I’ve got between four and six weeks before I find out what the result of the investigation into my accident is - I am generally VERY concerned that they’re - somehow - going to find a way to shift the blame, but I do feel that the fall, whether I can remember smacking my head or not, is responsible for all of the pain I’m currently in.
Archive > September 2008
{misc} - Oh, wait, wrong gear
I’ve spent today thinking again. Not because I couldn’t write, but because I had an awful lot of time where I was either walking and playing ‘dodge the sunlight’ or when I was lying in bed with my head under the covers somewhere.
Whirlwinds
There’s a whirlwind that blows thorugh each of lives once in a while - the one that changes and shakes things up. It could be a chill wind, making you pay more attention to the things around you, or, converesly, it could be a warm breeze, as soft as the carress of a loved one.
Back on track…
Rumours of my demise are…well, I’d say greatly exagerated, but the way my head feels at the moment, I have my doubts that they were a lie.
My sense of humour is about the same as always, but my multitasking skills have fallen apart, noisily and messily. I’ve been writing very little these last few weeks - which isn’t a great thing, though, my migranes and seeing things, have left me with a lot of snippets and plotlines to investigate.
We were at a reading ‘Slak’ on Thursday night, and I did about the bravest thing I’ve ever attempted, since wandering onto campus that first day. It’s hard - but no harder than anything else I’ll probably have to do. I read ‘Mania’, which is running in Scribe and Quill at some point soon.
Show me the way to oblivion, plz (x-posted)
So, uhm. Sorry.
This week we had a freind visiting us - and between that and the almost permanent headache I’ve been stuck with, I’ve been fit for very little other than a tiny bit of Warhammer Online, and touring our gorgeous home with someone that was expecting something different. Although, what, we’re not sure.
Next week, I start my new classes at Uni. I’m doing three double writing modules this term, and abnormal psychology - after x-mas, I’m doing the same doubles, and Psychology and Law. Plus, my I’ve started planning my Nanowrimo, and some interviews between now and November to give it max publicity. I can’t believe I’ve been a municipal liason for six years!
New community and LJ ‘fun stuff’
I’ll cover the Livejournal stuff first.
I did one of my LONG overdue cleanouts - deleting some of the communities I used to run that are no longer active (sorry!), and deleting freinds that had either deleted thier journals, or more importantly, hadn’t updated in some time. I’ve also updated my userprofile.
I’m taking steps back (big steps in the case of Ryze, where I’m letting my subscription end this month, for a few months - little ones in the case of some other things, like limiting my online time, and procrastinatory ’stuff’ as far as I can) but at the same time, I’m trying to get immersed in a couple of my loves - namely blogging (teaching people to) and writing (fiction, non fiction, cnf, and poetry).
{misc} - a week that never was….
Sunday, I smacked my head - I’m not sure how hard, or even what I hit it on (whether it was the concrete floor, the corner of a unit, or the coke case racks), but I hit my head.
Monday was a bit of a wipe - after screaming and fighting off spids most of Sunday night, my other half took me to the docs. They sent me for a CT, which was completely clean, apparently.
They said that my headache was an abnormal migrane, and to take my migrane meds. I did, I felt a bit better.
{misc} - Speechless
Quick update.
I passed out last night - at 8:30. According to my beloved, I was exhibiting signs of an aphasia (hence the title). I switched hands as well, writing backwards and forwards with both my left and right hand. I was laughing at the cat, when all she was doing was miaowing. Apparently one of the few words I could say was ‘Kitteh’.
{writing} - Clarity
There’s a certain *something* about injuring yourself that makes you reassess where your priorities are. Just over a year ago, I spent 24 hours thinking I’d broken my neck. Sunday, I fell and banged my head hard enough to believe that the walls in the house were covered in spiders.
I’d spent the last few weeks, since the kids got back in fact, considering what to do with myself.
I used to be able to write for hours. Now, I blog. I get distracted. I do social networking.
{writing} - Weekly roundup/when you need space…
Submissions/Acceptances/Rejections
Seven queries
Two rejections
One outstanding from last week.
