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guardians_song) wrote2013-04-22 12:08 am
guardians_song) wrote2013-04-22 12:08 am
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Lost today to angst.
Spent most of it surfing Psychology Today to validate inexplicable feelings of unhappiness and whininess. As it's now inexplicably clearing up, I have chalked the whole thing up to a hormonal swing. *sigh*
(Have now put down "Go on pop-psych website" as a negative habit on HabitRPG.)
...On the bright side, I wrote 1500 words of really weird AU Twilight fanfic that will never see the light of day.
I also did 40 lessons on Codecademy and 40 bicep curls/40 upward rows with 5-pound dumbbells. (...Not all at once, though. So yes, I'm a wimp. *sighs and looks up workouts*)
HabitRPG is helping. But I'm consistently losing HP over 1hr Personal Project and 45min Reading (which I am interpreting to mean "ACADEMIC reading" and not "leisure reading"). ...I'm thinking of adding 45min Leisure Reading just to clear that up. Just... eh. It's successfully guilting me into work, but I need to figure out how to get better at making it make me work. :\
EDIT: And an hour or two after the above post, I stared feeling calm and peaceful for no good reason whatsoever.
Yeah, it was a hormone swing. Definitely.
Anyway, sorry to clog up your f-lists with that. Let me say something more constructive!
The CodeYear track on Codecademy is actually much better than the current official tracks. It taught me some information about JavaScript that I *hadn't* learned during the JavaScript track, which I appreciated.
HabitRPG... is helping. I'm better able to keep track of my personal grooming, my Codecademy progress, and my exercise (such as it is). It's also helping me curb my bad habits. *looks woefully at bag of chips* I only wish I'd discovered it earlier.
If I haven't recommended From Eroica With Love, I should have. It is friggin' hilarious! ...Unfortunately, the particular comic subcompany that was selling it in the U.S. has now shut down, so yeah, scanlations are the only way. :\ (I got Volumes 1-15 from a local comics shop that still had them in stock, so I have them in print, but others likely won't be so lucky. [Ha! Great impulse buy. Thank heavens the mod of badfic_quotes has a bajillion From Eroica With Love icons, so I'd been highly curious about the series for ages...])
Also, I recently read the The Book of Cthulhu anthology of Lovecraftian fiction, which was quite enjoyable. All of the stories were very well-written, and I hadn't read most of them before.
This kindly soul uploaded the MagiNation soundtrack to MediaFire, so I recommend picking it up if you remember that game. ...It doesn't properly have the title screen music, however, so I'd recommend this video instead for that one. THAT is the best track in the entire game. When I was a kid, I'd leave my GameBoy on the title screen for several minutes just to listen to it. Please give it at least one listen - it's worth it. I am seriously tempted to add a video-downloader to my current computer just so I can listen to it without having to be plugged into the internet. That should give you some idea... (Or perhaps that's nostalgia talking... but anyway. :) )
(Have now put down "Go on pop-psych website" as a negative habit on HabitRPG.)
...On the bright side, I wrote 1500 words of really weird AU Twilight fanfic that will never see the light of day.
I also did 40 lessons on Codecademy and 40 bicep curls/40 upward rows with 5-pound dumbbells. (...Not all at once, though. So yes, I'm a wimp. *sighs and looks up workouts*)
HabitRPG is helping. But I'm consistently losing HP over 1hr Personal Project and 45min Reading (which I am interpreting to mean "ACADEMIC reading" and not "leisure reading"). ...I'm thinking of adding 45min Leisure Reading just to clear that up. Just... eh. It's successfully guilting me into work, but I need to figure out how to get better at making it make me work. :\
EDIT: And an hour or two after the above post, I stared feeling calm and peaceful for no good reason whatsoever.
Yeah, it was a hormone swing. Definitely.
Anyway, sorry to clog up your f-lists with that. Let me say something more constructive!
The CodeYear track on Codecademy is actually much better than the current official tracks. It taught me some information about JavaScript that I *hadn't* learned during the JavaScript track, which I appreciated.
HabitRPG... is helping. I'm better able to keep track of my personal grooming, my Codecademy progress, and my exercise (such as it is). It's also helping me curb my bad habits. *looks woefully at bag of chips* I only wish I'd discovered it earlier.
If I haven't recommended From Eroica With Love, I should have. It is friggin' hilarious! ...Unfortunately, the particular comic subcompany that was selling it in the U.S. has now shut down, so yeah, scanlations are the only way. :\ (I got Volumes 1-15 from a local comics shop that still had them in stock, so I have them in print, but others likely won't be so lucky. [Ha! Great impulse buy. Thank heavens the mod of badfic_quotes has a bajillion From Eroica With Love icons, so I'd been highly curious about the series for ages...])
Also, I recently read the The Book of Cthulhu anthology of Lovecraftian fiction, which was quite enjoyable. All of the stories were very well-written, and I hadn't read most of them before.
This kindly soul uploaded the MagiNation soundtrack to MediaFire, so I recommend picking it up if you remember that game. ...It doesn't properly have the title screen music, however, so I'd recommend this video instead for that one. THAT is the best track in the entire game. When I was a kid, I'd leave my GameBoy on the title screen for several minutes just to listen to it. Please give it at least one listen - it's worth it. I am seriously tempted to add a video-downloader to my current computer just so I can listen to it without having to be plugged into the internet. That should give you some idea... (Or perhaps that's nostalgia talking... but anyway. :) )