoer.
I have high hopes for today--I'd like to write, start reading a new book, do my chores, cross-stitch some more. Maybe watch another episode of Good Omens, now that I'm done with the movies. My mom wants me to go to a new bakery that opened in town and pick up some cupcakes (which is easier said than done; the bakery's sold out in like two hours every single day since it's opened).
So hopefully I can make all that happen. Anyway. Hope you're all doing well, as ever.
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