Joe Cecil

Going with the flow

I attended an Ultraspeaking live class over Zoom today, one with a practice element. I say "with a practice element" – that part was supposed to be a discussion, I think, based on the prompt before we hit the breakout rooms and what I heard from the other rooms

Whence polluted water?

I've been playing Oxygen Not Included lately. Recently I mentioned I had this polluted water that seemingly wasn't getting dumped. Turns out this isn't a weird misprioritization. Instead, the algae terrarium building creates bottles of polluted water as a byproduct when it consumes CO2

Too deep

I have slightly overbooked myself for the next month. Things I am trying to keep up with: 1. Practicing and participating for Ultraspeaking course. 2. Reading for the Art of the Story book group. Writing discussion responses for those. Replies. 3. Writing/editing poetry for the poetry group. Critiquing other

Oxygen not polluted

I've been playing a lot of Oxygen Not Included lately. (That is: "A lot of" by share of video game time this week. In absolute terms only about four to five hours.) It is a complicated game. There are a lot of specific items you can

Nerves about "organizing" "events"

(these specific words "organizing" and "events" feel wrong, but close enough) Today I thought of trying to get together a short public speaking practice session. I'm in a Discord of people that I could attempt this with. I even have met a person or

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