why I'm quite happy staying at home (+ a few suggestions)

As a graduated homeschooler and introvert who is living with my family, in an remote-ish area with only a handful of COVID cases, I'm quite enjoying this period of staying at home. I'm doing stuff I like, and I have exactly the right amount of social interaction.

None.

Hang on, that's obviously not true. I'm spending time with my family, and I'm talking to people online, and I've even written a few letters.

Actual face-to-face talking time with non-family members: zero hours for, like, going on four weeks?? and I am fine with that.

(Should I be concerned about myself.)

But there's so much to do! So many ways to spend your time! Such fun to be had! So many people to not talk to! 

Julia from Lit Aflame posted a collab of 124 Things To Do When You're Exiled At Home. And Emily from The Ones That Really Matter put up a great post featuring such suggestions as Jedi training (this won't be affected by social distancing as hugs are probably against the Jedi code), exploring wardrobes, and becoming obsessively attached to a specific piece of jewellery. (I approve.) Read these! There's some great ideas!

I, on the other hand, have a list of ramblings for today's post. I'm sure any suggestions I might make have already been covered (a list of 124 things won't leave many untouched... at least, not many that are easy to think of.) but I'll see if I can add anything to what is, I'm sure, a popular topic.

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T H I N G S  T O  D O

Reading

uh. obviously. (This gets its own section.)

My quarantine book list includes the following:
✓ The Copper Gauntlet, The Bronze Key, The Silver Mask (Magisterium #2-4), Holly Black and Cassandra Clare
✓ Leave It to Psmith, P.G. Wodehouse
✓ Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer #2), Laini Taylor
☐ Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
☐ The Lost Plot (The Invisible Library #4), Genevieve Cogman

you made a difference: a tag {about blogs}

Me: look at all those tags I was supposed to do like a year ago
Brain: that's a lot
Me: if I'm back to blogging again, one of those would be perfect-
Brain: no
Me: what
Brain: *hands me a new tag* 
Me: how exactly are you helping

So this tag is a little different to most.

You know how you normally answer questions and then tag someone else?

For this one, the answers to the questions are the people you're tagging. (Well, some of them. Some might not be around anymore.)


It's sort of a shout-out to the cool people who have influenced your blogging journey.

forgive me if this is already a thing. I'll blame Brain.

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| Old friends | 

Who was the first blogger you followed?

Note: If you don't remember the exact answer, throw up all the names that were significant to you when you started!

Firstly, I'd like to thank myself for putting the above loophole in. Truly inspired.

character interview | part 3 and final

Gooood morning! (or evening, or whatever the Order of the Time Zones has decreed shall be where you are) I pray you're all well, wherever you are, and having an actually-quite-good day. 

Unlike my characters.

((Entirely coincidental shoutout to Kenzie for the hours she spent planning a murder with me when I got stuck on day 3 of April Camp! Three Sisters thanks you... although the sisters themselves don't.))

Remember all those questions you asked over two years ago? There are just enough left after Part 2 for a rapid-fire finale to the character interview!

Jem: Welcome, everyone! Thank you all for being here - in the comfort of your own homes, of course! For the finale, I have: Billie, Elsie, Josie and Zephyr! Present but with no questions to their names are Count Laszlo/the Beast, Rowan and Kik. I'm sure they're very disappointed?

Kik: Yes.

Rowan: No.

Count Laszlo: I feel that the position of viewer may be the safest option, so...

Kik: I want my five minutes of fame.

Rowan: You got a heroic moment in the draft, at the village, remember?

Kik: ...we lost, so no, I don't remember anything about that at all, how odd. Definitely was never at that village ever in my life.

Jem: Annnd let's move on to the questions!