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neadodsI must give my boss major public props for this: the writing assignment that I wasn't sure was going anywhere has gone into a staggeringly beautiful advertising flyer that landed on my desk yesterday afternoon. And I then proceeded to impress her by calling the client and rewriting the bits she wanted changed to her satisfaction, on the fly, while still on the phone.
This is what I'm good at, and I'm glad to be returning to it. I've pulled a copy of the draft for my portfolio; if the final comes after my last day, my boss says she'll give a hardcopy to my roommate and email me the softcopy.
It is presumably the headrush of that that has rattled loose the cracky little fic that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dune_drd suggested. Look for the draft of that to hit this LJ for comment by the end of the day. "It is a truth universally acknowledged among Academy students that the professors run a betting book before the novices' initiation. This is not true. After centuries of studying temporal mechanics and correcting every possible student mistake, the professors are more time-sensitive than even the agents of the Celestial Intervention Agency. They do not need to bet, they already know. And that is why the night before this initiation, they had decamped en mass from the Citadel to the Mountains of Solace and Solitude to find solidarity and solace in vast quantities of alcohol."
I find myself regarding the Nea Knitalong blanket with more and more ennui. Yes, I'm over halfway there, but it's a project that I only started to use up some yarn and prove that I could finish a project. (Yes, I am aware of the irony of then considering abandoning it.) However, the version with all the different stitches is one that I find myself looking more and more forward to doing it... even though it's going to be so huge that I'm already calling it "Roma" because it's going to be the eternal project. Still, I find myself philosophically wondering if finishing a project just to have it finished and eat up yarn is really what I want to be doing with my time right now.
Although speaking of finishing things, I have a fantasy. I look forward to a (mythical?) day when I can put all the little odd jobs for the week - magazines to go through, copies to make, paperwork to finish, bits of mending - on the library table, and then get them all accomplished and back off the table that week. I wonder if I'll ever be able to actually catch up to that point.
This is what I'm good at, and I'm glad to be returning to it. I've pulled a copy of the draft for my portfolio; if the final comes after my last day, my boss says she'll give a hardcopy to my roommate and email me the softcopy.
It is presumably the headrush of that that has rattled loose the cracky little fic that
dune_drd suggested. Look for the draft of that to hit this LJ for comment by the end of the day. "It is a truth universally acknowledged among Academy students that the professors run a betting book before the novices' initiation. This is not true. After centuries of studying temporal mechanics and correcting every possible student mistake, the professors are more time-sensitive than even the agents of the Celestial Intervention Agency. They do not need to bet, they already know. And that is why the night before this initiation, they had decamped en mass from the Citadel to the Mountains of Solace and Solitude to find solidarity and solace in vast quantities of alcohol."I find myself regarding the Nea Knitalong blanket with more and more ennui. Yes, I'm over halfway there, but it's a project that I only started to use up some yarn and prove that I could finish a project. (Yes, I am aware of the irony of then considering abandoning it.) However, the version with all the different stitches is one that I find myself looking more and more forward to doing it... even though it's going to be so huge that I'm already calling it "Roma" because it's going to be the eternal project. Still, I find myself philosophically wondering if finishing a project just to have it finished and eat up yarn is really what I want to be doing with my time right now.
Although speaking of finishing things, I have a fantasy. I look forward to a (mythical?) day when I can put all the little odd jobs for the week - magazines to go through, copies to make, paperwork to finish, bits of mending - on the library table, and then get them all accomplished and back off the table that week. I wonder if I'll ever be able to actually catch up to that point.
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Date: 2008-03-06 05:49 pm (UTC)And the drums he's been hearing all his life? Yup- their throbbing heads...
(BWHAHAHAHAAAA!)
Oh- can't WAIT for that one now! I NEED a good laugh!