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mallorys_cameraI’m inundated with unfinished projects.
The garden—mostly pitchforked.
The article—partly transcribed to Google docs.
Puss n Boots—still a wisp of my imagination.
I started him for the third time last night, but helas! No go.
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Part of the Puss n Boots problem, it turns out, is that I have the wrong kind of polymer clay for polymer clay sculpting projects.
The best stuff apparently is Super Sculpey or Sculpey Pro.
I have a pound or so of garden variety Fimo in an assortment of rainbow hues. I’m not about to throw it all out. But I think I’m gonna have to start refrigerating it for 10 minutes before I work with it: It’s so sticky, it doesn’t hold its shape.
Also, the right kind of tools for modeling polymer clay sculptures turn out to be…[drumroll]… dental tools. Those are cheap on Amazon. I try very, very hard not to order stuff off Amazon because, you know, soulless, union-busting enterprise helmed by creepy, weird-looking gazillionaire; but sometimes there’s no other place to get the stuff you gotta have.
The main problem with Puss n Boots, though, is that I have no drawing ability whatsoever. In fact, I’m incredibly lopsided when it comes to abilities: Such talents as I have are exclusively verbal; I am very, very, very good with the English language, but I can’t do much of anything else. I can’t play any musical instruments. And I’m kinda physically clumsy. I do sketch and dabble in water colors from time to time—it’s so relaxing—and sometimes the results are even pleasing, but the results are always accidental: I could never reproduce them.
The drawing thing is partly hand/eye coordination. But, also, partly a weird loop in my brain.
I have real issues with spatial orientation.
For years, the only way I could tell right from left was by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
I hold my computer mouse upside down.
I get disoriented looking in a mirror.
I get lost very easily. I can get lost looking for the bathroom inside my own house.
I get that this seems very weird—left from right? how can you not be able to tell left from right?— but I’ve met a few other people over the years with this strange… I guess you’d call it a form of dyslexia… so, I know it’s a thing. It doesn’t bother me particularly since long ago, I figured out ways to compensate for it plus, you know, GPS!!!
But it does hamper my ability to reproduce visual patterns. It’s kind of like I have to fight my brain 'cause my brain wants to flip them.
Anyway, I will try Puss n Boots again this evening.
The garden—mostly pitchforked.
The article—partly transcribed to Google docs.
Puss n Boots—still a wisp of my imagination.
I started him for the third time last night, but helas! No go.
###
Part of the Puss n Boots problem, it turns out, is that I have the wrong kind of polymer clay for polymer clay sculpting projects.
The best stuff apparently is Super Sculpey or Sculpey Pro.
I have a pound or so of garden variety Fimo in an assortment of rainbow hues. I’m not about to throw it all out. But I think I’m gonna have to start refrigerating it for 10 minutes before I work with it: It’s so sticky, it doesn’t hold its shape.
Also, the right kind of tools for modeling polymer clay sculptures turn out to be…[drumroll]… dental tools. Those are cheap on Amazon. I try very, very hard not to order stuff off Amazon because, you know, soulless, union-busting enterprise helmed by creepy, weird-looking gazillionaire; but sometimes there’s no other place to get the stuff you gotta have.
The main problem with Puss n Boots, though, is that I have no drawing ability whatsoever. In fact, I’m incredibly lopsided when it comes to abilities: Such talents as I have are exclusively verbal; I am very, very, very good with the English language, but I can’t do much of anything else. I can’t play any musical instruments. And I’m kinda physically clumsy. I do sketch and dabble in water colors from time to time—it’s so relaxing—and sometimes the results are even pleasing, but the results are always accidental: I could never reproduce them.
The drawing thing is partly hand/eye coordination. But, also, partly a weird loop in my brain.
I have real issues with spatial orientation.
For years, the only way I could tell right from left was by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
I hold my computer mouse upside down.
I get disoriented looking in a mirror.
I get lost very easily. I can get lost looking for the bathroom inside my own house.
I get that this seems very weird—left from right? how can you not be able to tell left from right?— but I’ve met a few other people over the years with this strange… I guess you’d call it a form of dyslexia… so, I know it’s a thing. It doesn’t bother me particularly since long ago, I figured out ways to compensate for it plus, you know, GPS!!!
But it does hamper my ability to reproduce visual patterns. It’s kind of like I have to fight my brain 'cause my brain wants to flip them.
Anyway, I will try Puss n Boots again this evening.
Excessively quick reply
Date: 2021-04-09 02:14 pm (UTC)Re: Excessively quick reply
Date: 2021-04-09 11:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-04-09 03:48 pm (UTC)Maybe you have an upside-downy-telling issue! >B^D
Well, it was easier when we didn’t have wireless mice, and when computer mice had tails!
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Date: 2021-04-09 11:01 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2021-04-11 06:25 pm (UTC)I don't have trouble telling left and right apart, except when I'm lying down, but I have had to teach myself mnemonics for east and west, and horizontal and vertical.
Having problems estimating how much time is needed to do something is another characteristic of dyscalculia.
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Date: 2021-04-12 03:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-04-12 03:36 pm (UTC)Wikipedia mentions, among many other things:
- Problems with differentiating between left and right
- A "warped" sense of spatial awareness, or an understanding of shapes, distance, or volume that seems more like guesswork than actual comprehension
- Having particular difficulty mentally estimating the measurement of an object or distance (e.g., whether something is 3 or 6 meters (10 or 20 feet) away)
ETA Maybe it's ageometria: "[this] has also been used to describe a form of dyscalculia, a disability that prevents students from understanding geometry."
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Date: 2021-04-12 03:14 pm (UTC)