3 things: writing, employment, and college
Jan. 8th, 2015 08:57 pm1. I have a general idea of what I want to do for my Ladystuck fic -- by which I mean I have a scenario -- but I don't yet have a plot, and I don't want to start writing until I have an idea of what is going to happen, however vague it may be. That way lies nothing but madness and frustration. So I've been tossing potentialities up in the air since Monday, and presumably they will land in a usable configuration within another day or two.
In the meantime, I've been working a little more on that still-untitled Jade/Dave/Terezi crossdressing porn thing that I've been picking at off and of for a long time now. It's currently 13,200 words in rough draft, I got past one logistical logjam in the actual sex part of the fic, and now I just have... well, the rest of the sex, and then some kind of winding-down scene, which shouldn't take nearly as long because winding-down stuff is vastly easier to write than explicit threesome porn. *sigh*
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2. In other news, there seems to have been some miscommunication with my new part-time job, since they haven't contacted me with a schedule and I can't access the scheduling app on their website to either list my availability or check if I have been scheduled, and if so, where and when I should be showing up. I sent an email to the person who ran the training sessions in December but have not heard back yet. If she doesn't respond tomorrow, I will have to try a phone call.
I HATE making cold phone calls without a standard script. But it will only get worse the longer I put it off, right? Right. So that's tomorrow's big willpower-eating activity.
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3. In other other news, I have one reading left for this module of my college course -- forty pages of Karl Marx, oh joy -- after which I can start working on the assigned essay. Today I got through about thirty-five pages of John Stuart Mill, which was actually much less trouble than I thought it might be. Of course, that's because only the first half of the assigned excerpts were properly on economics (international trade, to be specific), while the second half was really political theory about what situations might legitimately require government rather than private intervention.
I will probably have to sign up for a class or two in the next term within a month. I should look through the course catalog and talk to my adviser...
In the meantime, I've been working a little more on that still-untitled Jade/Dave/Terezi crossdressing porn thing that I've been picking at off and of for a long time now. It's currently 13,200 words in rough draft, I got past one logistical logjam in the actual sex part of the fic, and now I just have... well, the rest of the sex, and then some kind of winding-down scene, which shouldn't take nearly as long because winding-down stuff is vastly easier to write than explicit threesome porn. *sigh*
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2. In other news, there seems to have been some miscommunication with my new part-time job, since they haven't contacted me with a schedule and I can't access the scheduling app on their website to either list my availability or check if I have been scheduled, and if so, where and when I should be showing up. I sent an email to the person who ran the training sessions in December but have not heard back yet. If she doesn't respond tomorrow, I will have to try a phone call.
I HATE making cold phone calls without a standard script. But it will only get worse the longer I put it off, right? Right. So that's tomorrow's big willpower-eating activity.
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3. In other other news, I have one reading left for this module of my college course -- forty pages of Karl Marx, oh joy -- after which I can start working on the assigned essay. Today I got through about thirty-five pages of John Stuart Mill, which was actually much less trouble than I thought it might be. Of course, that's because only the first half of the assigned excerpts were properly on economics (international trade, to be specific), while the second half was really political theory about what situations might legitimately require government rather than private intervention.
I will probably have to sign up for a class or two in the next term within a month. I should look through the course catalog and talk to my adviser...