I started work at a part-time job! It was my first day and it was more intense than any other job I've worked, and I've still got jitters from it, but I think I did okay and didn't fuck anything up too bad.
Gonna be nice to have a little bit of spending money, even though it's kind of an intense commute since I'm going to travel back and forth by ferry to get there...
i made the mistake of arguing with a trump supporter online and my god they're awful. they actually tried to argue that trump didn't mean to kill terrorist's families when he said take them out.
ontd_p, you have been the only light in my world lately. I don't really comment much as I don't have anything of value to add, but the political coverage (and dildos) have been priceless.
I'm in the middle of editor reassignments at both of my publishers and it's making me feel like an awful person. Well, one is less a re-assignment and more that this editor is filling in for my regular editor, who's ill, and the stand-in and I do not get along. Every attempt I make to sort it out just makes it worse, gets ignored, or leaves me in terror of what she's doing to this book we're working on, as a lot of her edits involve tailoring to her personal hangups in ways that will likely negatively affect how the book reads to the general audience--and she's displayed a complete lack of objectivity where I and my book are concerned, and comes at me aggressively with these weird preconceptions, presumptions, and downright gaslighting to force said preconceptions and presumptions on me; not to mention she engages in these appropriative, reductive
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Hopefully getting it out into the open like this helps you realize that everything you feel now is the result of being gaslit so hard like that. Wishing you the best with your publication.
I...huh. You just made me realize that I'm still sitting here blaming myself for the outcome of other people being awful, and beating myself up for saying "Hey, that's not okay." So I guess getting it out in the open did help. Thank you for nailing that into place for me. <3
Writing is a good way to get past the anxiety blockers and see things in a clearer light! I've been where you are. I'm sure you would have come to the same conclusion eventually, but happy to help. :)
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I'm in the middle of editor reassignments at both of my publishers and it's making me feel like an awful person. Well, one is less a re-assignment and more that this editor is filling in for my regular editor, who's ill, and the stand-in and I do not get along. Every attempt I make to sort it out just makes it worse, gets ignored, or leaves me in terror of what she's doing to this book we're working on, as a lot of her edits involve tailoring to her personal hangups in ways that will likely negatively affect how the book reads to the general audience--and she's displayed a complete lack of objectivity where I and my book are concerned, and comes at me aggressively with these weird preconceptions, presumptions, and downright gaslighting to force said preconceptions and presumptions on me; not to mention she engages in these appropriative, reductive ( ... )
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