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Crazy day
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]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
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 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 recphate_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
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
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
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 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
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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I don't mind time. This thing slows me down, but I can live with it. I guess it's the not knowing part that bugs me. For the first month, the progress was noticeable. Now it's, well, not. Frustrating.