How does a week get this chaotic when you never leave the house?: seanan

How does a week get this chaotic when you never leave the house?

So last weekend was Emerald City Comic Con. Lots of fun stuff there, lots of big things coming from some of our favorite creators, and lots and lots and lots and lots of walking. Ugh. I spent the weekend in the walking boot, and I still felt like someone had been beating my left foot and ankle with iron bars by the time it was all over. I had a great time; I can't wait for next year; I got home in dire need of a nap. That has basically been my week: "Seanan is in dire need of a nap."

As always happens when I'm sleep-deprived, pretty much anything that wasn't word count or absolutely essential business has fallen by the wayside. I'm behind on email, LJ comments, various accounting bits...everything. I managed to book my tickets to Europe (I'm going to DISNEYLAND PARIS!) and continue dealing with my taxes, but everything else? Hoo nelly, no. It's all been put off until I could say, with sincerity, "I am awake, and will not accidentally slice my fingers off."

On the plus side, I'm staying current with word count, and I'm on track to finish A Red-Rose Chain (aka "Toby book nine") this month, allowing me to get it off to the Machete Squad and move on to the next items on my list. I will never finish the list. The list is an endless road stretching off into the ever-moving future. But the list is a guide and a map and a benediction, and nothing makes me happier than knowing that it's always growing. I'll reach the end when I die.

Also on the plus side, I have finished copies of Sparrow Hill Road and Robot Uprisings, and they're both gorgeous. I have now filled two long shelves just with books I've written, and I'm about to have to rearrange my shelves again. So I'm doing okay at my job.

How's everybody else?

(Comment amnesty is on. I genuinely want to know how you are, but I don't want to put myself any further behind than I already am.)

martianmooncrab

April 5 2014, 17:35:24 UTC 3 years ago

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hopefully, I will get outside and work in the yard, and the garden. I have plants to plant and weeds to pull. I will faithfully ignore the mess in the house.

dragonsong

April 5 2014, 17:37:58 UTC 3 years ago

Good! Marathoning the 90's Pokemon cartoon on Netflix, and alternately feeling delightfully nostalgic and wishing someone would wallop Ash upside the head. :P Misty still fills me with glee.

Hope things relax soon so you can get caught up!

geekhyena

April 5 2014, 18:31:41 UTC 3 years ago

Oh that is such an awesome nostalgic cartoon! I did not realize it was on Netflix. *adds to 'to watch' list*

dormouse_in_tea

April 5 2014, 17:53:17 UTC 3 years ago

My brain is attempting to tell me that translating Macbeth into Latin would be a SPLENDID way to practice the language.

So I'm pretty as usual, my brain hates me and wants me to die!

seanan_mcguire

April 23 2014, 20:20:33 UTC 3 years ago

But your brain is also RIGHT.

3 years ago

elliemurasaki

April 5 2014, 17:55:19 UTC 3 years ago

I haven't written a word for Camp NaNoWriMo. This frustrates me no end. On the other hand, first week of term went splendidly and there's finally forward motion on the Atheism Plus nonprofit again.

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April 5 2014, 18:32:29 UTC 3 years ago

Pens are not really stabby. But they can be used in emergency tracheotomies as a way to keep the airway open, so there's that, at least.

vulpine137

April 5 2014, 18:06:32 UTC 3 years ago

I've been sick with either a cold, or allergies to Texas. Hopefully I'll be back to ok by the time I go back to work on Monday.

April 5 2014, 18:31:08 UTC 3 years ago

I just found out that I got the funding to go to Australia for two weeks for an academic conference in September! I'm just a first year PhD student so this is really a huge honor. So now I have to speed up work on the research that is the reason I get to go to Australia.

ironed_orchid

April 6 2014, 12:29:42 UTC 3 years ago

Wheee! That's great.

lazzchan

April 5 2014, 19:16:10 UTC 3 years ago

In all genuine answering, since my last comment--I have a new job and while the commute is... expensive... it's a job and I'm thrilled (because how else will I fill my book addiction without the funds to pay for it?). I'm bouncing up and down, awaiting for Sparrow Hill Road (so close!) and then of course, the next Toby book as well. (Especially after your description as to what the book would entail on twitter). :D

April 23 2014, 20:21:16 UTC 3 years ago

I missed you two Seattle trips in a row. :(

kriatyrr

April 5 2014, 19:38:20 UTC 3 years ago

Doing better than I have in months. Still not great, but most days are in the range of Okay to Good. Been knitting a lot. It helps. Spring finally arriving has helped a lot too. Sleep is as bad as it's ever been and I don't have the energy to do much, but I still manage to inject a little meaning into my otherwise mundane life.

April 23 2014, 20:21:55 UTC 3 years ago

I am so glad.

beccastareyes

April 5 2014, 20:53:03 UTC 3 years ago

Still in the job market mines, looking for someone who wants an astronomer (or, more likely, someone who can teach freshman physics and general astronomy).

kassrachel

April 5 2014, 21:16:34 UTC 3 years ago

I'm good! Introducing our four-year-old to classic Scooby Doo cartoons featuring Batman and Robin, and it turns out, he's exactly the right age for that. Also the snow has melted. These things are full of win.

listicath

April 5 2014, 21:32:28 UTC 3 years ago

In dire need of a nap too.

