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( Gaeilge )

Apparently I'm going in to work today because the Guild Show is this weekend, the fiber fair is next weekend, my aunt isn't actually as ablebodied as she likes to pretend she is, and I'm not as sick as I want to pretend I am. Or sick at all, really. And I'd feel guilty if I took a sick day and skived off work on a day when I didn't really need to but I really, really want to. Maybe after the trade shows. Maybe I will get a break ever if I just refuse to go to the doctor ever and break both my arms. Why no, I'm not resentful of a certain ditzy co-worker at all.

At any rate. Gods and Monsters almost finished yesterday, now I just need to finish it tonight. Hopefully. Today, the only thing I'm writing is Nerd Girls, and please dear god let today be less chaotic than yesterday. I think I'm giving up on getting Halloween decorations made until at least tomorrow night, if not this weekend. They're not even that hard! I just have no goddamn time. The gargoyles are still in the boy's car, but those can go out when the rest of the decorations are out. On the other hand, ooh. Maybe if we still have black felting fiber I can make some spiders to go in/with things. That would be at least some use of my time at work, and it's not like we don't have bushes and trees we can put them in. Okay, so it's not that bad.

Nerd Girls, and maybe reading over White Lightning, what I have done of it, and seeing how I need to rewrite the beginning/how much I need to write of the end. If I use what I have already and try and blend the two together, which might work since I don't think my writing has changed too much since I started, or if I try to write entirely from scratch. Nano dictates that I write entirely from scratch, but if I have a Nerd Girls draft by then I might just try to write something else entirely from scratch at that point. It's not like I have a dearth of novels to write.

Feeling less overwhelmed and like I have no goddamn time to do everything I want to do today. I just need a couple good days where I can get caught up on Nerd Girls even though I haven't actually promised that on a deadline to anyone. Because my brain is weird like that.

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( Маленькая девочка и коробку )

Yeah, apparently the Hyatt for Dragon*Con sold out in 18 minutes. So much for that idea and thank god we have a decent room in a decently close hotel already. With a sofabed for Kiki if she comes!

Today is much, much calmer at work, so I'm going to try to at least get some filing done and some writing. Which will be very nice. Nerd Girls first, and then maybe reading over some White Lightning if there's time.

My Abby cosplay was very impromptu and apparently very successful, as a couple people on the street even recognized it. This amuses me to no end, really. I put on my new arm warmers from SockDreams, with straps and studs, and then decided since I was going to do that and had purple and silver nails, might as well throw on some dark lipstick. And Born in Fire from Geek chic. And purple eyeli-- oh, wait, no, still haven't mastered eyeliner. Need to work on that. And hair in pigtails. And then I was coming down the stairs to head to work and my NCIS cap was right there on the banister railing and why the fuck not. And now I'm Abby. Causing no end of amusement from my co-workers aka my aunts, at least one of whom does watch NCIS and has taken to calling for Abby today.

FYI, Blasted by Sephora doesn't blast quite so well in silver as it does in black, but I think I also blame my own application of it some for that. The places where I applied it liberally look better, still not as blasted, but better. Definitely needs to be applied in thick, smooth coats, no smearing it once it's laid on or it won't shatter properly. So, tricky, but way fun and not hard to master. Still not sure when I became this whole makeup person.

Right. Back to work, I suppose, since i don't have anything else to blither about. Except I do need, maybe when I'm done with Halloween decs and arm warmers, to knit some leg warmers. Because it gets fucking cold in the mornings and I still want to dance, but I don't want my feet to freeze off.