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hilsHad a lovely 4 day weekend last weekend and it was wonderful. I coordinated my days off with ![[twitter.com profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
thebonwitch so we could hang out and do fun things. Because she lives on the west coast of the US and I live in the UK our schedules only really line up enough for us to watch some tomb shows at the weekend so it was really nice to hang out and do other things. We played some Jackbox games on Friday with a bunch of the group chat members which was really nice, especially since some of the people who can't make our weekend streams popped by to play for a bit. Always nice to chat to new people.
After that it was just the Iron Triangle (Me, Bon, andamedawg18) so we watched The Legend of the Demon Cat which is a Chinese movie with Qin Hao in a support role. Apparently after watching Sha Hai I got very attached to him as an actor. Unfortunately because most of what he's done is small arthouse movies it's hard to find them but this one is a mainstream movie. Based purely on the title I was expecting it too be kind of campy horror but it was actually kind of an emotional story based on real historical events and we all ended up crying at the end. It was good though!
Sunday we just hung out on Zoom post tomb raiding and a few of the group chat people swung in to hang out. It was really nice.
Honestly I felt so much better by Monday evening compared to how I've felt over the past few months. It's amazing what getting enough sleep, not having to go to work and getting to spend time with friends (even in a virtual environment) does to your mental health.
Definitely need to do this again at some point.
Writing is still ticking along. My current WIP is maybe 2/3 done and I'm already thinking about things I want to write next. I've had a lovely time chatting tofangirlishness, achray and teyla on Discord. They are very good at enabling me :D
Mandarin practice is coming along nicely and I'm definitely seeing an improvement in my ability to recognise characters without the pinyin to help me. I've got to the second 'test your proficency' section on the ChineseSkill app and I failed the first try so I need to go back and revise some more. We're getting into more complex sentences now so I definitely need to study more before I'm test ready. Still enjoying it though and getting excited when I recognise words and phrases in the dramas I'm watching.
I can't believe we've only got 2 episodes of Ultimate Note left. We started watching Reboot in August last year and have been doing group watches every weekend ever since. I am going to be so sad when there's no more new tomb nonsense in my life. We've got plenty of other things to group watch but I will miss these characters :(
And, in work news, we are recruiting yet again. It never ends.
After that it was just the Iron Triangle (Me, Bon, and
Sunday we just hung out on Zoom post tomb raiding and a few of the group chat people swung in to hang out. It was really nice.
Honestly I felt so much better by Monday evening compared to how I've felt over the past few months. It's amazing what getting enough sleep, not having to go to work and getting to spend time with friends (even in a virtual environment) does to your mental health.
Definitely need to do this again at some point.
Writing is still ticking along. My current WIP is maybe 2/3 done and I'm already thinking about things I want to write next. I've had a lovely time chatting to
fangirlishness, achray and teyla on Discord. They are very good at enabling me :DMandarin practice is coming along nicely and I'm definitely seeing an improvement in my ability to recognise characters without the pinyin to help me. I've got to the second 'test your proficency' section on the ChineseSkill app and I failed the first try so I need to go back and revise some more. We're getting into more complex sentences now so I definitely need to study more before I'm test ready. Still enjoying it though and getting excited when I recognise words and phrases in the dramas I'm watching.
I can't believe we've only got 2 episodes of Ultimate Note left. We started watching Reboot in August last year and have been doing group watches every weekend ever since. I am going to be so sad when there's no more new tomb nonsense in my life. We've got plenty of other things to group watch but I will miss these characters :(
And, in work news, we are recruiting yet again. It never ends.
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Date: 2021-03-29 03:36 pm (UTC)<3 Always surprising, yes. :D
I am looking forward to my week off! \o/
Writing is still ticking along. My current WIP is maybe 2/3 done and I'm already thinking about things I want to write next. I've had a lovely time chatting to [personal profile] fangirlishness, [personal profile] achray and [personal profile] teyla on Discord. They are very good at enabling me :D
<3 Yay!