Jordan S. Brock

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Asexual Awareness Week has been formally recognized by the Governor of the State of Washington!

This is BIG.  As far as I have seen, this is the first time Ace Week has ever been recognized anywhere.  This is like an 8.7 on the Awesome Scale big.

I want to thank everyone in the Seattle Aces & Aros for helping to bring this together.  And I want to thank Gov. Inslee for making this happen!  From the Palouse to the Pacific, from the Columbia to Canada, the Evergreen State rocks!

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The State of Washington Proclamation

WHEREAS asexuality is an often unknown and misunderstood sexual orientation; and WHEREAS people who are asexual but have not heard of asexuality may often feel confused, discouraged, and lonely; and WHEREAS discovering asexuality can be an affirming, positive, life-changing experience; and WHEREAS the goal of Asexual Awareness Week is to promote education and understanding about asexuality; and WHEREAS there are estimated to be at least 70,000 openly identified asexual people in the State of Washington; and WHEREAS the inclusive and diverse State of Washington is proud to be at the forefront of LGBTQIA+ recognition and acceptance; NOW, THEREFORE, I, Jay Inslee, Governor of the state of Washington, do hereby proclaim October 20-26, 2019, as Asexual Awareness Week in Washington, and I encourage all people in our state to join me in this special observance.

Signed this 15th day of October, 2019 [signed] Governor Jay Inslee

A person who thinks of themselves as fundamentally disorganized can still be good at managing large projects and can in fact still present and function in an organized way if they have the right workarounds in place. The problem comes in where nobody else can give them those workarounds – it’s a matter of understanding how oneself functions, which is not only difficult but also time-consuming and painful. It took me ten years to figure out how my brain works, minimum, and I’m still adjusting things ten years after THAT. But the end result is that I am an incredibly mentally chaotic person who happens to appear to be highly organized because I’ve built a lumpy but functional container for every cupful of hot mess in my brain. I’m still chaotic, I just have an system.

A good project manager is nothing more or less than someone who can look at a whole project, break it down into necessary (not always sequential) steps, and then assign those tasks in a way that works for their team. The catch with this kind of project is that you are your entire team, but you don’t really have to think about it that way. After all, the mode you go into when you’re daydreaming about your story is going to be better at laying out scenes than the mode you’re in when you make moodboards (which is a great mode for laying out themes and characters and settings) or even the mode you’re in when you’re actually writing (concerned with sentence flow and grammar and such). If you are the type of person with perceptible modes like that, then treat them as members of your team and understand which is going to handle what and the resources each requires.

Each of those are necessary tasks, and there are times of day or locations or environmental factors or whatever that help you settle into one or another. Figure those out, then start using them. Figure out each of the steps you need to finish and write those down. With each one, write down the things you need to be able to do each step, which may include things that help you switch modes. Then come up with a rough schedule that allows you to move at a comfortable pace and change steps often enough to keep everything together and far enough apart to actually get things done while working on each step.