Thurs. Aug. 3, 2023: Scattered
image courtesy of Myriam from pixabay.comThursday, August 3, 2023
Waning Moon
Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Chiron Retrograde
Partly sunny and cool
Hop on over to Gratitude and Growth for the latest on the garden.
Today’s serial episode is from Legerdemain.
Episode 108: Post-Op
Shelley wakes up to family support, but it won’t make it easier running things from her hospital bed.
Yesterday was kind of a scattered day. I felt like I’d been hit by a truck, just completely exhausted. The astrological predictions for the month tell me I’ll feel exhausted at the END of the month (we will be in 7 retrogrades then, truly time for a blanket fort), but I’m there now.
It will be fine. I have a lot of “good busy” this week and next week, and then I can dial it back. I like what I’m doing, so it makes it easier to push through the tired.
We wrestled with the slipcovers. They’re okay, although it’s obvious these had been returned several times and were just shipped out again. Some had directions; some did not. Some of the directions did not match the slipcovers. They’re a little baggy (when they’re supposed to be stretchy). But they are soft and will do for now.
Yes, I do see the writing on the wall about measuring and making them from scratch. That is not happening at the moment.
Amazon sent back my bad review about the incorrect shipping information on them – well, maybe SEND THE REVIEW REQUEST AFTER I GET THE DAMN PRODUCT. So I wrote a worse review detailing what was wrong with the product.
I wrote to Rye Historical Society saying since I still hadn’t heard from them, I assumed next week didn’t work for an appointment, I had to set my other appointments, and I’d be back in touch in spring. Seriously, if they’re closed or on vacation, have an out of office message on the email and/or put it on the website. Don’t just ignore email and leave people hanging. I know they’re a small organization, but six business days is more than enough time to answer an email. Two business days is the protocol. I suspect they want me to pay them to do the research FOR me, but that is not what I want. I want to get into the archives and dig myself.
Booked the hotel in Elmsford for Tuesday night.
Packed up my friend’s socks, wrote out some bills, and headed for the post office. Sent off everything, bought some more overseas stamps, and activated the post office grapevine.
I had hoped to draft a new episode of Legerdemain, but that didn’t happen. I revised, edited, uploaded, polished, and scheduled what had been five episodes, but is now six episodes of DEADLY DRAMATICS, getting me into next August. Twelve more episodes, and this season will be uploaded and scheduled.
Read my friend’s play. He’d sent me the submission guidelines and asked for suggestions for cuts. He’s got a good play there, and eventually, I think it will run about an hour. But this play needs to run 10-15 minutes, so it needs to be cut in about half, while still maintaining voice, character, plot, themes, and humor. So I suggested some pretty deep cuts. Sometimes it was tightening; other times it was cutting entire beats for this draft. It needs some formatting work, and I’m not sure if that will be enough (and he hadn’t yet written the end), so we’ll see where we are in the next draft.
It’s a really fun play, and I kept emphasizing that the cuts were for time and to fit the guidelines, not because something was wrong with it.
But it took much longer than I expected to do all that.
I need to face that I’m just not as fast as I was ten or fifteen years ago. At anything.
Enjoyed sitting on the porch after dinner. Went to bed pretty early because I’m tired.
A new COVID booster is up for approval, which makes me feel better. I was going to talk to the pharmacy about boosters anyway. Hopefully, we can get them next month, even if we have to pay for them.
Had stress dreams all night, so woke up tired.
This morning, I have meditation online with Concord Library, then yoga at my own library. In the afternoon, I’m taking my mom to the Munch exhibit at the Clark, and getting in my day at the Clark today instead of tomorrow, since tomorrow is supposed to be nasty weather. Tomorrow, I will focus on the program and the flyer for the reading (which I’d hoped to have done earlier this week), so I can send it out for initial feedback while I’m on my research trip next week.
In between there, I hope to get in some more work on DEADLY DRAMATICS, and I have to get next week’s episodes of Legerdemain up. And the following week’s. I need to work ahead. I need to do all the videos and graphics and promos for the next two weeks this weekend, and schedule them to run while I’m gone. Some channels won’t let me do anything. If Tweetdeck shuts down this week to paid only usage, the only place I’ll be able to schedule ahead is TikTok. I’ll deal with it as it comes up.
Have a good one, my friends, and I’ll catch you tomorrow!
