Qwyrdo @Qwyrdo@witches.town

Oh frack. I'd forgotten that I have a medication delivery scheduled this evening.

That kind of constrains when, possibly *if*, I get a shower in. Blah.

Welp. I have consumed one (1) cup of kukicha, a.k.a. "twig tea".

*Hopefully* this will provide just enough caffeine to let me hygiene and recover some productivity, without completely hecking up my sleep schedule.

Remains to be seen, however. Caffeine takes a little bit to do its thing.

Meanwhile, I have turned on my icky fluorescent overheads, on the theory that more light will help promote wakefulness.

@kacealexander Nice! Though I do fear that could be described with one dread adjective:

artisanal.

@nergdron Whereas I woke up from a 2h+ nap at about 15:00.

@nergdron It's only 17:07 for me >_<;

If it were 20:07, I might just go for it.

Hecate. I'm gonna go make some tea. This fog is just too thick, and it would be rather silly to just go back to sleep right now.

I am annoyingly tempted to make a cup of coffee or tea to fight the brain fog. But I'm afraid, at this point, it would mess up my sleep... ∑:s

I do want to hygiene today, but at the moment my room is kind of cold?

So, I don't really want to strip down right now.

Aaaand... I'm bored.

Not in the mood to continue on "The Predestined Monkey" at the moment. It's just a practice piece off a random writing prompt. My investment in it is almost zilch.

Of course, I *could* use this moment to practice "writing when I'm not enthused". But I think I'm still a bit brain foggy and that means "just do it" is likely to be a futile exercise.

Should I brainstorm other ideas? Should I, IDK... do something else?

Hnnnngh

That was a nap o_o;

Since I'm glitching out and have to rest for a bit, here's some pretty scenery I found in last night's virtual travel through space.

Aaand... cue the brain fog, it seems.

Dunno if it's fatigue from thinking like a monkey for half an hour, medication induced, spurred by heavyish emotion, or a combination of the above.

Probably a combination; brains and bodies are weird, complex systems that sometimes behave unpredictably. Oh, and I got up early today, too; that always hecks me up, it seems.

So, I should *probably* lie down, but I doubt I will end up falling asleep: the parts of my brain still functioning are mainly in task mode. That can be difficult to break out of.

I just got one of the most poignant thank-yous ever:

"Thank you. You made it possible for me to eat."

That's... yeah. Mixed bag of emotions. Positive yet humbling. I not words now.

Of course, this is self-analysis, and I'm biased. That bias is *usually* negative; I'm my own harshest critic, and I know it.

So, for me to think I'm doing characterization pretty well, that probably means something.

Either that or I'm delusional. 🙃

Even though I can only seem to focus on this story a short bit at time, I'm rather enjoying it?

Specifically, trying to put myself in the mindset of an intelligent chimpanzee. Exploring what he likes, what he doesn't like.

I'm also using some carefully chosen word order and vocabulary in conveying Al's sign language. I know enough ASL to have a sense of its grammar (which is quite different from English).

Between that and narrator commentary, I think I'm doing a pretty good job of conveying Al as a person. One who thinks and acts in ways that are *almost* human, but not quite.