My Actifit Report Card: April 24 2021

No bird on my walk again today.

I tried to make sure that I was up nice and early to get some activity in, and I’d hit ten thousand steps by 8 AM. That’s come with a slightly unpleasant side-effect of being a little groggy, but with the power of caffeine I was able to make it through the day.

My cat has been incredibly affectionate as of late, and that’s been fun because she’s just a total bundle of joy when she’s not sleeping during the day and yelling at the stars all night long. She’s figured out the way curtains work and will spend the night staring out into the backyard (but never the front yard, despite the fact that she has the opportunity to look out into either). While she’ll occasionally attack the window for some reason (cats, eh?) and that can wake me up when I’m trying to sleep, it’s preferable to her being at my door when I’m sleeping.

I don’t like her around the electronics in my room, so I have to be careful to make sure that she gets enough attention (and food) during the day to make sure that she’s happy overnight.

The enormous accomplishment today was finishing my finals, except for a not insignificant reflection piece that I’m going to do on Monday and be done with it.

That means that I have already put the deciding factor in the last two classes of my MFA program into play and I can just sit back and watch at this point. I won’t pretend that I’ve done sublime stuff (my big thesis capstone was due in my last unit, and these were just requirements for the degree that I could take at any time and wound up taking at the end of my program instead of during the middle of it), but I think it’s a worthy answer to the requirements set forward by the university.

That’s a good feeling, and I’m looking forward to what comes next.

The two big things I want to do are to set up for teaching on Outschool (which includes making some instructional materials I may distribute separately) and to figure out a more stable job for the future.

I’m not opposed to doing freelancing and other stuff long term, but I find it to be less reliable as a way to establish an income stream, in part because I have an eclectic set of skills and not a lot of networking.

Ostensibly I have a couple books to work on as well, which should be easier now that school’s out of the way. There’s Aspects of Sand, which was languishing this past week but could get a pretty easy revival since I have a lot of the stuff to do. There’s Pacifism and Heroism, which is my treatise on pacifism, although I’m not sure how much time that will take to polish once the manuscript is written.

And there’s Exoworld, which definitely needs a lot of love since it’s been basically abandoned for all of April and I don’t want to have it die.

I’ve still been working on that short story, which I need to just power through and finish.

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