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Oct. 16th, 2014 07:52 pm1. I ran into Melodrama downtown yesterday and we talked for a couple minutes before returning to our respective errands. Her birthday is tomorrow and the smoke shop crew (plus some of her other friends) are meeting for dinner and drinks, which will be cool. :-)
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2. Last night I finished transcribing Book II of our collection of wacky customer (and clerk) antics, and this afternoon I did a final editing pass-through before emailing the file to Boss Lady to post on our private Facebook group. I really should have had that finished ages ago, but I put all the books in a bag and took them to NJ with me in August, so I could keep working on them despite my brief dislocation... and then forgot to unpack the bag when I got back to Ithaca. *headdesk* So I only got back to the project two weeks ago. My wrists start hurting if I type too many pages at once, so I do maybe ten a day. This book took longer than the first partly because it includes more entries, and partly because I decided to scan some images -- newspaper clippings and business cards and stuff that we taped in to illustrate certain entries. Now I just have Book III, Book IV, and the memory book to go. *resolve face*
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3. I have received my books for my college course, and today I got an official email with some tips on how to access the course module. It should become accessible one week before the official start date, so on Monday or Tuesday I will try to sign in and see if I can get a head start. :-)
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4. A couple days ago I went into Trader K's (a local consignment shop) and discovered they were having a buy-one-get-on-free sale on women's pants. (Trousers, not underwear.) So I tried a bunch on and bought two pairs, which I have now washed and will have to hem. This is fine. It gives me an excuse to listen to podcasts. :-)
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5. My Tuesday interview went well, I think, but because of the structure of the company in question, I won't receive any results for about three weeks, since all hiring decisions are made by the main office, not the franchise managers. And it's a seasonal job anyway that wouldn't start until January, with some training in December, plus it's a part-time thing... but I think I'd be good at it and could fit some shifts around any other job I acquire between now and then. It's always good to have more income.
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6. My church is trying out a new hospitality system this year. Hospitality, in this case, means decorating the sanctuary every week, doing set-up and clean-up for coffee hour, ushering, and other stuff like that. Previously those tasks had been assigned on a week-by-week basis, with a lot of begging for volunteers, but that's stressful and inefficient. So now the congregation has been divided into four teams, each of which collectively does the whole shebang for a month or so. I am on Team 4, and since our first assigned service is November 30th, our team leaders have invited us to a potluck dinner on October 25th, to meet and make plans. I have signed up to attend and bring food -- I think I will take the potatoes au gratin hotdish thing I experimented with a couple weeks ago. :-)
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7. I'm still crossposting my old HP fanfiction to AO3, and am not anywhere near done. I'm learning some things about the posting interface as I go, I guess. Did you know that when you preview a story, the preview URL is actually the URL the story will end up with? You just need to chop the "preview" bit off the end. Likewise a saved but unposted draft has the same URL that it will have as an actual posted story. This is useful for making inter-story links in summaries and/or notes. I have also been somewhat haphazardly trying to save things as drafts and then post them all in very rapid succession, which I hope gets them all lumped together in a single notification email, rather than spread out in a bunch of separate and thus annoying messages.
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And I think that's everything of note!
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2. Last night I finished transcribing Book II of our collection of wacky customer (and clerk) antics, and this afternoon I did a final editing pass-through before emailing the file to Boss Lady to post on our private Facebook group. I really should have had that finished ages ago, but I put all the books in a bag and took them to NJ with me in August, so I could keep working on them despite my brief dislocation... and then forgot to unpack the bag when I got back to Ithaca. *headdesk* So I only got back to the project two weeks ago. My wrists start hurting if I type too many pages at once, so I do maybe ten a day. This book took longer than the first partly because it includes more entries, and partly because I decided to scan some images -- newspaper clippings and business cards and stuff that we taped in to illustrate certain entries. Now I just have Book III, Book IV, and the memory book to go. *resolve face*
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3. I have received my books for my college course, and today I got an official email with some tips on how to access the course module. It should become accessible one week before the official start date, so on Monday or Tuesday I will try to sign in and see if I can get a head start. :-)
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4. A couple days ago I went into Trader K's (a local consignment shop) and discovered they were having a buy-one-get-on-free sale on women's pants. (Trousers, not underwear.) So I tried a bunch on and bought two pairs, which I have now washed and will have to hem. This is fine. It gives me an excuse to listen to podcasts. :-)
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5. My Tuesday interview went well, I think, but because of the structure of the company in question, I won't receive any results for about three weeks, since all hiring decisions are made by the main office, not the franchise managers. And it's a seasonal job anyway that wouldn't start until January, with some training in December, plus it's a part-time thing... but I think I'd be good at it and could fit some shifts around any other job I acquire between now and then. It's always good to have more income.
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6. My church is trying out a new hospitality system this year. Hospitality, in this case, means decorating the sanctuary every week, doing set-up and clean-up for coffee hour, ushering, and other stuff like that. Previously those tasks had been assigned on a week-by-week basis, with a lot of begging for volunteers, but that's stressful and inefficient. So now the congregation has been divided into four teams, each of which collectively does the whole shebang for a month or so. I am on Team 4, and since our first assigned service is November 30th, our team leaders have invited us to a potluck dinner on October 25th, to meet and make plans. I have signed up to attend and bring food -- I think I will take the potatoes au gratin hotdish thing I experimented with a couple weeks ago. :-)
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7. I'm still crossposting my old HP fanfiction to AO3, and am not anywhere near done. I'm learning some things about the posting interface as I go, I guess. Did you know that when you preview a story, the preview URL is actually the URL the story will end up with? You just need to chop the "preview" bit off the end. Likewise a saved but unposted draft has the same URL that it will have as an actual posted story. This is useful for making inter-story links in summaries and/or notes. I have also been somewhat haphazardly trying to save things as drafts and then post them all in very rapid succession, which I hope gets them all lumped together in a single notification email, rather than spread out in a bunch of separate and thus annoying messages.
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And I think that's everything of note!
