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Humidity Planet
May. 19th, 2022 03:39 pmI feel like science fiction is really missing out on the concept of humidity planets. Like? We'll have Very Hot Hell Planets, the most famous being Tatooine and Arrakis, but it's always a dry heat. In the tradition of sci-fi planets only having one distinctive feature, where are my humid misery soup planets? Anyway, this is my roundabout way of complaining about the weather right now. Can confirm lawnmowing in 77% humidity is awful, very bad, would not recommend. Can't wait for summer when that humidity becomes consistently even worse than it is now... Thanks, I hate it.
Draft 6 of Novel 1 is Rough, Buddy. This is possibly the most hell draft so far, which is saying something because draft 3 almost killed me. But I'm getting smarter about how I approach the frankly daunting number of tasks I have for this draft, and I'm doing better at breaking the work down into manageable portions. Still, the brain fatigue is too real.
I do this thing where I forget that I can use coping mechanisms, so I'll sit in the study fully having sensory overload for 15 minutes before finally realizing that I can put in earplugs. Spring/summer is the absolute worst sensory time for me because of 1. the heat (love living in the southern United States, it's the BEST...), which causes 2. constantly needing to run the window unit air conditioner, leading to 3. LOUD NOISES. ALL THE TIME. So, there's a lot of needing to give myself grace, which I am patently Bad At.
Anyway, I wish spring/summer was my time, but it very much is not. And it double sucks because all the aforementioned + reverse seasonal depression tanks my executive function, so I can't really distract myself with a lot of nice media because my brain has all the processing power of melted plastic.
Draft 6 of Novel 1 is Rough, Buddy. This is possibly the most hell draft so far, which is saying something because draft 3 almost killed me. But I'm getting smarter about how I approach the frankly daunting number of tasks I have for this draft, and I'm doing better at breaking the work down into manageable portions. Still, the brain fatigue is too real.
I do this thing where I forget that I can use coping mechanisms, so I'll sit in the study fully having sensory overload for 15 minutes before finally realizing that I can put in earplugs. Spring/summer is the absolute worst sensory time for me because of 1. the heat (love living in the southern United States, it's the BEST...), which causes 2. constantly needing to run the window unit air conditioner, leading to 3. LOUD NOISES. ALL THE TIME. So, there's a lot of needing to give myself grace, which I am patently Bad At.
Anyway, I wish spring/summer was my time, but it very much is not. And it double sucks because all the aforementioned + reverse seasonal depression tanks my executive function, so I can't really distract myself with a lot of nice media because my brain has all the processing power of melted plastic.
