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jenettWelcome to this week's salon post!
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I'm presenting at a local conference next week (It's the first time I've been invited to present rather than submitting a proposal. Go professional levelling up!) Last night had the predictable conference anxiety dream.
I find them terribly amusing, because I enjoy teaching and presenting, and I tend to be very "Why are we being anxious about this?" about it. My dream was mostly about the more social-management portions of the experience.
(If you're curious about the content, I'll be linking to my notes in a locked post on my journal on Tuesday. I don't cross the streams between me as Jenett and my legal name in public. I am generally very amiable about adding people.)
What I've been up to:
Less than I wanted, alas (I had a routine dentist appointment on Wednesday that made my jaw cranky yesterday), plus trying to keep on top of the daily routine stuff.
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Topic of the week
I'm presenting at a local conference next week (It's the first time I've been invited to present rather than submitting a proposal. Go professional levelling up!) Last night had the predictable conference anxiety dream.
I find them terribly amusing, because I enjoy teaching and presenting, and I tend to be very "Why are we being anxious about this?" about it. My dream was mostly about the more social-management portions of the experience.
(If you're curious about the content, I'll be linking to my notes in a locked post on my journal on Tuesday. I don't cross the streams between me as Jenett and my legal name in public. I am generally very amiable about adding people.)
What I've been up to:
Less than I wanted, alas (I had a routine dentist appointment on Wednesday that made my jaw cranky yesterday), plus trying to keep on top of the daily routine stuff.
House rules:
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.
* 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.
* If you don't have a DW account or want to post anonymously, please include a name we can call you in this particular post. (You can say AnonymousOne or your favourite colour or whatever. Just something to help keep conversations clear.)
* If you've got a question or concern, feel free to PM me.
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Date: 2018-04-06 01:28 pm (UTC)I took a baby step in that direction myself this week... very baby... There's a local Ruby (the programming language) meetup that can get pretty big (I've seen more than a hundred people there, I think), and I got some encouragement on the Slack group to give a lightning talk for it Tuesday. I had 45 minutes to throw together some illustrations to show what ridiculous thing I was doing (it was a script to create geomancy charts) before I had to shower and leave. No time to put them in slides or anything. No time to be anxious, either.
It went over very well. I got laughs (including, quite intentionally, at a bug I'd found while making the graphics), I got applause, I got people coming up to talk to me at length afterwards.
I hope yours goes even better!
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Date: 2018-04-06 04:23 pm (UTC)And if literally anybody from the local UUs would review what I've got, that would be splendid.
...Dear brain: kicking up my anxiety about the service is actively unhelpful.
(Say, does anyone here want to take a look at a Powerpoint and provide feedback on content and on structure wrt the local UUs' standard service template? :D?)
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I'm processing a massive epiphany about the manner in which I write—see The Theory of Shitty First Drafts and this visual aid:
[Image description: Four rows, each showing a particularly posed face in three stages of being drawn. Right column: inked in detail. Middle column: pencil sketch, visibly facelike. Left column: literally one circle and two curved lines per face, except for in the top row where it's two straight lines instead; one line bisects the face vertically and the other marks the lowest extent of the eyes. The top right image—which is staring straight into the 'camera'—has a speech bubble: "Ug. This view is boring."]
When I draw, of course I know to start how the left column is drawn and proceed rightwards. But basically I've been writing as the right column is drawn for ages! No wonder my big writing projects all stall early!
Also, the therapist I'm working with for an eight-week program via my health insurance suggests I spend this week writing half an hour a day for the sheer joy of writing...and I'm not sure how to do that. That's partly depression speaking, I know, and partly anxiety, and partly...well, paying attention to (for instance) avoiding racist tropes is a necessary endeavor, not a joyous one, you know?
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Date: 2018-04-06 04:51 pm (UTC)I got my first iPhone last weekend and am going to get formally trained on it hopefully very soon. I called and left a message, and they're going to get back with me about possible times when someone can take me. But I've been doing a few things on the iPhone thus far, and really like it. As many of you know I am a screen reader user, and Apple has a very good one which comes standard on all their products to date. This includes the iPhone, and thus far I'm impressed with its screen reader implementation. I'm also using Siri, and it's working very well. I wanted to briefly discuss screen readers at the disability-awareness trainings, since they include a very brief discussion of Section 508 of the Rehab Act of 1973 and this does in fact cover screen readers. But nobody wanted even a slightly expanded discussion, so I have therefore stopped attending the trainings.
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