Whew.
It’s exhausting staying home. With your family. During a global health crisis. While still trying to do your job remotely.
For all that, though, things have settled into a (nice?) routine, and less time driving places, running errands, and going to kids’ activities has continued to mean more time for personal projects: home improvements, writing, reading, gaming, playing with kids. Really fortunate that this thing hasn’t yet hit our family or loved ones in any more immediate way than Stay-At-Home.
Part of the routine has also been reading the day’s news at night before bed. Not a good idea, yet I keep doing it for some reason.
stuff that’s been done
- I’ve gotten back to work on revisions to an old story draft that I’ve had kicking around, literally, for years.
- Finished watching the first season of Star Trek: Picard. More on that another time, but I generally enjoyed it. Sometimes a lot. Sometimes only out of a stubborn loyalty to all things Star Trek.
- Been playing The Outer Worlds, as mentioned previously. It certainly treads some familiar RPG paths, but for all that, it’s quite immersive, and familiar is exactly the kind of comfort-gaming experience I’m looking for right now. Also dabbled a little in Disco Elysium (which is not at all on the familiar RPG paths), which I’ll pick up again when I’m done with TOW. Started both of these up because they’re Nebula nominees.
- LOTS OF NEBULA READING. I’ve finished everything at novella length and shorter, but unfortunately I’ve run out of time on the novels. I’ve done my best to at least look through the one’s I hadn’t already read, in an effort to make sure the one I want to vote for really is my favorite. (I think it is). In general, about half the categories presented me with a clear favorite, and the others gave me some really tough decisions. So much strong and varied writing throughout. All-in-all, this has been a really enjoyable month of reading.
- I unfortunately did not get to any of the Andre Norton MG/YA nominees. I’ll leave that decision to those more knowledgeable in the field, but I definitely need to make more time to get to this category next year. And I still want to read all of these in the near future.
Stay well, friends!