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I am trying to think of a household chore I dislike more than vacuuming, and I'm not really coming up with one.
Ugh.
*returns to shoving the beast around the apartment*
Ugh.
*returns to shoving the beast around the apartment*
Jan. 16th, 2019
2 things: college and tax prep
Jan. 16th, 2019 02:55 pmI got an email from TC3 just now saying my diploma will be available for pickup next week, and if I don't pick it up in person by the 25th, they'll mail it to my address of record.
Since I don't really feel like taking three hours out of my day to go pick up some papers in person (even though I think, having glanced at my schedule, that I technically could do so), I guess I'll get it by mail in two or three weeks. :)
In unrelated news, I have my first Not the IRS client at 3:30pm, and I have the typical "oh god I've forgotten everything!!!" jitters, which I know are ridiculous and will settle out as soon as I get started. But right now, I think I will indulge in a little catastrophizing-ad-absurdum, to get it out of my system. *wry*
(By the time I hit massive targeted computer virus attacks and spontaneous combustion, I generally am too busy laughing at myself to keep being nervous.)
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ETA, 4:00pm Tax prep session went very smoothly and I got the client a part-year hardship exemption for the ACA penalty tax. \o/
Since I don't really feel like taking three hours out of my day to go pick up some papers in person (even though I think, having glanced at my schedule, that I technically could do so), I guess I'll get it by mail in two or three weeks. :)
In unrelated news, I have my first Not the IRS client at 3:30pm, and I have the typical "oh god I've forgotten everything!!!" jitters, which I know are ridiculous and will settle out as soon as I get started. But right now, I think I will indulge in a little catastrophizing-ad-absurdum, to get it out of my system. *wry*
(By the time I hit massive targeted computer virus attacks and spontaneous combustion, I generally am too busy laughing at myself to keep being nervous.)
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ETA, 4:00pm Tax prep session went very smoothly and I got the client a part-year hardship exemption for the ACA penalty tax. \o/
A small thing I did today:
As part of tidying my apartment in preparation for Susan's visit this weekend, I typed up a bunch of my paper notes into proper electronic files. This means that A) they won't be clutter anymore, and B) I will actually be able to find their contents when I need them instead of losing them at the bottom of a several inch thick stack of paper scraps.
Some of them I don't have any context for anymore, while others are pretty straightforward background worldbuilding or story outlining. And others are scraps of actual stories.
I have a lot more random story snippets than I remember actually writing.
Here are a few that I am pretty sure aren't going anywhere anymore:
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( Harry Potter - untitled Hermione and Ginny fragment )
(I have no idea where I was going with that.)
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( Homestuck - untitled Rose Lalonde fragment )
(Again, I have no idea where this was going.)
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( Daredevil - untitled post-Season 1 fragment )
(I think I abandoned this because it was more didactic than I wanted.)
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( Daredevil - miscellaneous fragments whose context I have lost )
(I think the first was an attempt at a Black Jewels crossover/fusion thing. The second is clearly a divergence post-Season 1, but beyond that, I got nothing. *shrug*)
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( Riddlemaster Trilogy - Not Compassion (Those from the Sea) )
(This was clearly an attempt to give the nameless Earthmaster woman some backstory (and also assign her a name that seems plausible, given the "Those from the sea. Edolen. Sec," line that... I think one of the dead kids under the mountain says to Morgon?) and try to make sense of the inherent tension of a society where everyone has that kind of unfettered power even if they haven't quite realized it yet. But I never really had a plot, so it stalled out here.)
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( Original - untitled fairy-tale fragment )
(This is one of the seeds of Sunbright and Shadowfall, even though I think it originally started as some kind of sideways Homestuck AU? By which I mean, IIRC this was loosely drawn from a dream, in which the lonely witch was Jade Harley, but I dunno exactly; it was a long time ago and I never wrote the details down.)
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And that's that for my brain-dump. Everything else is either too fragmentary to be comprehensible, or is something I actually do still mean to finish someday.
As part of tidying my apartment in preparation for Susan's visit this weekend, I typed up a bunch of my paper notes into proper electronic files. This means that A) they won't be clutter anymore, and B) I will actually be able to find their contents when I need them instead of losing them at the bottom of a several inch thick stack of paper scraps.
Some of them I don't have any context for anymore, while others are pretty straightforward background worldbuilding or story outlining. And others are scraps of actual stories.
I have a lot more random story snippets than I remember actually writing.
Here are a few that I am pretty sure aren't going anywhere anymore:
---------------
---------------
( Harry Potter - untitled Hermione and Ginny fragment )
(I have no idea where I was going with that.)
---------------
---------------
( Homestuck - untitled Rose Lalonde fragment )
(Again, I have no idea where this was going.)
---------------
---------------
( Daredevil - untitled post-Season 1 fragment )
(I think I abandoned this because it was more didactic than I wanted.)
---------------
---------------
( Daredevil - miscellaneous fragments whose context I have lost )
(I think the first was an attempt at a Black Jewels crossover/fusion thing. The second is clearly a divergence post-Season 1, but beyond that, I got nothing. *shrug*)
---------------
---------------
( Riddlemaster Trilogy - Not Compassion (Those from the Sea) )
(This was clearly an attempt to give the nameless Earthmaster woman some backstory (and also assign her a name that seems plausible, given the "Those from the sea. Edolen. Sec," line that... I think one of the dead kids under the mountain says to Morgon?) and try to make sense of the inherent tension of a society where everyone has that kind of unfettered power even if they haven't quite realized it yet. But I never really had a plot, so it stalled out here.)
---------------
---------------
( Original - untitled fairy-tale fragment )
(This is one of the seeds of Sunbright and Shadowfall, even though I think it originally started as some kind of sideways Homestuck AU? By which I mean, IIRC this was loosely drawn from a dream, in which the lonely witch was Jade Harley, but I dunno exactly; it was a long time ago and I never wrote the details down.)
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And that's that for my brain-dump. Everything else is either too fragmentary to be comprehensible, or is something I actually do still mean to finish someday.
