Weekend updatery

Sun, 23 May 2021 20:59:12 GMT

SO! Things have been happening. This past Thursday and Friday I had two interviews with A's company (different department so no issues here to worry about). I think they went reasonably well, considering that I'm always terrible at job interviews. I blather and sometimes lose my train of thought, especially if there's a multi-tiered question given to me. It has nothing to do with my work ethic and processes in general, I'm just not always good at riffing when I don't know the question beforehand, and no amount of preparation or practice will help me. It's just how my Thinking Versus Speaking Brain works. So hopefully I didn't make that much of a fool of myself...!

Anyway....! We'll see how this goes. Meanwhile, I've been making good on the synopsis writing that I talked about last Sunday, as I'm working out both Current WIPs. This is precisely what each of them needed, so now I'm not flailing or getting frustrated. I've gotten as far as End of Act I on one of them and almost ready to get into the main part of Act I on the other. So how far am I going to go with them? Good question. I think for the shorter project I'll go to the finish and for the longer one I'll go as far as need be until I feel I can get back to the main writing of it. The longer one has a lot of outtakes and notes that I've come up with over the last couple of years so I have a lot to work with, whereas the shorter one is newer and thus needs a lot more prep.

Other than that, not much else to report...I have an eye appointment on Thursday (I'm terrible at timely checkups, though my eyesight is pretty much still the same) and A gets vaccine shot #2 on Friday. And that's pretty much it!

Hope everyone has a good week!

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Ouch.

Fri, 14 Jun 2019 19:22:14 GMT

This week I have been dealing with an outer ear infection. Not sure how I got it, but it's REALLY DAMN ANNOYING AND PAINFUL. Thankfully it's not inner ear -- I had one of those about 20 years ago and those are even worse. I am currently listening to everything in monaural, which is kind of weird and even harder to filter when there's a lot of noise going on. But I have already visited the doctor a few days ago and hopefully it should heal soon.

Meanwhile, I had that interview yesterday (the one I hinted at the other day), and I think it went well. I'm not entirely sure where I stand on it, as I'd essentially be going "over the wall" (as I'd said to them) from the banking side to the AP side. I explained myself well enough for them to understand that while I might not know the exact platforms and processes they'd use, but I certainly understand the theory and reasoning behind it. I think they were kind of impressed by my bank knowledge so there's that! They said there were a few other applicants they needed to interview so it might take a bit for them to get back to me, perhaps another week or so. We shall see... :)

In other news, I believe I'm about 15 pages left to go in this revision go-round for Diwa and Kaffi! Yay! So once I'm done with that, I think I'll do what I did with the previous book: read the text on my tablet while making longhand notes of what still needs work. I'm probably going to run the book through a few more cycles before I decide to submit it. (Note to self: you may want to also start researching agents and publishers. Heh.)

Hope everyone has a good weekend!

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Drunken Owls and Other Delights

Weekend updatery

Ouch.