Previous Deadlines
Nothing to report this week 
Upcoming deadlines
On The Premises: Revelation: One or more characters discover that something believed to be true is actually false. (30 Sep 2008) - got something really nice going
Malpractice: An Anthology of Bedside Terror: Bloom Memorial Hospital (30 Sep 2008) - having fun with this - need beta readers (see notes at bottom)
SNM Horror Magazine: Demons, exorcisms, real-life vampires or real-life zombies (20 Oct 2008)
Falling Star Magazine: You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away (01 Nov 2008)
First Line, The: First line: While not the intended effect, the outcome was surprisingly satisfying. (01 Nov 2008)
Mslexia: Balloons (fash fiction under 150 words) (14 Nov 2008)
In the Footsteps of Gilgamesh: Interpretations of the Epic of Gilgamesh (01 Dec 2008)
New Concepts Publishing: Tempted Anthology (31 Dec 2008)
SFReader Short Story Contest: 7th Annual SFReader Short Story Contest (31 Dec 2008)
SNM Horror Magazine: Stories of dark erotica, bondage, sexual situations horror related. (20 Jan 2009)
I’m beginning to think I should care less….
One of my biggest ‘writerly’ problems at the moment is lack of time. And refusal to cut my losses to make up for that lack of time, and clear space.
I spent an hour today, explaining to a very stubborn person, that the network rules were not made to piss her off, and that, no, contrary to her supossition, she was not the only person in the world on said network.
The bit I *really* don’t get is why these people claim to be ’so successful’ and can ‘really screw me over’ and yet, give a crap about somewhere they think is so tiny that they are entitled to walk all over us little people.
Happy birthday shortie!
Though, I hate to admit it, but he’s almost the same height as me.
Anyway - my eldest is nine today (6th). He’s this clown-like, mental wee thing that loves Games Workshop (and I have to say, thanks to Doc, for letting him take it up - though my wallet doesn’t feel like saying ‘thank you’ most of the time!), tactical games, painting models and horsing around with the Scouts. He’s really turning into a tween, rather than a child.
And it’s hard to look at him without thinking of the tiny baby - but I can’t quite work out how not to burst into tears when I do.
{work} - Doing one day’s work in a day
One of my biggest challenges is actually sticking to all of the grand promises I make myself.
And in a way my todo list is a promise to myself - a promise that I’ll do x, y and even z by the date I said I would.
So far, I’m meeting limited success in this. I’m slowly seeing, for example, that I CAN only have one big project. I CAN only keep a handful of blogs. I cannot, for example, run a 14 blog writer’s site with any degree of success unless I either commit myself to writing every second of every day, or probably more likely, spend six hours a day writing content and posting it, and though they are blogs, using them as static sites.
{uni} - Class choices for next year
So, I got my uni choices all sorted out.
For those interested (grin) -
WT200 - writing, rewriting and showcasing your work
Wt201 - poetry
wt202 - Prose
Py214 - abnormal psychology (sem1)
Py216 - Psychology and law (sem2)
The two psychs are leading up to ‘Psychology and crime’ and another psych in third year, which is what I’m building to. I think having some psych on my degree is going to be good for me, it’s challenging and interesting and, in a very odd way, fun. I wanted ‘crime fiction’ but it’s completely booked out, so my next best bet is to take stuff that will help my writing. Well, that’s my escuse anyway - I’m actually doing it because I like psychology.
{writing} - the one in which I confess
Later on this evening, I’m going to be making a potentially life changing post (I just need to get the rest of the work done first!). I don’t think some of you are going to be particularly shocked by it - but some of you might….and for that, before anyone gets upset and accuses me of deliberately misleading them, I didn’t. My pen names, have, up until this point, been neccisary.
That said, I’m not owning to all of them. I’ve quit one position entirely that required me to keep the pen name secret - which sucks, cause I can’t even list the books on my site, and it was my biggest ‘name’.
{cat} - ok, so I’ve got a third, toddler mentality charge?
So Kushie, in her infinite ‘catdom’, has decided that the absolutel best time to start really showing her personailty wasn’t when the kids were at home to laugh at her antics, but rather, when it’s just me and her and the camera battery is completley dead.
{family} - Photoshootin….
First day of school, so the kids have photos taken (naturally!), so whilst the camera is out, and being used, I thought I’d take advantage of it and spend some time getting photos of the cat doing her ‘casual’ thing. Which may involve sitting on my bed with her, writing, till she falls asleep in some cute pose, or similarly, having the camera handy downstairs.
I’ll be back later with the results.
{writing}.{family} Cat, curled up on wolfskin, zombies at the door
*I’d like to note, because this has come up before, the blanket I refer to as a wolfskin blanket, is actually a fake one. It’s incredibly warm and comfortable though, as the cat keeps showing me*
{misc} A week in view
I’m worried about my freinds and colleagues in the direct path of Gustav so if any of you happen to be reading this, I know it’s a bit obvious, but be careful? Or, if careful is out cause you have to go outside, at least be safe.
