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Sunday Progress Poll
How have you done with your personal goals this past week?

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How have you done with your personal goals this past week?
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I did okay! I went to the gym five whole times this week! \o/
I have done poorly. Demoralized by the results of the election-- and worse, the proliferation of hate incidents in the aftermath by bolstered bigots.
I have had a really rough week as well. I was so disheartened on Wednesday, I basically just gave myself the week off from anything beyond basic functioning.
I'm going to try to reset and get in better spirits for the coming week. I work with high school kids, most of whom were also pretty upset, and I kept telling them all week "we can't do anything about the election now, so our job for the next 4 years is to go out and do whatever we can do to make our community strong and make everyone feel loved and welcomed." So I'm taking my own advice. One of my students is organizing a cold-weather clothing drive for refugees, so tomorrow I'm going to pull out all my winter things and sort out what I can donate. I'm looking forward to doing something useful.
I've been crushed as well. :( Luckily I've been able to use it somewhat to my benefit and I've decided that going to the gym and bicycling for an hour while listening to an audiobook is a good way to escape thinking about things and channel out some bad energy.
It's definitely affected my work productivity and other areas of my life though. :(
That's very healthy. I am trying to channel my stress in a better, healthier way, too.
We'll see if it keeps up! It at least worked for this week. Hopefully I can keep doing it.
I hit 800 mins played in WoW! Very happy with this since it's the first time I hit under 1k since trying to ween myself off the game.
It's been hard to do anything else because of the deep despair I've been trying to exorcise, thanks to the election. But at the same time, I feel like it's gotten more important for me to get my affairs in order and be ready for whatever might come in the future, so maybe after the misery I'll have a stronger drive.
Woo! Congrats! What have you been trying to do to wean yourself?
The election has done horrible things for my morale as well. I have a terrible addiction to mundane games on my phone and backslid and re-installed a couple for a few days, but I deleted them off again yesterday.
Congrats on your accomplishment. That's huge!! Beating your best by more than 3 hours is a big deal. Keep it up!
Well, I've kind of transferred my WoW habit to playing other games. I played a ton of Kingdoms of Amalur, but I'm not so concerned about that because those games end, and since I poke around making games as a small hobby there's benefit to trying new things as opposed to playing the same thing over and over again.
Having no drive for literally anything has kind of helped... in a way.
But I'm also trying to do NaNoWriMo, so when I feel compelled to play I open up my project instead.
Oh, cool! What are you writing about? Or what's your genre that you like to write in, if you don't want to divulge your story itself?
I write primarily fantasy with a little sci-fi thrown in on occasion. I've been trying to learn twine and get into the flow of maybe making extensible twine projects, like hub stories that can have new modules added to them over time without much complexity, so I'm working on one of those for nano. I guess that makes me a rebel, hehe, but I have an awful case of writer's block for 4 years now, and anything that can get me writing is something I need.
Did... I reply to you in my first post? Whoops!
Wait, what's twine? I'm not familiar with that. It sounds really interesting though and like it might be right up my alley, just from the general way you referenced it.
Twine is a platform that's intended to help people make browser based choose your own adventure games with a minimum of coding experience. Depending on how complex you want your game to be, you can use nothing but their interface and brackets the indicate choices and you're good to go.
https://twinery.org/ is the website for the platform.
Birdland is a good example of the game in use, as is 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds which plays more like an old text adventure game, and The Fairy Woods is a favorite, and a more straight forward adventure.
Oh, and there's a whole magazine for this stuff, though not all of it is twine based. https://sub-q.com Like all indy mags the offerings can be hit or miss but these games tend to aim more for a literature end, even more so than your usual text game.
Oooooh this looks like so much fun! Thank you! I just started getting lost in one before I realized I have actual work I need to be doing right now. :/ Just bookmarked to come back to later!