Salon post : January 19

[jenett]

Welcome to this week's salon post. I get us started with a couple of questions, but feel free to bring up totally different things if you'd rather.

(This is a public post, feel free to encourage other people to drop by, just note the 'if posting anonymously, include a name people can call you in responses' rule.)

Topics of the week:
Wow, I'm glad it's Friday. Too much tired in the end of my week.

I sent out my fortnightly newsletter this Wednesday and one of the things I linked to was a site collecting brief interviews with people's morning routines, um, few of which remotely resemble mine, but which are interesting to peer at.

So I'm curious what yours are, and whether it's a thing you like, or a thing that is 'doing this because it's necessary'. And if you're so inclined, what your ideal might be. (I'll do my own in a comment.)

Recent things I've been doing:
Currently up to Trial of a Timelord in my Doctor Who rewatch, and reading a book about the Black Death, Return of the Black Death by Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan, which argues that the Black Death was a viral infection (more similar to Ebola) than rat/flea Bubonic Plague.

I'm only a couple of chapters in, so still contemplating the argument, but there's a bunch of interesting data and quotes from writers at the time. (Some of which I've read before, because I am that kind of person, but some of which are new to me.)

I am also contemplating what I want to offer and request in the Worldbuilding Exchange, a fanfic exchange focusing on (shock!) worldbuilding. I had a lot of fun writing for it last year (Pseudonyms are Expected, a Leverage thing about an email list) (commentary here), and I liked a lot of other things people wrote too.


House rules:
* Consider this a conversation in my living room, only with a lot more seating. I reserve the right to redirect, screen, and otherwise moderate stuff, but would vastly prefer not to have to.

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Comments

[pameladean]

I also have a getting-up routine that is just barely happening in the morning. I wake up between 11 and noon, depending on various things, and visit the bathroom. For the last week, and into next week, I then put on two different socks, put a built-up regular shoe on my good foot, and then go carefully away from other sleeping people, sit down in the sitting room, and put on the EXTREMELY NOISY walking boot. This allows me to be noisy in admonishing the boot if the various velcro bits catch on my sock, too.

I then collect a glass of water and a carton of yoghurt and a spoon, and go into my office and fire up the laptop and start downloading my email.

If I am fast right here, I eat a handful of almonds and take the histamine-2 blocker for acid reflux. Then I drink about half the glass of water. If I am not fast, Saffron comes and climbs up on my collarbone, purring thunderously and preventing me from doing anything other than delicately moving the mouse to read or delete email. When I can harden my heart, I put her on the desk cushion provided just for her and then start the meds routine.

When the first med has settled I take the rest of them with the yoghurt and finish the water. Once I've dealt with email that shouldn't wait too long, and done anything else quick that would benefit from being done at once, I go make a cup of tea and prepare something to eat; sometimes toast, sometimes leftovers, whatever.

I settle with these and start checking the weather and an auxiliary account and a couple of news blogs and DreamWidth. If an idea has come to me in the night, I poke at either the notes file for my writing project or at the project itself.

That's probably the end of the morning routine. I might take a shower and get dressed at that point or I might just segue into writing while still in my pajamas. It depends on whether I need to be somewhere, start laundry, or get weekly or semi-weekly chores out of the way.

A lot of this is dictated by the meds schedule, but I like the tea-and-the-web part. And of course I love the cat part even when it's inconvenient.

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[davidgillon]

sit down in the sitting room, and put on the EXTREMELY NOISY walking boot. This allows me to be noisy in admonishing the boot if the various velcro bits catch on my sock, too.

Ah, I've played this game before! SCRITCH!

[pameladean]

If only it were just one SCRITCH. The straps tend to double up and stick to themselves, so that's two; they will also, once freed, stick to the velcro strips on the inner flaps of the boot, so that's two more; and something or other will also generally stick to my sock. Then at last I get to fasten the straps, and that's two. It makes me think of alien insects building a nest or something.

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[davidgillon]

One trick I've found when taking any velcro'd brace off, deliberately fold each strap back onto itself. It does mean having to peel them apart before you can fasten them, but guarantees they won't become entangled with each other and you'll only ever have one velcro surface showing at once.