In which Seanan has a fussy, fussy day.

[seanan_mcguire]

Time is broken.

If an apologetic Hermione Granger appeared to me right now and told me that she had been using her Time Turner on my house for the past two days, I would be more relieved than annoyed, because it would explain why I constantly feel like it's an hour later than it is. I have been incredibly productive--good--because I keep looking at the clock, going "wait, what? That can't be right," and then working for another hour, all because I can't believe it's actually that early.

This is a recipe for a fussy, fussy day. Today I made word count on both novel and short fiction projects; exceeded word count on both novel and short fiction projects; answered email; answered Tumblr Asks; processed three chapters of edits on the next Toby book (as opposed to the original target of one chapter); and still had time to watch three episodes of Elementary and take a nap.

I know part of this is my brain going "YES YES GLORIOUS WORD COUNT OH MY GOSH TV YES I HAVE MISSED YOU TV" in celebration on getting home from New York, but honestly, it's weird and I will be happy when I drop back down to my normal levels of restless productivity.

On the plus side, I am home until January. Yay, home.

I also cleaned my desk today! Since I re-calibrated the over-desk "brag shelves" on Friday, this means that my work space is remarkably unmessy for a change. It's cluttered, but that's intentional; I like being able to look up and stare at a bunch of different things. It knocks stuff loose. I need to take some of the things off of my inspiration board, which is getting too cluttered to really inspire the way it needs to, but apart from that? I am tidy.

(Because someone asked me recently: when my desk and brag shelves are "tidy," they contain eleven dolls if you're counting things that are articulated to one degree or another, and eighteen total toys with eyes. Lots of things watch me work. None of them are my cats. They would rather watch me nap.)

I hope you're all having as pleasant a winter season as is possible, and that your own workspaces are as clean, or unclean, as you need them to be in order to get shit done.

Comments

[bunny-m.livejournal.com]

Huzzah for home, and cats, and having the right level of tidyness around you for this moment!

And we're having a couple-few days of almost-sorta-Winter here, which makes a nice surprise for what is actually well into Summer*.

(*) It's actually more earlyish Birak (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australian_seasons#South-west_coast_.E2.80.94_Noongar_.28Whadjuk.29_seasons) as the stereotypical Summer/Autumn/Winter/Spring don't fit very well at all to the climate.

Oh, how I already long for Makuru, though not as much as I will once Bunuru really settles in.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Wow. Those seasons are a rabbit hole I could go down for a very long time.

[bunny-m.livejournal.com]

Glad to be of temptationservice!

[marziek.livejournal.com]

Glad you get to be home for a good long patch. Hope those kitties are enjoying it much. And Yay! for all things progress and TV-related.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

The kitties are SO HAPPY OMG.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

I am home sick with some sort of dreadful thing, which sucks, but on the upside, it gave me the time I needed yesterday to catch up on Indexing, which continues to be GLORIOUS OMFG, and I could not adore Sloane any more if I tried, and thank you for putting a spot of pleasure into an otherwise miserable sick day.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

You are so very welcome.

[lazzchan.livejournal.com]

On my day off, I decided that I'd clean the terrible mess that is our basement and I'm rather happy with the results; my mother came to visit and that set off another cleaning bit here and there. I feel a lot better about having less of a mess and having actually finished a short story or two. Yay for getting stuff done!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Hooray! High-five!

[anne_d]

Sympathies on the time distortion - I'm having much the same problem of late. What day of the week is it, again? Do give the hibernating bears, errr, that is, Maine Coons my respects.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

They are fluffy in your general direction.

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

If you ever have time (*cue hysterical laughter*) I'd love to hear about your inspiration board - is it a cork board? Something else? How do you put things on it, and what sorts of things are you likely to out there?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

It's a cork board that I stick things to. I stick things I like to it.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you managed to fit in a nap - hope you also remembered to eat!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

That is not a thing I forget.