the deep moans round with many voices

Things I have done today:

1. Reeled in one prospective tenant and sent out a lease (waiting for payment and signed documents), and I should have another on the hook tomorrow providing their rental and employment background check goes well. \o/ I also have a line on some people for a 3-bedroom which is excellent; we have a whole bunch of those coming vacant in January as Ithaca College students intend to move back on campus.

2. Finished my NYS tax prep continuing education, which I was TRYING to do last night but the website was catastrophically down, boo hiss. And apparently it takes 24 hours for my completion record to make it from the education part of the website to the TPRIN renewal part of the website, because I was unable to make my payment and get my registration renewed this afternoon. GRRRR.

3. Shoveled ~1/3 of my back porch, all of my back stairs, and a pathway to the communal compost bin in the back yard. Proceeded to dump A LOT OF COMPOST which had been collecting for a while and which I hadn't had a chance to deal with since the snowstorm last week.

4. LAUNDRY. UGH.

5. Started a batch of pork, greens, and onions, because greens don't keep but cooked food freezes nicely. :)

6. Agreed to beta somebody else's Yuletide fic, which I am looking forward to! ...Tomorrow.

7. Currently steaming broccoli and baking some fish patties for dinner, because jesus fuck I am hungry.

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Yesterday I baked banana bread, sliced it up nice, and stuck it in Ziploc baggies to bring in to the office for my coworkers. It is always helpful to build a reputation as a person who brings in snacks to share. :)

I have another rental company take-home project, which I did ~1 hour of work on today before realizing that while I can pull some of the material from our website and some more from our Gmail account, a bunch of the relevant infographics and printouts and whatever exist only on the hard drive of my work computer. So I think Monday's project will be to email all of those to myself, so I will be able to start bashing together some "blog post" things on Tuesday and Wednesday.

What I did today was basically take Aunt Boss's giant list of suggested topics and organize them into coherent themed groups, plus add a couple topic ideas of my own and supplement some of hers with additional sections.

I have also just now thought of yet another topic, which I will mention here so I don't forget it overnight: an explanation of our rental payment schedules, because people are very bad at interpreting that section of their leases even though the language there is, IMHO, pretty darn clear for a legal document.

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Other things that happened today:

1. I started the final edits for the Narnia/Naruto crossover. I have fixed the easy bits, but it will take me another few days to figure out what to do about the more structural issues.

2. Local wildlife once again dug up my carrot planters -- and this DESPITE the window screen I had over one of them. I have sprayed animal repellent around my back porch and seeded yet ANOTHER round of carrot seeds. *headdesk*

3. Changed my linens, because I have managed to maintain a pattern of weekend linen changes for 98% of my adult life and I don't plan to break that habit.

4. I decided not to do laundry today because reasons, but I have loaded my dirty clothes and linens into my cart and set out my bag of quarters, so when I get home tomorrow I can just drag everything two blocks over to the laundromat and get started. I find that this pattern of breaking big tasks into a "prep" day and a "task" day is helpful, because otherwise I will often drag my feet about the prep work until it's so late in the day that it's hard to get much of anywhere on the actual task. This way I can take a whole day and do the prep work in little pieces as I think of it, instead of trying to do it all at once on a tight deadline.

5. On a related note, I have set up all the relevant ingredients and cookware necessary to bake brownies tomorrow, because I ate the last of my previous batch this evening. I have decided that of the two brownie mix types my parents gave me, I prefer the dark chocolate to the fudge. This is mildly unfortunate, since they gave me twice as many fudge-type boxes as dark chocolate-type boxes, but eh. They're still brownies and they're still delicious.

6. Took a late afternoon nap because my sleep schedule has started to drift away from anything remotely regular or related to the day-night cycle. You wouldn't think that working three days a week versus four days a week would make such a big difference, but boy howdy does it ever. I will continue trying to wrench myself back into mornings actually being meaningful.

And on that note, I will now go to bed.

I have finished the preliminary round of edits on the still tragically untitled Narnia/Naruto crossover! \o/

Now I need somebody else to look it over and point out the weak spots so I can fix them.

If you are willing to beta a crossover (ridiculous in concept, but dead serious in execution) featuring six original Narnian characters plus Tsunade and Shizune at the start of their wandering years, please let me know and give me a method to contact you. The story is currently just over 13,700 words long and contains 1) some violence and gore, 2) a family quarrel, and 3) a lot of ethical struggling over how best to react when a Witch conquers your country, turns many of your fellow citizens to her cause, and then locks the borders and drops an endless magical winter over the entire land.

This is mostly a Narnia story, but it would be helpful to have some familiarity with Naruto so you can tell me how one particular choice works in regard to that canon. I initially made that choice because it made me laugh out loud in the middle of my workday, but my sense of humor can be idiosyncratic so I want to know how it reads to someone who doesn't share the inside of my head.

Things done today:

1. Experimentally didn't set an alarm and slept until whenever. In the event, whenever turned out to be 10:15am.

2. Took a nice hour-long walk in the early-ish afternoon.

3. Unexpected phone call from my mom. We chatted and caught up, which was nice.

4. Edited another nine pages of the Narnia/Naruto crossover, for a net loss of 1 word. (I mean, I also added words! But like I've said before, the middle sections are in better shape than the beginning or the end, so mostly what I'm doing is pruning extraneous verbiage and rephrasing awkward sentences rather than writing new text.)

I might do another batch after dinner, but it's hard to say. I have been pretty spacey today and editing requires coherent thought, you know? I may just go to bed early instead.

Summary: Nepeta and Terezi in the dreambubbles, after the end of their respective timelines. (4,750 words)

Note: I started this fic back in May of 2012, in response to the following kinkmeme prompt: "So, the first time I kissed a girl, she ran away. It was the first time I had kissed a girl, and it was the first time she had kissed a girl also. I gave her a chaste kiss, pulled back, she kissed me back very enthusiastically (with tongue), looked at me, completely shocked, and literally ran in the opposite direction.

"We started dating and went out for two and a half years. We used to do stupid things like tell each other bedtime stories we would make up. They usually had bamf lesbian characters. Who would get together in the end of course, and kiss. And I would always tease her with, 'oh, and then she kissed her back, and ran away'. This plot point was in almost every story.

"I'd love it if someone put that in a kink-meme story. [...] I would like this to be slash or femslash, since I'm not sure this reaction really makes sense for a het couple?"

[ETA: the edited and expanded final version is now up on AO3!]

( Kiss and Run Away )

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This is a rough draft and the ending is still kind of 'disembodied voices talking in front of a blank white screen' (a perennial failing of mine in initial drafts) but I wanted to get something posted in November, so.

I'll be fixing up the final section some on my own over the next day or two, but if you have any useful editing advice, I am all ears. :)