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End of August Update (dental, travel, mental state, etc)
2 months ago
Hey, everyone. I thought I’d give a few updates since the dental issue earlier this month, both about that and about life in general.
First off, the dental stuff. I got an exam, and they said that there’s no new breaks or damages to my teeth. Could do with a cleaning and replacing a few fillings – which I’ll get started on as I can save money for it – but there’s no new breaks to be worried about, or any apparent infections or anything like that. So, good news on that. So long as I keep up with keeping them clean and don’t go crazy on harder, damaging foods, I’ll be fine until I can pay for those to be topped up.
Second, spent part of August hosting a friend and going to the Seattle WorldCon, which was…an experience. The hosting was nice – not perfect, but nice – and the con…not so much. I kinda figured out that this is just not my thing. Fur-cons to an extent can be really fun, but the WorldCon stuff is just…I’m in that niche where I know too much to get into the shallower stuff, but not deep enough to get into the fan-fan stuff. So, not really my thing, and it’s too expensive to really throw that much money at it if I’m not getting a lot out of it.
Third, I’m in the UK now (a trip planned out since February-ish and part of a tradition I’ve kept up with the friend I hosted for WorldCon), and will be until September 23rd. It’s…going okay? I’m trying to do work and I’m doing more than I have done in the past, but I have to admit that my focus is completely shot and it’s hard to get more than 8-10 pages done a day.
I’m also going to be honest and admit that I’m kind of in this weird, semi-depressed sort of state at the moment. Being unable to stream, unable to write regularly, and most of all, not be able to do my regular routine until the 23rd is kinda pissing me off and leaving me unable to recharge the way that I normally would. Without that routine, I kinda can’t recharge to more than about a third of a tank, which means every day is a bit more ‘meh’ and draining than it should be. Being a little concerned about not getting work done as fast as I’d like to and keeping an eye on how much I do over here is also a thing, but ehhhh.
Anyway, just an update on how I’m doing, mental state, etc., and letting you all know if you didn’t know already that I’ll be back late on the 23rd.
Much hopes and best wishes to all of you.
First off, the dental stuff. I got an exam, and they said that there’s no new breaks or damages to my teeth. Could do with a cleaning and replacing a few fillings – which I’ll get started on as I can save money for it – but there’s no new breaks to be worried about, or any apparent infections or anything like that. So, good news on that. So long as I keep up with keeping them clean and don’t go crazy on harder, damaging foods, I’ll be fine until I can pay for those to be topped up.
Second, spent part of August hosting a friend and going to the Seattle WorldCon, which was…an experience. The hosting was nice – not perfect, but nice – and the con…not so much. I kinda figured out that this is just not my thing. Fur-cons to an extent can be really fun, but the WorldCon stuff is just…I’m in that niche where I know too much to get into the shallower stuff, but not deep enough to get into the fan-fan stuff. So, not really my thing, and it’s too expensive to really throw that much money at it if I’m not getting a lot out of it.
Third, I’m in the UK now (a trip planned out since February-ish and part of a tradition I’ve kept up with the friend I hosted for WorldCon), and will be until September 23rd. It’s…going okay? I’m trying to do work and I’m doing more than I have done in the past, but I have to admit that my focus is completely shot and it’s hard to get more than 8-10 pages done a day.
I’m also going to be honest and admit that I’m kind of in this weird, semi-depressed sort of state at the moment. Being unable to stream, unable to write regularly, and most of all, not be able to do my regular routine until the 23rd is kinda pissing me off and leaving me unable to recharge the way that I normally would. Without that routine, I kinda can’t recharge to more than about a third of a tank, which means every day is a bit more ‘meh’ and draining than it should be. Being a little concerned about not getting work done as fast as I’d like to and keeping an eye on how much I do over here is also a thing, but ehhhh.
Anyway, just an update on how I’m doing, mental state, etc., and letting you all know if you didn’t know already that I’ll be back late on the 23rd.
Much hopes and best wishes to all of you.
And yeah, breaking or being unable to do an established routine is always difficult, especially one you've had for months or even years but hopefully things improve over the rest of your stay in the UK.
Best wishes to you too!
I passed the cert, but then moved on to work I was doing with Anthrocon until July and GMing a plot.
And then I just kinda burned out for a bit.