Habit Tracking: Week 32 ( August 07 - August 13)

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Cute beetle washi tape! I've used this decoration/color scheme before, but we saw lots of cute bugs on Monday. :)

This was a... mixed week. I feel like I say that about a lot of them. But my days off at the beginning of the week were very nice, but I struggled quite a bit at work. I spent a lot of the week kind of tired and cranky in a way I don't enjoy being, and also had a hard time staying focused. Writing was okay, and I got a few things done that I'd meant to, but spent a lot of the week feeling very deeply fatigued. (I wonder if it's a holdover from having had Covid in June. Most of the physical exhaustion passed, but the mental stuff is very present. I just can't tell if it's truly worse than things were before that or not.)

Goals for the week:
- I did write more than 5000 words on Outbreak
- I did not read any more of Seasonal Fears. I'm frustrated that I lost all momentum on it.
- Also failed to put my laundry away.
- I did ask about (and then made a post about) the Set Sail zine.
- I cleaned up the floor
- I sat down and read through the bios/Q&As/candidate chats for all of the OTW board members that were running this year
- And I voted in the board election! (And wound up happy with the election results, too.) Hooray for ranked voting!

Tracked habits:
- Work - 5/7
- Household Maintenance - 1/7
- Physical Activity - 2/7, visiting a local park and the greenbelt
- Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 1/7, writing over 500 words about that trip to the greenbelt*
- Wrote on 2nd+ Draft - 5/7, all over 1000 words
- Meta Work - 6/7
- Personal Writing - 7/7
- Other Creative Things - 3/7
- Reading - 7/7, pretty much all fic
- Attention to Media - 6/7; Continued watching Hulu's "Into the Dark" series on Sunday with They Come Knocking, All That We Destroy, and I'm Just F*cking With You. All three were... okay, but could have maybe done more with their themes. On Monday, we watched the last two of the series we hadn't seen: Treehouse, which similarly had a decent premise that fell very slightly flat, and The Body, which I thought was pretty good. On Tuesday I watched the first two episodes of The Sandman and very much enjoyed it. Friday we watched Prey which really was pretty good. And on Saturday we watched Horror in the High Desert which was one of the better faux-documentary horror movies I've seen in a while.
- Video Games - 0/7
- Social Interaction - 7/7

Total Words Written: 8617 (7679 on Outbreak, and 938 on that post about the greenbelt.)

*I'm very inconsistent about counting words on entries here toward my general wordcount. Mostly no, but if it's a post where I go through a couple edits to try and really convey something specific (in this case, a kind of "walk along" summary), then I will. It's pretty much entirely based on whether it *felt* like I was working on writing as opposed to just making a journal entry.