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As it happens, many things in the neighborhood and nearby park must be blooming this week, as my allergies have kicked in and laid me out the last few days. They don't hit me all that often, at least not to this degree...sometimes I'll just get a migraine, but sometimes I'll just be one big head full of snot and chapped lips for a few days. I rarely call out from work, so when I do it's for valid reasons, and there was no way I'd be able to do an eight hour retail shift without needing to dose up on Airborne and Alavert. [It seems there were three other employees that also called out today, so perhaps I dodged a bullet because otherwise I'd most likely have had to do triple the work to fill their gaps.] Hopefully I will be up and running, or at least not as laid out, come Friday and Saturday when I have my weekend bookkeeping shifts.
Midweek stuff
Oct. 22nd, 2025 10:49 amIt's Wednesday already? The weird diminished hours I've been getting at work lately have definitely screwed with my sense of what day it is, especially since I've been spending the last couple of them trying to get over what is either allergies or a cold! And now it's flipped a bit more because today I'm doing what is not quite a midshift but isn't quite closing either (12:30 - 9pm) (yeah, I'm not thrilled about it, but I'm hoping that I'll be sent to the floor to do upstock rather than get chained to the register). Then I have one more day off...then my two Friday-Saturday shifts.
Not too much else to report other than I'm doing my best to get my writing in despite the allergies and the day job schedule weirdness!
Not too much else to report other than I'm doing my best to get my writing in despite the allergies and the day job schedule weirdness!
Ah yes. We're at the back end of this cold where I'm feeling marginally better, but my lips are chapped, my sinuses are still blocked, and I just want this to be OVER. I'm also annoyed that this came to me just a few days after I'd pulled my neck muscles somehow and had to deal with the pain for almost a week. Basically some part of me has been feeling like sh*t since late January. I'm not sure if I caught this from being in an enclosed courtroom for jury duty (even though I wore my mask 95% of the time), or one of my managers who also had a cold recently. BLEH!
But yes, I am slowly on the mend. I've been taking Airborne and Sudafed and Advil when needed and attempting to keep rested, though waking up every hour on the hour last night because my throat was bone dry from breathing through my mouth wasn't helping. Hopefully I'll get some more rest tonight. I also have tomorrow off to take it easy!
So what else have I been up to lately? Well, I've started up on the 'remaster' of A Division of Souls and it's coming along quite nicely. Mostly just some cosmetic fixes and further editing, but nothing major to work on. At least not yet, anyway! I don't believe I need to do any, but I'm preparing myself just in case. I've got two chapters down so far, which isn't bad for a week and a half's worth of work. That means I should be quite on schedule for the September rerelease.
Hope everyone has as good week ahead!
But yes, I am slowly on the mend. I've been taking Airborne and Sudafed and Advil when needed and attempting to keep rested, though waking up every hour on the hour last night because my throat was bone dry from breathing through my mouth wasn't helping. Hopefully I'll get some more rest tonight. I also have tomorrow off to take it easy!
So what else have I been up to lately? Well, I've started up on the 'remaster' of A Division of Souls and it's coming along quite nicely. Mostly just some cosmetic fixes and further editing, but nothing major to work on. At least not yet, anyway! I don't believe I need to do any, but I'm preparing myself just in case. I've got two chapters down so far, which isn't bad for a week and a half's worth of work. That means I should be quite on schedule for the September rerelease.
Hope everyone has as good week ahead!
Oof -- another one of those days when whatever's blooming gets kicked up in the air and I'm stuffed up for most of the day. Fun! Not complaining too much, though...it's springtime and it's been lovely weather here in the Bay, which means it's finally getting a bit warmer out there. A and I were starting to get a bit of cabin fever!
As for the Apartment Complex story...the frustration has been vented, the false starts have been put aside, and I'm going to give it another try. This time I'm trying it from a different angle that I'm hoping will work better for the story. And that's all I'm going to say about that for now, because I don't want to jinx it again, heh!
