davetheanalyzer

Welp, I guess I probably won’t be posting a fic a month after all. I’ve readjusted my personal schedule a week before semester started and I’ve cut down Tumblring to a hour or two. This means I can’t finish oneshots that could be finished and posted within a month, all the while dusting off stories I finished but never edited and then seeing if I would like to post them. Which sucks, since there a story about Shoutmon meeting Taiki’s Mom I was writing and somewhat enjoying. The idea had been nagging me sometimes around the end of Hunters and I would have liked to get it to fruition. Oh well, it depends upon how well I adjust to my semester schedule.

And speaking of schedules, I’ve restarted my liveblogging of Digimon and Pretty Cure, resuming with Xros Wars and Fresh. So far it has been up and down, usually finishing within four hours or being able to do so in less. I’ve gotten stuck on what scene to comment on and what kind of comment to make a lot. But the scenes I eventually do liveblog, I feel some sort of pull toward them with a vague idea of what to say. Usually the delay is wording out what I want to say as I could be quite finicky over word placement. That could be very frustrating, as it would make me stay up longer than I ever care to but I’m such a completionist. I usually start posting them while I play Democracy Now, at five minute segments. As I usually want to get them posted and not linger while listening to the program, I only do the most last minute of edits if something really bugs me. All in all, I’m mostly satisfied with what I’ve been posting but I hope I could do so at a quicker rate so my sleep schedule won’t be screwed over.

As for my college semester, I’m still adjusting to that too. Have one Monday class about the Origins of US literature that’s an hour and 15 minutes, so that isn’t too bad but Wednesday throws in my long once a week Advanced Poetry Workshop class that extends everything to 4 hours and 10 minutes. That can throw off my usual daily watches, which can take up to 16 full hours. That can lead me to sleep around the clock until I have to squeeze my weekend watches into one day (Which is admittedly not too difficult, since it’s generally 12 hours total). As there are only 2 class days a week, the adjustment period might take a bit longer than usual.

Fitting the homework load in would be a challenge. There’s usually reading of poems and writing poetry for one class, which doesn’t take too much time unless I can’t comprehend the poem or get writer’s block. But for the US Literature class, there’s readings to print out and a one page essay to type up. These readings can take a bit longer to get through, as the English or English translation can be a bit archaic. But the one page essay we just started can be a challenge. Since it adheres to MLA format, the double-spaced lines usually add up to 20 or 21, which can be used up a bit faster than one could think. I’m nearly done with it and I’m not sure I’ll make my even small point but my professor said these are test runs for us and I surmise she won’t be that hard on us. I’ve had her before and I believe she will. I also had the Poetry professor for a third time in a row. I guess a college student is supposed to constantly try new things but I feel it reassuring to reunite with old professors who have some idea of how to accommodate my Autism.

Getting the class writings into my writing schedule wasn’t that challenging. It just required reducing my third block to 6 2 line sessions and that generally accommodates everything so far. The trouble is the readings. My news readings from my two favorite websites have added extra articles to their daily postings and they can be long. I’m still trying to kick lingering over the section I read when I already got the message and that could delay me into staying up longer. So far the average-ish is 10 pages per day but that could easily increase over the next few weeks. I’ll see if I could adapt when I cross that bridge.

I hope I could keep my schedule up. I really do. As frustrating as it is, I don’t want to watch the most minimum of my favorite programs, usually the news, and only complete the daily necessities of my creative writing. I understand that gruel can be the normal for writing stories but I want to leave at least some room for some fun screwy writing. Maybe this year I would be able to kick this lag I’ve fallen under. Well, we’ll see.