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# Checking in – November 2022
This month, as well as last month, was marked with fairly large events that basically dragged me away from being on the Internet as often as I could be. That's fine though, but let's see what's happened.
This would be a little shorter as well because there just isn't a lot to talk about.
## Internal events
The last two months have largely been characterised by me not being able to write many things and generally scaling back creative output. This means that essentially I haven't got much done in terms of writing and making stuff.
Nevertheless I have been able to write a little bit, which mostly involves small writing projects that have been piling up for a while now. I have also confirmed that my old laptop continues to work as it hits its 8 year old mark.
I have made a little bit of extra progress on writing my grammar, including some additional cultural details that I have not thought about previously.
That little detail is about musical tuning systems, which I have suddenly gained an interest in over the last two months. It's an interesting idea and also another point from which I can just have another Big Messy Jumble of Systems that makes everyone a little uncomfortable in various ways.
## External events
A thing that has definitely happened is that now I have a sightly different room and subsequently I am now typing this about three or four metres to the right of where I used to be typing this from. The whole thing took up two weeks at which point I have not been able to do very much at all in the meantime.
I have picked up Japense class and I have a mind to complete the course and pass a public examination. This should not be excessively difficult as I have already had some level of partial immersion and can hear a lot already, but I still have lots to go when it comes to speaking and writing.
There's still a number of other things I have to do. I haven't been able do a lot of university applications, (by that I mean I have done none at all) and this is peak season so I'm obviously missing out but I have some kind of mental barrier on that. I don't know how to fix that.
## Conclusion
Things in the world and for myself are going a bit pear shaped and I don't know what to think about it. At the same time, things seem to be moving faster all the time and I can't catch up. So I can only sit and hope. Maybe I'll work something out some day.
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