"your life is just actually a gross exaggeration of your life."
Hi, internet! Hi! Hi! Hi!
Hi, internet!
Internet, I don't know if you know this, but I just spent the last month of my life (basically from the moment I finished secret_mutant until last night) working on a ~64k epic for xmenbigbang. I have been SUPER BUSY. I have been NEGLECTING SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES. I have been IGNORING THE NEED FOR SLEEP. I have been PRETTY TERRIBLE AT EVERYTHING EXCEPT WRITING WORDS.
(I've not been GREAT at writing words, but I've been better at that than at things like, "Having conversations with human beings who are not in my cube or mcwonthelottery.)
Pretty much it's been crazy, but I'm done now! I am no longer in the midst of writing an epic! (Until I start seriously trying to hash out the plot for the conclusion of what has become a trilogy.) And I will try to pay attention to your needs, internet. I care about you, internet. I'm here for you in your times of trouble. You can count on me, I swear.
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TODAY WAS THE ALA YOUTH MEDIA AWARDS. Basically, I sucked at books last year, so I had to pick favorites from a relatively meager selection of what I did read. I did come up with predictions for the Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz, none of which were correct. The only one that came out of nowhere, though, was the Printz. I hadn't even heard of it. The Caldecott and Newbery both at least went to books I knew of. (The Caldecott actually went to a book that I LOVED and was in my top three, illustrated by the same person as my actual pick. As I'm not an artist, I feel like I can never quite figure out the logic behind picking the Caldecott, so I usually just pick a book at random that had good illustrations.)
Anyway, the Twitter party for the awards was fun. I couldn't livestream because I was at work, so I had to rely on following the hashtags to keep up with the news. I pretty much came away from the whole thing with the feeling that I really need to read Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saen, which won like, three awards and sounds pretty great.
It really just kind of drove home how much I hate my job and my field, though. Ugh. Why can't kids' lit be my life?
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Hm, what else? Well, I guess that dovetails nicely into work stuff. Work is pretty terrible. I basically don't do anything all day. I don't care about my job. Everyone else in my department has quit, so it's just me and my boss and Kyleigh, who is 50% our department and 50% brilligspoons' department. The pay is astonishingly good, though, so I'm kind of torn. I'm looking for other jobs, but who knows, right? Pretty much last week, my boss was sick and I was paid to write my big bang so... I feel like I can't complain. But yes. I'm bored.
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mcwonthelottery has had the plague and I have a tickle in my throat >:(
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There are memes and stuff I want to do. For now, I'm going to take a glorious night off from thinking about crap and have some cake and finish Archer season three ♥
Hi, internet!
Internet, I don't know if you know this, but I just spent the last month of my life (basically from the moment I finished secret_mutant until last night) working on a ~64k epic for xmenbigbang. I have been SUPER BUSY. I have been NEGLECTING SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES. I have been IGNORING THE NEED FOR SLEEP. I have been PRETTY TERRIBLE AT EVERYTHING EXCEPT WRITING WORDS.
(I've not been GREAT at writing words, but I've been better at that than at things like, "Having conversations with human beings who are not in my cube or mcwonthelottery.)
Pretty much it's been crazy, but I'm done now! I am no longer in the midst of writing an epic! (Until I start seriously trying to hash out the plot for the conclusion of what has become a trilogy.) And I will try to pay attention to your needs, internet. I care about you, internet. I'm here for you in your times of trouble. You can count on me, I swear.
***
TODAY WAS THE ALA YOUTH MEDIA AWARDS. Basically, I sucked at books last year, so I had to pick favorites from a relatively meager selection of what I did read. I did come up with predictions for the Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz, none of which were correct. The only one that came out of nowhere, though, was the Printz. I hadn't even heard of it. The Caldecott and Newbery both at least went to books I knew of. (The Caldecott actually went to a book that I LOVED and was in my top three, illustrated by the same person as my actual pick. As I'm not an artist, I feel like I can never quite figure out the logic behind picking the Caldecott, so I usually just pick a book at random that had good illustrations.)
Anyway, the Twitter party for the awards was fun. I couldn't livestream because I was at work, so I had to rely on following the hashtags to keep up with the news. I pretty much came away from the whole thing with the feeling that I really need to read Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saen, which won like, three awards and sounds pretty great.
It really just kind of drove home how much I hate my job and my field, though. Ugh. Why can't kids' lit be my life?
***
Hm, what else? Well, I guess that dovetails nicely into work stuff. Work is pretty terrible. I basically don't do anything all day. I don't care about my job. Everyone else in my department has quit, so it's just me and my boss and Kyleigh, who is 50% our department and 50% brilligspoons' department. The pay is astonishingly good, though, so I'm kind of torn. I'm looking for other jobs, but who knows, right? Pretty much last week, my boss was sick and I was paid to write my big bang so... I feel like I can't complain. But yes. I'm bored.
***
mcwonthelottery has had the plague and I have a tickle in my throat >:(
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There are memes and stuff I want to do. For now, I'm going to take a glorious night off from thinking about crap and have some cake and finish Archer season three ♥