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Wed, Jan. 29th, 2025 09:15 pm
I'm in paaaaaaain D: Today's fitness was running up a frigging hill. I run on the beach. I wonder how it manages to register 12m gained over 5km when I'm running right on the shoreline. 400m uphill, then 400m back down, 2 minute rest, four times. My calves are feeling it, 'sgonna be even worse tomorrow D: Thankfully no fitness scheduled, so I'll go for a walk around the botanic gardens instead.
On Saturday we went to the Women's Ashes at Adelaide Oval 💚 Absolutely dominant performance. Every match, England's been getting better and better, til the previous match in Canberra where it came down to them needing 22 of the last over, they got a four off the first ball of it, then it started raining and we won on Duckworth-Lewis. We probably still would've won but damn I would've loved to have seen the end. Anyway, come around to Adelaide, annnnnd that was a flogging. I even fluked filming the catch of the night! During the innings break, a kid was being interviewed in the crowd and they finished by asking him to give us a cheer, to which he went, 'Let's go, Strikers, let's go!' The Strikers are the local Adelaide team. We were watching Australia X3 BUT three of the players, including the skipper, are indeed Strikers, so y'know what kid you weren't far off.
After the win we got selfies with all the players bar Darcie Brown, the Thunder from Kapunda, because idk she forgot to go north of the dugout after the game. She's one of the three Strikers so it's not like I won't see her around again, but still. At least I got a photo with ma girl TMac 💚
Final match starts tomorrow, which is the Test at the G under lights 🤩 omg so excite.
Australia Day barbie on Sunday was delightful :D Up at Mum and Dad's so it was, like, 32 degrees, perfect barbie weather and a very chill afternoon. We ended up in the pool with a bottle of cider just floating around and having good conversation. This is what Australia Day is to me. I know there's ~*controversy*~ around it being Invasion/Survival Day, and I'm sure its days of being on 26 January are numbered, but so long as it's in summer and we get a public holiday for it, I don't care when it is. There's a case to be made for May 8, cos it sounds like maaaaate, but May is way too late for a barbecue and floating in the pool with a cider, so no. My vote is for, like, the third Monday in January or something equally irrelevant. Always a long weekend, not tied to any date, everybody's happy. But it's gotta be chill and have plenty of sport surrounding it.
I've aaaalmost finished the alchemist fic. I think it works? I'm not as proud of it as the tree prison one but it's only 1000 words. Maybe I'll get better at writing shorts over the course of the year. 'But you used to do these challenges all the time!' Yeah but they were never self-contained. That's the challenge here, and it's really ruling out using my established characters. I'm still determined to write in Tsyllaes (though this alchemist one's not entirely canon, since I've got a very clearly established way magic works and alchemy ain't it) cos I don't want to give up on this world. Even if I've given up on SH, way too much time and research has gone into Tsyllaes to just throw it all away. There are still thousands of stories I can write in Tsyllaes. Sucks absolute arse to try and accept it, but SH just isn't one of them.
On Saturday we went to the Women's Ashes at Adelaide Oval 💚 Absolutely dominant performance. Every match, England's been getting better and better, til the previous match in Canberra where it came down to them needing 22 of the last over, they got a four off the first ball of it, then it started raining and we won on Duckworth-Lewis. We probably still would've won but damn I would've loved to have seen the end. Anyway, come around to Adelaide, annnnnd that was a flogging. I even fluked filming the catch of the night! During the innings break, a kid was being interviewed in the crowd and they finished by asking him to give us a cheer, to which he went, 'Let's go, Strikers, let's go!' The Strikers are the local Adelaide team. We were watching Australia X3 BUT three of the players, including the skipper, are indeed Strikers, so y'know what kid you weren't far off.
After the win we got selfies with all the players bar Darcie Brown, the Thunder from Kapunda, because idk she forgot to go north of the dugout after the game. She's one of the three Strikers so it's not like I won't see her around again, but still. At least I got a photo with ma girl TMac 💚
Final match starts tomorrow, which is the Test at the G under lights 🤩 omg so excite.
Australia Day barbie on Sunday was delightful :D Up at Mum and Dad's so it was, like, 32 degrees, perfect barbie weather and a very chill afternoon. We ended up in the pool with a bottle of cider just floating around and having good conversation. This is what Australia Day is to me. I know there's ~*controversy*~ around it being Invasion/Survival Day, and I'm sure its days of being on 26 January are numbered, but so long as it's in summer and we get a public holiday for it, I don't care when it is. There's a case to be made for May 8, cos it sounds like maaaaate, but May is way too late for a barbecue and floating in the pool with a cider, so no. My vote is for, like, the third Monday in January or something equally irrelevant. Always a long weekend, not tied to any date, everybody's happy. But it's gotta be chill and have plenty of sport surrounding it.
I've aaaalmost finished the alchemist fic. I think it works? I'm not as proud of it as the tree prison one but it's only 1000 words. Maybe I'll get better at writing shorts over the course of the year. 'But you used to do these challenges all the time!' Yeah but they were never self-contained. That's the challenge here, and it's really ruling out using my established characters. I'm still determined to write in Tsyllaes (though this alchemist one's not entirely canon, since I've got a very clearly established way magic works and alchemy ain't it) cos I don't want to give up on this world. Even if I've given up on SH, way too much time and research has gone into Tsyllaes to just throw it all away. There are still thousands of stories I can write in Tsyllaes. Sucks absolute arse to try and accept it, but SH just isn't one of them.
