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fullupwithfire) wrote2020-03-23 06:56 pm
fullupwithfire) wrote2020-03-23 06:56 pm
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So my work is going to be funky, and you know, staying indoors is a thing, so let me ramble about some things I've been doing/would like to do to keep busy-ish.
I have been doing a lot of singing! I downloaded an app that does exercises and such and am trying to do 10 minutes a day. I'd like to try to work up to more, but one of the main features that I like it for (showing me what note I'm on as I sing, so I can make sure I'm hitting the right ones) only works ten minutes for free users, so I may not be able to do that. Still, it is nice to be doing some kind of informal training again. It also measures range and length of notes, so I screw around on that a fair bit. (My range is wavering a little, but my low note is pretty consistently around B2. The top fluctuates between C5 and F5. I can also consistently hold a note for around 12 seconds without a problem; 18 is my top right now.)
I'm also fucking around on Smule, the karaoke app, a lot right now. There are many musicals and there's something really nice about singing with people. I would say come sing with me, but uh, you can't open your own songs unless you have a paid account, and as much as I'd really love to do that, I cannot afford it. But if you do have an account feel free to poke me anyway? It's the same username there as here.
I've also been reminded that remote games are probably a great idea right now so.... I still have a copy of Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, and only one person involved needs to have a copy, so if anybody wants to do some bomb-defusing puzzles over voice or video chat at some point, hit me up. It's kind of a high-stress game in some ways but... in a way that actually helps, for me? Like, there's no actual stakes and it's enough pressure and focus to take my entire attention for a while.
Writing-wise, I'm slowly treading into new and old fandoms (more in a second), but I also think I'm going to go NaPoWriMo a shot next month. I will probably not post everything I write, both because I'm rusty as fuck on poetry so a lot of it will be shit and I feel like some of it will be venting stuff, but I may pop a couple up here if I'm particularly proud of anything.
Fandom-wise, I am carefully treading my way back into Umbrella Academy, trying to sort through old ideas to see if there's anything I still feel like I can write. And my best friend has convinced me to start watching The Magicians -- I'm only five episodes in, so I'm not sure if I'm going to slide down a fannish or writing path on that one, but I feel like it's a possibility, because I'm enjoying so far. Also it's fun to watch something that someone I know loves so much, because I get to send long rambling impressions and theories as I go, so I'm actually recording my first impressions, which I always mean to do and fail to do when I start new stuff. There's a few older things I kinda want to poke at again too, so we'll see where it goes.
But what's actually come fighting out at the top of the fandoms-I-want-to-do-shit-for pile is, shockingly, Bare: A Pop Opera. Particularly the 2004 version with Michael Arden and John Hill. Look, I got dragged down a musical rabbit hole for a while and this is where I ended up. I want to write things, I'm just not sure what those things will be yet. Most of them sad, probably.
Honestly, I kind of feel like doing a prompt meme or something, I just know I tend to be a fail at them. There's one I was reminded of that I really liked though, so... who knows.
Uhh, let's see. I am doing a fair bit of cleaning, and trying some crafty stuff (knitting slowly, trying to learn embroidery). I really want to try and dive back into divination, and maybe set up an altar, but that's also feeling really hard, so we'll see how that goes. I.. feel like I'm forgetting things, but I can't think of it, so that's all I got for now. Love if you managed to get through all the rambling.
I have been doing a lot of singing! I downloaded an app that does exercises and such and am trying to do 10 minutes a day. I'd like to try to work up to more, but one of the main features that I like it for (showing me what note I'm on as I sing, so I can make sure I'm hitting the right ones) only works ten minutes for free users, so I may not be able to do that. Still, it is nice to be doing some kind of informal training again. It also measures range and length of notes, so I screw around on that a fair bit. (My range is wavering a little, but my low note is pretty consistently around B2. The top fluctuates between C5 and F5. I can also consistently hold a note for around 12 seconds without a problem; 18 is my top right now.)
I'm also fucking around on Smule, the karaoke app, a lot right now. There are many musicals and there's something really nice about singing with people. I would say come sing with me, but uh, you can't open your own songs unless you have a paid account, and as much as I'd really love to do that, I cannot afford it. But if you do have an account feel free to poke me anyway? It's the same username there as here.
I've also been reminded that remote games are probably a great idea right now so.... I still have a copy of Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, and only one person involved needs to have a copy, so if anybody wants to do some bomb-defusing puzzles over voice or video chat at some point, hit me up. It's kind of a high-stress game in some ways but... in a way that actually helps, for me? Like, there's no actual stakes and it's enough pressure and focus to take my entire attention for a while.
Writing-wise, I'm slowly treading into new and old fandoms (more in a second), but I also think I'm going to go NaPoWriMo a shot next month. I will probably not post everything I write, both because I'm rusty as fuck on poetry so a lot of it will be shit and I feel like some of it will be venting stuff, but I may pop a couple up here if I'm particularly proud of anything.
Fandom-wise, I am carefully treading my way back into Umbrella Academy, trying to sort through old ideas to see if there's anything I still feel like I can write. And my best friend has convinced me to start watching The Magicians -- I'm only five episodes in, so I'm not sure if I'm going to slide down a fannish or writing path on that one, but I feel like it's a possibility, because I'm enjoying so far. Also it's fun to watch something that someone I know loves so much, because I get to send long rambling impressions and theories as I go, so I'm actually recording my first impressions, which I always mean to do and fail to do when I start new stuff. There's a few older things I kinda want to poke at again too, so we'll see where it goes.
But what's actually come fighting out at the top of the fandoms-I-want-to-do-shit-for pile is, shockingly, Bare: A Pop Opera. Particularly the 2004 version with Michael Arden and John Hill. Look, I got dragged down a musical rabbit hole for a while and this is where I ended up. I want to write things, I'm just not sure what those things will be yet. Most of them sad, probably.
Honestly, I kind of feel like doing a prompt meme or something, I just know I tend to be a fail at them. There's one I was reminded of that I really liked though, so... who knows.
Uhh, let's see. I am doing a fair bit of cleaning, and trying some crafty stuff (knitting slowly, trying to learn embroidery). I really want to try and dive back into divination, and maybe set up an altar, but that's also feeling really hard, so we'll see how that goes. I.. feel like I'm forgetting things, but I can't think of it, so that's all I got for now. Love if you managed to get through all the rambling.