I have a new boss who, unlike my director, can understand what I do at work, so she's asking lots of sensible questions.

Which is great, but it's taking up a lot of my time and energy so I'm getting home and flaking out.

Hopefully things will settle down soon.

archangelbeth

April 5 2014, 22:29:49 UTC 3 years ago

Stressing out over kid, who's been stressing out over homework (and limping all over school with giant bags) -- that's me!

I hear Seattle had a measles vector at some of the locations, around that time? Or am I totally crit-failing my geography of where the ECCC is? It was some con or other...

I hope you get no con-crud and that your foot feels better and you get some good sleeps!

droewyn

April 6 2014, 04:22:09 UTC 3 years ago

I heard the same thing. Someone with the measles decided to go to the con. Hopefully they won't have infected anyone...

etcet

April 5 2014, 22:48:49 UTC 3 years ago

for the folks here who do not tumblr, I have narrated the first ten weeks of our hostess' THE BIRTHDAY UNENDING, taking place over there: http://t.co/iNVuaRnOnq

i'm almost done with NEWSFLESH. i just blew up my computer's RAID array and have spent all afternoon with a bottle of wine reinstalling it.

in more prosaic news, I have three, three-week-old feral-momma'd catgrubs, of which I have taken numerous pictures and videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmhxoB_Fu0XVkIzZ-ewd97Q/videos

umadoshi

April 5 2014, 23:15:01 UTC 3 years ago Edited: April 5 2014, 23:15:39 UTC

I've been living and breathing work for the past week, with "workdays" ranging from 3.5 to 23 hours and freelance work tucked in the cracks, but I can look forward to things slowing down noticeably this coming week. I might even have time to get some reading done!

I'm so excited for Sparrow Hill Road. *^^* You have such an awesome number of books coming out this year!

[edited for typo correction]

wombatoverlord

April 5 2014, 23:58:24 UTC 3 years ago

All things considered, not bad. Spent the last week or so stressed out as hell, but that's dealt with; getting ready to travel to Boston for a long weekend with my GF to visit my family. Preparing for eight days of ritual cardboard.

reedrover

April 6 2014, 16:17:44 UTC 3 years ago

Ok, I have to ask - what is "ritual cardboard?" That sounds very family-quirky.

azurelunatic

April 6 2014, 00:32:36 UTC 3 years ago

I figured out some of the logistics involved for having unofficial movie nights at work! The thing where I can operate the big screen projector was one of the major bits.

sdelmonte

April 6 2014, 01:03:11 UTC 3 years ago

I am...

- Reading Half Off Ragnarok. And having fun.

- Getting ready for Passover

- Working toward Ladymondegreen's wedding

- Trying to avoid Capt America spoilers. Just once I want to know nothing about a film. (I knew about the Mandarin last year. Didn't hurt my enjoyment of the film, but it would be nice to be surprised.)

klwilliams

April 6 2014, 01:12:46 UTC 3 years ago

I'm so very happy to hear your list of upcoming books and stories will never end, because I want to keep reading them. On the how I am, I no longer have to commute to SF for work (since I no longer have a job), which means we'd love to have you come over for dinner and a spirited game of Cards Against Humanity.

jealousofstars

April 6 2014, 02:05:30 UTC 3 years ago

I've been doing a lot of research and will be starting sequel to a book on Monday.

Also, me thinks the "Endless List" must be made of the same primordial substance as the Birthday Unending.

All Hail the Birthday Unending.

catnip13

April 6 2014, 02:12:03 UTC 3 years ago

I TNR'd 4 cats this week!

April 23 2014, 20:22:41 UTC 3 years ago

Woo!

solarbird

April 6 2014, 06:29:28 UTC 3 years ago Edited: April 6 2014, 06:29:38 UTC

Getting ready for nwcMUSIC, the geekmusic festival at Norwescon; curtain goes up in... 11 days, 16 hours. Yikes. But this kind of distracts me from:
Not coping very well emotionally with my vision being permanently fucked up in my right eye pending a fourth round of surgery. I'm not coping real well with that at all. (Very old injuries, emotional involvement, it sucks.)
But the Leannan Sidhe album I co-engineered (Mine to Love) finally came out last week. I had first mix on four tracks and most of my mix stayed. That's pretty cool.

So. Could be worse. Could certainly be better. But could be worse.

tikiera

April 6 2014, 07:18:26 UTC 3 years ago

My thyroid medicine is working again (it seemed less effective at keeping the tired stick away when I was ill) and I am so very grateful that I found a doctor would actually test it and not just blame my being tired all the the time on my being fat.

And, when I again have money, there are two books with stuff in them by you I have not yet read, and I have a shelf full of library books, and I just saw the Captain America movie. While Marvel once again failed the Bechdel test, Natasha was awesome.

mearn4d10

April 6 2014, 10:25:03 UTC 3 years ago

The One Endless List is Kin and Competition to the Birthday Eternal. Jealousy of the Blood Pits is it's True Drive. It Is Known. *sagenod*

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