Eyes, math, & beta readers
The weather is finally starting to turn; it's cold in the mornings, really cold. And there's something about this time of year I had totally forgotten.
When it's that cold, I really don't want to get up. I had to drag myself out of bed this morning, and it wasn't pleasent.
So I saw my glaucoma doc on Monday. I'm still okay, eye pressure is still at 14, which is great; I get to stop my nightly glaucoma drops and (this is the best part) I don't have to set foot in the office for two whole months!
Of course, this puts my next appointment smack in the middle of finals week, when I, you know, really need more stress. But if it seriously conflicts, I'll just move the appointment. (I'd rather move the finals, or cancel them, but somehow I don't think anybody's going for that.)
School is getting boring. Yeah, the Algebra too. She's had us spend two days on something I was bored with and knew how to do the first time she went over it. And my pals in class, one woman in particular, are all so lost... It's factoring, not rocket science. But I guess it's one of those things- you either know what you're doing or you don't. And this poor woman is so lost... I can't help her, and I'm tired of trying, because, well, it's frustrating. You sit there and explain things, but the problem is that she doesn't understand once concept you're talking about. I can't teach her that stuff. That's what we have, you know, an Algebra prof for.
In other news, I spent half of yesterday digging through old Mac disks looking for some files, which I did not find. I have a nasty suspicion they're on the Zip disks I still have laying around. Which I can't get at because the Zip drive on the Mac is broken. It broke two or three years ago- no, longer, because it was before I moved back to Fresno- and I've never gotten it fixed. Tried once, but it came back from the shop up north a mess. They updated my operating system illegally, gave me no backups of any kind, and when they "replaced" (they said) the drive, they didn't bother to tell me what the hell it was. Not a brand or anything. I've tried taking apart the computer myself, just popping the case to see if I can read anything on the drive, and wouldn't you know I can't.
*sigh* Want files. And when I get them, I think I'm going to blow up that computer. Seriously. Piece of junk...
Let's see, what else? Apparently I missed beta appriciation day- I don't usually have beta readers; it's not that I think I'm that good, really. Mostly what I am is lazy. But I'd like to publically thank bohemienne for beta'ing Emerald and Ebony way back in the day. She really did a lot of work on that, and we tossed the file back and forth a couple times. I saved the file with the comments in it; some of them were pretty funny.
I guess part of the reason I don't have a beta reader or two now is two fold. One, I don't know too many people who know what they're doing, who honestly have the time. And two, some of my fandoms are really obscure. Like, really obscure. So mostly I muddle through on my own, and six months after I post a story I'll be skimming through it and notice a glaring error. And I'll, you know, fix it.
Not the best system, but it works. Mostly.
When it's that cold, I really don't want to get up. I had to drag myself out of bed this morning, and it wasn't pleasent.
So I saw my glaucoma doc on Monday. I'm still okay, eye pressure is still at 14, which is great; I get to stop my nightly glaucoma drops and (this is the best part) I don't have to set foot in the office for two whole months!
Of course, this puts my next appointment smack in the middle of finals week, when I, you know, really need more stress. But if it seriously conflicts, I'll just move the appointment. (I'd rather move the finals, or cancel them, but somehow I don't think anybody's going for that.)
School is getting boring. Yeah, the Algebra too. She's had us spend two days on something I was bored with and knew how to do the first time she went over it. And my pals in class, one woman in particular, are all so lost... It's factoring, not rocket science. But I guess it's one of those things- you either know what you're doing or you don't. And this poor woman is so lost... I can't help her, and I'm tired of trying, because, well, it's frustrating. You sit there and explain things, but the problem is that she doesn't understand once concept you're talking about. I can't teach her that stuff. That's what we have, you know, an Algebra prof for.
In other news, I spent half of yesterday digging through old Mac disks looking for some files, which I did not find. I have a nasty suspicion they're on the Zip disks I still have laying around. Which I can't get at because the Zip drive on the Mac is broken. It broke two or three years ago- no, longer, because it was before I moved back to Fresno- and I've never gotten it fixed. Tried once, but it came back from the shop up north a mess. They updated my operating system illegally, gave me no backups of any kind, and when they "replaced" (they said) the drive, they didn't bother to tell me what the hell it was. Not a brand or anything. I've tried taking apart the computer myself, just popping the case to see if I can read anything on the drive, and wouldn't you know I can't.
*sigh* Want files. And when I get them, I think I'm going to blow up that computer. Seriously. Piece of junk...
Let's see, what else? Apparently I missed beta appriciation day- I don't usually have beta readers; it's not that I think I'm that good, really. Mostly what I am is lazy. But I'd like to publically thank bohemienne for beta'ing Emerald and Ebony way back in the day. She really did a lot of work on that, and we tossed the file back and forth a couple times. I saved the file with the comments in it; some of them were pretty funny.
I guess part of the reason I don't have a beta reader or two now is two fold. One, I don't know too many people who know what they're doing, who honestly have the time. And two, some of my fandoms are really obscure. Like, really obscure. So mostly I muddle through on my own, and six months after I post a story I'll be skimming through it and notice a glaring error. And I'll, you know, fix it.
Not the best system, but it works. Mostly.