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Things and stuff:
1. I bought a bus ticket to NJ today, which I will use on Tuesday the 14th. The plan is to go out for dinner and whatever with my friend Susan (as a slightly belated birthday thing -- her birthday, not mine), then breakfast or lunch with my parents on Wednesday, and then I return to Ithaca with the family's spare Camry in my care until 2019. I have also acquired a new set of Great Courses CDs in preparation for the drive. :)
2. I dropped off the rest of my church recycling sale donations, which is a nice thing to check off my to-do list.
3. I finished the beta-read I'd promised
the_rck, which is another nice thing to check off my to-do list. :) (The story is another creepy-fascinating Sky High AU installment. If you like that sort of thing, you will like it a lot!)
4. I bought two five-pair-packs of sterling silver fish-hook earring hooks online last week, which arrived on Saturday. You see, I am hypersensitive to trace metals in earrings, to the point where I often have allergic reactions to surgical steel or titanium earring hooks even though they're supposedly hypoallergenic. Apparently my ears can still sense traces of nickel or whatever, and I get sore, red ears for several days after wearing some of my favorite earrings. This is annoying, and it finally occurred to me that it's also completely fixable. So I am fixing it, one pair of earrings at a time -- with the help of some fingernail scissors, a smallish set of needle-nose pliers, and a bunch of determination.
5. I wanted to get a haircut on Saturday but my hair place was tragically closed. I need to check tomorrow to see if they're just on vacation or if I need to find a new hair place. (I do not want to find a new hair place. I like my hair guy. ...Fortunately, having short hair means I can go to barber shops rather than salons, and they are so much cheaper.)
6. My fall Spanish professor STILL has not posted her textbook list online. She is also unreachable via email; every time I've tried, I get a "this email address doesn't exist" error message. *headdesk* I am going to call the TC3 advising department tomorrow to ask them what's going on and whether I need to switch into a different class, because this is getting worrisome.
7. New Hire called out on Tuesday and Wednesday last week, but she did show up on Saturday and the absence was due to her child being sick, so I am still moderately confident that she's going to work out. I'm not entirely sure why she wants the job -- she lives over half an hour away in non-rush-hour traffic, the hours are weird, and it's part-time so there aren't any benefits -- but hey, her choice. (I want her to work out so badly, you have no idea.)
8. I have my Remix Revival assignment and my Narnia Fic Exchange assignment. I know what I'm doing for the first; I just need to hash out a few details and then sit down to write. It shouldn't take too long since it's not terribly lengthy or involved.
I am less certain of the NFE assignment. I like the request! I even have three workable options off the top of my head. But all three would be relatively long and complicated, and require a bunch of background outlining and worldbuilding, and while August is my good writing month (no classes for two and a half weeks, yay!), I don't know that I have enough time. But I do want to write all three of those stories -- they are all things I have at least tangentially mentioned before, and in two cases written some exploratory snippets that I then set aside for later -- and the only shorter things I can think of that fit the prompt are things I have already written. (And now that I say this, I have thought of a fourth story option... which again is long and complicated and requires intensive background work. *sigh*) So... dilemma!
I guess I will poke at the options some more tomorrow, and try to get the Remix assignment out of the way so I will have more mental time and space to devote to whatever NFE fic I end up deciding upon.
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1. I bought a bus ticket to NJ today, which I will use on Tuesday the 14th. The plan is to go out for dinner and whatever with my friend Susan (as a slightly belated birthday thing -- her birthday, not mine), then breakfast or lunch with my parents on Wednesday, and then I return to Ithaca with the family's spare Camry in my care until 2019. I have also acquired a new set of Great Courses CDs in preparation for the drive. :)
2. I dropped off the rest of my church recycling sale donations, which is a nice thing to check off my to-do list.
3. I finished the beta-read I'd promised
the_rck, which is another nice thing to check off my to-do list. :) (The story is another creepy-fascinating Sky High AU installment. If you like that sort of thing, you will like it a lot!)
4. I bought two five-pair-packs of sterling silver fish-hook earring hooks online last week, which arrived on Saturday. You see, I am hypersensitive to trace metals in earrings, to the point where I often have allergic reactions to surgical steel or titanium earring hooks even though they're supposedly hypoallergenic. Apparently my ears can still sense traces of nickel or whatever, and I get sore, red ears for several days after wearing some of my favorite earrings. This is annoying, and it finally occurred to me that it's also completely fixable. So I am fixing it, one pair of earrings at a time -- with the help of some fingernail scissors, a smallish set of needle-nose pliers, and a bunch of determination.
5. I wanted to get a haircut on Saturday but my hair place was tragically closed. I need to check tomorrow to see if they're just on vacation or if I need to find a new hair place. (I do not want to find a new hair place. I like my hair guy. ...Fortunately, having short hair means I can go to barber shops rather than salons, and they are so much cheaper.)
6. My fall Spanish professor STILL has not posted her textbook list online. She is also unreachable via email; every time I've tried, I get a "this email address doesn't exist" error message. *headdesk* I am going to call the TC3 advising department tomorrow to ask them what's going on and whether I need to switch into a different class, because this is getting worrisome.
7. New Hire called out on Tuesday and Wednesday last week, but she did show up on Saturday and the absence was due to her child being sick, so I am still moderately confident that she's going to work out. I'm not entirely sure why she wants the job -- she lives over half an hour away in non-rush-hour traffic, the hours are weird, and it's part-time so there aren't any benefits -- but hey, her choice. (I want her to work out so badly, you have no idea.)
8. I have my Remix Revival assignment and my Narnia Fic Exchange assignment. I know what I'm doing for the first; I just need to hash out a few details and then sit down to write. It shouldn't take too long since it's not terribly lengthy or involved.
I am less certain of the NFE assignment. I like the request! I even have three workable options off the top of my head. But all three would be relatively long and complicated, and require a bunch of background outlining and worldbuilding, and while August is my good writing month (no classes for two and a half weeks, yay!), I don't know that I have enough time. But I do want to write all three of those stories -- they are all things I have at least tangentially mentioned before, and in two cases written some exploratory snippets that I then set aside for later -- and the only shorter things I can think of that fit the prompt are things I have already written. (And now that I say this, I have thought of a fourth story option... which again is long and complicated and requires intensive background work. *sigh*) So... dilemma!
I guess I will poke at the options some more tomorrow, and try to get the Remix assignment out of the way so I will have more mental time and space to devote to whatever NFE fic I end up deciding upon.
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