daily update, Tuesday March 31
1. Not the IRS, 11am-2pm. A short but productive day! I got through a digital drop-off return and contacted the client with a couple questions they need to answer before we can move to the sign-and-pay portion. I contacted another client whose return has been on hold for a while pending a certain piece of paperwork and explained the drop-off and digital drop-off procedure. And I did an entire return for a client who was out running various errands and was able to come back in to sign and pay in the office about an hour after dropping off the documents.
I also scheduled a drop-off appointment next week for a prior-year client (and got myself put on the schedule to handle it) plus got on the schedule for an hour tomorrow to hopefully finish up the two returns still pending from today.
We have essentially reduced office hours to "people who have scheduled work to do" which means I am mostly not on unless I sweet-talk a client into bringing in or uploading their documents. So I'm going to work on a couple more contacts tomorrow as well.
2. GROCERIES. I was not able to find any Lipton Recipe Secrets herb & garlic mix -- possibly my grocery store has stopped carrying it? -- but I got everything else on my list, including ingredients for almond cake and some new black cherry flavored hard cider to try out. (Report: it is dangerously tasty.)
3. Took a walk to Cascadilla Creek and back so I wouldn't go stir-crazy.
4. Took a nap.
5. Wrote ~700 "and then" style words of the Narnia/Naruto crossover, in which Shizune and Character A have an important conversation. This is not actually a section of the story I had intended to deal with? My outline was something along the line of "action scene, denouement, Character A makes choice, people split up for various destinations, end on character determination note." Except Character A making her choice has gotten kind of drawn out (which was inevitable, really, and I don't know why I'm surprised) but people splitting up has also developed logistical complications because apparently logistics and organization of practical everyday details turned into a sub-theme when I wasn't paying attention. *hands* Oh well, whatever.
The rough draft is now ~8,850 words long and will grow significantly with edits since a bunch of it right now is awfully bare. I have actual lines to the effect of "Throw in some more description of [thing] here, something about [handful of details] but make it sound better," I need to do more with Character A's increasing wooziness at one point in the story since she's my POV character and that should obviously have an effect on the narration, and a lot of stuff is kind of emotionally flat at the moment because in order to know how characters react to events, first I need to pin down what those events ARE.
...
Also, I didn't write any complete-for-posting stories in March, but I did produce 6,860 words according to my
getyourwordsout spreadsheet, so whatever. Yay writing! :)
6. Decided not to bake anything today because I was tired and sore and grumpy on account of getting my period overnight (not unexpected, but always annoying) so I gave myself permission to eat nutritionally questionable comfort food for dinner (brie and pepperoni on rice crackers, shut up, I don't care) and now I'm going to fall into bed.
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I also scheduled a drop-off appointment next week for a prior-year client (and got myself put on the schedule to handle it) plus got on the schedule for an hour tomorrow to hopefully finish up the two returns still pending from today.
We have essentially reduced office hours to "people who have scheduled work to do" which means I am mostly not on unless I sweet-talk a client into bringing in or uploading their documents. So I'm going to work on a couple more contacts tomorrow as well.
2. GROCERIES. I was not able to find any Lipton Recipe Secrets herb & garlic mix -- possibly my grocery store has stopped carrying it? -- but I got everything else on my list, including ingredients for almond cake and some new black cherry flavored hard cider to try out. (Report: it is dangerously tasty.)
3. Took a walk to Cascadilla Creek and back so I wouldn't go stir-crazy.
4. Took a nap.
5. Wrote ~700 "and then" style words of the Narnia/Naruto crossover, in which Shizune and Character A have an important conversation. This is not actually a section of the story I had intended to deal with? My outline was something along the line of "action scene, denouement, Character A makes choice, people split up for various destinations, end on character determination note." Except Character A making her choice has gotten kind of drawn out (which was inevitable, really, and I don't know why I'm surprised) but people splitting up has also developed logistical complications because apparently logistics and organization of practical everyday details turned into a sub-theme when I wasn't paying attention. *hands* Oh well, whatever.
The rough draft is now ~8,850 words long and will grow significantly with edits since a bunch of it right now is awfully bare. I have actual lines to the effect of "Throw in some more description of [thing] here, something about [handful of details] but make it sound better," I need to do more with Character A's increasing wooziness at one point in the story since she's my POV character and that should obviously have an effect on the narration, and a lot of stuff is kind of emotionally flat at the moment because in order to know how characters react to events, first I need to pin down what those events ARE.
...
Also, I didn't write any complete-for-posting stories in March, but I did produce 6,860 words according to my
getyourwordsout spreadsheet, so whatever. Yay writing! :)
6. Decided not to bake anything today because I was tired and sore and grumpy on account of getting my period overnight (not unexpected, but always annoying) so I gave myself permission to eat nutritionally questionable comfort food for dinner (brie and pepperoni on rice crackers, shut up, I don't care) and now I'm going to fall into bed.
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