PCD Follow-up
So yeah, had my two day work-week, and I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to get through another week, much less 6 more months of this.
I'm kinda hoping that I can force PCD to take a break, since I have way way way too much work to do in the next three weeks... I have to finish this book, finish out the term in school, and fight off constant demands for overtime. Last night and tonight were spent re-reading Isolation Play and Smiley and the Hero. I know I'm going to want to try to squeeze in reviews for those, but I really ought not to, at least not for a while.
Not really a big surprise, but Kyell's book is contributing to Post-Con Depression a bit. With Out of Position, it was all about making me feel like a failure for hating my job and giving up on the career I wanted as a college professor, being (relatively) old and never having had a relationship... This time it's all about reminding me of what a loner I truly am, estranged from large swaths of family, no local friends, and I only see my sister about 4-5 times a year even though we live about 10 minutes apart. That's not to say it's bad, it's actually an amazing book, just that he's not afraid to put his characters through hell, which holds up a mirror to my own lesser emotional scars.
I really did have a good time at FC, Knotcast already did part of my con report in public, I'll try to expand on that a bit here tomorrow. In the mean time, I've got to go crash... Jetlag is partially messing me up, which is why I'm up till 1:30, and part of what made today such a miserable day at work. I've got to manage getting on a better eastern standard time sleep schedule.
I'm kinda hoping that I can force PCD to take a break, since I have way way way too much work to do in the next three weeks... I have to finish this book, finish out the term in school, and fight off constant demands for overtime. Last night and tonight were spent re-reading Isolation Play and Smiley and the Hero. I know I'm going to want to try to squeeze in reviews for those, but I really ought not to, at least not for a while.
Not really a big surprise, but Kyell's book is contributing to Post-Con Depression a bit. With Out of Position, it was all about making me feel like a failure for hating my job and giving up on the career I wanted as a college professor, being (relatively) old and never having had a relationship... This time it's all about reminding me of what a loner I truly am, estranged from large swaths of family, no local friends, and I only see my sister about 4-5 times a year even though we live about 10 minutes apart. That's not to say it's bad, it's actually an amazing book, just that he's not afraid to put his characters through hell, which holds up a mirror to my own lesser emotional scars.
I really did have a good time at FC, Knotcast already did part of my con report in public, I'll try to expand on that a bit here tomorrow. In the mean time, I've got to go crash... Jetlag is partially messing me up, which is why I'm up till 1:30, and part of what made today such a miserable day at work. I've got to manage getting on a better eastern standard time sleep schedule.