TUESDAY IS RANDOM QUESTION DAY

[telophase]

So: what are you working on at the moment?

Work: I've got to poke through Adobe Contribute and teach myself how to use it, and update a committee website, and I'm sure there's a few other things that escape my notice at the moment.

Home: Work on yhlee's pic, work on doujinshi (both of which are complicated by the discovery that my CPU is running way hotter than it should. Himself thinks he's got a good idea of the reason why, but it means I need to run the computer as little as possible until he can get up here and fix it), story for PBR chapbook*, the Spindrift story on the back burner**, and the Thing Wot I Am Not Writing. Not to mention finishing Okami and Kingdom Hearts 2, and continuing to go trhough my apartment and Get Rid Of Stuff that I haven't used nor looked at in three years, in a (probably futile) attempt to downsize.






* There's no way we can get Project Blue Rose 2 done in time for A-Kon, so we're breaking the "don't self-publish prose" rule and bringing out an illustrated chapbook for A-Kon to tide the fans over. We're not expecting to profit, we're not trying to shop the stories around to real publishers, the goal is to break even and keep the PBR fans happy until we get book 2 done.

** Which may stay on the back burner until next Yuletide, if someone cares to request it then, because it requires a bit more research on my part. But it's completely outlined out. :D

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[tammylee.livejournal.com]

Work: Just finished updates and now I'm developing a new site. Gotta sit in on more tutorials today and do some admin stuff too.

Home: I'm working on altering a php function for Yaoi Journal, learning Ruby on Rails, and writing a short story for a sexy anthology. I was also working on a graphic novel script, my next mini comic, and finishing off a few other short stories but I found I had to cut back and focus on just a few things due to going insane.

EDIT: And I am playing No More Heroes whenever I need to decompress. SUPER FUN GAME!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I've got a few more things I kind of want to do, and have partially done, but forgot when writing the post. Where are my 28-hour days?

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

I'd totally be up for 28 hours days! Or three day work weeks with five day work week pay! =D

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I could totally get behind that!

[solarbird]

So: what are you working on at the moment?

Work: Tax papers. omg the tax papers. Day four!

Home: I finally figured out how I want to fix the first major section (after the introduction, which is 13 measures) of this song I'm still only tentatively calling "Roadrunner" - I won't let that be the final title, but the final one isn't coming to me yet - which is good, but does mean that I have to redo arrangements for three instruments and the vocals. (Fortunately, the vocals are trivial.) As I still do this all in pencil on paper, instead of the sane way (buying scoring software and being able to edit), this is actually a little bit of work.

Also, I have something like six other song ideas to transcribe, and one to two more for which I have done initial work and am pretty strongly sure will be songs, but need to be worked through.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

My finances are still simple enough I can do my taxes in an hour or so, but I expect that won't be the case for long. But I got them done and my refund back already, so that's a plus!

[solarbird]

I have never, ever, not even once, been able to file anything shorter than the 1040 long form and a little calliope of itemisation forms. At this point, I spent three to four days on prep alone - I'm audit-bait, so I document everything - and then go spend two to three hours with an accountant, who then spends another three to four hours validating the math, and then it's electronic-filing and we're done for another year.

Looking over stuff, I think this is the first year in my life I could get away without a Schedule C if I wanted to forego some small deductions. But I won't. Changes raise flags, and all that.

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

Work: Analyze our entire reference collection; decide what ought to be updated, what should be weeded. Decided what we need to buy from scratch (last order was 2002). Rationalize all items with reviews, put into cataloger ordering approved format. By March. Bwahahahaha.

Complete my self review, hire and train a bunch of people, cover the desk, complete my skill building, get conference stuff worked out and learn to tell my boss NO I WILL NOT TAKE ON ANY MORE PEOPLE'S JOBS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. At least, not without a significant raise.

Home: I'm drawing lots of A/Y manga stuff, practicing my inks, creating the life drawing diversity series of posts, and listening to way too many audiobooks. I've been trying to downsize, too, but I've given up for now.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hee.

