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wherein Liz is very tired (STILL. AGAIN.)
Jul. 2nd, 2020 11:21 pmAssorted things:
1. The Best Buy tech said he could only replicate my bluescreen problem once, when he first turned on my computer. After he did some tune-up/clean-out on my system it did not reoccur. This is frustrating because I replicated the problem FIVE TIMES IN A ROW on Wednesday afternoon when I got home from work. I actually left my computer awake all night and then all day today so I don't know if it would have reoccurred again after I finally got enough time to restart it properly instead of just mashing the power button while the blank screen gleamed mockingly at me.
Background: my laptop has a known -- and so far as I know, unfixable -- Windows 10 glitch where if you tell it to sleep, it then refuses to wake up until you turn the power off and back on, at which point it will act like it woke up from ordinary sleep. And the thing is, that screwy version of "waking up" is exactly when the bluescreen glitch occurs. I forgot to mention that to Best Buy when I dropped my laptop off on Saturday because I'm so used to it that I forget it's a glitch, and I suspect that may be why they failed to replicate and thus hunt down the cause of the bluescreen incidents. *sigh*
2. Work has been EXHAUSTING. Cornell surprise!announced their fall 2020 schedule on Tuesday afternoon, and we have been fielding so many phone calls. All the phone calls. ALL OF THEM. And also all the emails. *headdesk*
We are also still working our butts off to create new shiny photos and videos of staged apartments. Miss California is editing and posting the video tours. I have started working through the photos -- first organizing them into folders by apartment, and then tweaking every single one to be brighter, sharper, and more colorful (and also sometimes cropping and straightening wonky angles). I have, to be honest, done very little photo work because I have been running a Red Queen's race trying to keep on top of all the other office stuff.
I have a three-day weekend starting tomorrow because of Independence Day. I am going to sleep SO MUCH.
3. My WIP Big Bang story has been claimed by an artist. \o/ I need to get in touch with them, but I have been so brain-fried these past two weeks, I have been letting a LOT of things temporarily slide.
4. For example, I still need to apply to Not the IRS for the 2020 tax season. I must remember to do that tomorrow. It's not like it takes very long -- they have all my information on file from previous years, so all I really need to do is verify which office I work at and add an extra year of employment to my tax job and my rental company job histories.
5. I got another prompt for my latest mini-ficlet prompt meme. Yesterday I kind of blinked at it and tilted my head because it is... well, it's a request for Yukiko/Kakashi ship!fic in my Apartment Manager AU. This is something various people have expressed interest in over the years, but it's also something I thought I'd been pretty clear was never going to happen, for various and sundry reasons. But! Today I figured out a way to elide the issue: namely, a fake relationship between undercover personas while on a joint mission. It's going to be mostly a mission fic, but it will be very heavy on friendship and trust, so I think that will fulfill the relationship aspect of the prompt.
(Look, you don't actually WANT me to write Yukiko/Kakashi rather than Yukiko & Kakashi. Even if I tried, it would come out very badly, because I straight-up cannot convince myself of that particular relationship in any romantic or sexual form. At best you'd get a crash-and-burn disaster that leaves them both hurt and avoiding each other for years. You are much better off writing your own fic-of-a-fic if that ship is what your heart desires. I will just continue writing them as unexpected good friends who sometimes use each other for safe flirting because they both know it's never going anywhere.)
6. I really enjoy having no idea where the Magnus Archives is going each week!
7. I have also started listening to Rusty Quill Gaming. Today I finished episode 17: Good Cop, Bad Cop, Stabby Cop and Bertie (which, tangentially, I am slightly annoyed does not have an Oxford comma) and will probably skip the two Storyjam! episodes in favor of diving into episode 18 tomorrow, as the first 17 episodes wound up being more or less a prologue and now the REAL quest is about to begin. :)
8. Yesterday while pruning a hedge, I was so focused on reaching down to uproot a pernicious scrub maple that I bashed my forehead directly into the sharp, pointy end of a dead branch and left myself with some bloody scratches and a surprisingly painful bruise.
...
