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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* If you've got a question or concern, feel free to PM me.

Comments

[jazzyjj]

My morning routine is generally more or less the same, with the slight exception of Monday which is my day to do laundry here in the apartment complex. I recently unofficially? quit my job due in part to the hectic schedule. I've never had trouble sleeping, but I used to have to get up almost every day at the crack of dawn to get ready for the day's disability-awareness training. Most of these trainings were pretty far away, and I was picked up early each morning. But thankfully that's probably not gonna happen anymore. I might be starting a new job though, so I'll have to adjust my morning routine slightly. But no big deal there. I also work out at the local YMCA once a week with somebody. This work-out schedule has recently varied somewhat, due in part to one of the tutors here needing to quit because of personal issues which I won't get into. But one of the newer staff members here picked up those hours with me towards the end of last year. I also have chatty neighbors and at least one of them hangs out with me on a regular basis either to just sit and talk or watch TV or a movie on NetFlix.