a Wednesday routine/structure/chicken/thing?

[artsyhonker]

Thanks to kellan_the_tabby I was reminded of the Fluent Self blog, and particularly the weekly chicken (check-in), a sort of being kind to yourself secular examen type of thing. I do like kellan_the_tabby's format for it very much:

• "It is [day] and we are here"


• what works?


• next time I might...


• the hard


• the good


• the plan

But I do also like Havi's focus on superpowers.

Meanwhile: Twitter is full of Nazis, the Book of Face appears to have been implicated in messing around with votes for Trump and Brexit, and I don't see why I should keep giving either of them free content. Nopetastic.

But... a lot of my community is there. I'm a working musician and a certain amount of accessibility online is required for networking. I'm probably going to have to suck it up and have some presence on Twitter and the Book of Face until they go the way of MySpace and stop being important. But...I do think they'll go that way, and I think I need to build community elsewhere so that I have a viable exit plan. Like, for example, here.

Earlier in the year I stopped using Twitter and Facebook on Wednesdays for a while, but I wasn't very structured about the "building community elsewhere" bit.

Some of my friends do "Reading Wednesdays" and I had meant to participate in that, but I haven't done it yet.

So I'm wondering if some weekly questions or headings or whatnot here might be the way to go. Wednesday isn't, for me, a natural point at which to review my week, which I think of as starting on Sunday or Monday. But it might be a good mental breathing space, a good place to pause and check in with myself, to see how I'm doing in this week before it gets too hard or too long. I might even include what I've been reading.

It is late, and I am tired, and I will ponder this more tomorrow.

Comments

[angelofthenorth]

One of my friends does a friday check-in for their friends to see how the week has gone. Could you do that for humpday?

The formula they use is:

In this post you can:

Accomplishments and things that you've done that have been hard for you.

If you are up for it, show us a bit of what you've managed to do. It can be samples of art/fiction, icons, photos of a cleaner home or whatever you feel like showing off.

Things you're having trouble with. If you want, you can receive cheerleading, advice, or both if you're in the right mood for it. Please state which you are hoping for, or if you'd rather have neither and just wanted to vent.

Things that have made you smile this week or things you are grateful for.

Feel free to signal boost anything you feel deserves it here as well.

And that's it! Come hang out in comments and say hi to everyone, glee, commiserate, or whatever else you feel like.

[kellan_the_tabby]

Oohhh, I like that!

[heliopausa]

Something a bit more regular might be useful for me, as well. Thanks for the notion.