daily update, Monday Feb. 24
Feb. 24th, 2020 08:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingThings done today:
1. Listened to the latest episode of Sawbones. Grave-robbing is always a fun topic. :)
2. Rental company office 9am-7pm. Aunt Boss returned from her trip, but worked short hours on account of it being Cornell's February break. I answered some apartment inquiry emails, handled packages, and in the morning fielded several calls from tenants who somehow failed to read the email Maintenance sent them on Friday about a temporary water shut-off in one of our buildings from 10am to noonish. *headdesk*
In other rental company news, we currently have no mailboxes in one of our big apartment buildings. This is because they were removed on Friday so they could be repainted as part of an ongoing renovation project, but that fell through due to contractor issues. (Which I will not summarize here, but trust me, the contractor is a jerk and this is entirely on them.) Now the soonest we can get a new contractor to step in is next weekend. In the meantime, we're keeping all the mail for that building's tenants in a cardboard box in our office, because of course we are. *double headdesk*
3. Finished chapter 6 of A Fistful of Shells.
4. Wrote three 3-sentence ficathon fills. One is actually three sentences. One is four sentences because the rhythm broke when I tried jamming the last two sentences together. And the third I gave up on structural restrictions by the second paragraph and let it turn into a proper short fic. (That one is also original fiction, which doubtless has something to do with it getting out of hand. Once you introduce actual characters rather than just an idea, you need a little space to let them breathe since you don't have the shared shorthand context of fanfic to lean on.)
5. Paid my March rent.
6. Wrote my to-do lists for the week.
7. Agreed to work 9am-6pm tomorrow at Not the IRS instead of noon to 6pm.
And on that note, I should probably finish dinner and get to bed. *wry*
1. Listened to the latest episode of Sawbones. Grave-robbing is always a fun topic. :)
2. Rental company office 9am-7pm. Aunt Boss returned from her trip, but worked short hours on account of it being Cornell's February break. I answered some apartment inquiry emails, handled packages, and in the morning fielded several calls from tenants who somehow failed to read the email Maintenance sent them on Friday about a temporary water shut-off in one of our buildings from 10am to noonish. *headdesk*
In other rental company news, we currently have no mailboxes in one of our big apartment buildings. This is because they were removed on Friday so they could be repainted as part of an ongoing renovation project, but that fell through due to contractor issues. (Which I will not summarize here, but trust me, the contractor is a jerk and this is entirely on them.) Now the soonest we can get a new contractor to step in is next weekend. In the meantime, we're keeping all the mail for that building's tenants in a cardboard box in our office, because of course we are. *double headdesk*
3. Finished chapter 6 of A Fistful of Shells.
4. Wrote three 3-sentence ficathon fills. One is actually three sentences. One is four sentences because the rhythm broke when I tried jamming the last two sentences together. And the third I gave up on structural restrictions by the second paragraph and let it turn into a proper short fic. (That one is also original fiction, which doubtless has something to do with it getting out of hand. Once you introduce actual characters rather than just an idea, you need a little space to let them breathe since you don't have the shared shorthand context of fanfic to lean on.)
5. Paid my March rent.
6. Wrote my to-do lists for the week.
7. Agreed to work 9am-6pm tomorrow at Not the IRS instead of noon to 6pm.
And on that note, I should probably finish dinner and get to bed. *wry*
