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[karanguni]

Back from a long trip home; sick as a dog but making good headway on some resolutions for the new year. Spending time each day sitting and using Headspace, which has - in fact - done wonders for my brain even though it's only ten minutes each day. Trying to go to the gym more and have already made 2 sessions since coming back in spite of sickness. Verrrrrrrry behind on written Japanese, but I watched an astonishing amount of Kinki Kids variety TV while back home, and was pleased to understand a lot of it - and a lot of Shouten and rakugo on the side.

If I owe people things, forgive - and remind! - me. Especially you people who wanted me to read Watchmaker of Filigree Street, which I now have, and to which I say aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha. I wish I hadn't passed my copy of Bedlam Stacks to a friend, because I am a wee bit confused about Keita's timeline and I am wondering if that was either my misreading things or him intentionally obfuscating how he works. More on that later.

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[cafemassolit]

:D :D pls elaborate on ahahahas :> /chinhands

[rosefox]

+1

[karanguni]

I shall write a post tonight!

[cafemassolit]

Btw Im making my way through Bedlam Stacks now and ZOMG KEITA MORI GETS MENTIONED!! It somehow failed to connect in my head that there is no reason why you'd be checking timelines otherwise (working week brain...) but I'm literally a bunch of exclamation marks now.

[rosefox]

I <3 Headspace. I should get back into doing it; I made the same mistake I did with Tofugu, which was start paying for it just as I lost interest in using it. (At least with Tofugu I bought a lifetime subscription so it'll be there when I want to get back to it. Headspace I pay every year even though last year all I did was hit the SOS button twice when I was super stressed.) I wonder whether they have good meditations for little kids—I remember that being something they were working on, and Kit might enjoy it in a year or two.

[karanguni]

They've added animations and kid friendly stuff of late, yep.

[yhlee]

Feel better soonest!

[karanguni]

Thankee! Hope you've been doing good yourself?

[yhlee]

I'm doing all right! Just signed up for a fencing (as in swords) class for beginners, which promises to be fun, and am getting writing done. I am OH GOD behind in written Japanese, although I've been rewatching Code Geass and gleaning some vocabulary there...

[extrapenguin]

Boo on sickness! Illness does always seem to come at an inconvenient time. Travel seems to trigger it too, possibly because stress-then-relaxation means weaker immune system and the travel bit means a different set of bugs to be exposed to.

Is Headspace a meditation app thingy? How does it work?

[karanguni]

It is indeed, available on iOS and Android both. I like it - I have the paid version, which is expensive but worth it. You have guides and unguided options, with many "packs" - e.g. Anxiety, Stress, Change, work related etc - to choose from and build up sitting skills with over time. There are also singles - one off sessions - and micro/emergency ssssions.

I like it because it is extremely not woowoo and the session times can be configured - for longer ones all the way down to ten minutes and for short sessions as low as one. It makes building up a habit that is custom to you and your needs really easy and involves no buy in to any particular methodology. I highly recommend!