I've got a bunch of trash bags of stuff sitting by my door, waiting to be taken to the dumpster, but my enthusiasm has not been so big as to do that yet. I got my bedroom cleaned up and back close to the way I like it, but I haven't tackled the bedroom closet yet...

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

Big Brothers Big Sisters called and said they'd pick up any donations, so I managed to get my last pile of sorted stuff out the door to the porch, but that's about it.

My office was perfect for a while, then I had to switch stuff around, do bills, and now it looks like it's been the breeding ground of feral weasels. Plus, I tend to organize by pile when working on a project. This is fine...if I'm working on a single project. But I'm doing more than one at the moment and my piles are now overlapping, for arrrrrrrrrgh levels of frustration.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I got part of my office/studio area done, at the cost of a nasty paper cut on the tip of my ring finger, so everything to the left of and in front of my chair looks good, but everything behind and to the right of my chair is piled with teetering towers of junk.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Work: Two Gekiranger scripts to translate.

Not-work: Trying desperately to find three more stories for today's 14valentines recs set. Planning on going down to Little Tokyo for lunch. Hopefully maybe get some of the bits and bobs off my to-do list now that the deadline of doom has passed.

Ooh, and I got Kingdom Hearts 2 for Christmas and could actually play it now that the evil deadline isn't hanging over my head anymore...

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I'd settle in and play more of KH2 and Okami, but my major problem is hyperfocus, and if I do that, intending to play only to the next save point, I'll end up playing until midnight. Aarg.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

I'm good at stopping when I get to a save point, but if I'm really into a game, I'll end up coming back to it half an hour (or less!) later, so I might as well be playing constantly.

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

Am working on Paper Knives, not that that's news to anyone. *g* Also contemplating using the slow cooker again today (since we bought the ingredients for another recipe last night and I plan on finishing most of the leftovers for my lunch) and teaching myself how to draw at least one military airplane from that how-to-draw-manga book I picked up at Kinokuniya, dagsporkit. (I would've preferred the one on guns but they didn't have it except as part of a $40 bundle with art materials that I wasn't keen on.)

YAY PICTURE! Am eager to see it, and sorry to hear that your computer is misbehaving. What are you going with for the background?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yay slow cooker! :D At the grocery store yesterday I found liner bags for slow cookers, which I splurged n, because I hate hate hate cleaning it out. XD I hope they work. But it'll be a while, since I also got stuff for bento-type things that I want to make and eat first. :D

So far I may be going with the gingko-tree background I haven't worked out if it's going to be realistic or more stylized; that may depend on how the inking goes. XD

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

Oooh, let me know how the liner bags work out for you, when you get around to it. *g*

Gingko!

*sits back and anticipates, in a friendly low-pressure sort of way*

Okay, back to writing for me!

[emtigereyes.livejournal.com]

I'm always amused by your various pronouns and descriptions of Him. My favorite remains "He Who Would Not Be Called The Boy". :)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

XD I don't know why I have a Thing against using real names here, but I do. So he gets a succession of nicknames until he breaks down and gets an LJ so he can read my f-locked stuff. XD

[(Anonymous)]

Does the thing you are totally not writing involve a girl raised by Ekiben?
"Whenever I feel sad I get into a small box, because then someone eventually comes along who opens it and totally loves me."

Yay decluttering! More room for manga.

Oops

[amberley.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that was me!

Re: Oops

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:D

Nah, it involves foxes and China. But I cannot admit I'm writing anything, because then I'll stop writing it. not that I've gotten to the "writing" part, anyway, I'm still in the "stuff my brain and mull things over, letting bits accrete to other bits" part.

[chomiji]

Frantically trying to put together a listing of Black History Month events that are still running for at least the next few days, so that I have at least one event near each of our 10 offices nationwide, before I have to leave for a med appt. that should have happened the morning. Why is it harder to find events in larger cities, like NYC and LA, than in smaller ones like Philly and Salt Lake City(!) ... ?

