Arts Tasmania have writing awards open for submissions and I submitted 3 stories (2 of my kids horror and one unpublished one). The likelihood of winning is slim, but I can’t help think about what winning might do for my bonafides. And then I start thinking about what I’d say as an acceptance speech.
I’ve always had that habit of thinking about everything that could happen if things turn out as desired (rarely ever do). It’s something I wish I could do and then forget about until the time comes up.
Does anyone else do this though? Plan for something and then get excited/think about the possibilities? I feel like I jinx myself by doing it.
Does anyone else do this though? Plan for something and then get excited/think about the possibilities? I feel like I jinx myself by doing it.
yes. very much so.
Also we expect a call out in your acceptance speech. “and to the daily thread, who have always been there to support me” 🙃
Lol. I will ensure to include you all.
First up: good luck!!! Put out positivity!!
Second: yessss, I am a shocker for it. My bf casually mentioned it’d be fun for us to do some streaming last night and sure enough, I was then in the shower thinking about how fun it would be to be a streamer with, like, hundreds of people in chat and interacting and what we might do. Urg. It is great fun being a dreamer though, I wouldn’t change it!
Thank you!
I tend to be the opposite - I think of all the ways that whatever I’m doing is doomed to FAIL and all the possible consequences of that and how I’ll cope.
Very rarely am I wrong.
But that said, GOOD LUCK! Is there anywhere we can vote/help or is it purely based on judge’s decisions?
Thank you!
Winners are decided by judges from my understanding.
Do they accept cookies and other ‘encouragements’? :D
Of course I think about possibilities and get excited, that’s all about why I make decisions.
Possibilities are part of the reasons behind making decisions.
I think I pulled a muscle or something while I was under the house yesterday. My sides are super sore
No tickling for you then.
I don’t reckon there’s gonna be much for me over the next few days, my legs are a bit battered as well
desperately trying to think of a semi clean pun regarding battered legs
Yeah nah, that ain’t happening
I bought 200g of olives to make with pasta.
I got home and realised they were not pitted (they had been slit on the side - but seed still intact).
30 minutes of drudgery later I know I will not make that mistake again.
Pakige day! My new kitchen sponges are on board for delivery. I’m pretty sure I bought more interesting things too, I just can’t remember what.
Alright. Experiment: running to the gym at lunchtime. Will I end up feeling good, or fucked beyond recognition?
I brought a towel so I can have a shower afterwards.
Let’s see how it plays out.
It’s 9 hours later, hoping you ended up feeling good and not fucked beyond recognition!
good luck! Gotta find time for this stuff where you can.
Oh this is almost too good to be true: scary shit
If Nasa called you and said “We want to send you up, BUT we can only do it on a Boeing spacecraft” you’d say “No thanks!”
It’s like the beginning of an Arthur C Clarke novel playing out in real life…
apparently its stopped doing it. But man i woulda sealed the hatch and used the arm to yeet that thing outta orbit faster than you can say 737 max 8.
I’m afraid you can’t do that
I hope they have an inanimate carbon rod for protection.
Stupid rod getting all the glory.
In Rod we Trust.
How nice, Mr. Jingoism from last week is back again today, and is talking to our supervisor on the phone going on about how he has the chills and doesn’t feel really good and probably picked up something from the childcare (and this person has stacks of leave entitlements), thanks for making the rest of us sick too mate…
I guess it was only a matter of time before false spring was going to end and I’d be putting the heater back on.
In true Melbourne fashion I was freezing in the morning, overheated on the drive home, now freezing again. Damned if I’ll switch the heater on though, I’m having a shower and retiring to bed instead!
I really wish that fingernails and toenails weren’t a thing. Thankyou for coming to my TED talk
For your next talk could you please expand on (a) armpit hair and (b) feet, in general? Can we have proper prehensile feet like chimps or just something less fiddly rather than this annoying in-between thing
overt menses
very few mammals have them
why us 😢 causes nothing but misery and anaemia
we don’t need overt menses to have ovulation cycles and ready uterine walls
also, crowded teeth and hair loss can get in the bin
What else would I clip on the tram?
Ear hair.
The little toe claws are bastards.
Fingernails - I like. I have realised over the years that mine are a great health indicator. If I’m doing well they are strong as, grow neatly and are nice and pink. If the randomly start to catch and break/split I am getting sick.
Toenails - I don’t think about until the little bastard grows and pokes into the toe next door and then I clip them
Thank you for listening to my rebuttal.
(That one weird face hair that isn’t there and then grows an inch overnight. It can get in the bin)
I’ve finally installed a Lemmy app on the iPhone. Without an app I kept not coming here unless I was on a computer. I don’t know which one is the best so I picked mlem which looks pretty decent so far.
Ding ding coming to you live from the 11 tram!
