Working off that heavy load

As the date for my visa expiration approaches, I'm feeling a bit more antsy than usual. Back when I had a school sponsoring me it was stressful enough, now doing it in a very roundabout way and trying to make it legal at that, that and work itself are taking all of my energy right now.

I've been doing this and that the past few days (as well as half of December) for this.

(Image generated by AI)

I woke up and starting working right from bed, sending messages to collect some necessary documents, replying to two potential students, filling out some forms on my phone. I wasn't staying in bed cause I'm lazy or cause I was tired. I use a lacrosse ball against my bed to massage my back.

After that I got up and decided to finish off all my taxes for the year...ok not all, there is still about 25% left, but I do not want to drag the nightmare of paperwork on for 2 and half whole months. No way.

Why is it a nightmare? Why is paperwork a nightmare? Well I can't answer for most people but for me it's because there are so many other things I want to spend my energy on, not just because I'm lazy and not just because I dislike doing taxes. It's a change from y regular work, so if I was paid to do my taxes I might actually enjoy it.

I turn it into a game.

But I REALLY wanna get back to making podcast episodes and vlogs and most of all WRITING MY 3RD NOVELLA!

I know I said I'd start writing that in February but I was hit with a lot of inspiration these past few days. I think I found who I want to do the cover art, a friend of a friend who has the perfect chaotic style because things start to get a little dark in part 3 and 4.

I spent 10 days during the holiday season working on fixing my back issues and made a lot of progress, probably more than the whole year combined, but it gets hard to manage and improve that situation when I'm busy with work AND visa/taxes, so I really can't afford to put too much work into the novella right now.

Technically, I could be using this time to work on it, but writing serialized fiction requires you to really get into the world. Having all this heavy stuff on my mind makes it very hard to let it flow. But I know it's going to flow better than ever before as soon as I finish tying up these loose ends.

I managed to pop by and say hi to some friends, my favorite place in town re-opened after closing for two years. It's a ridiculous hostel with strange people from all over the world. Not sure how many people are coming by these days but they had a party so I was able to see the whole community.

Aside from that I've been diving into Chatbot. I'm not exactly what you'd call a FAN of this kind of thing, but I am interested in things that will shape the future, it's how I got into crypto in the first place. If we are all going to be using it in 5 years like smartphones, I'd rather figure out what you can do with it now. I was 6 years late on smartphones because I was going through my "screw technology phase". Now I'm "OK Computer (but chill out with using my date plz)"

This AI is WACKY. It's going to change things like we can't even begin to imagine. I've been using it to aid my studies, and I can't help but imagine how much it's going to evolve in the next 3-5 years. I can imagine 15% of jobs disappearing in the next 3 years alone. I think it'll be a while before everyone is using it for everything but some people are going to start using it right away, for work, for play, for study, for everything.

I wrote a whole post on it already but didn't feel like editing it today, so I shared this instead.

I'm jumping into a very uncomfortable situation tomorrow that I don't want to talk about just yet, so I really should get going. Hopefully it goes better than I anticipate, but I will tell you more about it if I have the chance.

Forgive the ramble...

Here's to peace, love, and trolling! <3

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