At home ... nothin' but answering my LJ inbox. I should be writing something!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Why is it harder to find events in larger cities, like NYC and LA, than in smaller ones like Philly and Salt Lake City(!) ... ?

Heck if I know! :D Maybe because everything is too big to be able to coordinate information at one site?

[chomiji]

There's probably something to your theory ... also, smaller places are less likely to generate irrelevant chaff containing my search terms. Sometimes, with these things, if I have enough time, I just go to the webs sites of the primary museums and see whether they've got anything appropriate. But I didn't have time for that today.

I wish these events were spread out a bit more throughout the year. February-March is Black History-Women's History, and then in the fall, Hispanic Heritage, Disability Awareness, and American Indian Heritage are all jammed up together (those first two even overlap). Only Asian-Pacific Heritage, in May, has breathing room around it ... .

[tokyoghoststory.livejournal.com]

planned work for today: finish up invisble lines worldbuilding sheets. i just need a better grip on the setting (why am i such a nerd for intricate settings?!) before i dive into the work.

what i'll probably do: watch torchwood and stare at the rain

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Why do I suspect my "actually do" schedule will resemble yours...? Xd

[tokyoghoststory.livejournal.com]

hahh HERE'S TO HOPING WE CAN GET PAST IT!



also, might i say, an illustrated chapbook is quite a rad idea. i had been kicking around similiar thoughts ever since my friend offered to do a few illustrations based on IL for me (after i complete it though, that's the trick of the whole deal). that was also when i was contemplating letting it out in the world under cc-liscence since it's my fun project/etc. but housing it under my love for self-publishing sounds rad too.

i haven't read pbr yet, but, the chapbook sounds aces in my head!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

GAMBATTE!!

I've enjoyed self-publishing, because I love fiddling around with layouts and other stuff, and learning about printing and so on. And since we're realistic about it, it's perfectly fine - we're under no illusions whatsoever about it. XD

[tokyoghoststory.livejournal.com]

being realistic about it is key, i think. hahah

Late to the Party...

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

Work: Trying to organize materials for a proposal that is being submitted next week. Also, running around like a chicken sans head.

Home: More things than I can possible figure out with my currently limited brain power.

Re: Late to the Party...

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I think there are a lot of headless chickens out there. XD

[benchilada.livejournal.com]

Figuring out how I could possibly afford working on my first real comic...

Oh boy, another chance to vent!

[melster.livejournal.com]

For work: Attempting to get to the right Pepsi employee who can talk to me about our (http://films.cwru.edu/) contract. Note that this is far more difficult than it looks.

For school: Studying the cardiovascular, pulmonary, and nervous systems like mad. Also, reading about why people believe weird things for a (different) class titled Why We Believe Weird Things.

For home: find time and a color printer to print out this (http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/01/23/funny-pictures-ur-so-sweet-nom-nom/) and turn it into a valentine. (Awwwww.) Also ordering a new battery for the laptop.

Re: Oh boy, another chance to vent!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Let me guess: you're reading Michael Shermer for that class? XD

Re: Oh boy, another chance to vent!

[melster.livejournal.com]

Yep. :p

Also James Randi and Carl Sagan and a bunch of other people, with The Skeptic's Dictionary as a resource. It's pretty exciting.

Re: Oh boy, another chance to vent!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Considering that two of my regular podcasts are The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe and Skeptico, I'd probably love the class. XD

[dorrie6.livejournal.com]

Work: Tax preparation super-crunch, as I have a meeting with my company's accountant tomorrow. This is also what I did at home most of the weekend, and the past two nights. Wah.

Home: What I would be doing at home if work had not invaded it, is working on fic for a fest axial_tilt, and trying to get my husband to watch episodes of xxxHolic with me. Also, some sleep would be nice.

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[telophase.livejournal.com]

SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK

Says I, who absolutely must get to bed early tonight because the 4AM thunderstorm woke me up last night, and being short on sleep is one of my migraine triggers...

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Work: Brochure from Hell. HELL I tell you.

Home: Original YA thingy, springkink.