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trocheeI'm so slow to update here.
I usually write these "I've been away" updates from bottom-to-top, usually because the stuff that's easy to write about first is the least personal, and I'd like to have the record in the other order. there's a little dark secret for you.
This weekend was tough for me. For reasons I don't get, I find myself frequently stuck with feeling like I'm not okay to be doing what I want to do, especially when I'm at home. It's not![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
imtboo: I'm doing my best to accept and listen openly to this sense of insecurity and not-belonging. But I was shutting down when I really wanted to listen to myself -- and the shutting down just made the anxiety lurk for longer. Yuck.
Last night, I started reading Radical Acceptance again, and I was really struck by the reminder to stop and say "This, too" to the sensation of fear and not-fitting-in and I'll-do-it-wrong. Today, at any rate, that pause has helped me relax. I hope that I can remember this when I feel crap, like I did for much of this weekend. In happier events,imtboo and I did go to the beach on Saturday, but so much space was taken with my wound-up-ness that I didn't really get to have a lot of fun. imtboo was super in both expressing her frustration and in letting it go.
Trying to "get" it hasn't helped much. So here's my note-to-self: shush, just sit and listen to where you are.
Last night I went to have dinner ateldan and nein09's, along with three other folks (C, S, and B). I didn't quite catch how everybody was connected -- other than we all know the two hosts. imtboo didn't make it -- she had a Unicycle Collective rehearsal -- and it's too bad. Lots of yummy food, including excellent stuffed squash and a pumpkin pie. (yum).
I've finished a new draft of one of the last two papers before I move on to a new research task (the first one that belongs exclusively to my dissertation). The other paper remaining is in Advisor's hands, but today and tomorrow are fully booked up and I probably won't get to that last draft of editing until later this week. But the good news is that after a meeting with my advisor last week, I've got a good idea for the next thing, involving machine-translation and a new idea about a way to handle words that can't be directly aligned between languages.
I've been thinking about listing some of the finer webcomics, because I can. Here's, for a start, some top-quality SF-ish ones:Girl Genius. Dresden Codak. Dicebox. The inimitable Finder. Huh, they're almost all written by women! yay for the changing face of SF and comics.
A little profile-identification:
I am "trochee" on Last.FM (listening now) and Twitter (updated several times today) and del.icio.us (updated frequently) and Flickr (long time no update), if you're there.
I list books on Library Thing (my whole catalog) and BookMooch (the ones I'm happy to unload) as "trochaic".
I usually write these "I've been away" updates from bottom-to-top, usually because the stuff that's easy to write about first is the least personal, and I'd like to have the record in the other order. there's a little dark secret for you.
This weekend was tough for me. For reasons I don't get, I find myself frequently stuck with feeling like I'm not okay to be doing what I want to do, especially when I'm at home. It's not
imtboo: I'm doing my best to accept and listen openly to this sense of insecurity and not-belonging. But I was shutting down when I really wanted to listen to myself -- and the shutting down just made the anxiety lurk for longer. Yuck. Last night, I started reading Radical Acceptance again, and I was really struck by the reminder to stop and say "This, too" to the sensation of fear and not-fitting-in and I'll-do-it-wrong. Today, at any rate, that pause has helped me relax. I hope that I can remember this when I feel crap, like I did for much of this weekend. In happier events,
imtboo and I did go to the beach on Saturday, but so much space was taken with my wound-up-ness that I didn't really get to have a lot of fun. imtboo was super in both expressing her frustration and in letting it go.Trying to "get" it hasn't helped much. So here's my note-to-self: shush, just sit and listen to where you are.
Last night I went to have dinner at
eldan and nein09's, along with three other folks (C, S, and B). I didn't quite catch how everybody was connected -- other than we all know the two hosts. imtboo didn't make it -- she had a Unicycle Collective rehearsal -- and it's too bad. Lots of yummy food, including excellent stuffed squash and a pumpkin pie. (yum).I've finished a new draft of one of the last two papers before I move on to a new research task (the first one that belongs exclusively to my dissertation). The other paper remaining is in Advisor's hands, but today and tomorrow are fully booked up and I probably won't get to that last draft of editing until later this week. But the good news is that after a meeting with my advisor last week, I've got a good idea for the next thing, involving machine-translation and a new idea about a way to handle words that can't be directly aligned between languages.
I've been thinking about listing some of the finer webcomics, because I can. Here's, for a start, some top-quality SF-ish ones:Girl Genius. Dresden Codak. Dicebox. The inimitable Finder. Huh, they're almost all written by women! yay for the changing face of SF and comics.
A little profile-identification:
I am "trochee" on Last.FM (listening now) and Twitter (updated several times today) and del.icio.us (updated frequently) and Flickr (long time no update), if you're there.
I list books on Library Thing (my whole catalog) and BookMooch (the ones I'm happy to unload) as "trochaic".
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Date: 2007-10-16 01:49 am (UTC)re dinner guests: we are the only connection between the guests. For small gatherings at our house we try to invite people who don't necessarily know each other but seem likely to find some interests in common; so far this has worked quite well. It seems to work less well with a bigger crowd, because if a few people know each other they tend to cluster, and I'm not sufficiently socially skilled to induce mixing.
re dinner food: I'm glad you enjoyed it! I wish I had thought about this yesterday - we could have given you a care package for boo.
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Date: 2007-10-16 12:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-16 05:32 pm (UTC)also, while you are reading radical acceptance, i am reading the power of now and there's gotta be a short comic strip in that.
breaking news : being where we're at !
my willingness to be here now wavers a lot and while i don't get caught in the long past or the future , i sure do stay stuck in the recent past very easily ( working with that at the moment)
i love you, oh , husband of mine.
let us be less dramatic and more pneumatic ( um, i have no idea what that means, but it sounded right).
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Date: 2007-10-16 09:43 pm (UTC)"less dramatic and more pneumatic" sounds a little dirty and a lot fun. ;)