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seanan_mcguire10. Well, that's that: I am officially out of "skip days" until after March. My friend Debbie rather unexpectedly pinged me Tuesday to say that she would be in San Francisco starting Wednesday and would I have dinner with her? So we had dinner (and I dragged her along on the usual round of Wednesday errands, because there's "taking a skip day" and then there's "committing professional suicide"), and now I have to make word count every day from now to March 15th. Yes, that includes the days when I'm at conventions. I have no regrets.
9. ...okay, I have one regret: I am so far behind on everything I watch that it's not even funny. The only shows I've managed to keep up with are Fringe and Glee, and that's because I prioritize them in bitey, bitey fashion. Because I have to preserve my questionable sanity somehow.
8. I'm pondering a post on the financial realities of the Hugo Awards and the electronic voting packet, but for the moment, if you are eligible to nominate for the 2012 Hugos, and you haven't, why not nominate now? WorldCon isn't getting any further away.
7. Tax time is approaching. This means I need to clean my entire house, so that I can get my receipts into something vaguely approximating order. Oh, goodie. It also means it's time to make my annual pledge to set up a better filing system than "the bottom of my purse is full of receipts and Luna Bar wrappers, look in there." Although my faintly peanut butter-scented receipts are always nice.
6. Ryan is coming to visit! Which is wonderful, and will lead to much hugging and adoration (and also to the dry cleaning of the guest room duvet). Also much doll photography, since Ryan has promised to take some pictures of my unnervingly glossy-eyed collection for the edification of all those who think it can't possibly be that bad trying to sleep in my room.
5. I fly to Seattle tomorrow for Conflikt, where I am doing absolutely nothing official. It's going to be great. I get to spend the weekend hugging my friends, working on the books I have coming due, and going to Barnes and Noble to sign books. Plus the hotel is walking distance from the airport, so no one has to get up at four a.m. to drive me. That'll be nice for everybody. Well, except me. I still have to get up at four a.m.
4. I want to go back to Disney World. I find myself grumbling slightly at my taxes because I know that self-employment income (i.e., "writing") means that I'll be paying more than the cost of a really nice Disney World vacation. I actually like paying taxes, except for the "finding my receipts" part, but sometimes the sheer amount of tax that I have to pay makes me weep for Babylon.
3. Mailing is ongoing! At this point, there are only a few shirts I can't find, and I'm hoping they're buried under the more popular styles/colors. I got a list of inquiries on status from Deborah this morning, and I'll be answering her tonight, but really, patience is king. I'm doing this alone. Any future batches of shirts will be super-limited, because even aside from the part where some people are annoyed (and I'm sorry about that), I just can't process 300+ shirts in 30+ size/color/style combinations in anything resembling a timely manner. Like, it is physically impossible to do that and go to my day job and not miss my deadlines. And sadly, "pays the mortgage" and "makes my publishers happy" beat everything else.
2. I have been playing a little tappy game called "Pocket Frogs" during my admittedly limited free time. I don't think the game's designers intended it to be played quite like this, since I have a very "gotta catch 'em all" approach, but it makes me happy. As does slowly watching the breed counters go to 100% as I breed all 368 possible individuals.
1. Zombies are love.
9. ...okay, I have one regret: I am so far behind on everything I watch that it's not even funny. The only shows I've managed to keep up with are Fringe and Glee, and that's because I prioritize them in bitey, bitey fashion. Because I have to preserve my questionable sanity somehow.
8. I'm pondering a post on the financial realities of the Hugo Awards and the electronic voting packet, but for the moment, if you are eligible to nominate for the 2012 Hugos, and you haven't, why not nominate now? WorldCon isn't getting any further away.
7. Tax time is approaching. This means I need to clean my entire house, so that I can get my receipts into something vaguely approximating order. Oh, goodie. It also means it's time to make my annual pledge to set up a better filing system than "the bottom of my purse is full of receipts and Luna Bar wrappers, look in there." Although my faintly peanut butter-scented receipts are always nice.
6. Ryan is coming to visit! Which is wonderful, and will lead to much hugging and adoration (and also to the dry cleaning of the guest room duvet). Also much doll photography, since Ryan has promised to take some pictures of my unnervingly glossy-eyed collection for the edification of all those who think it can't possibly be that bad trying to sleep in my room.
