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[dasmims]

I have not yet fallen into a ditch. Which might be surprising to some people, who know me.

Short life update:

The past two weeks I was first very busy finishing an assignment for uni, which of course broke on the night I tried to send it in. I had to fix it and I didn't dare check in with my instructor since handing it in. Then I worked a full week, which is exhausting physically and mentally. The physical exhaustion is just 9 hours of physical labour. I'm saying just because that is what I signed up for with this job, I knew what I was getting into and I'm fine with it. The mental part is a mix of constantly learning new things, bad organisation in the company and that one coworker I don't get along with at all. This I'm not fine with.

In theory I have an idea how to handle this coworker, keeping my distance for example and just doing my job as my boss tells me too. But it's all not that simple and not that easy to actually do. Oh the joy of living with your coworkers for most of the week. From dawn till dusk around the same group of people and one of them keeps giving me unclear instructions and then gets pissed off, when I ask for clarification.

Fandom Update:

I'm still reading Leeward by Katie Daysh and it's still really fucking good. I'm almost through with it and I love every bit of it. There is just one little issue - not with the book itself - I'll have to face in the near future. My mum wants to read it too and I'm not sure if I'm comfortable with that. The romance is taking it's sweet time and I love that, but this way I can't tell which way it might go and if it might get explicit. Do I really want to share that with my mum? On the other hand it would be fun to see how fast she figures the plot out.

In other news I found a Much Ado About Nothing adaptation I didn't know yet. It's Much Ado by Bernard Taylor a musical version, available as a studio recording. The music is beautiful and I like Beatrice but I'll have to listen to it a few more times to get a real opinion.

I'm also taking part in the Unsent Letters Exchange 2025! There are many requests that fit my offers so I'm excited about what I'll get assigned tomorrow. Sadly one prompt I really hoped for didn't appear in any requests: a preteen girl in a zombi apocalypse writing to no one specifically. Have a title - Taylor's Rules to Surviving Hell - and rough plot ready to go, so I might write it some other time.

Comments

[sanguinity]

I'm so glad you're enjoying Daysh! Cool that your mum wants to read it, although I certainly understand your anxiety on that point! I'll be interested to hear whether you consider it mum-safe or not. (And if she does pick it up, what she makes of it!)

I'm very curious how assignments will go for Unsent Letters -- this time there's a slightly bigger pool of potential matches for me than there usually is.

And sympathies for your job being so exhausting. It is such a drain when one doesn't get along with one's coworkers. One very easily spends more time with them than with one's friends or partners!

[dasmims]

I've been checking ao3 for the assignments every few hours, even though I know they aren't done yet. The really fucked up thing is that I'm running my own little exchange (for Emergency!) on almost the same schedule as Unsent Letters. I've been told this is unwise, but I don't care.

I'm trying to get on a different project so I don't have to work with that one coworker any more. On the other project the project manager is really strict but she's also giving very clear instructions, so it's possible to live up to her standards even if they are higher. She is also trying to teach her team members new skills and responsibilities at every opportunity, which could help me a lot.

[sanguinity]

Matches are out! *carefully hides mine away somewhere secret secret secret...*

When you're modding an exchange, there's usually a lull of not much happening in the middle of the creation period; if you can tuck a thousand words of Unsent Letters in there, you should be okay. Do you have to write an E! fic in that same window, too, or are you only modding the exchange?

A boss with clear expectation and who is actively trying to develop her employees for promotion sounds like a clear improvement over your current situation. Good luck on getting transferred!

[dasmims]

My Match is great! I'm trying to figure out what exactly to make out of it. I hope you like yours too!

I'm only modding and all participants are angels so far.

[sanguinity]

Oh, yay, great participants make modding such a joy. I always felt like I was hosting a party and I had the best guests show up.

I've barely had time to look at my match, but I shall have to sit down and give it a good think.