RJ Writes

My personal blog. Not much here, really. | RJ, 28, they/them

[andmaybegayer]

measure once cut also once, no prablem

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#i know i already reblogged this but i need to like. cross stitch it or carve it into wood or quilt it or something

concept for a vcarving project

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

no i get you this was perfectly centered when i wrote it

[shaydh]

I have done the cross stitch

[poolboydivision]

in honor of all the times I've made this mistake irl

[rjwrites22]

Embroidered, in the hoop and after removal, along with the 3"+ long needle I used (for the fun of huge needle).

[rjwrites22]

Well, it's official.

I NEED a new laptop.

I've moved back to my slow old one for the time being... but hopefully it works because it hasn't even gotten through the "it's been a while since last use" updatey stuff...

May have to ask to borrow my sister's personal laptop, which she never gd uses, for a couple months if this thing is too abhorrently slow, or just use my iPad for writing and go without games.

Even though gaming was the entire reason I dragged out my newer laptop only to have it refuse to work!

This sucks...

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Slow-older-laptop ended up working just fine after I backed up all my files and did a reset (even though the reset took almost an hour and a half to do, with the first hour being spent at one percent progress).

This one has the issues of: turning off when it's supposed to have been in sleep mode overnight, occasionally forgetting what WiFi is (other laptop did that too), and running Windows 10 as its OS (I started using it 2 days before 10 lost support lol)

However, it works for writing, and it's close enough to Christmas that I can continue to get by without games until I (hopefully) get a new one.

[rjwrites22]

Well, it's official.

I NEED a new laptop.

I've moved back to my slow old one for the time being... but hopefully it works because it hasn't even gotten through the "it's been a while since last use" updatey stuff...

May have to ask to borrow my sister's personal laptop, which she never gd uses, for a couple months if this thing is too abhorrently slow, or just use my iPad for writing and go without games.

Even though gaming was the entire reason I dragged out my newer laptop only to have it refuse to work!

This sucks...

[rjwrites22]

So I have 2 broken fingers. On my right hand. I am right-handed.

I wish to write. Writing on my phone, while certainly doable, is a giant pain in my ass.

Biggest problem? A new idea that is screaming for me to write it down. While my fingies are brokened.

Once I'm out of this splint (mid-July) I swear I will properly appreciate all of my fingers!

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I did manage some writing actually, but then I got mental writers block on that idea (as opposed to the physical writers block of my broken fingers).

Now, it's been almost 6 weeks since the break - by most accounts, the break should be damn near fully healed at today point - and I'm in a brace-with-splints and doing "range of motion" exercises every 4-ish hours... but my pinky doesn't want to bend on its own for more than a few degrees at each joint. I can get the middle and top joints to bend beyond that with the help of my ring finger but the pinky itself being so stubborn worries me. Trying to use heat to help with stiffness but I'm not sure how much it's actually helping.

I've written, I've played a video game (Cash Cleaner Simulator), I've done embroidery... so my hobbies are doable, even though they're usually two-handed affairs. Haven't done them since starting with the brace, wanted to get used to it as opposed to the splint, but I have every intention of continuing my current embroidery project today (Satisfactory-inspired).

[rjwrites22]

So I have 2 broken fingers. On my right hand. I am right-handed.

I wish to write. Writing on my phone, while certainly doable, is a giant pain in my ass.

Biggest problem? A new idea that is screaming for me to write it down. While my fingies are brokened.

Once I'm out of this splint (mid-July) I swear I will properly appreciate all of my fingers!

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Unfortunately, Disaronno turned me into an amaretto snob.

This bar has low-proof amaretto and I'm not a fan. Only definitively good thing about this place imo is the music.

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Bad things about oversensitive hearing: too many to list bc I can't think of them all

Good things abt oversensitive hearing: i can *sometimes* choose which nearby conversation to listen to, which is nice when it's a funny exchange

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Realization:

I HATE basically ALL holiday music. Every holiday. The music generally sucks.

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Descent into... sadness?

Tuesday: realized I had a cold.

Thursday: took compulsory covid test to go back to school.

Friday: found out that my cold is not a cold.

Also Friday: my Cheezits only tasted salty, not cheesy. My sense of smell is on the decline as well - strong-smelling things are barely there anymore.

Research says: 95% of people who get anosmia from the covid recover full sensory function within six months. Six months!!

Wtf.

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My mother got me a pronoun pin for Christmas!

She got them for everyone in the family, mostly for the "normalize sharing pronouns" concept, but it still makes me really happy to have as a gift.

(Apparently the pins were all meant to go in with the wrapped gifts but mine, being custom-made, made all of them arrive late so now they're on the stockings)

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Playing hide and seek in a college classes building. Rule is "only people of the seeker's gender can hide in the bathroom", which is sensible...

But I'm nonbinary, so technically bathrooms are off-limits when it comes to me and hiding.

Of course, only one person in the section knows I'm nonbinary, and they're not here right now, so nobody else would think about the bathroom-gender-rule affecting me.

This is relevant because I couldn't find a hiding spot this round, having disregarded bathrooms because of my gender, but the seeker is a girl and everyone here thinks I'm a girl as well so as a last resort I'm hiding in the bathroom. In a spot that's only like halfway decent.

Miiight end up using this to come out, but I'm a coward so I probably won't.

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This is going to sound extremely pedantic of me, but in my physics class the prof called one Greek letter by the name of another Greek letter. He meant chi (Χ/χ, pronounced like kai) but he named xi (Ξ/ξ, pronounced like ksai). It annoyed me because in physics, using the right Greek letter is important, but also due to my occasional hyperfixation on linguistics.

It's a simple mistake to make, I guess, but he seemed to be getting it right during lab yesterday.

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Had a conversation with my mother a bit ago regarding gender.

During the conversation, she said that if she were single, she'd probably identify as nonbinary. I was tempted to send her a link to some info on the label "nonbinary woman", but I figured it might be confusing, or not received right.

Also, I didn't take the obvious opportunity to tell her about my pronouns; now I have to wait until she gets back from picking my brother up from school, then wait until we're alone in the sitting room, and at that point bring up our earlier discussion of gender.

I'm also going to have to talk about the whole "coming out to the rest of the family" thing, which for now just means my dad and my younger siblings. I think I should wait until perhaps I'm just a they/them instead of a they/she to come out to anyone else, family or otherwise - even though I'm scared of that possibility for my pronouns it's looking increasingly likely that it will happen.

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There were two girls in the bathroom a minute ago discussing doing an AirBNB with their dorm room. WTF?!

Presumably it was a joke, but still. Makes no sense.

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"Physics 213 is all about practice."

-my Physics 213 prof's favorite quote, which he says almost every class when we start working on example questions

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HE SAID IT AGAIN. THESE EXACT WORDS.

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"Physics 213 is all about practice."

-my Physics 213 prof's favorite quote, which he says almost every class when we start working on example questions