5. I fly to Seattle tomorrow for Conflikt, where I am doing absolutely nothing official. It's going to be great. I get to spend the weekend hugging my friends, working on the books I have coming due, and going to Barnes and Noble to sign books. Plus the hotel is walking distance from the airport, so no one has to get up at four a.m. to drive me. That'll be nice for everybody. Well, except me. I still have to get up at four a.m.
4. I want to go back to Disney World. I find myself grumbling slightly at my taxes because I know that self-employment income (i.e., "writing") means that I'll be paying more than the cost of a really nice Disney World vacation. I actually like paying taxes, except for the "finding my receipts" part, but sometimes the sheer amount of tax that I have to pay makes me weep for Babylon.
3. Mailing is ongoing! At this point, there are only a few shirts I can't find, and I'm hoping they're buried under the more popular styles/colors. I got a list of inquiries on status from Deborah this morning, and I'll be answering her tonight, but really, patience is king. I'm doing this alone. Any future batches of shirts will be super-limited, because even aside from the part where some people are annoyed (and I'm sorry about that), I just can't process 300+ shirts in 30+ size/color/style combinations in anything resembling a timely manner. Like, it is physically impossible to do that and go to my day job and not miss my deadlines. And sadly, "pays the mortgage" and "makes my publishers happy" beat everything else.
2. I have been playing a little tappy game called "Pocket Frogs" during my admittedly limited free time. I don't think the game's designers intended it to be played quite like this, since I have a very "gotta catch 'em all" approach, but it makes me happy. As does slowly watching the breed counters go to 100% as I breed all 368 possible individuals.
1. Zombies are love.
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Date: 2012-01-26 05:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-26 05:32 pm (UTC)See you tomorrow!
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Date: 2012-01-26 05:51 pm (UTC)Seriously, receipt wise my neat desk scanner has SAVED MY LIFE.
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Date: 2012-01-26 06:01 pm (UTC)Because I'm not caught up on my reading yet.
I only read 7 books published in 2011, during 2011. I have managed to read 2 more this month (and hope to finish a third before the month is over.) I have 3 more in the ToBeRead pile, and 4 more on interlibrary loan request.
I still have 2 months to become "well read" before my nomination is due and I plan on giving it my best shot.
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Date: 2012-01-26 07:58 pm (UTC)So in terms of the shirts, for those of us who have been waiting patiently (as in not checking in because we knew it was still "in progress") but have not heard anything about mail-outs, is this the point where we should be confirming our shirt status with Deborah?
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Date: 2012-01-26 08:36 pm (UTC)It is awesome.
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Date: 2012-01-26 09:09 pm (UTC)I am doing all the achievements myself.... :)
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Date: 2012-01-26 09:53 pm (UTC)I recently got an iPad for Christmas and I have a Plus+ account on *that* device, so I have two entirely separate games going now. :) (My username is vixyish there.)
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Date: 2012-01-26 09:18 pm (UTC)If you're interested, I'd be happy to help once you've relocated. I've already jumped through a lot of the hoops already.
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Date: 2012-01-26 11:05 pm (UTC)The dolls in the room aren't the problem. It's turning them all around so they're not all staring at you while you sleep that's the annoying part...
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Date: 2012-01-27 12:55 am (UTC)Pocket Frogs sounds cute. I want it just for the name.
Have a safe flight and a good weekend!
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Date: 2012-01-27 03:14 am (UTC)#3-Thanks for the update. Still patiently and eagerly looking forward to my shirt. And thank you again for undertaking this Herculean task.
#2-It sounds like this game is as addicting as Angry Birds. *runs off to Amazon to check it out and possibly download it to my Kindle Fire*
#1-Mais oui. :D
Have a great weekend in Seattle!
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Date: 2012-02-01 05:23 pm (UTC)This picture delights me. :)
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Date: 2012-01-28 05:59 pm (UTC)7. Taxes. Um. I have't filed mine in a few years, partly because I have a habit of misplacing receipts, etc. Didn't worry about it, because they owed me money (YAY) instead of me owing them, but that may have changed with this past tax year (BOO).
My hope is that cleaning my (whole) house to take care of 7 will result in resolving 3. Motivation, I haz it.
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Date: 2012-01-29 02:30 am (UTC)The baby frogs are so wee!
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Date: 2012-02-01 05:19 pm (UTC)I adore them so.