Posted by bzedan on Feb 23, 2026
Image description: A photo looking up at a sign for AMOCA Museum, white lettering on deep blue plexi. The vinyl of the lettering has been shrunk and crisped by time and the sun, rendering the letters heavy-metal logo illegible. End ID.
This was one of those weeks where I felt like I got NOTHING done but actually I'm a liar a little. What's funny is I was really feeling the push, the stress of not hitting my various goals and turned the page of my goal planner (which is one of two active planners I use, lol) and saw I'd left the "meeting month goals" section for next week blank, because past me knew I'd do this to myself. Flash Fiction February is always a certain kind of difficult, because you're trying to hit defined writing goals every day. Even time boxing it to less than an hour, that's more than I can get even when I'm writing-writing every day and I don't have a hard goal of writing every day (though I do try to put words down for at least ten minutes if I can).
Anyway, here is done for the week:
- A blog post on my latest Fibre Arts Bingo square, which did only just go up, tbh.
- I sewed a whole piece of clothing (and did two loads of laundry so it's already in the closet for rotation).
- I worked on another thing I can't share because it's a present! It pleases me though (and is another Fibre Arts Bingo square).
- Some redacted work that is so boring I don't even know if I can squeeze a sub-locked post out of it, lol.
- Nearly 4k words written across a week of Flash Fiction February prompts.
- Non-creative but important stuff like doctors appointments and putting in an out-of-network claim for some new glasses. I've never tried to do an out-of-network claim before! Which makes this feel very low stakes. If it goes through, what a delight it will be.
- Oh right, and I collected the entire second year of the newsletter zines into a pack you can buy on Itchio. I literally did this and finished late in the evening so didn't promo it and god, please someone remind me at a normal time of the day to share the link.
There was, I realise now as I'm totting things up, only one thing I didn't cross off my to-dos this week, which is getting more headway on the March newsletter. Not bad, self.
Today we took advantage of a museum free day to meet a friend at the American Museum of Ceramic Art which had a couple of really interesting exhibitions. I was utterly delighted by Yoon Hwang's work in the Compulsion group show of artists in residence. That link has a link to a drive folder of photos of the pieces, big recommend to click through. The AMOCA building I think used to be a bank? The space that used to be the vault is really neatly used, currently by Reniel Del Rosario’s The Store of Sturtevant’s The Store of Claes Oldenburg, I am forever a soft touch for sculptural facsimiles of objects and this little space was full of some delicious ones.
A good end to a week that felt like a mess but wasn't, really. Thank you as always for your support, I'm off to see if I can catch up from being two days behind FFF.
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