Update: work, fandom, writing
*flops into desk chair*
Whew. Okay. So, the one thing nobody told me about marriage was how hard it is to mesh the schedules of two people who have each been single and independent for well over a decade. So, the state of the Izh, in short bursts:
Many of you know that the job I found after my unemployed years has had me writing closed captioning for television shows. This is brilliant; as I tell anyone who asks, I finally conned the universe into paying me for watching TV all day. It is also hard work; 8 hours of almost non-stop typing or proofreading every weekday, and often overtime on the weekends. But it hits two of my deepest buttons: I get to make more stories available, and to a group of people I've been interested in working with since I was a child--the Deaf community.
Well, things just got even better. Our other department describes television episodes and films for the blind and vision-impaired. They are now shorthanded for the amount of work coming in, and so I am being cross-trained to describe. Which means I get to write at work, for my job. And I get screen credit for that. \o/
Okay, so, I am finding very little time for fandom stuff. In fact, little time to watch, which is making me sad mostly because 1) then I cannot discuss with friends, and 2) because Hulu is being dumb about putting up WC episodes only for about a week, and I am still too behind to have caught up! iTunes is getting too much of my money right now.
That said, I am only 2 episodes behind on SPN. I've seen the White Collar mid-finale second part (whoa, so much goodness in there--CAN I PLEASE BE ELIZABETH WHEN I GROW UP?). And my husband has finally gotten me into Castle, which I originally gave up on in its first season because they'd made Beckett so boring. But that has been fixed, in spades, and I love the show now.
I'm waiting for Alphas second season to start.
Technically, the project of the moment is my original novel, which is still nameless (argh). In practice, I am not working on it nearly as much as I ought to. (I ought to be writing that instead of this post, but I miss you all, so.)
Also, one of my friends was just published in a rockin', amazing, glorious thing called Womanthology, which I wish I had been able to contribute to. However! It is now going to become a continuing anthology series, so I am working on three different short comic-book ideas, in case I get another chance. Also because I've wanted to try writing for comics for a long time, and never got around to it.
Last, I said I was trying to write more spiritual blog posts during Lent. That's still going on, just at a much slower pace than originally planned. (See above re: marriage.)
Over and out, for the moment.
Whew. Okay. So, the one thing nobody told me about marriage was how hard it is to mesh the schedules of two people who have each been single and independent for well over a decade. So, the state of the Izh, in short bursts:
Many of you know that the job I found after my unemployed years has had me writing closed captioning for television shows. This is brilliant; as I tell anyone who asks, I finally conned the universe into paying me for watching TV all day. It is also hard work; 8 hours of almost non-stop typing or proofreading every weekday, and often overtime on the weekends. But it hits two of my deepest buttons: I get to make more stories available, and to a group of people I've been interested in working with since I was a child--the Deaf community.
Well, things just got even better. Our other department describes television episodes and films for the blind and vision-impaired. They are now shorthanded for the amount of work coming in, and so I am being cross-trained to describe. Which means I get to write at work, for my job. And I get screen credit for that. \o/
Okay, so, I am finding very little time for fandom stuff. In fact, little time to watch, which is making me sad mostly because 1) then I cannot discuss with friends, and 2) because Hulu is being dumb about putting up WC episodes only for about a week, and I am still too behind to have caught up! iTunes is getting too much of my money right now.
That said, I am only 2 episodes behind on SPN. I've seen the White Collar mid-finale second part (whoa, so much goodness in there--CAN I PLEASE BE ELIZABETH WHEN I GROW UP?). And my husband has finally gotten me into Castle, which I originally gave up on in its first season because they'd made Beckett so boring. But that has been fixed, in spades, and I love the show now.
I'm waiting for Alphas second season to start.
Technically, the project of the moment is my original novel, which is still nameless (argh). In practice, I am not working on it nearly as much as I ought to. (I ought to be writing that instead of this post, but I miss you all, so.)
Also, one of my friends was just published in a rockin', amazing, glorious thing called Womanthology, which I wish I had been able to contribute to. However! It is now going to become a continuing anthology series, so I am working on three different short comic-book ideas, in case I get another chance. Also because I've wanted to try writing for comics for a long time, and never got around to it.
Last, I said I was trying to write more spiritual blog posts during Lent. That's still going on, just at a much slower pace than originally planned. (See above re: marriage.)
Over and out, for the moment.