weekly retro #88: disconnected but getting better

this week was one of those "do the bare minimum" kinds, where i'm feeling super disconnected because of a post-menstrual depressive episode. thanks to the work i've been doing at setting routines and saying "yes" to things, i had lots of things to do to try to reconnect with myself besides rotting on the couch. i started a tech thought dump blog. i didn't think it would be appropriate to bring all of that into this kind of writing, but i always share when i blog elsewhere so it's not like i'm hiding anything. i've really been enjoying doing weird web october, you can find all of apps so far on jennschiffer.com/www. weird web october has been such a good massage for my brain, and so has the fall season starting. i hate making candles in the summer, which explains why i've not created any new ones and instead used the time to really focus on pottery. now that it's not sweltering, i'm energized to melt wax. i have a couple of small bins of my pottery from over the past year that i am…