Thurs. Oct. 26, 2023: Easing Back In
image courtesy of Madison via pixabay.comThursday, October 26, 2023
Waxing Moon
Saturn, Neptune, Chiron, Uranus, Jupiter Retrograde
Cloudy and warmer
The latest on the garden is over on Gratitude and Growth.
Today’s serial episode is from Legerdemain:
Episode 132: Setting the Trap
Details matter. So does protecting one’s undercover operatives.
Yesterday was kind of up, down, and all over the place.
Pebble is shutting down. They are one of the social media networks that sprang up after Twitter fell apart. They started as T2 and recently changed their name to Pebble. Everyone I met was perfectly nice, there just weren’t many artists or much engagement, and I kept forgetting about them. I had decided, a few weeks ago, to stop using them. I received an email that they will shut down as of November 1. I wish them well.
I prepped and uploaded next week’s Process Muse. I drafted a new episode of Legerdemain. I went over all the notes I got from the residency and Nightwood on the radio play and did a revision of the pages I had, and wrote about 2 ½ new ones. It was kind of slow going. I need to get back into it a little more. I hope working on it every day until the draft is done will help.
I’m chatting with one of my Nightwood colleagues almost every day, which is fun. We’re getting to know each other as people now, not just talking about the work and only the work.
I polished/uploaded/scheduled the next four episodes of ANGEL HUNT. I did the social media rounds to promote The Process Muse, ANGEL HUNT, DEADLY DRAMATICS, and THE SPIRIT REPOSITORY. I looked at a bunch of submission guidelines; I don’t have anything suitable right now, so I’ll pass.
I had a bunch of ZOOM calls. One potential client started yammering on about “daily meetings.” Uh, no. When I said that wouldn’t work in my schedule (this is a FREELANCE, remote position, one of several to be juggled in a regular work week) and he asked why, I was very straightforward: Work gets done in spite of meetings, not because of them. A “daily meeting” wastes time, drains energy, and prevents the actual work from getting done. I’m willing to have an initial meeting and, on long projects, a mid-point meeting, and maybe a debrief at the end of the project, but not a “daily meeting.” Either you want me to do the work, or you want to have a meeting. A “daily meeting” with all the freelancers to “check in” whether or not they’re on a project is not going to work for me.
In other words, we are not the right fit. Next.
Turned around one medium and two short coverages.
The journal books and the holiday cards arrived from Peter Pauper Press. They are gorgeous! Even prettier than they looked online. Overseas cards have to go out the Monday before Thanksgiving, so we need to sit down and write them pretty soon. The rest of the cards need to go out the first or second week of December, so we have to block off time to write those, too. Some years, we sit down and write them all in a go; other years, it’s over a few days.
I didn’t feel well enough to go to tarot, although I am feeling a bit better. Getting back into the home yoga practice helps. Although I tried doing one of the regular evening practices I used to do, and it felt wrong. I need something else at this point, so I will look at some other sequences and try them. Had a really good evening meditation session, too.
Read DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa, and it was lovely. It’s a short book, but beautiful.
Slept well, up at the right time this morning, everyone was happy to be fed on time. Did some longhand writing, and some percolating on a few things.
I have meditation this morning. I need to polish/upload/schedule some more Legerdemain episodes, and draft a new one. I need to work on the radio play. I want to polish/upload/schedule another four episodes of ANGEL HUNT. I have to go to the grocery store – I’d hoped to wait until tomorrow, but I need coffee, so I might as well do everything else and pick up my mom’s birthday cake. She also asked for a specific meal for her birthday (her 99th) on Sunday, so I’m making that.
I’d like to work on the poem, find the Coventina Circle file, ponder the outline for the rest of THE BARD’S LAMENT, and the full outline for THE LIGHTHOUSE LADY. I’m looking at the full arc of the Angel Hunt series, and seeing how much of the full arc needs to be covered in this book for it to make sense within the bigger whole.
There are, of course, too many calls, and I need to get some more pitches/LOIs out, since I doubt this week’s conversations will bear much fruit.
I need to remember to pick up the candy I need for the trick or treaters, so I can put together the bags. I’m usually more on top of things than this. I’m not feeling it this year. I considered keeping the lights off and not hosting trick or treaters, but with the houses next door so fully decorated, maybe we’ll have more kids this year, and we always answer the door. We are the only ones in the building who do.
I think I feel well enough to go to yoga tonight; it’s gentle yoga, so as long as I can drive there and back, I should be fine.
It was clear when I woke up (I could see the stars), but it’s clouded over now.
Have a good one, my friends
