Of course, not going into the office at all is the best, even when there’s a meeting first thing.

Watched: RWBY 9.2-4: Yep, very Wonderland. The cat is kind of alarming.

I stayed up past midnight playing Minecraft, which caused my eyes to turn into little spirals. I got two side halls in my grand orange terracotta hall dug, and most of a third (except for the random lump of gold ore that I can’t mine because I have no iron), explored some caves of dripstone and death, respawned on the steep slope of plummeting and zmobies several times, maybe saw some iron ore before getting exploded by a creeper, and finally hunted a third sheep so I could make a bed to respawn at home. When I put it that way, it was a lot of Minecraft!

Written: No writing, only video games.

Yay, no commuting! Lots of customers, but whatever. I did at least as much work as I would have in the office, so bite me, capitalists.

Also I can have cleaners in when I’m not at the office, so my apartment is slightly less squalid.

Watched: My Hero Academia 6.24-25: Uraraka finally got to do something, even if it was only make a speech, and now the team is back together. Apparently the next season will consist of a single scene that takes 25 episodes.

Watched: RWBY 9.1: Well, that’s better than what it looked like was going to happen at the end of season 8. Maybe. Also, brightly colored!

Read: Zero Hour (Craig Alanson): Even more shenanigans, but Skippy’s quest has advanced by one milestone. Also everybody is even more doomed than they were before they tried to fix things.

Read: Trouble on Paradise (Craig Alanson): Side characters from book three get into extra trouble, but the explosions don’t damage human-alien relations. Much.

Written: FAIL.

Jus and Ayse have to go ziplining tomorrow, so Jus and Ken had to play D&D today, so there was no Zoomwarts or anime. Unrelatedly, my gaming for tomorrow is also cancelled.

For no detectable reason, my ankle decided to start hurting like I had twisted it, in response to checks notes sitting down for 15 minutes. Also my esophagus jammed for several minutes. I guess I got “Roll twice and suffer both results” on the Wandering Decrepitude Table.

Eaten: Chicken stuff. Also kohlrabi-carrot stuff and dinosaur kale.

Played: Pool Noodle Battle Royale. Treachery is mandatory.

Watched: RWBY 1.5. I had forgotten that Blake and Yang were the first to meet each other’s eyes. Also Ruby and Weiss, of course.

Words: 529 kitten words. No revisings.

Cleaners came at 7:00 this morning, so I had to get up, but then I took a nap thing, or maybe was just a huge useless lump for a while. I managed to shop for a grocery and then visit friends to get hugs, though.

Played: Zoomwarts. Bella isn’t dead, nobody is a vampire (although Emily is also not alive), the ministry is taking credit for saving the day, the surviving eight and a half students are going on winter break early, everyone else has been sucked into a pit to the underworld. Maybe we’ll stop here and let Ken run D&D so Nonny can fight monsters, or maybe Bella and Rosamund and the lizards will have to go get everyone’s soul back.

Eaten: Tasty kebabs, tasty feta-cucumber salad, tasty chocolate splenda cream pie. But we do also love Ken for himself! Really!

Watched: Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions 1.9: No parasol will protect Rikka from Nibutani talking about feelings!

Watched: Azumanga Daioh 1: Still ridiculous! Also, the fluffy temptation of wheat.

Watched: RWBY 1.4: Sproing!

Played: Zombie ball tag. If a zombie catches a human, they turn into a zombie, but if a zombie gets hit by the ball three times, they turn into a human. Seemed to be reasonably well-balanced in that sometimes the humans won and sometimes the zombies. Also not nearly as contentious as Sneaky Statues.

Words: 554 kitten words about nothing in particular.

Monday after a long weekend and I really didn’t wanna, but I had to anyway, so I kinda did. I managed to claim some days during the holidays as vacation, although on other days I have to work or at least be on call.

Eaten: Sheet pan chicken with pancetta, garlic, and tomatoes.

Watched: My Hero Academia 110-113: Sometimes, when you have two problems, they don’t cancel each other out.

Watched: RWBY Fairy Tails 4-5: The one about the princess in the tower, and the one about the wise king.

Read: I Think I Love You (Auriane Desombre): More high school F/F romance, with Cunning Plans and Rival Movies and Conflicting Views Of Romance and Coming Out and also boys who suck.

NaNoWriMo Words: 26832 + 742 = 27574. It turns out socializing and writing don’t work together well. Also feelings are still stupid and hard.

Yay, we made it to Friday. I wish I had some brain left.

Watched: RWBY Fairy Tales 1: Don’t got into the forest, geez!

Watched: My Hero Academia 107-109: Some disturbing information about the Nomus, then back to the League of Villains, who haven’t been idle all this time!

Read: Apocalypse: Generic System and Apocalypse: Fairy System (Macronomicon): Isekai/litrpg with magic crafting and subterfuge, then getting screwed over and having to survive in the post-assimilation world, with some delving into the deeper mechanics underneath what is presented to mortals as classes and levels and stats. Also fairy bargains, mad science, and video games. I stayed up until forever o’clock reading, so I guess they’re engaging, at least at the level my brain can handle.

NaNoWriMo Words: 153 words, which is pretty much a FAIL. Marith thinks writing even a single word during the month of November qualifies for winning NaNoWriMo, but I’m a purist. Or maybe just grumpy. 3635 + 153 = 3788 total.