Long time no see, journal readers—life's been good lately. My job is panning out nicely so far, though I'm by no means in any sort of comfortable groove with it yet. In fact, my body was screaming in agony last night after clearing two u-boats at the end of four days straight of standing all day working. I'll adapt, no worries.
I got trapped in my bathroom today! That was a lot of fun. It's been so heavy and humid lately that the door actually got stuck and I couldn't open it from either side. I had to climb in and out of the window to get in and out, and I wound up using a spare insurance card slid between the frame of the door and the latch to finally get the fucking thing open. I didn't even have my phone on me to text for help! Good thing I'm not morbidly obese and could fit through that window. (This isn't directed at anyone, I'm just glad I could get out.)
In more online news, the Wales 2023 trip diary is finally almost complete! I've got two days left, aiming for one left by the end of the night, and the cute cammy.somnol banner for it to draw. The supplemental photo galleries are already live on cabycammy.somnol. Consider it a nice primer for what's to come, not to mention just a lot of photos and materials that didn't make it into the full trip diary. I'm super stoked with how it's come out, and it's really gonna be nice to send it out to, ooh, everyone I know? Even if you were there, you probably don't remember everything I've unearthed, because I certainly didn't.
After that's done, I'll finish up the few site sections I have half-finished for mari@macintosh.garden (one's all my modding work and the other is an unearthing of all thirty Rediscoverings I did on the Scratchpad over the prior three years, with new commentary and in an easier-to-read format), and get back into drawing after taking a break last month. (Caby reassured me the one evening I didn't need to challenge myself with every single drawing like I'm pathologically obsessed with doing, and that was really nice to hear. Will remember that, promise.) I've been slowly coming to the realization that I was actually up to a lot of cool shit over the lockdowns, and it was just the misery of everything around me that prevented me from seeing it as such. Very glad of that.
(On a related note: I read "Under the Rain Shadow" for the first time since finishing it a week or two ago, and that made me smile huge. I was surprised how good it turned out! I'm starting to really like my stories now, and after many years of being down on them, I've more than earned that. Still would like to rewrite it, not to mention illustrate it, but it's definitely a lot stronger than I remembered.)
