Drowning Nor Waving

I have this coming week off work. Mostly because I grabbed it as a placeholder week off, in case I had another con or trip or something I wanted to do, but the closer it got, the more I really, really wanted a week off work.

That means I have shit to do.

( And lots of it. )

I mean, I also plan to knit sedately in coffeeshops with loud rock music on my mp3 player, but y'know. That stuff needs to get done.

List expires Sunday night! Play along at home!

I don't have long weekends or weeks off or any of it right now, but since the crunch at work has finally cleared and I am now left blinking in my own wreckage?

( We could use some public accountability... )

This list expires Sunday the 20th.

Start your engines.

August 28, 2009 Progress Notes:

"Softer, Softest" (less rank and actually kind of nice working title)

Words today: 1150.
Words total: 1150.
Reason for stopping: Draft.

Books in progress: Daniel Rabuzzi, The Choir Boats; Catherine Bush, Minus Time.
The glamour: I am the head cold, I am the snotbrain, coo coo ca choo. Although fixing a (usually forbidden) pot of Russian Caravan did wonders. I have that funny caffeine feeling in my wrists and I'll probably be too wired to sleep until god knows what hour tonight, but at least my ears aren't crackling like a bad cellphone.

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There. Check that out. That officially takes another few things off my to do list for this year.

Speaking of which:

Writing Project Honeydew, 2009

Write "Parable of the Shower"
Write "Sugar"
Revise "Parable of the Shower"
Revise "Sugar"
Write two SU DVD extras
Revise Above
Agent revision for Above
Write Falkner DVD extra
Finish Lau DVD extra

Must Do

Write Saturnalia up to about 55,000 words
Write "The Closet Monster" (for December 1, preferably)
Evaluate the Toronto Book for possible bodywork

Icing

Start "The Small Dark Movie of Your Life"
Write "The Marriage of the Harpy"
Write "Know Your Apocalypses"
Write "The Right People"
Write "Bachelorette"
Write "Indestructible"

2010

Must Do

Finish Saturnalia first draft
Write "The Small Dark Movie of Your Life"
Contribute my share to "Uniform" (with coffeeem, blackholly, matociquala, and stillsostrange)
Write at least two Shadow Unit DVD extras (so far)
Do the bodywork on Toronto Book if it's doable
Start The Enchanted Generation, maybe?



Homigod. My to do list now spans years. O.O

(Go me for having enough to do to book up eighteen months into the future. Really, this is a good problem to have.)

No, really. Now what?

*wanders around in circles aimlessly*

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Writing Project Honeydew, 2009

Write "Parable of the Shower"
Write "Sugar"
Revise "Parable of the Shower"
Revise "Sugar"
Write two SU DVD extras
Revise Above

Must Do

Write "The Closet Monster"
Start either The Enchanted Generation or Saturnalia


Icing

Start "The Small Dark Movie of Your Life"
Write "The Marriage of the Harpy"
Write "Know Your Apocalypses"
Write "The Right People"
Write "Bachelorette"

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I, um. Sort of did most of my work. I may need to put more ambition in my schedule.

So is there anything you guys think I should be doing?

March 24, 2009 Progress Notes:

"Fanmail"

Words today: 1100.
Words total: 1350.
Reason for stopping: Draft.

Books in progress: Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth.
The glamour: Laundry, errands, copious revising, and death. The death is awaiting in my bed and has kindly stopped for me.

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And with that?

Writing Project Honeydew, 2009

Write "Parable of the Shower"
Write "Sugar"
Revise "Parable of the Shower"
Revise "Sugar"
Write two SU DVD extras
Revise Above
Write "The Marriage of the Harpy"
Start The Enchanted Generation
Start "The Small Dark Movie of Your Life"

Write "Know Your Apocalypses"
Write "The Right People"
Write "Bachelorette"


I may in fact get enough things off my plate to not have to spend this weekend at Ad Astra holed up in the bar, working, in order to meet all relevant deadlines. Here's hoping.

(Sounds like it should be a book title, no?)

I have put my own pictures of the CupcakeCon That Was on the infrequently-used Flickr account. Mostly they are of matociqualas, stillsostranges, and beartraps in various configurations, as well as one very large catbutt.

Primary activities of the CupcakeCon were eating cheese (in both queso and non-queso formats), climbing walls, gothdancing, the Andrew Bird concert, eating meat (in both Mexican and barbeque formats), smartassery, naps, unsweetened iced tea, eating cupcakes, being sat on by dogs, being sat on by cats, and one quarter of a game of very drunken Arkham Horror. I came back one small stack of books and one small pile of kneesocks richer than I left. A non-trivial amount of a sweater-tank was knitted on the airplane to and from, and fifteen (15) pages of Above were revised.

All in all, it was a very successful vacation.

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Since this is a Mythical After Time*, it is unnecessary to say that there is a whole raft of work that I have been putting off until, well, now. Including the making of this list:

Writing Project Honeydew, 2009

Write "Parable of the Shower"
Write "Sugar"
ETA: Revise "Parable of the Shower" (Hah, little story. Nah, nah, why don't you get a job?)
Revise Above (yes, this'll be third draft. After which I really should kick its ass out to get a job.)
Revise "Sugar"
Write "The Marriage of the Harpy"
Start The Enchanted Generation
Write "The Small Dark Movie of Your Life"

Write "Know Your Apocalypses"
Write "The Right People"
Write "Bachelorette"

There, now isn't that nice and daunting? *g*


*For those unfamiliar with the term, it means I've been going "Oh, I'll do it after CupcakeCon" about many things for a while now. And look where we are!

Well, we haven't seen one of these in a while.

( Things to do this weekend so as to not fail at life )

If any of these things remain on Monday morning, I will be issued a big red F on my goddamned forehead. So be it.

And home from Ad Astra. Or, well, I was early yesterday evening, but an unscheduled 15-hour nap took precedence over LJ announcements. Con was good -- both bookstore work and the game ksumnersmith, thesandtiger, and I (with assists from the teacher's-college-beleaguered dolphin__girl) ran to launch Misspelled went very well -- but I came home pretty much exhausted and of little brain.

Having napped, had lunch and done some of my workshop work and e-mail and caught up tolerably on LJ...

To Do Or Bust!
Water plants
Slush
Answer Support mail
Clear rest of debris out of inbox Mostly. Some stuff in there that needs its own attention.
Wash pile of dishes
Run a load of laundry
Make a grocery list
Revise story what needs revising
Call cable company
Log con expenses in database
Maybe rough out an outline for that Hard SF thing that came to one in bed last night Nope, it's been used in the Rama books. Trust not the ideas that appear at 2am between your nap sessions.
Make more roasted garlic oil


Okay. To it, then.