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mistressofmuses) wrote2022-05-05 08:57 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2022-05-05 08:57 pm
Housesitting + Dracula Daily
Housesitting for my mom feels like I'm LARPing adulthood, and it's kind of weird, haha. Not in a bad way - I actually enjoy it! It's just surprising how different it feels compared to my regular routine.
My routine isn't actually markedly different in any way, except for some extra chores to get done. Raven goes out earlier than Cy usually would, so I'm getting up a little earlier to take them both out. Then, because this is closer to my office, I actually have more time to sit down and read and eat breakfast, before heading to work. It's nice! Then there's more to get done in the afternoon when I'm home, but again, nothing weirdly out of the ordinary.
I think the biggest thing that makes it feel so strange is having like... a whole house. The studio apartment is very small, and means that everything is happening in the same room, always. Here there are multiple *floors*, to say nothing of how many *rooms* that means there are. Eating dinner at a *table*, and sitting on the couch to catch up on internet stuff, which is *different* than where we sit to watch TV, which is different still than the bedroom we then go to sleep in. It's wild! At home we eat, use the computer, watch TV, read, and sleep all from the bed, because there's not room for anything else.
(That maybe sounds sort of sad? Idk. I'm still and will always remain grateful to have the apartment we do, after years spent living in a car. But it is a bit bittersweet, knowing how unlikely it is that I'll be able to afford someplace like this of my own.)
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Back at the very beginning of the month I signed up for Dracula Daily, which has been fun. It's only been going for three days, but honestly I've never read the entirety of Dracula, and I'm so far enjoying getting the story in day-by-day snippets.
(The idea behind it is that because Dracula is epistolary, made up of journal entries and such, the things that happen in the story happen on specific dates. Specifically, between May 3rd and sometime in November. So Dracula Daily will email a newsletter on each day where something happens in-book, containing the relevant portion of the novel. Some days have nothing happening, some days are short entries, some are longer.)
If you're interested, you can subscribe at the link, and catch up on the dates that have already passed in the archive.
My routine isn't actually markedly different in any way, except for some extra chores to get done. Raven goes out earlier than Cy usually would, so I'm getting up a little earlier to take them both out. Then, because this is closer to my office, I actually have more time to sit down and read and eat breakfast, before heading to work. It's nice! Then there's more to get done in the afternoon when I'm home, but again, nothing weirdly out of the ordinary.
I think the biggest thing that makes it feel so strange is having like... a whole house. The studio apartment is very small, and means that everything is happening in the same room, always. Here there are multiple *floors*, to say nothing of how many *rooms* that means there are. Eating dinner at a *table*, and sitting on the couch to catch up on internet stuff, which is *different* than where we sit to watch TV, which is different still than the bedroom we then go to sleep in. It's wild! At home we eat, use the computer, watch TV, read, and sleep all from the bed, because there's not room for anything else.
(That maybe sounds sort of sad? Idk. I'm still and will always remain grateful to have the apartment we do, after years spent living in a car. But it is a bit bittersweet, knowing how unlikely it is that I'll be able to afford someplace like this of my own.)
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Back at the very beginning of the month I signed up for Dracula Daily, which has been fun. It's only been going for three days, but honestly I've never read the entirety of Dracula, and I'm so far enjoying getting the story in day-by-day snippets.
(The idea behind it is that because Dracula is epistolary, made up of journal entries and such, the things that happen in the story happen on specific dates. Specifically, between May 3rd and sometime in November. So Dracula Daily will email a newsletter on each day where something happens in-book, containing the relevant portion of the novel. Some days have nothing happening, some days are short entries, some are longer.)
If you're interested, you can subscribe at the link, and catch up on the dates that have already passed in the archive.
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Apparently it really took off this year! I guess they did it last year, and had about 2k subscribers, and this year wound up with like 25k or something, according to a tweet I saw. (via tumblr.)
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A lot of Agatha Christie novels were originally serialized. It would be fun to do some a chapter a week. I wonder if anyone does that?
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Oooh, that would be fun! I know there are a lot of places where book club (or fic versions of book clubs) have tried to get going and then fizzle out, but it seems like the kind of thing people honestly enjoy! A chapter a week, or short blurbs on some days (in the case of Dracula Daily), is a lot less daunting than a whole book.
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I like book clubs in theory, but haven't come across one I've vibed with.
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Same here, re: book clubs. One of my favorite things about really getting into a book is being able to talk about it, and every once in a while I strike gold in a chat with someone else who wants to talk about the same things. (Or my sibling and I just keep shoving books at each other.) But I have not had a good track record with book clubs. It's hard to find a book club that wants to read the same things I do ("book club literature" is marketed as its own genre and I almost never am terribly interested in any of it.) If there is a club that's interested in reading "ugh, genre," the choices still feel limited. Plus, much like writer's groups, I've yet to find a group I actually vibed with. One small group was stuck on like... literal plot rehash as the only discussion they could handle, with anything else getting "too confusing." Another was completely taken over by one really loud guy who dominated every single attempt at discussion.