Jun. 7th, 2011

Crazy day

Jun. 7th, 2011 07:41 pm
briarwood: (SPN Brokeback Manip)
I had the most insane day at work today.

I can't really explain, because I don't think it would make sense. The short version is one of our really important servers developed a hardware fault and the morons who run our IT have absolutely no concept of "business critical". I spent the whole day in meetings or on the phone trying to get this concept across. Why me and not, say, a more senior manager? Because I got a double whammy. Not only was mine the only publication due out today, so the only one screwed by the failure, but I was still dealing with the faulty "upgrade" from last week.

I so need a new job.

I'm glad I have tomorrow off. I'm going to meet [livejournal.com profile] krazykipper in Cardiff Bay and, well, do touristy stuff like search for an invisible elevator and spot pteradactyls. Or something.

I have finished my big bang story. As in, final, final draft all done and dusted. It's a long one - I'm actually not sure of the word count because Open Office and Word are giving me vastly different numbers. But it's over 50,000 words. Now I just have to wait for my posting date. This is always the hardest part of a big bang - the waiting to post. I wanna share this fic with everyone now. My date is July 6.

I signed up for [community profile] ladiesbigbang too. That's posting in October, which gives me plenty of time to finish up one or both of the SPN stories I have in mind. One is Kingdom Come which is a Mary-lived AU, prequel to Deliver Us From Evil. That one's almost finished (first draft) but it'll need some editing to make it work for [community profile] ladiesbigbang. The other is the sequel to the fic I'll be posting on July 6. I've written a lot of that one, too, but I'm really not sure about it. This is so far out of my comfort zone. LBB allows you to write two fics, so I might even submit both. We'll see :)

It's, I think, about five and a half weeks since my fall and I am beginning to worry about this ankle. I've given up the crutch but I still have a bad limp. Most of the time it's not painful, which is really good. But I have real difficulty on slopes, and this is a very hilly town. And I can't go down stairs. I can climb up, it's awkward, but I can. But down is just...I don't know. My foot won't bend that way.

Still, it's supposed to take 8-12 weeks to heal a serious sprain, so I shouldn't panic yet. I suspect I'll never wear high heels again, though. Which would be cool, except, it's bloody difficult to find women's shoes that aren't either trainers, flip-flops or high heels. I loathe trainers and flip-flops are really bad winter wear.

Oh! And a rec [livejournal.com profile] phate_phoenix posted a SPN/White Collar crossover for sncross_bigbang. I don't read a lot of WC fic but I do watch it, and I enjoyed how this one mixes the two canons.

http://phate-phoenix.livejournal.com/68942.html

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