knowing where my marbles went
Sunday, 31 March 2024 11:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
freckles_and_doubtI didn't actually blog at all in 2023; in retrospect, it's telling that my last post before the gap, in November 2022, was a brief and heart-felt complaint about post-COVID brain fog and fatigue. While this in the event was more than somewhat predictive, it means I missed both the 2022 retrospective, and, since I only started again this month, the 2023 one as well. As is traditional, I shall proceed to catch up both annual scorecards at once, hampered only slighty by the fact that I have no actual blog record of 2023 and am thus forced to rely on a memory which was already extremely dubious before COVID got its horrible little mitts on it. 2023, in particular, was A Year and needs to be memorialised.
Things achieved by me in 2022: COVID, thanks Obama. Significant techniques in dealing with the effectively doubled workload concomitant upon running parallel registration processes in person and online.
Things achieved by me in 2023: long COVID. Diabetes. Sufficient disinvestment from the demands of my job to be able to increasingly hand over my responsibilities in the face of incapacitating fatigue. A slim crowbar into the faculty's closed-minded inability to comprehend the amount of work I actually do for them in this role.
Things not achieved by me in 2022: Any sort of forward momentum in the greater life sense, especially in the areas of achieving a new job or fleeing the country.
Things not achieved by me in 2023: Any blog posts. Any sort of forward momentum in the greater life sense, especially in the areas of achieving a new job or fleeing the country. In retrospect, for once I actually have an excuse for this. Long COVID brain fog is a beast.
Losses in 2022: the Queen. Twitter, and, on a related note, the last pitiful dregs of Elon Musk's credibility. Noting for posterity that of the three, I only really mourn Twitter, and only slightly.
Losses in 2023: a significant chunk of my cognitive function.
Things discovered by me in 2022: bifocals, embittered cynicism about the efficacy of bifocals, Wordle, Waffle, Sudoku (extremely late to the party), JK Rowling disillusionment, TERF hatred, post-pandemic hermitting, burgeoning anti-monarchism, the Shivadh romances (despite my burgeoning anti-monarchism), breast abscesses (ouch), Merge Dragons (insert Gamer Shame here), feline senlility, Goncharov (Scorsese, 1973).
Things discovered by me in 2023: long COVID, brain fog, diabetes, disability benefits, insurance company hoop-jumping, evolving cultural critiques of the testing assumptions while taking cognitive assessments. Playing PC games on the TV with a controller, wrestling controller mods into submission despite the brain fog. My Time At Sandrock, Stray, the actually excellent Skyrim Switch port and the slightly less excellent Outer Worlds one. Growing ranunculus. Diabetes, acing the low-carb diet, adventures in diabetic baking, sugar-free chocolate.
Resolutions for 2024: kick this *(#%)&%* long COVID in its evil little teeth and resume a normal life.
My subject line is The Amazing Devil, again, one of my favourites of theirs.
Things achieved by me in 2022: COVID, thanks Obama. Significant techniques in dealing with the effectively doubled workload concomitant upon running parallel registration processes in person and online.
Things achieved by me in 2023: long COVID. Diabetes. Sufficient disinvestment from the demands of my job to be able to increasingly hand over my responsibilities in the face of incapacitating fatigue. A slim crowbar into the faculty's closed-minded inability to comprehend the amount of work I actually do for them in this role.
Things not achieved by me in 2022: Any sort of forward momentum in the greater life sense, especially in the areas of achieving a new job or fleeing the country.
Things not achieved by me in 2023: Any blog posts. Any sort of forward momentum in the greater life sense, especially in the areas of achieving a new job or fleeing the country. In retrospect, for once I actually have an excuse for this. Long COVID brain fog is a beast.
Losses in 2022: the Queen. Twitter, and, on a related note, the last pitiful dregs of Elon Musk's credibility. Noting for posterity that of the three, I only really mourn Twitter, and only slightly.
Losses in 2023: a significant chunk of my cognitive function.
Things discovered by me in 2022: bifocals, embittered cynicism about the efficacy of bifocals, Wordle, Waffle, Sudoku (extremely late to the party), JK Rowling disillusionment, TERF hatred, post-pandemic hermitting, burgeoning anti-monarchism, the Shivadh romances (despite my burgeoning anti-monarchism), breast abscesses (ouch), Merge Dragons (insert Gamer Shame here), feline senlility, Goncharov (Scorsese, 1973).
Things discovered by me in 2023: long COVID, brain fog, diabetes, disability benefits, insurance company hoop-jumping, evolving cultural critiques of the testing assumptions while taking cognitive assessments. Playing PC games on the TV with a controller, wrestling controller mods into submission despite the brain fog. My Time At Sandrock, Stray, the actually excellent Skyrim Switch port and the slightly less excellent Outer Worlds one. Growing ranunculus. Diabetes, acing the low-carb diet, adventures in diabetic baking, sugar-free chocolate.
Resolutions for 2024: kick this *(#%)&%* long COVID in its evil little teeth and resume a normal life.
My subject line is The Amazing Devil, again, one of my favourites of theirs.
