End-of-weekend mishmash post: state of the brain, book purchasing woes, and finishing Parks & Rec
--State of the brain: I'm not quite feeling overwhelmed right now, but I'm teetering on the edge of it. (This is small in the grand scheme, but the fact that I'm trying to decide if my brain wiring will let me get away with even partial tab bankruptcy is kinda telling.) I feel behind on everything, even the things I'm just plain not behind on; more on this later, maybe. Maybe not.
--No doubt relatedly, today I was writing an email and looked at the calendar and saw that Casual Job starts back up in about two and a half weeks. As always, I'm reminding myself--frequently--that the stress of waiting for it to start is always worse than the stress of it happening. When the schedule gets frazzling, at least I'm already doing all I can and getting through it. And it'll be great to see my co-worders. ^_^
--I have not yet read Pocket Apocalypse, as some of you know. I preordered it from Amazon.ca, and not only did it not ship immediately but when I checked a couple of days ago the site claimed it'd ship in 2-4 weeks. >.< So last night I ordered it again from Chapters/Indigo, figuring it'd probably ship sooner and I could cancel the Amazon order, and indeed, it shipped today. *fidgets* At least Amazon makes it really easy to cancel an order, although "If I want a book badly enough to preorder it, I might also like to know when doing so if you won't be able to provide it FOR UP TO A MONTH" wasn't an option under "why did you cancel this order?", so I went with "other". *drama queen sigh* (I mean, I would've found a more polite way than that to explain why I took my business elsewhere, had they provided me with a comment field, but the "item would not have arrived in time" option just didn't cover it. [EDIT: I only actually preordered the book a couple days before the release date, but logically, most preorders probably happen further in advance, when they wouldn't have known yet that there'd be a distribution problem. But it would be nice if they'd put a note on the actual book page saying it might take a while to ship as soon as they know--which they probably did by two days prior--instead of waiting until the release date.])
Obviously--since this is one of my favorite series by my favorite author--I really, really want to read the book. When I read Half-Off Ragnarok I didn't fall for Alex the way I did for Verity or Antimony, but I still loved getting back to the world, and I was very psyched to go straight from my Half-Off Ragnarok reread to Alex's Adventures in Australia Pocket Apocalypse. But the other frustrating thing is that, as I've said around Seanan's other release dates, I really want my purchase to count towards her first-week sales, and the order is three copies: mine and Kas' and
wildpear's. :/ And I don't know what it means for those first-week numbers if a book is preordered but then doesn't ship (or get paid for) until a couple of weeks later. But last night's order should hopefully have gotten us in under the wire!
--In the meantime, over the past few days I finally finished watching Parks and Recreation. I'll miss the show awfully, but the finale was beautifully executed and really highlighted all the great things about the series and the characters. I feel like it pulled off perfectly something similar in feel to what Warehouse 13 tried to do with its series finale, except that IMO W13 didn't come close to sticking the landing. (Still ignoring 95% of season 5, yep.)
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--No doubt relatedly, today I was writing an email and looked at the calendar and saw that Casual Job starts back up in about two and a half weeks. As always, I'm reminding myself--frequently--that the stress of waiting for it to start is always worse than the stress of it happening. When the schedule gets frazzling, at least I'm already doing all I can and getting through it. And it'll be great to see my co-worders. ^_^
--I have not yet read Pocket Apocalypse, as some of you know. I preordered it from Amazon.ca, and not only did it not ship immediately but when I checked a couple of days ago the site claimed it'd ship in 2-4 weeks. >.< So last night I ordered it again from Chapters/Indigo, figuring it'd probably ship sooner and I could cancel the Amazon order, and indeed, it shipped today. *fidgets* At least Amazon makes it really easy to cancel an order, although "If I want a book badly enough to preorder it, I might also like to know when doing so if you won't be able to provide it FOR UP TO A MONTH" wasn't an option under "why did you cancel this order?", so I went with "other". *drama queen sigh* (I mean, I would've found a more polite way than that to explain why I took my business elsewhere, had they provided me with a comment field, but the "item would not have arrived in time" option just didn't cover it. [EDIT: I only actually preordered the book a couple days before the release date, but logically, most preorders probably happen further in advance, when they wouldn't have known yet that there'd be a distribution problem. But it would be nice if they'd put a note on the actual book page saying it might take a while to ship as soon as they know--which they probably did by two days prior--instead of waiting until the release date.])
Obviously--since this is one of my favorite series by my favorite author--I really, really want to read the book. When I read Half-Off Ragnarok I didn't fall for Alex the way I did for Verity or Antimony, but I still loved getting back to the world, and I was very psyched to go straight from my Half-Off Ragnarok reread to Alex's Adventures in Australia Pocket Apocalypse. But the other frustrating thing is that, as I've said around Seanan's other release dates, I really want my purchase to count towards her first-week sales, and the order is three copies: mine and Kas' and
wildpear's. :/ And I don't know what it means for those first-week numbers if a book is preordered but then doesn't ship (or get paid for) until a couple of weeks later. But last night's order should hopefully have gotten us in under the wire!
--In the meantime, over the past few days I finally finished watching Parks and Recreation. I'll miss the show awfully, but the finale was beautifully executed and really highlighted all the great things about the series and the characters. I feel like it pulled off perfectly something similar in feel to what Warehouse 13 tried to do with its series finale, except that IMO W13 didn't come close to sticking the landing. (Still ignoring 95% of season 5, yep.)
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