A weekend of words
I haven’t taken a day off in four months. For the rest of August and into September, I’ll be working 6 to 8 hours every day, Monday-Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. That’s obviously a tough schedule to keep. It requires major willpower and some personal sacrifices. What’s less obvious is A) I’m doing this intentionally, and B) it’s working out wonderfully. If you want the story of my summer in a sentence then there you go, but it’s far from the whole picture.
Every day I come home tired– typically *happy* and tired, mind you, and very rarely feeling exhausted, but when I’m tired the first thing to sail out the window is my ability or desire to type a creative sentence.
Related paragraph: I received a package(!) today from my aunt & uncle in Michigan that held a freshly-sealed jar of blackberry jam and a pocket knife, both very appreciated, especially the beautiful jam (To Jerry & Sue: Thanks!). In one part of the letter that came with it, my uncle wrote “I try to understand your Facebook and Beyond Metamora updates but I’m a bit out of touch with the lingo.” Which tells me that I should probably try to do more explicatin’.
To that end, I’ve cleared off the rest of my afternoon (ie post-gardening) schedule this weekend so that I can spend some time offloading some text, however poorly or tiredly, about the oh-by-the-way rocking good times that I’ve been enjoying this summer.
First, I should start off by doing a much-needed “Hey, WTF is this?” post about my Dreamwidth journal, [Heads-Up Display]. Other than the occasional blip on [Twitter], HUD is the only thing online that I’ve been updating regularly. Updates to that site are written in my wonky shorthand and– I cannot stress this enough– probably of limited interest to anyone other than me. But explicating HUD provides a useful window into what I’m actually up to this summer, and what I’m trying to accomplish.
After that, I’ll write a bit more about milling and gardening– ie the things I do for a living– and a bit about the hobbies I mess with in my leisure hours. Finally, I’ve got some fairly important and substantial news to share about what I plan to be doing next summer & beyond.
(*ding* part 1 done. barring calamity, look for part 2 tomorrow)
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