yeah, i'm making the last-minute decision to finally participate (after watching for years). there are a LOT of things going on right now, and i have so many things to post about that i have post paralysis. hopefully this will help.
Day 1: In your own space, talk about your Happy Place—the things that give you joy, calms you or keeps you sane. i think my happy place is concerts. live music, preferably somewhere dark, crowded, and loud, but i do okay with daytime, sparsely attended, and outdoors as well. and this even includes being seated while politely watching an orchestra or whatever! so: preferences within the category, but they are all my happy place.
( more about concerts ) other things that fit the bill:
i am doing a wheelthrowing pottery class, and that is something i didn't expect to love but i seriously keep jonesing to get back to the wheel. i kind of don't care what i make, i just like the physical act of doing it. also clay is fun to squish.
and, most shockingly: turns out i enjoy math? some math? i took statistics because it's a pre-req for accounting classes and i really loved it. and i start my accounting class next week. i enjoy bookkeeping in the same way i enjoy jigsaw puzzles: sometimes it's super-rewarding and things go click-click-click, and sometimes you spend a day annoyed and pretty sure there are pieces under the refrigerator. (unlike in jigsaw puzzles, in bookkeeping you can (sort of) just say fuck it and write a journal entry to make it look right and label it "this is to fix some fucking thing, i'll dig into it again later"). anyway. happily one of my two jobs right now is doing (mostly very straightforward) bookkeeping for ~9 small nonprofits in the area. the people parts of that job are often still stressful or frustrating, but the work itself is relaxing and sort of invigorating.
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