Beth's Journal

Sitting at home, watching the leaves fall off the trees, digging out all my warm clothes because now I'm freezing cold all the time, pondering whether or not to throw myself at NaNoWriMo this year after a few years off...

Yep. It actually feels like fall today.

Thankfully, today was pretty quiet. I kept getting distracted by coming back here every so often to poke around my old entries or change my journal theme, so not having anything too brain-draining to worry about at work was nice. Aside from the pleasant distraction of rediscovering Dreamwidth, today was a pretty standard "work at home because we're in a pandemic" day. I did some laundry, watched the kittens do ridiculous things, and thought of a million things I wanted to talk about here but made myself wait to post because this isn't Twitter and I don't really need to make a million posts a day, now, do I?

I took a walk for the first time in ages today. For a while I was pretty good about going for a walk as soon as I finished work for the day, but the the weather got ridiculously hot - and by the time it cooled back down, I'd fallen out of the habit. My back started doing that weird muscle twinge it usually does if I haven't been too active lately, though, and usually that means a day or two of nasty back spasms isn't far behind - and since I really don't want to have to go to urgent care right now, I went for a walk in hopes the extra movement would get my back to shut up. (so far, it seems to have worked) Hopefully I can get back in the habit of walking after work again - it really helped separate my work day from the rest of the day, which can be really hard to do when you're working from home every freaking day.

While walking, I thought about maybe doing NaNoWriMo again this year - it's been quite a while since I last participated, and it used to be a huge thing for me, but with life being the way it has over the past few years, I just couldn't drum up the energy for it. Now, though? Well, I'm still not sure I have the energy for it, but dang, the NaNoWriMo nostalgia is hitting hard right now, just like the LJ/DW nostalgia. I do have four more days to plan, if I do decide I want to do this. I think I won one year with just one day of planning. I'll think about it, that's for sure.

Meanwhile: dang it's obnoxious to try to write an entry on my phone. Even with the new phone I have with the gigantic screen. I wonder if I can find a small Bluetooth keyboard of some sort that I could use when typing up entries on my phone... I've got a Bluetooth keyboard to use with a table, but dang that thing is large and clunky. Technology has to have advanced enough in the past few years to have small light Bluetooth keyboards be a thing, right?

I will say, it's weird posting on my phone. It's not something I did much back in the day - I usually spent all my time in front of the computer, so why post using the tiny phone screen? Now, though, the only place I can leave a computer set up long term is occupied by my work computer, and it's such a hassle to drag out my laptop and find a flat surface to park it on. I suppose I could use my tablet... I dunno. I'm rambling. XD

Today was a good day, though. Which I'm happy about - I need more good days.

Changed my layout, about to change my icons.

I've noticed something, in my travels between LJ and Dreamwidth. Dreamwidth is really empty. Sure, I have some friends over here, but hardly anyone posts. I check LJ multiple times a day, and there's always something new to read. I check DW once a day, and I'm lucky if there's five or six new posts to read.

Anyway, today Bryan and I are moving the daybed over here to Tara's. I hope it fits in the hole we made for it. Worst comes to worst, we'll just shuffle stuff around.

I gotta clean my room. It's a wreck. I can do that later, most likely, once the daybed is in.

Yeaaah.

Anyway, here I am, procrastinating on getting ready for my last day of work. At least until school starts again, anyway, and I work at the computer labs again, keeping an eye on all those wily computers. I'll tell you one thing that's definitely for sure- I felt so out of my element at Financial Aid. I mean, yeah, I've worked jobs that weren't CTS-related during my time in college, but most of the time I was hip deep in computers, either hauling them around or fixing them or showing people how to use them, and I loved it. (Heck, there's even a picture on here somewhere of me being attacked by a mass of wild tangled computer mice!) I enjoyed working at Financial Aid, to a point - I got to meet lots of people, I got to see lots of people I know (and got a lot of confused looks from them and comments like "Hey, aren't you supposed to be working in the computer labs? Hey, are you going back to the Learning Lab job in the fall? We miss you!") and learned more than I ever needed to know about how financial aid works. (If I hadn't learned about the budget adjustments for computers, I'd be typing this out on Snowball!) I just felt so confused almost all the time I was there. I was working with people's financial aid packages, and that made me very nervous. (And working with people's kids doesn't make you nervous, Beth?)

I'm very excited for student teaching. I just have to try and get the butterfly unit done before school starts, so Mrs. Burnett can look it over - I'm going to try to make each lesson work so that if I have to shuffle the lessons around in a different order, it'll work.

I'm going to try to make a post in here every day this semester, starting today. (Since, technically, my semester starts tomorrow!) I've been neglecting DW and all my DW friends, and I'm going to try to get out there a little more. I think writing in here will especially help if/when my seasonal depression comes back. (Apparently Callie's mom's SAD came back early, and she's a wreck. With the weather like it's been lately, it's no wonder. And that might explain why I've been a bit of a mess lately, too.)

Oh good lord, after an entire freaking hour and 11 minutes, I can has rin. I am so happy to have at least one LJ friend here, and Rin is my bestest friend evar.

(Sorry, I go into lolcat speak when I'm tired/excited/both.)

So, I wonder how busy it's going to get on Dreamwidth when open beta starts tonight. I'm hoping for a party! I know I've got a lot of people over on sailormoonfans wanting invite codes, and hopefully they'll make their way over to sailormoon here. I've been waiting for more people to get here to hopefully make the community more active. I'm going to go spruce things up a bit there in anticipation of open beta. :D

I fiddled with the colors on the theme I'm using, and now my journal's a color I don't mind sticking with until more styles pop up. I'm so excited that I get to be a part of something like this so early in its development - I mean, Livejournal was already well established when I started over there, so while it was new to me, it wasn't new to everyone else, yanno?

I cranked out a Sailor Moon pillow already this morning, and had some yummy pancakes and bacon. Next is a shower, and then grocery shopping. I'll do a proper introductory post later, so those of you who just friended me (hi everyone! :D) will know more about me besides the fact that I like Sailor Moon and pancakes. :P