Weekend Catch-Up
Posted by Morrighan on September 7, 2007 at 11:07 am | Last modified: October 17, 2013 4:22 pmIt’s going to be a very busy weekend.
I’ve got two editing projects on the go, one substantial and one proof. Then I have at least fifty slush to wade through for both CM and Apex (although, if I get ‘em all done I get a break from CM for a month and I’ll grab more Apex slush).
I have five books on/in the review files. Most of which are sitting comfortably…but the authors are giving me the eyeball..I can feel it.
I have to get back to work on another project for a contest that’s deadlined at the end of this year. Not much time to write another 50K, edit, first-reader it, edit and get it out. Gah…anyone want to volunteer their eyeballs in late November?
Numerous articles must be written this weekend as well. I promised new material for ALL of the sites. And I feel article-y this week, so it’s a good time to get working.
Finally, I have some cover work to do. :)
Geez. I think you’re all right, I AM crazy.
PS – will be writing about the girls first week back at school, as well as catching up on email as well. :)
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Posted by Morrighan on August 24, 2007 at 8:44 am | Last modified: August 24, 2007 8:44 amI’m determined to stay awake for most of the day today. Or even all of it. I slept four hours yesterday, between 8:30 and 2:30. My schedule is so out of whack it’s making me feel sick again. Last thing I need is to go back on the Migraine Motorway all the way to Seizure City. I probably would have been able to stay awake yesterday, if it hadn’t have been for all the bawling I did reading the last two-thirds of Deathly Hallows. I read straight through from 10 PM to 8:15 AM, bawling from about 7 AM on… Oddly, “In The Arms of the Angels” is on the radio just now, while I type this and glare at the book.
I don’t think I like JK Rowling as much as I once did. If you want to cheat, and see why I’m pissy:
The Deathly Hallows Fast Find
It’s not just the book that’s got me going, it’s a lot of things. I went digging through my old Backwash stuff (I’ll be re-posting my Cynical BytchWytch stuff here, eventually) and naturally, found the articles from mid-June to late-October, 2003. Not to mention the articles where I’m writing about Suite101, and…I can tell I loved the place. Amazing what a couple of years will do. I talk about old friends I haven’t heard from in years – probably mostly my fault, since I stopped being pussy-footed and started saying what was on my mind. I’m me, like me or lump me. Still though – the heartstrings tug when I read about one or the other of our strange and wonderful exploits. Oh, and my rather lurid behaviour between June and October. Some of those things..wow. How did I not end up with alcohol poisoning? Or something worse? Wow – I had fun. ;)
And then there were some truly shocking things I wrote – and posted publicly – because of my anger and hatred of two very icky people. I had totally forgotten writing them. I’m well and truly mean when I want to be. To entire grouping of people, because of the few. That’s bad. Bad witch. And then there are the OTHER truly shocking things I wrote, on the red-light side of Backwash. ;) FUN!
Then I found the memorial article for my grandfather (his was posted at Backwash, and gran’s was posted a year later at Suite). Gods, it hurts.
And TDH… you’ve come back around. I hear you calling me. I miss you…
Obviously, it’s time to get back to work and stop moping around. So, who’s got a dungeon, a pair of solid shackles and a feather?
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Posted by Morrighan on August 16, 2007 at 2:53 am | Last modified: October 17, 2013 4:22 pmI still haven’t heard whether or not Rhia’s teeth are covered for accidental breakage/removal and all the work that entails. It’s been six weeks, I think, since the forms went in to the office. I have no idea where I’ll get the money if they don’t cover it, and I can’t send her to school with her mouth the way it is. The bullies have enough amunition with everything else.
It’s not like they won’t know, but at least there would have been teeth there, ya know?
I’ve got about $5k worth of books on my shelves. Mostly pagan-oriented, from the days when I reviewed massive amounts of such for various places. I can part with them, if needs be, but I know they won’t be worth what their covers say…some of them are rather old now, after all. I could get maybe $1k. And I can not part with my DJ collection… ;) Well, I could, if I have to – but it’d break my heart.
I’ve got my djembe; hand-carved from good old Manitoba Maple. It’s a good two and a half feet tall, and weighs at least twenty pounds. I tied the knots on the rings around the top, holding the skin on. It was part of my payment for tying all of JR’s rings the summer he took a truckload of djembes and didjeridoos to the Winnipeg Folk Fest. I know what it was worth the summer he made it, and I know what the sister-drum sold for later on… Hand-carved Djembes like this one are hard to find… but losing it would break my heart too, even though I don’t play it.
I have the car, but that is a catch-22 in more ways than one. It needs at least 1K in repairs before it’s even road worthy, plus I need a car to get to a job, if I find one outside the editing and writing. So far, there’ve been no nibbles on the resumes.
None of the furniture or electronics are worth anything, other than the computer… and again, there’s that catch-22; I could sell it, but what would I do the work I do get on?
There are nights like tonight, when I’m up worrying about the kids, present issues, their future issues – all of that stuff mothers worry about – and I have to wonder, would it have been different, if I’d stood up, faced up and grown up all those years ago?
*sigh*
I hate not being able to provide the girls with better than what they have…
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