Tl;dr
Soooo-ooo Canada Post's customer service phone line was spectacularly unhelpful. And mum went to the nearest post outlet for me to inquire, but didn't get any good answer either.
So, guess who gets to go running around town tomorrow inquiring about his package. THIS GUY. ... I think I might get a decent answer at the main postal outlet, though. Unfortunately, it's really far. But whatever. It's an excuse to get out of the house. (And to think, I expected to have a nice, relaxing Friday off work. Nnnnope.)
English releases of Hetalia volume 4 and 5 are up for pre-order now. You better believe I was on that like white on rice. Got my order in and now I'm sitting tight. 8) Too bad I won't receive it until sometime in December, heh.
Man. With all the blog updates, and the release of volume 6 coming up soon, and all that stuff, lately things have been very... Hetalia. This turn of events, I like it. ANOTHER.
Watched the Evil Dead remake with some people from the APH meme tonight. Haven't seen the original, but this one waaasn't exactly my cup of tea as far as horror movies go. Too many stupid people doing stupid things and in a lot of ways I found it more ridiculous than creepy. I think it was the whole demon possession schtick - that stuff rarely does it for me.
Ursula Vernon has a novel out now through self-publish. She usually writes novels for children, published the usual way, but this is her first time putting out a novella (well, I'd say it's a short novel) for adults and thought this particular one wouldn't be very marketable as far as regular publishing goes. Regardless, I am super excited about it, and I can hardly wait to get around to reading it. Except, I want to finish Les Miserables first - I don't do well with reading more than one novel at a time - so I need to jump on that. Let's see what I can do. :D Because I am REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS. The reviews I've seen so far are good, and I always have loved her sense of humour.
(Speaking of Ursula Vernon, I am still bouncing like whoa over the Digger omnibus edition... even though it'll be a while before I actually receive it. Some time in December, probably. I just, man, I remember when she first started putting out that comic. Good times, good times. Good memories. And alskdfjkdf a signed copy, ahhhh. This is so special.)
Trying to figure out the logistics of how to do "fic finishing month". There's no way I'll be able to turn out over 2k per day like them NaNo-ers do it, but I'm going to try to throw down a few hundred words every day at least. I guess I'll just pick one fic per day and go at it. Right now I have 6 things in various stages of completion; two of them are drafted on paper, but need to be typed and revised. The others, well, they're not close to being done, though one is nearly halfway. And then, I also need to write at least 1 fic for that fest I signed up for - so if nothing else, I'm definitely finishing that this month, yes. But it'll be short.
If I add all of what I have currently typed up together, it comes to 24k. Which is nice. It means I'd only need 26k to make wordcount. Yes, that's cheating. No,I don't care. Heh. Most of it is from that big long Nor/Ger fic anyway, which is something I definitely won't be able to finish this month, and will probably clock out to 50k in itself, so.
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So, guess who gets to go running around town tomorrow inquiring about his package. THIS GUY. ... I think I might get a decent answer at the main postal outlet, though. Unfortunately, it's really far. But whatever. It's an excuse to get out of the house. (And to think, I expected to have a nice, relaxing Friday off work. Nnnnope.)
English releases of Hetalia volume 4 and 5 are up for pre-order now. You better believe I was on that like white on rice. Got my order in and now I'm sitting tight. 8) Too bad I won't receive it until sometime in December, heh.
Man. With all the blog updates, and the release of volume 6 coming up soon, and all that stuff, lately things have been very... Hetalia. This turn of events, I like it. ANOTHER.
Watched the Evil Dead remake with some people from the APH meme tonight. Haven't seen the original, but this one waaasn't exactly my cup of tea as far as horror movies go. Too many stupid people doing stupid things and in a lot of ways I found it more ridiculous than creepy. I think it was the whole demon possession schtick - that stuff rarely does it for me.
Ursula Vernon has a novel out now through self-publish. She usually writes novels for children, published the usual way, but this is her first time putting out a novella (well, I'd say it's a short novel) for adults and thought this particular one wouldn't be very marketable as far as regular publishing goes. Regardless, I am super excited about it, and I can hardly wait to get around to reading it. Except, I want to finish Les Miserables first - I don't do well with reading more than one novel at a time - so I need to jump on that. Let's see what I can do. :D Because I am REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS. The reviews I've seen so far are good, and I always have loved her sense of humour.
(Speaking of Ursula Vernon, I am still bouncing like whoa over the Digger omnibus edition... even though it'll be a while before I actually receive it. Some time in December, probably. I just, man, I remember when she first started putting out that comic. Good times, good times. Good memories. And alskdfjkdf a signed copy, ahhhh. This is so special.)
Trying to figure out the logistics of how to do "fic finishing month". There's no way I'll be able to turn out over 2k per day like them NaNo-ers do it, but I'm going to try to throw down a few hundred words every day at least. I guess I'll just pick one fic per day and go at it. Right now I have 6 things in various stages of completion; two of them are drafted on paper, but need to be typed and revised. The others, well, they're not close to being done, though one is nearly halfway. And then, I also need to write at least 1 fic for that fest I signed up for - so if nothing else, I'm definitely finishing that this month, yes. But it'll be short.
If I add all of what I have currently typed up together, it comes to 24k. Which is nice. It means I'd only need 26k to make wordcount. Yes, that's cheating. No,I don't care. Heh. Most of it is from that big long Nor/Ger fic anyway, which is something I definitely won't be able to finish this month, and will probably clock out to 50k in itself, so.
This entry was originally posted at http://yuuago.dreamwidth.org/3315678.html. You can comment here or at the original entry.