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Mar. 2nd, 2014 05:04 pmEriko Sato had referred me to someone named Yoko Koike to discuss going straight to translating volumes 9 and 10 of the Lucky Star manga. Saw Yoko for the first time this morning, and the two of us translated pages 6 and 7 of volume 9 together... only for me to find out later, when I went to this LSSF thread to post the translated lines, that those two pages had already been done.
Well, I'm only particularly interested in the strips involving Tamaki and Miku, and the next one is all the way on page 37.
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Mom has gotten on my case for the nth time today about putting Javascript off while Brian's still here. I made a point afterwards that the game demo that it was previously going to go towards is gonna be a moot point for at least a few years until I have Starbound done, but her real point was about me taking a free opportunity to develop a skill without having to leave the house or her having to pay money.
The reason I haven't gotten back to it yet is simple: My focus has been on fanfiction since even before Brian came back home for the time being. Especially true while I was writing Starbound: Birthday of Destiny since I got that pic of Rokuna drawn up a month ago, because I wanted to finish that up once and for all. Admittedly, there had been time when I was playing Candy Crush Saga, but between lives for that, I was planning out the next part of the fic to work on each following day, rather than to rush the fic through.
Right now, I've been working on the same chapter for Parasitic Trio that I got started with half a year ago, but while I did manage some progress, I'm still muddling through it, so I might as well put it aside once again. However, there is one point that has come up today, not for the first time, between me and Mom.
That point, is that focusing on more than one thing a day does not often work for me. Just the other day, and also one night at dinner late in 2011, she and Dad said that I can focus on more than one project at a time if I actually make an effort, and that I shouldn't say that I can't just because Chelle told me the same thing (i.e. that if she were to drop focus on writing or drawing or something to critique part of Starbound's endgame that I presented to her, she would have a hard time regaining her focus once she was finished). Even putting her aside, I myself find that what she has urged me to try out doesn't work for me just because it works for her, easy as it may be for her (not being autistic) to tell me not to play "the autistic card" as a justification.
To drive my point home, let me mention that my limitations as an autistic person is exactly why it used to be so hard, back when I was in college, to get around to anything I had planned for myself. The Getter Love!! marathon during my last semester in school, and the equally exorbitant amount of time I focused on transcribing Makeruna! Makendou Z the semester before, happened only at the expense of my schoolwork. Just about everything else I made plans for during my school years, I put off for the following summer or winter break, when I wouldn't have so much schoolwork to focus on that I'd have to cut corners just to be able to even remotely enjoy life. The time I spent playing stuff like Dark Cloud or Pokemon Pearl, when I could have been writing Fuyuki's Hot Night or doing something else worthwhile? Blowing off steam from the constant work overload.
Mind you, I do plan on continuing with Javascript and seeing what went wrong last time tomorrow morning, before we go to the gym. I'm not refusing to do it, but what Mom described today as "hiding behind Chelle" is, in fact, very much justified in itself. Chelle does research, knows how an autistic brain works, and I don't want to hear any more from someone who isn't autistic about how I can work on both Javascript and fanfiction on a same given day if I put my mind to it, because the way I manage my time is about getting something done optimally, long as it may take.
Well, I'm only particularly interested in the strips involving Tamaki and Miku, and the next one is all the way on page 37.
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Mom has gotten on my case for the nth time today about putting Javascript off while Brian's still here. I made a point afterwards that the game demo that it was previously going to go towards is gonna be a moot point for at least a few years until I have Starbound done, but her real point was about me taking a free opportunity to develop a skill without having to leave the house or her having to pay money.
The reason I haven't gotten back to it yet is simple: My focus has been on fanfiction since even before Brian came back home for the time being. Especially true while I was writing Starbound: Birthday of Destiny since I got that pic of Rokuna drawn up a month ago, because I wanted to finish that up once and for all. Admittedly, there had been time when I was playing Candy Crush Saga, but between lives for that, I was planning out the next part of the fic to work on each following day, rather than to rush the fic through.
Right now, I've been working on the same chapter for Parasitic Trio that I got started with half a year ago, but while I did manage some progress, I'm still muddling through it, so I might as well put it aside once again. However, there is one point that has come up today, not for the first time, between me and Mom.
That point, is that focusing on more than one thing a day does not often work for me. Just the other day, and also one night at dinner late in 2011, she and Dad said that I can focus on more than one project at a time if I actually make an effort, and that I shouldn't say that I can't just because Chelle told me the same thing (i.e. that if she were to drop focus on writing or drawing or something to critique part of Starbound's endgame that I presented to her, she would have a hard time regaining her focus once she was finished). Even putting her aside, I myself find that what she has urged me to try out doesn't work for me just because it works for her, easy as it may be for her (not being autistic) to tell me not to play "the autistic card" as a justification.
To drive my point home, let me mention that my limitations as an autistic person is exactly why it used to be so hard, back when I was in college, to get around to anything I had planned for myself. The Getter Love!! marathon during my last semester in school, and the equally exorbitant amount of time I focused on transcribing Makeruna! Makendou Z the semester before, happened only at the expense of my schoolwork. Just about everything else I made plans for during my school years, I put off for the following summer or winter break, when I wouldn't have so much schoolwork to focus on that I'd have to cut corners just to be able to even remotely enjoy life. The time I spent playing stuff like Dark Cloud or Pokemon Pearl, when I could have been writing Fuyuki's Hot Night or doing something else worthwhile? Blowing off steam from the constant work overload.
Mind you, I do plan on continuing with Javascript and seeing what went wrong last time tomorrow morning, before we go to the gym. I'm not refusing to do it, but what Mom described today as "hiding behind Chelle" is, in fact, very much justified in itself. Chelle does research, knows how an autistic brain works, and I don't want to hear any more from someone who isn't autistic about how I can work on both Javascript and fanfiction on a same given day if I put my mind to it, because the way I manage my time is about getting something done optimally, long as it may take.