I was reading rosefox's post about not feeling like a writer because they don't identify with the narratives of not being able to do anything else/being so passionate about it/driven/attacked by muses. And I had many thoughts! (Surprising no one!) So many they didn't fit in a comment. So then I thought I could post in my own journal, which ok, I know is a ( Read more... )

Yesterday seemed to work pretty well for me, so I'll try again today:

Write the Head of College a memo
Write 500 words of OYM
Set up Ektron training for myself
Write agenda for Status Update
Do status update with boss and bossboss
Do phone call with Head of College
Rewrite memo as bullet points for College - moved to tomorrow morning
Write a Famous Author' ( Read more... )

Ok, so! To-do list for the day (here for the purposes of shaming myself into doing it):

Write up January status and statistics and REMEMBER TO ATTACH REPORT THIS TIME
Write 500 words of OYM (at least) (594)
Write a rough draft of the OP memo for the website
Write 500 words on Nocturne, Pitch or Gulfcoast
Figure out ektron  (Really this should say "email ( Read more... )

Today we had our "school meeting"; the company wide address. It was a combination of State of the Union and Town Hall (complete with questions) and I totally expected to be bored and trying to figure out a way to sneakily play Uno on my iPhone the entire time. Instead of which I remained interested, engaged, inspired and goddamn proud of working ( Read more... )

Getting to work this morning was treacherous in the extreme. The sidewalks are all slushy and slippery! Traction, you are my friend, but um, apparently I need even more of you. Fortunately I had tea innatravelmug this morning, which does actually fix everything. But only if it's the kind of travel mug that doesn't leak.

But my boss isn't in today ( Read more... )

So today my boss and I were discussing his otter pictures (his blog is Urban Hawks and apparently he's pretty well known within the wildlife photography (and particularly  bird photography) scene) and he decided to show me his pictures from the yellowstone trip he took. There were otters! VIDEOS OF OTTERS and beavers and wolves and bears and ( Read more... )

My counter-part in the UK lives near Peter Davidson, as far as we can tell, and the school his kids go to, we believe, is the school Georgia Moffat went to. We figured this all out when we realised we were both Who fans and that he'd seen Tennant in the area. Now he (and his kids) are on the case! I get updates about the taxi driver who drives the ( Read more... )