Wed. Nov. 13, 2024: Many a ZOOM
image courtesy of yousafbhutta via pixabay.comWednesday, November 13, 2024
Waxing Moon
Saturn, Neptune, Chiron, Uranus, Jupiter Retrograde
Party sunny and cold
Wednesday already!
Just a reminder that TAPESTRY released yesterday, in digital formats. If you hate Amazon, there are plenty of other options. It’s even on Hoopla, which is a library/borrowing platform. You can find buy links, videos, and more here.
I have a ZOOM meeting scheduled at the end of next week about teaching a workshop in winter. Fingers crossed.
I tried to be as practical as possible yesterday morning, before recording began. I hauled myself to the laundromat at 6 AM and was home by 7, and the laundry folded and put away shortly thereafter. I went to the grocery store to pick up a few things we’d run out of, including cat litter. Got out a few LOIs. Am pondering some calls for essays. Interesting, since my foray during last Saturday’s workshop was in essay territory, and it’s not a form in which I often write.
Did release day promotion for TAPESTRY. Struggled to get just over 700 words done on VICIOUS CRITIC. Turned around 3 tiny coverages. Scheduled my playwright interview for “Effie” for next week. Got the meeting, also next week, for my mom and I with the health care navigator for next year’s insurance. Then, you know, maybe I can actually get some health care before it’s all destroyed. Got some paperwork from Senator Warren’s office on an issue she’s helping me with. The timing was great; I was about to send her some more information.
Wrote and turned in the two book reviews. Got my next two assignments.
Snuck out to gentle yoga for an hour, which worked out with the recording schedule. Picked up takeout on the way home that my mom really wanted, but left me feeling not so great.
Was basically the phone-a-friend (ZOOM a friend?) for the recording session, which was fine. I read most of one of the next book for review in between cues. I will finish it today, write the review, and submit it with the invoice before I head out for the vaccine tomorrow.
I’m getting tired of waking up at 3:30 with a heavy heart.
This morning, I have a ZOOM meeting with A4A for a couple of hours. Looking forward to that, too, and am glad that I got in all my materials for that last week. I have a lot of admin to do today and get mailed out. I’d like to get some writing done. I feel like I’m missing a page of outline notes for VICIOUS. I remember some sequences which I’m not finding in the outline. I’ve also decided to change the climactic sequence quite a bit.
And, of course, more marketing for TAPESTRY.
As I’m perusing old work, written during other dark times, I found notes about a piece where the protagonist (who is a fantasy/urban fantasy character) decides not to save the town and walks away, because they’ve turned on each other, choosing nastiness and cruelty instead of working together, and they’re just not worth it. That is resonating on certain levels with me. Because the ones responsible for this chaos will never take responsibility for it, and then expect the rest of us to come in and save them again, but as soon as we do, they just revert to being awful again and causing even more problems.
I have one small coverage to do today. If more come in for today and tomorrow, I’ll turn them around. The usual pattern after a vaccine is I go down about 20 minutes after the injection with extreme fatigue (which is why I have to get it somewhere close); then I sort of perk up for a few hours. About 10-12 hours later, it gets bad for however many days, depending on the vaccine. This is Pfizer, so I’m hoping I’ll only be down over the weekend (since I have to be functional next week). I’m also hoping there will be less of an effect; most people I know had a smaller reaction to this version. If coverage work comes in over the weekend, I’ll have to find a way to push through it, because I don’t have the option not to no matter how awful I feel, and I resent the hell out of that. But we’ll see what happens. Just because there’s a deadline doesn’t mean much work will come in. That’s what happened this past pay period.
Grumpy much? I need to prepare for this morning’s meeting. I intend to have a positive attitude!
Have a good one.
