#didnt stay secretary for long but it took so much time! and emotional labour!

[ghosthermione-reads]

Feeling a bit guilty that, although i reached my reading goal for the year, of 95 books, about 1/3rd of the paper "books" are short stories or novellas I read for the Hugos. I counted my average and im at like 200p per books, which would be decent short novels or novellas.

Then I remember that, actually, this year has been the busiest I've ever been. I was secretary of a rescue charity ("association") and worked on financial applications for that, I switched jobs and dealt with the anxiety of the last job being thieves and liars and gaslighting and pressuring you into 40h weeks, I've gotten used to new job at its peak time + having 1h to get to it each way (yay audiobooks!) and finally, I organized a Christmas market for the rescue's benefit, with close to 40 small creators, , from finding the room to rent to actually being there on the day to filing paperwork that nobody had even heard of in previous years.

I considered lowering my goal at some point but I haven't. and I also managed to play more games this year I think, and not feel guilty about how "i should be reading"

so i will take that as a victory and continue reading whatever amount I read!