Hallo everyone!

[kate]

I have been busy busy busy at work, and not in a place to want to post about most of it (I've become more and more unwilling to talk about it here; not sure why that is, but also short of instrospective time, so I may never figure it out). That said, here's a taste of what my work life is like at the moment:

This morning, I woke up from a work stress dream because yesterday I decided to ACTUALLY do PTO instead of doing the stuff I needed to do for an email I got as I was coming back from the office (yes, on a PTO day...). That was 6:30am. So I got up, did the work that I needed to do, and in the middle of it, the PI emailed to say "Oh, yeah, we're never going to make that Thursday deadline, so let's just push it out a couple of weeks." At 7am. So that was both super-annoying (because if I had let my procrastination superpowers do their work, I could've just woken up to a nice "whew, don't have to worry about that" instead of getting up at 6:30am and doing crappy work), and also super-annoying (because I TOLD her that next week was an impossible deadline with two subawards, but she didn't believe me). But anyway, I finished my two things for her, the one thing for another PI that her email had reminded me of, revised her budget because changing the deadline changes the start date which changes the inflation, and then decided to do a travel thing because I forgot something.

What I wanted to do was cancel the flight I'd scheduled for 4/27-4/30 so I was catching an earlier flight on 4/30 (because my brother's flying in and I want to get in early). But what I ended up doing instead was cancelling my flight for next week. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD: So I called my airline and said, "noooooooo please don't cancel" and they couldn't help me, and to rebook the flight, it cost me an addition $450. So that was fun. I went back to bed. No more doing travel things at 8am for me.

Of course, what I WANT to be doing is working out the romantic-ish part of the hugely action-adventure story I'm telling for the J2 big bang. Of course, I'm one of maybe six people not writing J2 or Wincest (I'm writing Wincestiel, though it's pretty Sam/Cas heavy at the moment).

How's things, dwircle? I realized because I haven't been feeling like posting, I haven't been reading, either, and I went back a ways to check on folks, but going back a month is probably not in the cards right this second. I'll try to catch up, though. <333

Comments

[china_shop]

*hugs* I hope things ease up on you soon! <3

I'm having a White Collar renaissance, having managed to work through my feelings about the finale. \o/

[adafrog]

Ouch. {{{hugs}}}

[silverflight8]

I'm job hunting D:

[nagasvoice]

Madly trying to keep up with work deadlines with a new batch of tasks added, and at home, madly getting spring stuff like planting seeds and repotting done before it gets too hot to do anything outside.

[ilthit]

So sorry about the airline kerfuffle. And good luck with the writing! I've just been navel-gazing and depressed about the state of the world. :D

[kate]

Thanks, hon - me too. :)

Oh, good for you! I am not sure I will ever work through my feelings about the finale; I may simply have to pretend it didn't happen. Are you rewatching, or writing, or both?

[kate]

Exactly. Thanks, hon. <333

[kate]

Oooh, good luck! *\o/* Here's to getting something awesome.

[kate]

Busy, busy, busy! Good luck keeping up with everything!

[kate]

Me too. Ouch. :(

And thanks - writing is going relatively well, it's just... I dunno. Having trouble with the characters doing what I want, which is annoying. It usually means I end up with a very different story than I intended when I started.

Oh, man. I don't read/watch the news specifically because I prefer not to think about the state of the world. Hope the navel-gazing is awesome, though - I approve of that anywhere, anytime. <3

[ilthit]

About the story - I imagine it's better to go with what the characters want to do. The last thing you want is the characters making out of character decisions for plot's sake. I've made that mistake often enough.

[china_shop]

I'm writing up a storm. \o/ I spent a couple of months moping after the finale, but then I started having glimmers of ways to fix it, and I just posted a 35K El-POV OT3 fic that makes it all better (for me, anyway). Now I'm writing a zillion sequels to it. *g*

The best thing about the show ending is that they can't screw it up anymore. ;-P

[kate]

AMEN! But we can write all the fix-it fic we want. :D :D :D

I'm so happy for you! :D

[kate]

Yeah, I know that lesson very well. It's just frustrating because I WANT THEM TO DO WHAT I WANT, DAMMIT. >:(

Stupid characters.

[scheherezhad]

*hugs*

I haven't been posting much, either, and I forget to read for several days at a time, so I feel like I'm constantly playing catch-up on my dwircle. Geh.

My current talking points: I hate my job a little more each day; intermediate belly dance class in progress; still going to the gym (when possible--see next point); I have been horrifically tired since Wednesday, and I'm not very functional rn; all the tumblr because it's easy even when non-functional; got some new makeup pretties; saw my friends yesterday and have plans to see them again Friday. I think that covers most of it.

[kate]

God, I hear that. And tumblr is so easy for no-brain time.

So, different job? Is this something you're looking into? I hate it when work sucks.

Yay belly dance class though - that's awesome! As well as new makeup pretties and seeing friends. Good things, that's what to concentrate on, definitely. <333

[nanila]

Ooooof. That sounds super stressful. :( *tea*

Things are OK on my end. I posted lots of photos of the cat and the kids recently, and there are even a couple of me in there. Single-parenting this week, so in survival mode.

[kate]

<33333 *slurps*

Yay photos of cat and kids! This is excellent - and I will have to go poking through them.

Ack, good luck with the single-parenting!

[scheherezhad]

I should be looking for a new job, but I freak out so bad. Like, I lost an opportunity a few weeks ago to apply for something because I was too anxious to finish the application, and by the time I felt able to get back to it, the position was no longer available. I also have no damn idea what to look for to do, because I have no ambitions and have only ever fallen into jobs.

Dance, yay! I hope I make it through tonight's class okay. I'm p sure my fatigue is due to allergies, so it's not going away until the pollen or whatever dies down, and today it's compounded by shark week. I'm also four days behind on the yoga challenge I'm following, so I need to try to do those videos before I fall so far behind that I give up.

But, I have now made even more plans with friends, after finding out that there are some cool events going on in Little Rock the next couple of weekends. This Sunday there's going to be an India Fest with food and dance exhibitions and stuff, and next Saturday is the Etsy Little Rock indie music and arts festival. So excite!

[bethctg]

Hi, Ms. Kate!

I am moving out of town (to the scary -- but cheap! -- boonies) in June! Excited about my new apartment. It's so much nicer than what the city of Ithaca is offering me. :)

And I have not watched SPN since you left. :(
I wonder if I can catch up before the season finale (I don't even know when that is... ) I'm gobbling up Criminal Minds for the first time (am on season 5).

*huuugs*