Personal Digest Saturday - June 13 – June 19

Life news this week:

• Saturday I worked on making notes about band songs and edited In Bloom some more. I finished the edit! It is now 122k words and change, which is such a huge difference from where I was before. Still on the VERY long side for YA but it's science fiction so maybe they'll give me a break. I also did my usual blogging and reading and I decided to clean the bathroom, which triggered a weird cleaning streak. Also did a voice-over audition and wrote some more of my new rewritten short story.
  
  
• Sunday was another very productive day. Did a bunch of cleaning in between working on band stuff and doing my "assignments" for the day. I did my aerobics, read through my planner for photo dates (I'm in a phase of this that the planners are VERY helpful, as it turns out!), did a karaoke song, recorded my voice-over lines for the new project I got cast in (very minor), and did my laundry and trash. Then in the evening Kari hung out and I showed her my new toys. Finally I did some more cleaning and reading the planner.
  
  
• Monday I overslept a little but I showed up for work. Attended a debrief meeting and edited a letter and sent out teaming requests to other consultants. Listened to Polos from Meg. Did a bunch more cleanup in the house. Practiced music. Did some voice-over auditions. Wrote more on my new short story. It's OK. Looked at SU stuff. Found out my new Sunstone toy is missing an arm?? Weird. I unpacked all my toys and used it as an excuse to dust the toy shelf, which is arduous.
  
  
• Tuesday I worked on timesheets and surprise utility assignments, and did project research. I did a bunch of voice-over auditions and entertained myself reading one of my own short stories again. I finished writing the new short story's new edition. And I worked a lot on the new project of making split karaoke files for all our band songs. Did some aerobics too. And I stopped obsessively cleaning stuff.
  
  
• Wednesday I did more timesheet stuff and project research and attended a bid meeting. Did more recording of songs for the band project. Did some reading and put away laundry. Jeaux temporarily can't drive so I went to his house in a Lyft and we ate at Yard House. We went to the grocery store and I decided to simplify life by just taking a Lyft home from the grocery store, which kinda cut our day short but that happens. Then I worked on more karaoke tracks and actually started querying on the new book. (!!!)
  
  
• Thursday I was busy at work--four teaming quests, credit card data entry, and various organization. I did more recording of the backing tracks. Wrote my comic. Did some aerobics. Submitted a short story. Finished all my comic drawings early.
  
  
• Friday was a success as well. Busy at work again--finished the credit card data entry, had to make some labels for a public involvement outreach, and did my usual reports. I did all the song tracks for the band and finally finished. That's 39 songs! That I made vocal files for and then created separate files for each player where their instrument is not on the recording so they can "karaoke" with it for practice! I posted my comic (which took longer because it was issue 1101 and the 01's always have a lot of reorganization to do to transition to the next folder of 100). Then I did some reading and walking.

Interviews, Articles, Mentions:

• The Invisible Orientation is cited in the references of a Bristol University Press article called "Compulsory romance: introducing an emerging discourse."
• Note.com user nemo posted a note called "Books I read to understand Aro/Ace" and it includes The Invisible Orientation.
• My story "Aquarius" was accepted into the Common Bonds 3 anthology, and Claudie's Instagram post about my story is promoting the BackerKit campaign for the book.

Health Plan Update:

• Nutrition stuff: I got my three servings of fruits and veggies every day this week, and met my protein goals 6 out of 7 days. Restaurant Day was the predictable day I couldn't meet it, but I actually just barely missed it. I am still taking my vitamins.
  
  
• Activity stuff: I'm continuing to do aerobics every other day. I made my 10,000-step walking goal every day this week. Based on my phone's app, my low day was Tuesday at 10,067 steps, and my high day was Saturday at 13,203 steps.

Books Read: 

• Finished Reading: Nothing this week.
  
  
• Currently Reading: The Legacy of Yangchen by F.C. Yee. I'm on page 230.

New singing performances:

This week's karaoke song is "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin.

Stuff drawn:

My weekly fantasy webcomic, Negative One:

   

#1101: weaver #168: about business.

Videos Made: 

None.

New photos:

None.

Social media counts:

YouTube subscribers: 5,435 for swankivy (lost 1), 675 for JulieSondra (no change), 17 for v & V Vids (no change), 214 for Not-So-Giant Women (no change), 67 for Tides of Time Band (no change) 9 for Vinyl Impact Band (no change). Twitter followers: 739 for swankivy (no change), 3,343 for JulieSondra (lost 1). Facebook: 285 friends for swankivy (no change), 620 likes for JulieSondra (no change), 78 followers for Negative One (no change), 242 followers for So You Write (1 new), 100 followers for Not-So-Giant-Women (no change). Tumblr followers: 2,409 (no change). Instagram followers: 312 (lost 1). Threads followers: 90 (no change). Bluesky Social. Bluesky followers: 470 (1 new).