Oof! (Work stuff, schedule stuff, writing stuff...and a hair update!)
I guess I was getting a bit cocky about feeling like I was staying on top of not-work things for the first couple weeks of Casual Job (enabled by the fact that the hours haven't been ridiculous), but sometime in the last 48 hours or so my tabs have exploded a little. (The me of not that many months ago laughs heartily at this number of tabs overwhelming me, but these are all tabs I want to deal with in a timely manner, which was not true of most tabs during the days of 300-400 open ones.)
All of which is to say that this is my periodic "I don't comment/reply as much or as quickly as I'd like to when Casual Job is happening, but I do at least keep up with reading my flists" reminder. ^^;
My working hours for the next couple of days...may not be frightening? But it's always possible that they could get abruptly horrifying. Who knows? On the plus side, I'm actually quite on top of my manga deadlines. (Albeit mainly because a translator is turning something in later than planned, which means my deadline got bumped down the line. Awkwardly, writing that sentence reminds me that I was expecting that translation to arrive today, but time zones being what they are, I suppose technically that could still happen.) On the more awkward side, Hal-con starts Friday, so my work hours will almost certainly conflict with a writing panel I'd like to go to (but am not invested in, so that's not a big deal), and if things get truly dreadful work could technically conflict with Maggie Stiefvater's Q&A; that said, the con and the office are really close together, and I have 100% confidence that my boss wouldn't bat an eye if I left for the panel and came back. It would just suck for things to come to that. Let's all hope things come nowhere remotely near that.
In other news, it's November 2 (I haven't slept yet! It still counts!) and I still need to write my minimum of 100 words for
mini_wrimo before going to bed. And I don't count blog posts or comments, alas. But I was in this position last night too, and managed to dash off 400-odd words, even if they a) absolutely don't belong with anything, never mind things I'm technically hoping to work on and b) probably won't get used for anything.
And in other-other news, after all that...my hair's purple! Over the last couple of weeks I decided to give up on the "wait until my hair's grown out into a bob before dyeing all of it one-dominant-color (that being purple)-plus-streaks", so today when I went to get the four-colored streaks touched up, I told my stylist I'd like to book a longer appointment next time and do that, and she was like, "Let's do it now! I totally have time!" So we did. It's now almost entirely the rich purple of the deep blue-toned variety that made up one of the streak colors before, plus scattered turquoise and navy streaks; Melissa thought the green hadn't held up as well, so we didn't put any of that in this time.
It's a lot darker than I was expecting (but then, I hadn't really spent any time trying to envision having so much of this color would look, so "expecting" is strong anyway), and I might try to scale it up to be a bit lighter as we go along, but I'm really happy with it. *^^* I've wanted purple hair all my life, and I finally have it.
This time we're waiting two months before I go back again. We'll see how it holds up!
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All of which is to say that this is my periodic "I don't comment/reply as much or as quickly as I'd like to when Casual Job is happening, but I do at least keep up with reading my flists" reminder. ^^;
My working hours for the next couple of days...may not be frightening? But it's always possible that they could get abruptly horrifying. Who knows? On the plus side, I'm actually quite on top of my manga deadlines. (Albeit mainly because a translator is turning something in later than planned, which means my deadline got bumped down the line. Awkwardly, writing that sentence reminds me that I was expecting that translation to arrive today, but time zones being what they are, I suppose technically that could still happen.) On the more awkward side, Hal-con starts Friday, so my work hours will almost certainly conflict with a writing panel I'd like to go to (but am not invested in, so that's not a big deal), and if things get truly dreadful work could technically conflict with Maggie Stiefvater's Q&A; that said, the con and the office are really close together, and I have 100% confidence that my boss wouldn't bat an eye if I left for the panel and came back. It would just suck for things to come to that. Let's all hope things come nowhere remotely near that.
In other news, it's November 2 (I haven't slept yet! It still counts!) and I still need to write my minimum of 100 words for
mini_wrimo before going to bed. And I don't count blog posts or comments, alas. But I was in this position last night too, and managed to dash off 400-odd words, even if they a) absolutely don't belong with anything, never mind things I'm technically hoping to work on and b) probably won't get used for anything.
And in other-other news, after all that...my hair's purple! Over the last couple of weeks I decided to give up on the "wait until my hair's grown out into a bob before dyeing all of it one-dominant-color (that being purple)-plus-streaks", so today when I went to get the four-colored streaks touched up, I told my stylist I'd like to book a longer appointment next time and do that, and she was like, "Let's do it now! I totally have time!" So we did. It's now almost entirely the rich purple of the deep blue-toned variety that made up one of the streak colors before, plus scattered turquoise and navy streaks; Melissa thought the green hadn't held up as well, so we didn't put any of that in this time.
It's a lot darker than I was expecting (but then, I hadn't really spent any time trying to envision having so much of this color would look, so "expecting" is strong anyway), and I might try to scale it up to be a bit lighter as we go along, but I'm really happy with it. *^^* I've wanted purple hair all my life, and I finally have it.
This time we're waiting two months before I go back again. We'll see how it holds up!
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