mousme: A view of a woman's legs from behind, wearing knee-high rainbow socks. The rest of the picture is black and white. (Random Sentences)
Today was Power Point Day. Much like last week I ended up learning quite a lot. Oddly I learned less than I did last week, mostly because this week was truly a beginner-level PPT course and last week we covered more advanced topics in Word. That being said, I did learn what I was hoping to learn, namely how to make bullet points and other stuff in PPT do the fancy twirling/fading/sliding/flashing thing. I am now reasonably sure that I can pull off a decent, if somewhat basic, Power Point presentation if I have to.

I bought myself a new notebook today. The one I have carried around with me since 2008 is battered beyond recognition and is falling apart. So I have been transcribing the information in it that's still relevant, and leaving the rest behind. I'm a little sad at "losing" that stuff, which is weird since it's mostly phone numbers that are horribly out of date and grocery lists and to-do lists from years ago, but it feels like I'm tossing away part of my history. Of course that's not true, but I'm feeling a little twinge nonetheless. I'm also not transcribing some of the longer quotes I had in there before. For one thing, I haven't looked at them in a while, and for another, they are easily found elsewhere if I truly need to read/use them again.

The new notebook is also a little more compact, which means it fits better in my purse. So hooray for that!

I got some writing done, too, which was nice. I came home from my class, puttered for a while, did some cleaning/dishes, and then buckled down and wrote about 800 words of fan fiction. It's nice to be slowly getting back into the swing of writing, even if I don't have as much time as I'd like to devote to it these days. I also finished writing the outline of the novel I'd like to complete this year, and either tonight or tomorrow I shall transcribe it into Scrivener to see if that helps me get a sense of how it's working out. I've never been much of an outliner, but I'm beginning more and more to see that outlining is beneficial for my stories, to prevent me from meandering off into why-is-section-even-here-it-should-be-purged-and-burned territory with my writing.

Speaking of devoting time to stuff, I remembered today to do a 5-minute mindfulness exercise. I have an app on my phone that has 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 and 40 minute meditations, and right now they're a good way to keep my mind a little more focussed than my trying to do it all on my own. I'm starting with 5 minutes a day, and I'll see how it goes from there.

I have been remiss about answering everyone's comments in previous posts, but I want you to know I do read them all and appreciate every single one!
mousme: A view of a woman's legs from behind, wearing knee-high rainbow socks. The rest of the picture is black and white. (Bugger)
I'm not feeling it today, nor was I yesterday, for that matter. The Migraine Fairy decided to pay a visit today in the wee hours of the morning, and so I called in sick to work for the first time in just under a year. The last time I called in sick I had no voice, and since my job involved my being on the phone for 12 hours, it seemed like a bad idea to go in.

Anyway, at least it happened here and not when I was home and would end up inconveniencing everyone. My landlords are out of town for the week, so I'm not in their way either.

Since I had the day "off" I probably should have done something useful with myself, but I didn't. I slept off the migraine and then mostly did a whole lot of nothing. So, day off wasted. I'm still tired but not enough to go to sleep yet, which is a bad idea.

I should probably turn in soon. Luckily tomorrow I'm going for another training class, this time on Power Point, so that means that not only do I get to sleep in (no 4am wake-ups! Yay!), but I also don't have to drive as far. All of this is super news, as far as I'm concerned. I'm also looking forward to learning how to use Power Point properly. I've never quite mastered it, and it's a skill I'd love to possess. I'm not getting the Excel class, apparently for budget reasons, which is sad. Excel is another of those software programs I'd love to improve on.

So, yeah, that about sums up my day. I was useless, but perhaps tomorrow I will be less so.

Good night, all.

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