it's been a while

Right right right. so much going on:

• still taking care of the 3 girls. i drive out monday around noon, do my duties, drive back wednesday mornings. it's very tiring but i think i'm finally getting used to the schedule because i didn't hit the absolute exhaustion point this week, which would have felt good except that my throat's sore (from allergy drip, not covid) so i didn't sleep well anyway. but it's improving, as is my ability to focus on work while i'm there.
• work words 1 (content writing) continues to be relatively consistent; not the same every week, but close enough that it's still reasonable income
• work words 2! so i got a THIRD job, writing scientific and technical blurbs for a company that produces analytical chemicals for life / bio science applications. it's fascinating stuff and it's so much more like the kind of writing i WANT to be doing, so that's great. they do require substantial research and it's easier to do them from my house where i have double giant monitors, so that's the only real downside rn. not enough of it to ditch any other work but it's good value AND something i want to put on my resume, and there's a possibility it will expand into additional work at some point, so. so
• basement gremlin (my bff who is renting my basement, aka my FOURTH INCOME STREAM aaaaa) has a critical appointment with his service dog prospect tomorrow, so please cross your fingers for us and mr eddie brock
• i've been working at more frequent updates on my patreon (my FIFTH income stream fml) including early access to some of my chaptered GO fic... that requires writing them, though ... yeahhhh
• i actually am staying reasonable w nano. even though so far it's mostly been work words and some fanfic, it's still words and i'm allowing it. my actual nano target this year is still 50,000 words, but only 25,000 of them have to be my original novel (which will ALSO be posted on my patreon! if you're interested! even for just $1 / mo!) and the rest can be work words (because they take away from my ability to write other words, i'm going to count them) or fanfiction (i don't want to abandon everything for an entire month), so. so. so i guess it's 10 days in and I'm absolutely behind but i haven't given up on it yet
• sitting here like WHAT ELSE DO I HAVE GOING ON as if this isn't A Lot

sorry, algorithm men

anyway one of the best things about my job(s) is that Google and other algorithms have absolutely no idea what to make of me. here i am one day googling garden and plant care; the next, brushing up on financial terms. now i'm looking up stuff for a fanfic, like "which grapes ripen first" or "what years did X perform on broadway." the next day i'm researching apoptosis and necrosis, annexin V, and phosphatidylserine. then here i am at 3 am watching callmekevin on youtube. fuck man if you can figure out from that mix what i'm interested in, fucking godspeed