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 Not much going on with the long weekend here...A took Friday off so she could get vaccine number two, with Saturday as our lazy day (in which I drove up to Laurel Village to get our car washed, get some quarters for laundry and buy cupcakes for dessert, but that's about it). We did our grocery shopping today instead of doing the farmer's market, but we DID go for a walk, bought some plants at the local garden shop up the street, and got burgers for lunch. Tomorrow if we're up for it, we may go walking in Golden Gate Park and make our way to the Conservatory of Flowers if it's open.

Other than that? Not much to report...sadly, I did not get the job I tried for the other week. Guess I didn't clear the final hurdles? Not sure why, but it does once again prove that I'm terrible at interviews. I know how to handle them just fine, and I don't crash and burn...I think it's that I don't quite know how to ingratiate myself with whoever I'm trying out with? I don't actively try to turn them off, I just sometimes feel like they don't quite understand why I would want to work with them, or I don't quite pull that part off, because it never feels honest to me. Well, anyway. I'm not going to dwell on this other than that maybe it's a sign that DIY really is the road I need to take careerwise. How the hell I'd make money off that, I don't know, but...I'll think of something.

ANYWAY! It's a lovely weekend and per VP Harris' request I'm going to enjoy it and not feel a bit guilty about it. :D
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Just a few more days until vacation, woohoo!  Can't wait!

Had my midyear conversation with my boss at the Day Job and it got me thinking again about future plans.  More to the point, thinking about the Day Job finally, after far too many years, being the writing career.  It got me thinking about multiple things, really:  the reason I've had a purposely mindless Day Job over the years in the first place (stable income, paying off bills, etc), why I hadn't yet made the jump to self-employed (stable income, paying off bills, etc...but also learning the craft to a much higher degree), and so on.  I think the most obvious reason is that I just couldn't afford it.  That reason always aggravates me on a deep level (which I won't go into at the moment)...but recently I've come to the conclusion that maybe, just maybe, if I make a solid plan, start networking, and stick at it, I can finally do it.

It's not that I hate the Day Job...I think it's just that I now feel that while it's steady income, it takes away from time that could be better used on what I really should be doing:  writing, offering writing services (including basic editing and formatting), offering book cover services, and the occasional short-term assignments out there.  It's something I very nearly did when we first moved out here to CA, but fell by the wayside once the national economy tanked.  It's been too long in between.

Anyway.  Time to look into this a little further.

Other news: I finally got around to collecting what I have so far of the Apartment Complex story, and much to my surprise and glee, I'm already at 54k words!!  This is from three months' worth of writing five times a week.  Not bad at all!  I think it's probably going to be around 80k from my guess, and will be firmly placed in the YA Fantasy genre.  I'm actually becoming quite proud of this particular project, for multiple reasons.  One being that I was stubborn enough to keep at it despite multiple failed attempts!  I'm looking forward to releasing this one in early 2019!


Hope everyone's having a good week! :)

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