As for In My Blue World, aka the Magical Girl story, I'm doing a rough run on the 750Words with it, just to see where it goes. Yes, I know...I'm essentially writing two novels at the same time, idiot that I am, but I'm not going to worry myself too much over it. We'll see which one gets finished first. :)
Not much else to add...no big Real Life news right now, and I suppose that's a good thing!
As for the Apartment Complex story...the frustration has been vented, the false starts have been put aside, and I'm going to give it another try. This time I'm trying it from a different angle that I'm hoping will work better for the story. And that's all I'm going to say about that for now, because I don't want to jinx it again, heh!
As for In My Blue World, aka the Magical Girl story, I'm doing a rough run on the 750Words with it, just to see where it goes. Yes, I know...I'm essentially writing two novels at the same time, idiot that I am, but I'm not going to worry myself too much over it. We'll see which one gets finished first. :)
Not much else to add...no big Real Life news right now, and I suppose that's a good thing!
Hope everyone's having a good week!
Midweek Update's Allergies Have Kicked In
Mar. 1st, 2018 10:55 amSo we've been having some weird weather of our own here in the Bay Area, and currently it's rainy and windy with signs that it'll probably stay that way for most of the day. Which means that anything currently blooming out there is blowing my way and getting me all stuffed up. Bleh!
Anyway...it's a new month, which means I get to take a quick look at my writing processes and see where I'm lacking and where I can do a bit of tweaking. I've been doing this sort of thing over the last few months, not so much as a business-minded 'how can I maximize productivity' but more along the lines of a personal 'how can I stop wasting my time doing pointless things' project. I like to streamline things so I can get it done quickly and easily, and I've always done this both in creative projects as well as the Day Job. [In fact, I've been doing a bit of that with the Day Job as well...I've come to the realization that I'm busting my ass as much as my coworkers are, and I think I've actually been pushing myself harder than I really need to, so I've been lightening my load where I can. I'm still getting the work done, I'm just no longer killing myself in the process.]
March plans to be quite busy on multiple fronts:
--FOGCon is the 9th - 11th, and I have two panels set up... one is a reading (I'm hoping to road-test some Apartment Complex Story passages) and another is a talk on self-publishing. I had a lot of fun doing this last year and hope to do it again in the future. Side note: it amuses me that I'm on the same reading panel as two big names: Katharine Kerr and Ellen Klages. Woo,go me! :p ]
--Two visits to the East Bay campus for the Day Job on the 8th and the 22nd. One's a group get-together and the other is the quarterly 'celebration of success' meeting (I always eyeroll when I have to refer to it as such).
--SF will have a 'March for Our Lives' on the 24th, for the Parkland school kids. A. and I definitely plan to be there to show our support.
Other than that...hopefully I can get some work in there!
Anyway...it's a new month, which means I get to take a quick look at my writing processes and see where I'm lacking and where I can do a bit of tweaking. I've been doing this sort of thing over the last few months, not so much as a business-minded 'how can I maximize productivity' but more along the lines of a personal 'how can I stop wasting my time doing pointless things' project. I like to streamline things so I can get it done quickly and easily, and I've always done this both in creative projects as well as the Day Job. [In fact, I've been doing a bit of that with the Day Job as well...I've come to the realization that I'm busting my ass as much as my coworkers are, and I think I've actually been pushing myself harder than I really need to, so I've been lightening my load where I can. I'm still getting the work done, I'm just no longer killing myself in the process.]
March plans to be quite busy on multiple fronts:
--FOGCon is the 9th - 11th, and I have two panels set up... one is a reading (I'm hoping to road-test some Apartment Complex Story passages) and another is a talk on self-publishing. I had a lot of fun doing this last year and hope to do it again in the future. Side note: it amuses me that I'm on the same reading panel as two big names: Katharine Kerr and Ellen Klages. Woo,go me! :p ]
--Two visits to the East Bay campus for the Day Job on the 8th and the 22nd. One's a group get-together and the other is the quarterly 'celebration of success' meeting (I always eyeroll when I have to refer to it as such).
--SF will have a 'March for Our Lives' on the 24th, for the Parkland school kids. A. and I definitely plan to be there to show our support.
Other than that...hopefully I can get some work in there!
Hope everyone's having a good week!
