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I dropped two of the fandoms I had been going to offer for Yuletide. One of them, I realized that I didn’t own. The other, I looked at the posted letters for it and realized that most of them were asking for things that I wasn’t comfortable writing.

I’m still having cramps. That’s a change from before the IUD. A day or two was usual, never four. ( Other period TMI. )

I slept badly last night. I just couldn’t fall asleep after we went to bed or after Scott got up. It was only about 70F in the house, but I was too warm under the sheet and too cold without it. I kept shifting around, trying to find cool spots for my arms and legs. Of course, cool spots, once found, only stay cool for seconds, so that meant moving around a lot. I really hope I didn’t keep Scott awake. He sounded like he was sleeping.

Scott did the patching of the back porch yesterday. I’m not sure he got to the weed killing.

We went to the library a bit after 4:30 and did some Ingress while we were there and then around the neighborhood before going home. Some folks from the other faction had come through and captured all of the portals. We weren’t the only local folks working on retaking everything. I need 600000 more AP to advance a level. Scott needs a lot more than that and also needs a badge. We’re working on getting him the badge. I think he needs to make about twenty five more links between portals.

I ended up checking out exactly as many items from the library as I returned. That rarely happens. It’s only noteworthy in an isn’t that a coincidence way, though.

I’m still having trouble getting my writing to flow. I’m eking out a sentence here and there and feeling frustrated. I’m hopeful that, once I get my Yuletide assignment, things will be easier. I write better when I have an intended not-me audience or when I have someone to talk to about what I’m doing. At the moment, I have neither.

Today’s goals are baking bread and creating some Amber diceless characters. I’ve decided that I need to select my scenario villain using a random number generator of some sort. If that turns up someone and I don’t think they’ll work, I’ll try again. Right now, I’m looking at the possibilities and not seeing why any of them would or wouldn’t work well because I’m feeling overwhelmed. If I was planning a campaign, I’d probably have more than one person/faction working on the situation in opposition to the player characters, but I only have four hours.

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I got my Yuletide assignment. I’m confident of my ability to write something for it, but I’m not as confident of my ability to write to please my recipient because they didn’t give me much guidance at all. It’s both liberating and scary. Their letter doesn’t have anything talking about general likes and dislikes, and their prompt on the fandom we matched on is pretty much 'Do what you want! Nothing will squick me!'

Which I can do, but I worry that what I want to write will not end up appealing to them at all. I want to give a nice gift, one that will please. I guess my next step is to look at AO3 and see what they’ve written and what they’ve bookmarked.

Because I do not want to take 'Nothing will squick me!' as a challenge.

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Oh, and I’m sick enough that I’m on saltines, water, and Gatorade for the duration. My brain is sometimes working and sometimes not. I’m behind on comments/comment responses. I’m not sure what on earth I’m going to do about my daily bit of Ingress hacking. Maybe I can bribe Cordelia to walk down to the church with my phone.