Mishmash post
--Casual Job is ongoing (this coming week may be the last; I have to admit I hope so, due to my deadlines bearing down on me terrifyingly).
--Weekend-including-Monday goals: finish the current rewrite and get it turned in; put substantial dents into both of the next two; catch up on some TV (at the bare minimum, I'm hoping for last night's Korra, the Elementary S3 premiere*, and at least one episode of The Good Wife); get some writing done**.
*As usual, thank goodness for everyone being so good about spoiler cuts! But from what little people have been saying where I can see, it sounds like the premiere was solid? I have my fingers crossed. Elementary remained one of my favorites last season, but I loved season 1 so much more.
**I did go ahead and sign up for
mini_wrimo, committing to 250 words per day. Meanwhile, over at ushobwri, the Miserable Fucks November Social has kicked off in honor of our dearly-departed WriSoMiFu. So I have daily check-ins to do at both comms, and the idea for NoSo is to write for a minimum of ten minutes a day. I can do this, right? Even with Casual Job still hanging over me? (Yes. *determined*)
--And then there's the stuff I'm not doing, which most significantly means Yuletide. Seeing people's Dear Yulegoat letters has continued to be awesome, and now there's the general excitement of people getting their assignments, and it's all great. *^^* Fandom FTW!
This offer is on hold until Casual Job wraps up, but once that happens and I get my deadlines more under control, people on my flists can feel free to ping me for beta work. The main restriction there is that if you're writing for a canon that's on my to-read/to-watch list, I may decline due to my spoiler avoidance. But for many canons I should be available for a SPAG check, at the very least.
--My geekiest joy of the past week is that Seanan's upcoming novella from Subterranean Press, Rolling in the Deep, became available for pre-order. It's a signed limited edition, and most importantly, it's about mermaids...and it's coming out under the Mira Grant name. MIRA GRANT MERMAIDS. Coming in April!
(Okay, I'm also pretty damn excited that she tweeted about the new Newsflesh novel's first draft hitting the 40,500-word mark, thus becoming Officially A Novel.)
--Between the new novella and a somewhat alarming Amazon order (How to Train Your Dragon [DVD], Black Rose Alice 2 [manga], A Bride's Story 6 [manga], Yes Please! [Amy Poehler's book], Every Breath [novel], Blue Lily, Lily Blue [the third Raven Cycle novel], and The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People [anthology]), I had an expensive day earlier this week. I attempted to make myself feel a bit better about the cash outlay by remembering (for the first time in several months) to hit up the library's "Suggestions for Purchase" page and make ten purchase requests (the monthly maximum), thus clearing a bunch more things off my Amazon wishlist.
--Question for the Due South fans: there are two DVD sets on Amazon which claim to be the full series. The "complete series" set has 67 episodes, and the "ultimate collection" (the pricier/harder-to-get one) has 68 episodes. What's the 68th? An unaired pilot or something? (Is it like the Twin Peaks DVD nonsense I've heard about secondhand, where the main series DVD set doesn't have the pilot at all, or something like that? Or like Farscape having a movie or something you have to pick up separately?) (Note that I've never seen Due South or Twin Peaks or Farscape, although I do own Farscape, if not that separate movie [?] DVD. Yet.)
--Oooh. While poking at my DVD wishlist to check those links, I found that Amazon's currently offering series 1 of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries for $18 instead of $50-odd. *pounces* AND series 1 of The Fall, which I've been price-stalking for months, is down to $19 instead of around $40.
(And that sort of thing would be why so many of my to-watch shows are sitting patiently on the shelf as DVD sets. For lo, I price-stalk with great patience sometimes. ^^;)
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--Weekend-including-Monday goals: finish the current rewrite and get it turned in; put substantial dents into both of the next two; catch up on some TV (at the bare minimum, I'm hoping for last night's Korra, the Elementary S3 premiere*, and at least one episode of The Good Wife); get some writing done**.
*As usual, thank goodness for everyone being so good about spoiler cuts! But from what little people have been saying where I can see, it sounds like the premiere was solid? I have my fingers crossed. Elementary remained one of my favorites last season, but I loved season 1 so much more.
**I did go ahead and sign up for
mini_wrimo, committing to 250 words per day. Meanwhile, over at ushobwri, the Miserable Fucks November Social has kicked off in honor of our dearly-departed WriSoMiFu. So I have daily check-ins to do at both comms, and the idea for NoSo is to write for a minimum of ten minutes a day. I can do this, right? Even with Casual Job still hanging over me? (Yes. *determined*)
--And then there's the stuff I'm not doing, which most significantly means Yuletide. Seeing people's Dear Yulegoat letters has continued to be awesome, and now there's the general excitement of people getting their assignments, and it's all great. *^^* Fandom FTW!
This offer is on hold until Casual Job wraps up, but once that happens and I get my deadlines more under control, people on my flists can feel free to ping me for beta work. The main restriction there is that if you're writing for a canon that's on my to-read/to-watch list, I may decline due to my spoiler avoidance. But for many canons I should be available for a SPAG check, at the very least.
--My geekiest joy of the past week is that Seanan's upcoming novella from Subterranean Press, Rolling in the Deep, became available for pre-order. It's a signed limited edition, and most importantly, it's about mermaids...and it's coming out under the Mira Grant name. MIRA GRANT MERMAIDS. Coming in April!
(Okay, I'm also pretty damn excited that she tweeted about the new Newsflesh novel's first draft hitting the 40,500-word mark, thus becoming Officially A Novel.)
--Between the new novella and a somewhat alarming Amazon order (How to Train Your Dragon [DVD], Black Rose Alice 2 [manga], A Bride's Story 6 [manga], Yes Please! [Amy Poehler's book], Every Breath [novel], Blue Lily, Lily Blue [the third Raven Cycle novel], and The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People [anthology]), I had an expensive day earlier this week. I attempted to make myself feel a bit better about the cash outlay by remembering (for the first time in several months) to hit up the library's "Suggestions for Purchase" page and make ten purchase requests (the monthly maximum), thus clearing a bunch more things off my Amazon wishlist.
--Question for the Due South fans: there are two DVD sets on Amazon which claim to be the full series. The "complete series" set has 67 episodes, and the "ultimate collection" (the pricier/harder-to-get one) has 68 episodes. What's the 68th? An unaired pilot or something? (Is it like the Twin Peaks DVD nonsense I've heard about secondhand, where the main series DVD set doesn't have the pilot at all, or something like that? Or like Farscape having a movie or something you have to pick up separately?) (Note that I've never seen Due South or Twin Peaks or Farscape, although I do own Farscape, if not that separate movie [?] DVD. Yet.)
--Oooh. While poking at my DVD wishlist to check those links, I found that Amazon's currently offering series 1 of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries for $18 instead of $50-odd. *pounces* AND series 1 of The Fall, which I've been price-stalking for months, is down to $19 instead of around $40.
(And that sort of thing would be why so many of my to-watch shows are sitting patiently on the shelf as DVD sets. For lo, I price-stalk with great patience sometimes. ^^;)
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/556636.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW: