the usual monday list time

[seventhe]

• Had my last surgical injection on Thursday. Turns out that it's pretty easy to forget that just because these things aren't hella invasive does not mean they aren't a big deal; I spent Friday attempting to do a bunch of physical-labor-type stuff around the house and was reminded that my system is still full of anesthetic aftermath at about ~3:00 when I seriously just... burnt out, like my body crapped out, like literally just stopped functioning, like someone had repeatedly punched me in the everything and left me for dead. Whooooooops. Lost a lot of the weekend recovering from that too; turns out overproductivity results in less productivity when your body sucks like mine does!


• greeted with a 3-hour 3-meeting back-to-back boredom extravaganza this morning at work (boredom being relative; two of the three meetings were informative and the third gave me a platform to complain loudly about stuff so it wasn't really a waste of time; just not the way I like starting off my Mondays)


• tired


• Finishing up FFIV for moogle_university; have been reminded why this game is special to me. It isn't that it's the "best" of the FFs or the best game I've ever played; it's just the correct combination of [nostalgia points] + [characters and plot points highly relevant to my interests] and will probably always be my favorite, which just proves that I have horrible taste in life.


• HAS ANYONE / EVERYONE STARTED THEIR DOINK FIC/ART/WORK??? Every year I swear I'm going to blog more about the exchange and then every year I'm like, I'm just too tired. I have so many thoughts and they are all living in giant apartment complexes on the corner of "You can't talk about that in public Sev" and "no1currr" and so I look at that and go back to my fic and monitoring of our inbox and sigh, heavily.


• I'm finally living in my own room...? I have my new carpet and the paint job is done and it's set up in a way that makes me feel happy and comfortable, and ... I like it? I've felt and been transient for years and I'm not sure I have words for how comfortable and safe I feel finally putting down roots in a place that is mine, that I own, where I am the one who gets to have final say on everything, where I have my own space and my own dominion and all things I've needed for years but haven't prioritized, where I can do whatever the hell I want. Including paint my study leaffire-orange and yellow, because I am dumb. Not having to answer to anyone is apparently the space where I am the most comfortable with myself; it is also a completely appropriate adult goal. don't question me.


• where am I


• oh yeah lunch

Comments

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

Yeah, FFIV wasn't the first game that I played in the franchise (it was FFVI and I remember the exact moment when I came in from watching someone play, and that was the infamous "Opera House" and then I was like "WHAT IS THIS MARVELOUS THING THAT I AM WATCHING" and then sexy gamblers with airships became involved and then suddenly I was just absolutely lost and went out straight aways and used all of my saved up babysitting money to buy myself a SNES.

Didn't see the light of day for THREE WHOLE DAYS.. that was how long it took me to gain levels and get to the world of ruin..

When I obsess, it's hardcore.

[seventhe]

My brother and I pooled our allowance money for A VERY LONG TIME to split FFVI (FFIII, then) and then spent weeks playing it on the SNES split controllers and arguing over who would be which characters (and in his case mocking me incessantly for my complete inability to Blitz w Sabin what don't look at me)

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

Awwwww Blitz, I remember my complete inability to do a half circle with my thumb. And I always blamed it on the controller. Ah button sequence combos, the fine line between Sabin being Awesome and Sabin just standing there looking like a puffed up teddy bear.

[seventhe]

Sad thing is I found out like 15 years later that you could totally take Blitzing because the SNES control pad couldn't actually detect diagonals.

THINGS THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN USEFUL TO KNOW IN THE 1990S

[thene]

Still pissy at myself for forgetting to sign up for DOINK, but eh, I am watching that pinch-hit list hard, I promise you. Fwiw I really love obsessing over exchange mechanics and processing what works and what doesn't, so I would love to hear your thoughts on the topic (or whatever exchange-match-fail anecdotes you have hoarded up over the years, those are always good!)

[seventhe]

I'm expecting some hefty pinch hit needs this weekend / next Monday, so please stay tuned :D