we'll just say that overall wednesday kind of sucked, and leave it at that
i wrote this last night and just didn't feel like posting it, and evidently now i do:
so this morning i was woken up early by an ant crawling over my arm. and then i realized i'd parked on the wrong side of the street for street sweeping this morning, and now i owe the city of somerville $50. i took my car to be inspected - the inspection expires the end of the month, which is tomorrow *cough* - and only got a temporary sticker because there's a bubble in one of my tires and the guy at the gas station won't give me an actual inspection sticker until i replace the tire, because the bubble could pop at any moment and my tire could blow, yadda yadda. so they're ordering a tire (because evidently my car is new enough that no one has spare tires for it just lying around, like they did for my old civic) and i have to go back friday morning to get it replaced.
and! this is my favorite part of the day. (and thankfully not car-related.) my boss and i had a conversation and now i get to take every wednesday in june as an unpaid day off, because this is apparently what happens when business is just that slow but you work in such a small firm that the boss can't "let you go" as a cost-cutting measure but also doesn't want to close up shop entirely. you lose four days of salary. this is on top of the fridays i now get off in repayment for all the weekends i worked (that's paid time off, at least). it's not even june yet and already i can't wait for it to be july.
the first person who suggests i maybe look for another job, i am going to reach thru this screen and smack you. i mean, really, tell me something i don't know.
and i suck at writing group. i like my writing group, i like the people in it, i like getting to talk about writing every other week, but i don't know if i contribute anything useful critique-wise and i don't know if it's even helping me be a better writer. it sure as hell isn't helping me write more.
also i missed the last installment of hatfields & mccoys because of that writing group and i don't really want to wait until one for the rerun.
[that's where i gave up on posting and went to bed.]
in better(ish) news, i'm going to new york for the weekend to hang out with crotalus_atrox which will be fun, altho i could use the sunday to find bar/bat mitzvah presents for my cousin's twins (b'nai mitzvot are next weekend and i have nothing to give, altho at least i have something appropriate to wear) (and i thought i had tomorrow off to look for gifts but evidently i don't), and i am right now listening to my podfic of alive and well (and living in hell) to give it a final once-over before sending it on to podficbigbang. it's two hours, which is the longest podfic i've ever done and possibly the longest podfic i ever will do, and i'm listening to it wanting to rerecord the whole thing and... no, i don't have time. you'd think as long as i've had to make this thing, i'd have gotten a version i like. but no. constantly dissatisfied with her own work, that's me. (except the books i make. those i like.) i'm pretty proud of myself for having done it, at least. and alive and well is a good fic.
so this morning i was woken up early by an ant crawling over my arm. and then i realized i'd parked on the wrong side of the street for street sweeping this morning, and now i owe the city of somerville $50. i took my car to be inspected - the inspection expires the end of the month, which is tomorrow *cough* - and only got a temporary sticker because there's a bubble in one of my tires and the guy at the gas station won't give me an actual inspection sticker until i replace the tire, because the bubble could pop at any moment and my tire could blow, yadda yadda. so they're ordering a tire (because evidently my car is new enough that no one has spare tires for it just lying around, like they did for my old civic) and i have to go back friday morning to get it replaced.
and! this is my favorite part of the day. (and thankfully not car-related.) my boss and i had a conversation and now i get to take every wednesday in june as an unpaid day off, because this is apparently what happens when business is just that slow but you work in such a small firm that the boss can't "let you go" as a cost-cutting measure but also doesn't want to close up shop entirely. you lose four days of salary. this is on top of the fridays i now get off in repayment for all the weekends i worked (that's paid time off, at least). it's not even june yet and already i can't wait for it to be july.
the first person who suggests i maybe look for another job, i am going to reach thru this screen and smack you. i mean, really, tell me something i don't know.
and i suck at writing group. i like my writing group, i like the people in it, i like getting to talk about writing every other week, but i don't know if i contribute anything useful critique-wise and i don't know if it's even helping me be a better writer. it sure as hell isn't helping me write more.
also i missed the last installment of hatfields & mccoys because of that writing group and i don't really want to wait until one for the rerun.
[that's where i gave up on posting and went to bed.]
in better(ish) news, i'm going to new york for the weekend to hang out with crotalus_atrox which will be fun, altho i could use the sunday to find bar/bat mitzvah presents for my cousin's twins (b'nai mitzvot are next weekend and i have nothing to give, altho at least i have something appropriate to wear) (and i thought i had tomorrow off to look for gifts but evidently i don't), and i am right now listening to my podfic of alive and well (and living in hell) to give it a final once-over before sending it on to podficbigbang. it's two hours, which is the longest podfic i've ever done and possibly the longest podfic i ever will do, and i'm listening to it wanting to rerecord the whole thing and... no, i don't have time. you'd think as long as i've had to make this thing, i'd have gotten a version i like. but no. constantly dissatisfied with her own work, that's me. (except the books i make. those i like.) i'm pretty proud of myself for having done it, at least. and alive and well is a good fic.