I use Jerboa because of it’s lack of advertising.
I haven’t seen any ads on this one yet. Maybe they’re coming…
Mlem dev here - we do not and will never run ads, sell data or lock functionality behind a paywall :)
I use jerboa too. Sometimes it takes a bit to connect but that’s probably a mobile service issue rather than an app issue.
It is a bit cliche, but I just bought myself a typewriter. I am ridiculously excited to get it.
This is exactly what I’m going to write first up.
I learned on one of those things, only it was a manual. Its amazing how strong your littlest finger gets after a bit. On the plus side, smashing the carriage return lever is such fun.
All work and no play make Homer something something…
Go crazy?
I’ve always been interested in whether they make a difference. It has to feel like a middle ground between writing by hand and using the computer
I don’t think it would be fast enough for writing a story (for me). But I hope to use it for smaller things. Give it a personal touch. Like thank you letters to schools.
And award winning speeches…lol
It would be a cool flex to respond to something with a letter written on a typewriter.
A typewriter might be good for all the extra writing you need to do around a story, like using it as a brain dump for history, character profiles, and settings. I feel like a typewriter being distraction free and forcing you to commit to what you’re writing would help you just get things down instead of faffing about with editing
Best of the best was the Selectric II - the best production typewriter ever. I got typing speeds in excess of 145 words per minute on one of those things with good accuracy. Mind you, copy typing legal briefs was an excellent way to train up my fingers. The actual keys were lovely - had a dip in the middle that really helped you not miss-hit it. No such thing as autocorrect, so fixing a mistake took a lot longer than getting it right the first time. Modern computer keyboards are nothing like as user friendly, so all the magic auto correct aids are needed to produce readable text. Actual speed I reckon is about the same as a modern computer keyboard. It’s finger dependent and brain dependent not mechanics dependent.
I can’t stand those near totally flat keyboards. I need keys that move for my typing brain to work right.
The OG of mechanical keyboards 💜
Thank you everyone who replied to my query about puzzling fam behaviour.
All your insights were so good and helped me understand so much.
Thank you again. 😚😚😚
Any cat people have advice on how to feed a cat wearing a cone? Poor Tommy had a bleedy toe and he’s not allowed to lick it for three days.
He’s currently walking into things and complaining, and looking sad.
If you get some coban tape (stretchy adhesive manage stuff) could you cover the paw so he can have some cone free time to eat? And some of those dine squeezy treats could work as a supplemental thing, you don’t want him to go off his food. You can also get a soft collar that can squish up when he bumps into things.
Thanks! I’ll look into coban tape. Squeezy treats have already been administered!
Apparently because it’s his front paw, a soft collar will be too easy for him to get around. But it’s only a couple of days, and he’s already happier.
Poor Tommy :(
Edit: I had the suggestion of a neck donut but since it’s his front paw and cats are stretchy… probably not
The bandage idea is a good one but they have it off fast. A baby sock over that might mean the bandage lasts .5 seconds longer.
Maybe he can take his cone off for 5 minutes for a supervised meal and it goes right back on before he can attend to his toe!
A small plate raised up slightly should help cone-cat eat. You could also try hand feeding him (disposable gloves, for food safety and because cat food is gross).
If possible, try and find a plate and something to place it on that is smaller than the diameter of his cone, so he can get to it. May not even need to raise it, just use a small, flat plate.
Thanks! I will try a raised plate first because yes, cat food is gross and I’d just as soon not deal with hand feeding. But if we have to we have to.
I just made an edit as well. But yeah, I reckon a plate raised up would really help, moreso than hand feeding. Cats like to feel independent haha
Thanks for the sock idea! I’ll see how he goes tonight with the cone. Apparently they adjust reasonably fast? He’s looking less drunk anyway.
Mr Sad Cat:
Naw big baby, hell feel better soon! 💜💜
Poor fluffy butt.
Aww, poor sad boy
My heart breaks for sad conecat 😭 he looks so defeated
yay, I finished the display cabinet and loaded most of my shells. The biggest one, a baler from Western Australia couldn’t even fit, and my boxes and books won’t fit either. So in the big dresser they go
will get a better pic during the day , but this is it for now
spoiler
Jobs that have a lower cognitive demand than uni but higher cognitive demand than retail?
I fear I need direct instructions but not to the point of monotony.
Admin jobs. Requires the chutzpah to insist on people following procedures. Most admin jobs are about corralling information so you can find it again. Plus some phone skills. And you learn real quick how to drive printers and photocopiers etc. And the intricacies of the bowels of Australia Post and courier companies. This could actually be a turn off. But the skills come in handy almost anywhere.
Most grad jobs really. And there’s no homework. That actually makes a huge difference, or it did to me. It’s not hanging over you the whole time.
