Personal Digest Saturday (but posted on Sunday!): June 13 – June 19

Life news this week:

• Saturday I got up late and didn't make much time for my blogging. Had some food, played some games, read. Then Jeaux picked me up and took me to his house to watch a movie we'd been cautiously excited about since we liked the books it was adapted from: Artemis Fowl. It wasn't a very good adaptation and kinda disappointing, but I think I would have been more upset about it if I'd seen it when I read the books in the early 2000s. We ate chicken nuggets (his were real, mine were fake) and soup. Then at home I finished my blogging and did a podcast for episodes 39 and 40 ("Future Vision" and "On the Run") with Daria. Great discussion, especially since 40 was an Amethyst-related episode and that's Daria's fave.
  
• Sunday I slept late again and enjoyed some comments on a cosplay I posted. Then I worked on my essay about J.K. Rowling and how her comments are really bad for transgender people. The essay was really long. I also did a karaoke song, made some plans with my dad, and coordinated with my sisters about stuff we wanted to get Dad for Father's Day. Then later I chatted to Mom on the phone while doing laundry. She seemed like she was in a decent mood and it was a good talk.
  
• Monday I had to go to the office super early. Well, early for me. My boss picked me up about 8 and we went in to put the Osceola County proposal together. It was all pretty according to plan and I also edited a letter. We also had a new employee, whom I helped with intro stuff and computer troubleshooting. Then I finalized some other forms for our upcoming proposals in DeSoto and Okaloosa County. When I got home I went to sleep, got up briefly, and then went to sleep again.
  
• Tuesday I had a meeting with my coworkers about proposals and made arrangements to be in the office on Friday. I did some utility stuff and some other proposal stuff and downloaded a bunch of field photos for the engineers. Finally I got to finalize and post my essay about Rowling. Seems to have been well received too! I cleaned up some messes in my kitchen and garage and went to bed.
  
• Wednesday I woke up late when I heard my lawn care specialist outside. I went out to chat with him and gave him a recipe for sushi rice. (He misses going to sushi restaurants and wanted to make it at home, and had already had one rice disaster.) Then after talking to him I did proposal work, and later answered a bunch of backed up messages. At the end of the day I made some pizza dough so it could rise while Jeaux and I went to the grocery store. We made our pizza and ate it while watching Colbert skits and the ending of season one of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts. I fell asleep on the floor after Jeaux left.
  
• Thursday I again woke up late. I worked on my project manager database all day at work and redesigned some dividers. I framed and hung an art print I hadn't put up yet and talked to Victor on the phone for about an hour and a half before he fell asleep on the phone. Usually if he does that he wakes back up but this time he didn't, so I just worked on my comic without him, listening to podcasts.
  
• Friday I went to the office for part of the day--a little more time than I expected but it was fine. We worked on our DeSoto proposal but one part wasn't done because one of the guys hadn't sent in his writeup, so it kinda held up our plans to get it finalized. We did as much as we could and my boss was gonna send it out the next day. After work I came home and finished my upcoming projects reports and after work I completed the comic. I ended up spending the evening after that watching reactions and chatting with my friend Paul.

Articles, interviews, mentions:

• Wisconsin Rapids Tribune posted this article that referenced and quoted my book: What does it mean to be asexual? Oshkosh attorney shares his story."
  
• Blinklist included my book as a good book for allies to read for understanding the LGBTQIA experience.

New reviews of my book: 

• Jaleesa Gibson gave it a four-star review on Goodreads.
• Anna gave it a five-star review on Goodreads.

Food Plan Update:

• I didn't make any special efforts this week to do anything differently, but I'm at a point where I'm not going up or down weight-wise, and I'm still planning to try to do more easy/nutritious cooking like soup and salad, and maybe not repeat this week's adventure with a bag of potato chips. :D

Reading progress:

• Finished Reading: Nothing, paused on reading projects right now!

• Currently reading: Emma by Jane Austen. I'm on page 225.

New singing performances:

This week's karaoke song is "I Want to Know What Love Is" by Foreigner.




Stuff Drawn:





Webcomic Negative One Issue 0788: "Jerk."









New videos: 

None this week!

New photos:

My new mask from Jeaux

Social Media Counts:

YouTube subscribers: 5,272 for swankivy (5 new), 674 for JulieSondra (no change), 16 for v & V Vids (lost 1), 101 for Not-So-Giant Women (2 new). Twitter followers: 954 for swankivy (no change), 1,353 for JulieSondra (2 new). Facebook: 297 friends (lost 1, I unfriended someone after she posted one too many scarily deluded claims about the tyrrany of face masks) and 220 followers (1 new) for swankivy, 635 likes for JulieSondra (1 new), 61 likes for Negative One (no change), 159 likes for So You Write (no change), 81 likes for Not-So-Giant-Women (no change). Tumblr followers: 2,479 (lost 4). Instagram followers: 206 (1 new).