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Another week where I'm off from Dayjob as much as on, and next week will probably be the same. Once I'm through this burst of back-to-back deadlines I'll check my lieu-time balance and see if I need to cut back to two days off each week during the summer (or if I'd rather take a full week or two off rather than clocking in a couple days each week). I've got a draft on one manga volume and am almost halfway through the second (and got a good dent into one of the other two before my deadlines got shuffled); OTOH, while I haven't signed paperwork yet, it sounds like I'll be doing another simulpub series, and I don't know when work on that will start. (Simulpub is inherently stressful, especially since it inevitably runs headlong in Dayjob crunches, but I'm very glad to have been offered this title.)

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I just finally got around to a small bit of tech admin I've been meaning to do for ages. Most of the time when we have music up and running in the main living area of the house (as opposed to on our own in either of our offices), it's a Radioparadise stream, because we both generally like the mix. (Main mix or mellow mix!) Our musical tastes overlap enough that there's plenty we both like listening to, although we also each have music that the other doesn't really care for/about. A while back I started saving the link for any songs that really caught my attention; I'm very slow about really getting to know any new-to-me artists, since I'm mostly exposed to them through individual songs (fanvids are a common source), and now, months (or more likely a year or two) after starting to do that, I've finally shoved them all into a Qobuz playlist. (I still need to log back into Spotify and figure out exporting playlists from there.)

(The playlist is all of seventy-one songs. ^^; I think the number is probably so low because I almost always have to be listening closely enough to catch lyrics for a song to pique my interest.)

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Once my brain switches over from one primary fandom to another, it's usually an absolute change, but over the last few days I've been having Newsflesh pangs--no creative urges or anything, but it's noticeable enough to be startling. And yesterday someone commented on one of those fics, which don't exactly get a lot of attention, being so old and for such a small fandom that hasn't had new canon in over a decade.

One of these days I'll probably reread the books, even though rereading anything is pretty rare for me. I wonder what'll happen in my brain then. (For that matter, IIRC I haven't reread Fruits Basket since I adapted the second fanbook; the second anime series is a pretty good adaptation, but I'll never know what I would've thought of it if I'd still be in the fannish grip of the manga series when it came out.)

I was (obviously, I guess) extremely confident when I got my first tattoos that I wouldn't regret them, even though they're fannish and I knew Newsflesh wouldn't have that hold on me forever, because nothing does, even though years tend to pass between the times my monofannish brain latches onto something new. But it's still a relief to be so far on the other side of it now and to have had it pan out that way in practice.