1. I started to build the scaffolding and workflow for my portfolio. A friend of mine is an avid user of emacs and I figured I could use the program to learn emacs, learn Terminal, learn how to set up and maintain a static site generator, and just have fun. I thrive a lot in the progression of my skills. Seeing how bad I am at something and ever so gently stretching my mind to get used to it. So yeah, I'm very very excited. To keep me from being overwhelmed, I decided not to style the site at all yet. I know I want it to have an intimate, print vibe. I'm just not sure whether to lean on an elegant, academic look and feel, or something more DYI, punk, zine aesthetic. But I know myself and will be trapped by that. So content only, scaffolding only and workflow design only until I get my bearings.
  2. Speaking of progression, the exercise I started 7 weeks ago used to fatigue me horribly 2.5 minutes in and now only moderately fatigues me when the 10 minutes are done. I'm really really happy. I've tried my best to do at least 10 minutes every day since mid-March and I feel it's paying off.
  3. I twisted my ankle in the fall the yesterday, and it hurt badly today, but I tried to do some gentle exercise and move around in between resting it. I feel it is working. I think the exercises from before helped too? I hope so.
  4. There's this sword hanging over my family that has been a crisis since March. I was hoping it would get resolved, but the department in charge did not send important information to the other involved party and now it's extended this painful situation. All the stress and angst lately has been mainly due to this thing and I didn't dare hope for resolution because I learned that life is hard sometimes despite one doing the right things. I finally started to hope on Sunday, the 60th day. But I got the call yesterday that there's more to be done and I'm frankly devastated because I'm really exhausted at the pressures of being a parent of an ND little one. It's not even her, it's how hard society makes it, plus the pain of not being accepted.
  5. I've been reading a lot again but have been reluctant to update my Now page. I think because my Now page comes from a place of joy, and I've felt fear more than joy. I hope soon to write about my books again with a light heart.
  6. Current obsessions: the scent of Spring when I walk outside, eating nutty sesame sticks as a snack with ginger bug soda, learning emacs, the mild soreness that comes from a deep stretch. Speckled yarn and music that sounds like a strawberry patch.
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Hope is exhausting, and Mack is nearly spent.
– Kiersten White (Hide)