trains of thought, passing in the night
Jun. 23rd, 2018 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingStuff, in no particular order:
1. Things are looking good on the money front. My raise came through as of my most recent paycheck, and while still not very big, is a bit more than I was expecting. So that's nice! I am also continuing to work overtime, probably through mid-July. And I got my semiannual dividend check from Vanguard on Thursday, so there's another smidgen of financial security.
2. I have regretfully dropped out of this year's WIP Big Bang. It turns out that I can write while working a full-time job, and I can write while taking college classes, but the job and the classes together are just too much. This semester is especially bad in that respect because both classes involve more writing and are also compressed (8 or 10 weeks instead of 15 weeks) so each week contains a higher proportion of stuff.
3. I am still trying to write, just... very slowly, in little dribs and drabs. I've managed a few hundred words of my horrifically belated FTH fic, resolved a minor hold-up in the next chapter of "Guardian," and other things of that nature.
4. On my way home from Minnesota, I bought a tube of L'Occitane en Provence rose-scented 20% shea butter hand cream at the Detroit airport, because I was having serious problems with dry skin on my right hand, and goodness, it's wonderful! (I had already been using their little tubs of pure shea butter as lip balm, but I hadn't really tried any of their other products.) It's definitely more expensive than I'd usually go for, but then again, quality and fair trade do cost. *wry* Anyway, I just ordered another two tubes of hand cream in various scents from their online shop, because this stuff is just lovely and my poor hand is so dry it's literally cracking open.
5. Prof C. finally graded some of my English assignments, so I finally have a better idea of what she's looking for. Which of course came too late for me to adjust last week's assignments, but so it goes. This week's essay will now be much more to her taste. :)
6. I think I am going to take my lunch break now...
1. Things are looking good on the money front. My raise came through as of my most recent paycheck, and while still not very big, is a bit more than I was expecting. So that's nice! I am also continuing to work overtime, probably through mid-July. And I got my semiannual dividend check from Vanguard on Thursday, so there's another smidgen of financial security.
2. I have regretfully dropped out of this year's WIP Big Bang. It turns out that I can write while working a full-time job, and I can write while taking college classes, but the job and the classes together are just too much. This semester is especially bad in that respect because both classes involve more writing and are also compressed (8 or 10 weeks instead of 15 weeks) so each week contains a higher proportion of stuff.
3. I am still trying to write, just... very slowly, in little dribs and drabs. I've managed a few hundred words of my horrifically belated FTH fic, resolved a minor hold-up in the next chapter of "Guardian," and other things of that nature.
4. On my way home from Minnesota, I bought a tube of L'Occitane en Provence rose-scented 20% shea butter hand cream at the Detroit airport, because I was having serious problems with dry skin on my right hand, and goodness, it's wonderful! (I had already been using their little tubs of pure shea butter as lip balm, but I hadn't really tried any of their other products.) It's definitely more expensive than I'd usually go for, but then again, quality and fair trade do cost. *wry* Anyway, I just ordered another two tubes of hand cream in various scents from their online shop, because this stuff is just lovely and my poor hand is so dry it's literally cracking open.
5. Prof C. finally graded some of my English assignments, so I finally have a better idea of what she's looking for. Which of course came too late for me to adjust last week's assignments, but so it goes. This week's essay will now be much more to her taste. :)
6. I think I am going to take my lunch break now...
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Date: 2018-06-25 07:54 am (UTC)Has someone been found yet for your old position? Or are you still kind of covering both?
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Date: 2018-06-25 01:36 pm (UTC)We do not yet have a new hire for my old position, so I'm still working overtime -- which just makes the strain on my free time even more pronounced. *sigh* It's nice for my budget, though...