Yeah, this weekend I am going to get ALL THE SLEEP.
1. The Best Buy tech said he could only replicate my bluescreen problem once, when he first turned on my computer. After he did some tune-up/clean-out on my system it did not reoccur. This is frustrating because I replicated the problem FIVE TIMES IN A ROW on Wednesday afternoon when I got home from work. I actually left my computer awake all night and then all day today so I don't know if it would have reoccurred again after I finally got enough time to restart it properly instead of just mashing the power button while the blank screen gleamed mockingly at me.
Background: my laptop has a known -- and so far as I know, unfixable -- Windows 10 glitch where if you tell it to sleep, it then refuses to wake up until you turn the power off and back on, at which point it will act like it woke up from ordinary sleep. And the thing is, that screwy version of "waking up" is exactly when the bluescreen glitch occurs. I forgot to mention that to Best Buy when I dropped my laptop off on Saturday because I'm so used to it that I forget it's a glitch, and I suspect that may be why they failed to replicate and thus hunt down the cause of the bluescreen incidents. *sigh*
2. Work has been EXHAUSTING. Cornell surprise!announced their fall 2020 schedule on Tuesday afternoon, and we have been fielding so many phone calls. All the phone calls. ALL OF THEM. And also all the emails. *headdesk*
We are also still working our butts off to create new shiny photos and videos of staged apartments. Miss California is editing and posting the video tours. I have started working through the photos -- first organizing them into folders by apartment, and then tweaking every single one to be brighter, sharper, and more colorful (and also sometimes cropping and straightening wonky angles). I have, to be honest, done very little photo work because I have been running a Red Queen's race trying to keep on top of all the other office stuff.
I have a three-day weekend starting tomorrow because of Independence Day. I am going to sleep SO MUCH.
3. My WIP Big Bang story has been claimed by an artist. \o/ I need to get in touch with them, but I have been so brain-fried these past two weeks, I have been letting a LOT of things temporarily slide.
4. For example, I still need to apply to Not the IRS for the 2020 tax season. I must remember to do that tomorrow. It's not like it takes very long -- they have all my information on file from previous years, so all I really need to do is verify which office I work at and add an extra year of employment to my tax job and my rental company job histories.
5. I got another prompt for my latest mini-ficlet prompt meme. Yesterday I kind of blinked at it and tilted my head because it is... well, it's a request for Yukiko/Kakashi ship!fic in my Apartment Manager AU. This is something various people have expressed interest in over the years, but it's also something I thought I'd been pretty clear was never going to happen, for various and sundry reasons. But! Today I figured out a way to elide the issue: namely, a fake relationship between undercover personas while on a joint mission. It's going to be mostly a mission fic, but it will be very heavy on friendship and trust, so I think that will fulfill the relationship aspect of the prompt.
(Look, you don't actually WANT me to write Yukiko/Kakashi rather than Yukiko & Kakashi. Even if I tried, it would come out very badly, because I straight-up cannot convince myself of that particular relationship in any romantic or sexual form. At best you'd get a crash-and-burn disaster that leaves them both hurt and avoiding each other for years. You are much better off writing your own fic-of-a-fic if that ship is what your heart desires. I will just continue writing them as unexpected good friends who sometimes use each other for safe flirting because they both know it's never going anywhere.)
6. I really enjoy having no idea where the Magnus Archives is going each week!
7. I have also started listening to Rusty Quill Gaming. Today I finished episode 17: Good Cop, Bad Cop, Stabby Cop and Bertie (which, tangentially, I am slightly annoyed does not have an Oxford comma) and will probably skip the two Storyjam! episodes in favor of diving into episode 18 tomorrow, as the first 17 episodes wound up being more or less a prologue and now the REAL quest is about to begin. :)
8. Yesterday while pruning a hedge, I was so focused on reaching down to uproot a pernicious scrub maple that I bashed my forehead directly into the sharp, pointy end of a dead branch and left myself with some bloody scratches and a surprisingly painful bruise.
...
Yeah, this weekend I am going to get ALL THE SLEEP.
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