Life news this week:
- Saturday my blogging got done relatively early and then I spent a bunch of time processing the video I recorded last week. (It's very long.) I got my walking in while listening to Polos and I did my DDR exercise. Got some editing done on my book--quite a lot actually. Watched a reaction and ate too many Lemonheads. (They were buy one get one free at the store.)
- Sunday I slept 'til the afternoon so that was fun. Worked on the transcript for the video I processed on Saturday. Got the news that the first thing I ever auditioned for in voice work (and, incidentally, got offered the role) is going forward after all, even though I hadn't heard from the showrunner in months. Hooray! It's gonna be cool. I got to listen to a privately sent, not-quite-complete version of Episode 1. It's about what I expected and sounds good. Exciting! So then I worked on my chores (laundry and trash), drew a So You Write comic, coordinated a sale of some pins through Tumblr, and sent a Polo. Also learned a new ukulele song and recorded dialogue for the next Sleepy Hollow episode.
- Monday, following posting my video the day before, I got a small influx of transphobic comments on YouTube. Deleted and blocked. Who needs that? (One of them opened with "there's no such thing as transphobia" and then proceeded to caterwaul about single-sex spaces and the erosion of the definition of womanhood. Thanks for the nice example of transphobia!) At work I edited a letter, prepared for a meeting, and went to an interview practice. We turned in our package for the interview, organized future teams, and did some additional practices for the interview. After work I processed my comic and posted it. Then I played DDR, Polo'd Meg, and worked on my novel edit.
- Tuesday I woke up in the middle of the night and messed around for about an hour before going back to sleep. Got up in plenty of time to be ready for the interview. My boss picked me up and we headed over to the District, did our interview, did a debriefing meeting in the car because we didn't have time to get home, and then finally came back to do another debrief meeting. After all the work stuff I walked my package to the Post Office and took a nap. Then I made a list of some project history for my boss and signed off for the day. I worked on my projects: editing my book, practicing ukulele, and recording dialogue for a voice-over project. Also got some dishes washed and talked to Meg on Polo.
- Wednesday involved pestering people to give me materials and entering some data. In the afternoon I played DDR before Jeaux came over. We ate at a Mexican restaurant we'd never been to before (El Señor de los Tacos) where I got a Beyond Meat burrito that was very salty but pretty good. Then we grocery shopped, watched the latest Murderbot episode, and installed a new bigger TV into my entertainment center. (It's a hand-me-down from Jeaux. It doesn't quite fit, but it's close enough.) Then we just shared silly internet content and chatted. Birdle visited! What a cutie. After he left I submitted a query, scanned some photos, and practiced ukulele.
- Thursday I had issues logging in at work for some reason and technical difficulties plagued some of the day. Probably has something to do with the new system they're making me use for data entry. Everything was more or less working again after two interactions with tech support. I got data entered and bothered people to give me paper. Then I took a nap and woke up in time for Game Night, which I had to run because Meg was busy. After, I wrote my Negative One storyboard, sent a Polo to Steve, submitted a short story, and learned a new song on ukulele. I also practiced some of the older songs that I have mastered to make sure I still know them. (I do.)
- Friday I had the day off work for the July 4 holiday. I slept late and was awakened by the neighbors' obnoxious music but hey, that's okay. I needed to get up anyway. I drew my comic in the daytime and posted it, played DDR, and got the rest of my steps while walking around sending a second Polo to Steve. Then I practiced ukulele, scanned photos, and found that I'm done with the second box of photos! The photo-scanning project is done! Next on the agenda: organizing them. I also dove into recording my voice-over lines for Episode 5 of Dracula. It was a shorter episode and I only had about 50 lines, so it was a lot more doable than I'd expected. And I wrote part of a draft for the foreword that I'll be writing for an upcoming anthology of aromantic stories, and I read one of the drafts of one of the stories. Jeaux also called me in the wee hours to rant about some school stuff. I love that we're both night owls.
Interviews, Articles, Mentions:
- LGBTQAI+ Literature: Exploring Asexuality, Part 2 is up on Daily Kos. My book is one of three asexuality-related books in a list to discuss in the article.
Health Plan Update:
- Weight stuff: I saw some higher numbers again at the beginning of the week but I think it stabilized? I don't have a routine down at all and have not been actively trying to lessen anything. I guess I'm just still paying attention to what the scale says in case it turns out I do see a trend I don't want to continue. High weight was 116.0. Low weight was 114.8.
- Nutrition stuff: Kind of a repeat of last week? I'm still getting three servings of fruits and veggies but the vegetable is almost always the spinach in my smoothie, and I feel a little bit trapped about that because when I buy spinach I kinda have to eat it every day until it's gone if I don't want it to go bad. Fruits are fluctuating between strawberries, blueberries, grapes, and bananas, and sometimes if I'm not worried about remaining fruit going bad I'll crack into the packaged Mandarin oranges, pears, and peaches. Balance between carbs, fats, and protein is something I did not pay attention to pretty much at all this week. Looks like I at least met my protein goal every day except Wednesday. I am still regularly taking vitamins.
- Activity stuff: I'm continuing to play my dance game every other day. I met my walking goal every day this week. My low day was Monday at 10,028 steps, and my high day was Friday at 13,943 steps.
Books Read:
- Finished Reading: Nothing this week.
- Currently Reading: Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Page. I'm on page 85.
None this week.
Stuff drawn:
My monthly writing webcomic, So You Write:
My weekly fantasy webcomic, Negative One:
#1051: adele #258: higher education.
Videos Made:
Ace Activist Response to Rowling is posted! This is an epic reading of an essay I wrote and published five years ago addressing, point by point, some thoughts J.K. Rowling shared on her blog. It is primarily a rebuttal to the "we must protect women and girls" narrative that Rowling claims is her motivation for limiting trans people's rights and spreading lies about the reality of their experience. As an asexual activist, I see many parallels between the way she misrepresents trans people and sows mistrust about them and the way people mistrust and dismiss asexual people. In this essay, I also show some evidence for why Rowling misrepresented her position many times, and I give voice to some nuanced explorations on diverse experiences of female identity.
New photos:
None.
Social media counts:
YouTube subscribers: 5,463 for swankivy (lost 3; maybe some transphobes were following me ;) ), 683 for JulieSondra (no change), 16 for v & V Vids (no change), 217 for Not-So-Giant Women (no change), 66 for Tides of Time Band (no change). Twitter followers: 770 for swankivy (no change), 3,488 for JulieSondra (lost 6). Facebook: 292 friends for swankivy (no change), 633 likes for JulieSondra (no change), 82 followers for Negative One (no change), 249 followers for So You Write (no change), 100 followers for Not-So-Giant-Women (no change). Tumblr followers: 2,419 (lost 1). Instagram followers: 280 (no change). Threads followers: 76 (1 new). Bluesky Social. Bluesky followers: 379 (1 new).
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