I'm...doing alright, maybe?

It was a bit up and down of a day; another occurrence of me falling asleep and not really having the strength to wake up again until much later.  It's a good thing that I'll be able to sleep in/later for the next couple of days, hopefully that will help things out.

I didn't take care of "everything" today, but I also didn't really need to?  I think part of the good feeling stems from a small sense of accomplishment.  I ran through my lesson plan for Monday for the first time, and while it of course was pretty awkward and a lot of things needed tweaking, overall it came out not too far off of time, which is pretty great.  I'll have to run through it a couple more times, but mainly just making sure that I can get through things concisely and have folks dancing more, sooner.

Work had some really annoying blockers that cropped up, which got me really drained, but that's all put to the side for now, at least.  I've been continuing to find progress in Ragnarok Online (Echoes of Morroc), farming various pieces of gear for my character.  I've hit the point of diminishing returns, for sure, and leveling is both slow and doesn't provide much benefit, so most of the progress is going to come off of gear at this point.  Honestly though, it's been pretty great that the game has kept me engaged for this long; it's not like it's the most exciting thing (Median XL had tighter gameplay, more interesting mechanics and systems), but there is something satisfying about the ol' MMO-style grind when it's done right.  I was worried that I was really running into a wall, but it seems like there's still some realistic runway for me to continue progressing, which is a nice feeling!

Overwatch has taken a little bit of a back seat for the past few days or so, but remains enjoyable.  Most important of a priority has been ALTTPR stuff -- our annual mentor tournament is starting soon so I've been trying to put together some numbers on dungeon efficiency (again).  I had hoped at one point to also do timings for escape, but I haven't even gotten around to starting that.  Maybe over the course of the tournament?  Haha, perhaps that's just wishful thinking.

Some connections don't seem to be panning out, but that's just how it is.  It's always easier to not be disheartened by that kind of stuff when other things are going on in life.  Maslow's hierarchy and all that, I guess.  I stayed home from MCS tonight; I'll be back to it sooner or later, but given the pattern of how I've felt about it the past couple of weeks I thought it was time I just took a little break.  I'm going to jammix and then hosting dancebreak anyways, so I could use some time back.

As with a lot of things, I'm a little bit off my rhythm when it comes to cooking too, but not necessarily in a terrible way.  We've got a bunch of stuff in the fridge to work through in terms of ingredients here and there, also Chicky started laying eggs again so there are a bunch of those to use too -- probably will make some egg+ham fried rice soon to use up some of all that.  Thankfully I had the foresight to not get too many things that would perish super quickly...

Test results came back and I do have a bit of a deficiency, as I might have suspected, especially given what's been going on lately.  I guess that helps explain things a bit, in conjunction with everything else.  What was somewhat less expected was necessitating some diet and exercise changes, but I guess that wasn't super out of the blue either.  That's just how it goes, I guess.

May I continue to be strong in the next few days.