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You know, there's a thing in Leverage, during all the shenanigans with the San Lorenzo election, where Nate says that they were running an American election so had just declared victory regardless. I thought this was a reference to the end of the Vietnam War and the whole sometimes you just have to declare victory and go home thing. A cynical exageration of a real tendency. But no, 20 million votes still uncounted and someone can just declare victory and no one in power calls bullshit on that? Even without the Luminous Orange Fascist surely that's a problem that needs fixed.

Anyway, my condolences my American friends, it fucking sucks.

I've been burying myself in films and writing to hide from the existential dread. (Note to self for future reference, a good gym session with lots of carefully stretching before and afterwards is effective for clearing stress headaches. I knew I was carrying a lot of stress in my muscles but not quite how much.) So I've made my [community profile] mini_wrimo target every day and I'm ahead of schedule to make 10,000 and only 100 words shy of being on target for 15000 finished words so we'll call that a victory.

3658 / 15000 (24.39%)


Now that I've officially pulled ahead of last year - I started November with like 1500 less words than I finished last year with, so I can't really use last year as a helpful comparison any more. I've dug out the spreadsheet from 2022 to use as a comparison instead. I started November about 5000 words behind where I was in 2022 so I don't fancy my chances of catching up on that but I can use it as a pacer for November. I made it to 15000 words that year and I had something like 100 less words for the month at the same point that year so that's helpful to see.

I didn't make much progress on reading, because well, I watched 8 short films and 8 feature films this week so really there's only so many hours in the day! Anyway I didn't actually share my list of books for this year's [community profile] readingtogether November Group Read:
Black and British - David Olusoga
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow - Natasha Pulley
The Sundance Kids - James Mottram
The Poppy War - RF Kaung
The Earthsea Quartet - Ursuala Le Guin
Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture - Sheldon H Lu
The Art of Explanation - Ros Atkins
Welcome to Nightvale (A Novel) - Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

I want to read/finish reading, any four of these this month.

Date: 8 Nov 2024 09:30 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] oracne
I know what you mean about carrying the stress. I thought I was feeling okay until I got into the shower and felt the water pounding on my very, very tense muscles. Yikes. I might need to step up my exercise.

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