wherein Liz is, unsurprisingly, still very busy (and also cutting close to deadlines)

Things done today:

1. Staged and photographed an apartment, plus some common areas in the same building. I also re-photographed a different apartment that had been left staged, because the previous round of photographs (taken by a person other than myself) were not adequate for the website.

2. Had a fight with the scanning function on the printer in my temporary room in the South Hill office. The scanning function won, by which I mean I got no scanning done. :(

3. Continued my project to create clean and legible floor plans out of the often quite janky files in the shared office drive and post them to the website. I am getting this down to a routine, which is both pleasing and slightly worrying.

4. Responded to inquiries.

5. Mailed my dad's birthday present to Minnesota, where he and my mom are at the cabin once again. (I am madly envious that they have so much vacation time. I have not had a single proper vacation this entire year, though I am going to grab some actual time off around Thanksgiving and Christmas because I deserve that, okay.)

6. Church Board of Trustees Executive Committee (aka EXCO) meeting to plan the agenda for the September Board meeting next week. I agreed to do some research/emailing about a certain thing so as to have information to present to the full Board on Tuesday. Ugh. Why do I do these things to myself?

7. Wrote some words for my NFE assignment, which, as per usual, I am writing down to the wire and will need to edit extensively over the week between the posting deadline and the archive reveal. *sigh* It will be a cool story, I swear! It will also be hopelessly non-anonymous, because reasons, but I have decided that getting to use my pre-existing worldbuilding is more important than preserving the veil of anonymity.

8. Called my parents to catch up and also wish my dad a happy one-day-early birthday in case I am too drained tomorrow evening to call on his actual birthday. (It is a source of minor amusement to me that my dad and my brother's birthdays are each other's half-birthdays -- they are exactly six months apart. The symmetry pleases me.)

And now I believe I will go fight a different and unrelated Narnia fic, because my organizational methods do not have to make sense if I don't want them to, so there. *wry*

[Fic] "Building Bridges" -- Chronicles of Narnia

Summary: If sentient rivers experience bridges as chains, how do you establish a functional transportation network? Joanna Baker, a girl from Port Paravel, sets out to answer that question with the help of a mechanically-minded naiad. Also featuring a brief diversion into the post-Miraz Narnian tax system! (6,400 words)

Note: This story is a fill for the ladiesbingo square the bridge. Sometimes I interpret prompts very literally. (Though this one went metaphorical on me as well, I guess.) Also, this story spent January through August with the unimaginative if completely accurate working title of "untitled Narnia bridge fic," because as previously mentioned, sometimes I am very literal. *wry*

[ETA: the AO3 crosspost is now up!]

( Building Bridges )

Ha, I win! \o/