Fri. May 6, 2023: Full Moon & Lunar Eclipse
image courtesy of Clker-Free-Vector-Images via pixabay.comFriday, May 5, 2023
Full Moon
Lunar Eclipse
Mercury and Pluto Retrograde
Partly cloudy and chilly
The rain might actually stop today. Maybe I can start setting up the back balcony and get some painting done.
AFTER I get my work done.
Today’s serial episode is from ANGEL HUNT:
Episode 30: Witch Hunter
An inter-dimensional witch hunter uses Niall as bait to get at Lianna.
I printed out the reading copy of FALL FOREVER for Monday’s reading, which meant I ran out of ink and had to go to the store to get some more. I also bought more Command sticky hooks – I’m hoping to hang some pictures and curtains this weekend.
I polished, uploaded, and scheduled next week’s Legerdemain episodes. I have to do the episode graphics this week. I did the social media rounds for yesterday’s Legerdemain episode, but not the previous day’s ANGEL HUNT episode; it seemed too much like a conflict of interest.
I did what I could to support the WGA strikers.
I re-read what I have so far of the Heist Romance script. It’s a lot of fun, and I’m starting to see where I can tighten things, raise stakes, build a few comedic beats better. No, it’s not scabbing; I’m not submitting or having any meetings about it, and it’s not on contract, or even represented. The first draft isn’t even finished. It’ll be a long time before it’s ready for anything. And those jerkoffs who attack playwrights? Different guilds, different mediums. The intentional ignorance just so they can attack someone is exhausting. I’ve blocked over 150 asshats since the strike started and will continue to do so.
Posted the serial questionnaire. It will be interesting to see who answers, or who even looks at it. I don’t ask money questions, at least not in this one. I ask about genre, length, number of serials/episodes, etc.
Annoyed that the grant money has been delayed AGAIN. Don’t tell us you’re “prioritizing” payments when you keep delaying delivery. You’re obviously not. Even if only processing 10 payments a day 5 days/week, you’d be farther along by now. And 10 payments a day is only about an hour’s worth of work. So put in a few more hours, boo, and deliver the payments that were promised back in February. (Note: I’ve done this for an organization, back in my nonprofit days, and I know how to actually do it, so I’m not just blowing smoke). I mean, I shouldn’t be surprised, because Mercury Retrograde, but it could have been done before the retrograde. If it’s such a priority, put in some overtime, or hire people for the processing. The budget is there. People were already struggling before this, and they’ve budgeted on the information YOU gave. Don’t keep moving the goalposts. And, of course, the “warning” (aka threat) is if we question anything directly, our paperwork is pulled out and put at the bottom of the pile. This delays things even further. Hmm, punishing people for asking for timely payments on the schedule promised. Sound familiar?
Agreed to be the local point person to help set up the public reading for the poetry residency in autumn. I’ll get in contact with the administrator at the museum next week so we can figure out the details. I’m happy to help; I don’t want her to feel I’m stepping on any toes.
Turned around two coverages.
Didn’t get the paperwork done for the second contest category; will have to do that today.
Worked on more contest entries last night.
Today, I get my cast for Monday’s reading, and the assignment(s) for the play(s) on which I’m helping out. That will all get sorted.
Tonight, I’m going to attend “First Friday” where the stores and galleries are open downtown. I’m going to check out what people are doing, spaces, etc. Get more of a sense of who’s doing what where.
Most of the day will be spent on finishing contest entries and making final decisions in the last category I’m judging. But I’ll need to take breaks to do other things.
I do want to draft at least one episode of Legerdemain. I’m behind, again, where I want to be on that. I hope to draft all weekend, at least one episode per day. I also want to get in a first draft of the poem for later this month, and the first draft of the flash fiction for the call to artists that I saw a few weeks ago.
It’s a planting day today and tomorrow. Maybe I’ll actually get to plant something?
And I have to do a grocery shop today. Not a big one, we still have leftovers. I mean, when my friends came, I bought enough to feed 24 people, not just 4. As one does. I have enough snacks to get me through the summer, I think.
So many people are raving about Bluesky, but the more I see and read about it, the more doubts I have. I may be forced to be on it, for reach. But I have concerns. Well, until I get an invite (IF I get one), I don’t have to worry about it. It looks, to me, as though they are “inviting” names first, and then randomly filling in with regular people. Something else that is a red flag to me. Whatever. It’s not as though I don’t have plenty of other channels to worry about. But I need to build a presence wherever my audience lands, so I have to try everything.
But I don’t have to try it this weekend! I can focus on other things.
Clarence Thomas and his seditionist wife need to be in jail. Not only that, EVERY decision on which he weighed in and had a vote that helped pass a law needs to be revisited. The level of corruption on the conservative side of the Supreme Court is appalling. Not surprising, given who they are. But appalling.
Anyway, I’m off to get some work done. Have a good one.
