elanya

I am very very close to finishing knitting Martinmas. After putting it in time out for almost two weeks, I finished the first section on the weekend and am halfway through the second, which I started on Monday.

My life has been mostly Gaming, Gaming and More Gaming. I am enjoying thins as it is one of my favoured creative outlets, but I also realize that I have done almost no writing since Jukebox fest, other than some drabbles (I may have some outstanding ones, I should check) and one story for Fan Flashworks. I should have a little bit more writing town soon, as I think I have made almost all of the characters I am going to need. As long as I decide I don't need to write another elaborate background for a secondary character I should be good. Then it is on to fic about gaming :V I have two wsip, both game related -_- And yuletide is approaching! Submissions open for a female author Mythos-related volume in November and I feel like I should try and come up with something for that, too. I really wanted to send them Cursed Wreck, but it is far too long. I could try and cull it, but I might need someone else with a red pen to give me a hand. I'm sure it would be *better* if it were tightened up, so there is that. I have some ideas where I can cut, but I don't think it will be enough. We'll see!

I can't comment on livejournal posts from my Chrome at home, which means, for the most part that I haven't been commenting on lj posts, even though there are several I have intended to! I do read regularly at least. *Hugs* offered to all in the journaling world, whether you are doing well or poorly or somewhere in between.

I finished up the glass at work, and in theory am moving on to the paintings. In practice this has also meant finally (!!!!) moving into the gallery's very own collections space. It is nice and quiet and very isolated from everyone else's offices. My gallery's office is up two floors and down the hall, the other gallery is up one flight and down a longer hall. Since its kitchen is more convenient for me at lunch, I've been leaving my stuff there in the mornings, but I took all my tea and snack supplies upstairs. Also I am near the cafeteria kitchens and the grease trap and there is an occasional linger smell of old bacon grease or a Denny's breakfast that has sat out too long. Blegh.

I haven't actually started working on the paintings. I'm working on getting a form ready for it, and I have been going over records in the database and fixing up missing information, typos, etc. I'm going to try and go through a certain amount of them each day. I am going to start actually working on paintings today though - my form is almost ready! But I am going to do a lot of the record data entry before I do the condition reporting anyway, so it is all good. I will probably go up there in a bit and get the files I need to get myself started.

I have slowly started applying for a few jobs here and there, but I am not going to make a concerted effort to do so until later this winter I think. For now I'll cherry pick what looks good and worry about throwing myself everywhere in desperation as my contract end date gets closer. That said, one of my co-workers here quit yesterday and I am considering whether I want that position. It is an Education Curator position - honestly I'll have to see how they are going to handle filling it with the hiring freeze, such as it is, still on. The grip has loosened slightly, as not everything has to get approval at the presidential level. Honestly it is less of a 'hiring freeze' and more of an increase in the bureaucratization of the hiring process, with stronger emphasis on demonstrating necessity for positions to make us try and be more efficient. It still sucks, especially for ppl I know who are looking for jobs locally. This digression (and honestly most of the impetus this post) was brought to you by an awesome looking job that turned up in my inbox this morning working for a US Navy museum that sadly requires US Citizenship. Much woe!

I don't think I have too much else going on at the moment. It is nice to have ore regular social gatherings locally though. One of my games is a weekly in-person one where we have dinner together and then play, which is very nice. I also had people over on Saturday for tea and cake, which turned into tea and cake and watching the Batman Animated Series :3 This might become more regular, or semi regular. What else - I've been watching and enjoying In The Flesh, the British post-zombie rising drama, which explores various issues surrounding re-integrating post-death syndrome sufferers into their community. It is good but the series (two so far) are very short and some of the plotlines feel very rushed accordingly. Still quite fun, and exceptionally British. I also have a new Raksura book to read, but I haven't quite cracked it open yet as I've been using my limited reading time for knitting... See above!