This computer, for instance: not in a box.
We're in at Tekko, somehow. I'm not going to question it. I just hope that they processed our registration, too... Now to... make some things for it. Um.
I'm getting faster at bear construction, at least; I made a base bear for a Death Note Rem commission in a few hours yesterday, and it looks fine.
Mental block about packing. I feel like I can't make any progress, and it's very frustrating. Of course, it doesn't help that I'm still playing a couple of hours of Oblivion every night, or reading LJ, in addition to packing a few boxes. I just can't focus. Argh.
Well, where's the countdown now, ten days? Not much time for philosophizing about it. Right.
Edit:
WTF? In the last couple of weeks, two people on the Pit have favorited a super, super-old fic of mine that has since been Jossed so hard that it will never walk straight again. People? This is how it went; there's nothing that an angsty-ass fic from 2001 can do about it.
Sigh. Also, it's not good at all, but I've learned many times over that people simply have no taste and trying to argue with them is fruitless. You can lead a horse to water, etc. (Also in my inbox was an alert to a comment on YouTube about one of my videos from someone who clearly has never seen a video that didn't suck. So I'm kind of globally irritated with newbies right now. I know they can't help being clueless, but I wish they KNEW they were clueless, or something. People who like my videos are embarrassed by their mistakes in the end, and I hate to be an agent of that sort of disappointment.)
Incidentally (making this just a smidge relevant), while packing I found a printed-out copy of that story from several years after its completion, with notes all over the first chapter or two about how to make it not suck. The notes were written before the canon got backfilled, of course. But I still wonder whether a project like that would be fun. Not that I can unmake my mistakes, of course, or deny that the original sucks, but to learn something from taking it apart and putting it back together.
I know it's stupid to say, but I think there's something to be said for breaking things down: "The characterization is shrill, and it's full of padding" vs. "You suck, kill yourself now."
See, that's how you know I'm not an AMV editor. ;)
I'm getting faster at bear construction, at least; I made a base bear for a Death Note Rem commission in a few hours yesterday, and it looks fine.
Mental block about packing. I feel like I can't make any progress, and it's very frustrating. Of course, it doesn't help that I'm still playing a couple of hours of Oblivion every night, or reading LJ, in addition to packing a few boxes. I just can't focus. Argh.
Well, where's the countdown now, ten days? Not much time for philosophizing about it. Right.
Edit:
WTF? In the last couple of weeks, two people on the Pit have favorited a super, super-old fic of mine that has since been Jossed so hard that it will never walk straight again. People? This is how it went; there's nothing that an angsty-ass fic from 2001 can do about it.
Sigh. Also, it's not good at all, but I've learned many times over that people simply have no taste and trying to argue with them is fruitless. You can lead a horse to water, etc. (Also in my inbox was an alert to a comment on YouTube about one of my videos from someone who clearly has never seen a video that didn't suck. So I'm kind of globally irritated with newbies right now. I know they can't help being clueless, but I wish they KNEW they were clueless, or something. People who like my videos are embarrassed by their mistakes in the end, and I hate to be an agent of that sort of disappointment.)
Incidentally (making this just a smidge relevant), while packing I found a printed-out copy of that story from several years after its completion, with notes all over the first chapter or two about how to make it not suck. The notes were written before the canon got backfilled, of course. But I still wonder whether a project like that would be fun. Not that I can unmake my mistakes, of course, or deny that the original sucks, but to learn something from taking it apart and putting it back together.
I know it's stupid to say, but I think there's something to be said for breaking things down: "The characterization is shrill, and it's full of padding" vs. "You suck, kill yourself now."
See, that's how you know I'm not an AMV editor. ;)