in ur tank. eetin ur fishes.

Patrick Wolf was in town last night, and I took Maddie and Sonya, except Sonya had to leave before PW actually started playing. T___T Words do not describe my grief for her. ( My grief is somewhat assuaged by not thinking it was quite as awesome as Elbow at the Tivoli. BUT IT WAS STILL PRETTY GODDAMN AMAZING. )

We had a delicious Espresso Martini at the Bowery before we went to the concert, too, and man, that place is gorgeous. I always knew good things lay within that building - I've been fond of it ever since we moved here in 2006, and yet never went in. I should go sit in there early on weekday afternoons when I can afford to keep myself in twenty dollar cocktails for long enough to enjoy the atmosphere. Enjoyed my usual immunity to vodka, though, which was quite nice.

Today was reasonably productive, despite obstacles (i.e. more scheduling meetings). I think I'll finish all the open bugs for EWP5 and EAP5 docs on Monday, so I can stage those for review, give Gary a hand with his mod_cluster docs, and start working on release notes for the EAP5 post-GA items, EWS, and EWP. Next week should hopefully involve the dev team finishing ripping the guts out of EAP to make EWP and actually combing through my docs and telling me what needs to go before they reflect EWP support. I hope. Note that I do not say this with any great degree of optimism. But I should be occupied most of next week with... more... scheduling. >_>; Sigh. If worst comes to worst, I can always start trying to thread together a Security Guide. Should probably spend some time studying for RHCT at some point, too. Sigh. THAT is something that ought to go on my schedule. Oh well.

Not a lot of housework to do tomorrow, because I actually do keep on top of things during the week when there aren't other people to contend with, but I still have to:
- fold the dark load
- wash the red load (I still cannot believe we have enough reds between us to make a fucking red load. XD)
- dry the red load
- fold the red load
- wash my sheets
- dry my sheets
- wash mum's sheets
- dry mum's sheets
- clean the bathroom
- vacuum downstairs

...which, now I look at it, is pretty much the same as my list every other week. I refuse to vacuum upstairs when I've only been up there to turn the air-conditioning off and on, though. (I keep insisting I have no need for a television bar video games, and no one believes me. Mum will come home on Sunday and be all WHERE HAVE YOU PUT THE REMOTE, you watch.)

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I have Patrick Wolf's water bottle.

I'm just sayin'.

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Yeah. So someone I work with who has no direct say over the content of my work just said my design artwork looked like bowel movements.

I told her to get the fuck away from me.

Woke up this morning feeling...not so good. Not sick exactly. Just, not well either. Kind of this weird in between state where I could go either way but was leaning more towards being sick. Let's just say I am not healthy this morning XD. Wanted so badly to stay in bed and everything feels like such an effort. If I didn't have a billion and one things to do at work (thanks guys btw, for deciding I need to do a whole new website in the space of 4 hours) I would not be going in.

It's Wednesday. Why can't it be Friday?

I really don't have a lot to say these days. Fortunately at the moment that has nothing to do with the general apathy that usually percolates through days without IJ entries. Today was Monday, and very Mondayish. Work is going well, and I'm in a state of comfortable normalcy as far as mood goes, which is a great relief.

Might be going to see Zombieland with some guys from work tomorrow night, which will be good assuming I'm in the mood for company. I hope I am. I suspect I will not be, which would be sad.

Another two projects out the door tomorrow! I would be more excited if I could actually start work on the next projects yet. I sort of spent the afternoon creating work for myself because I'm at a teensy bit of a loose end with the upcoming work while I wait on information.

Meeting tomorrow morning may or may not solve that.

Off to beta Katie's script and then bed. Night, interwebs.

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Promised myself when I got home I would get over my stupid mood. Am now eating microwave pasta and drinking fuckloads of water because I can stop being thirsty and not hating everything that I do XD
This is a good start.

Randomly. I want more Marvel comic icons. Specifically I want more Wanda, Billy, Tommy and Teddy icons XD

I loathe being in this mood. You know the one. Where everything is frustrating to you for no apparent reason and while you have the motivation to do things, nothing seems to be working out the way you want it to. This, of course, only adds to your frustration until you start getting angry at things you normally wouldn't get angry at or hating things that normally you'd be happy with.

My Kiraen painting is not bad. I keep telling myself this. One, it's not even finished yet and two, the amount of times I had to redo things because I kept kicking my damned power plug out of the powerboard it's a wonder it's even close to being completed. I'm not sure why I am so irritated with it, just that I am not. happy. *sighs*

It means I am also behind schedule on my goal for the week which also pisses me off but right now I think I will be happy just to finish this painting.

I am tempted to blame NaNo and it's way of getting me used to massive creative output. Now, anything that is perhaps a slower process or something I can spend more time picking apart with my insanely critical eye is automatically frustrating me to all hell.

I cannot paint today. Every stroke I mad was another bad one after the other. Still, I forced through it til I accidentally kicked my power plug out again and once I made sure I hadn't lost much (which now I save every bloody second I hadn't XD) I packed it in for the night. I guess I should be happy I did some in the first place since I was completely unmotivated to do anything today. Heat combined with bleh equal me feeling like laying on the couch all day doing nothing was the best thing ever.

Watched some DVDs, ate some snacks and felt worse for doing nothing XD All in all, not the best Saturday in the world. Need to hit painting again tomorrow to push through this stupid mood.

And I want new icons. *goes to look for some*

Or something like that, anyway. What I mean is...

Christmas Fic Time!

Comment with three or more prompts and I will endeavour to write at least one of them for you.

You can ask for anything you like. :) I just may not be happy enough with the result of all of them to show them to you.

So, comment away! Yes, all of you. GO GO GO.

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Probably shouldn't be so happy to have played around with planning software for the last two days, but I'm still on target for the next project - or as on-target as I can be with no information - and I think we'll be okay for GA on Tuesday, which is good.

Left later than I meant to this evening, and then stayed in town with Darrin for an extra hour, since I'm pretty sure I made him miss his bus. >_>; Picked up Gina's birthday presents in the process, just in the nick of time, and also found the novelisation of AC2. Yes, you read that right. I had to get it. It was just too cracktastic not to buy. XD I picked up the latest Bleach volume, too, so... man, why do I go shopping on paycheck day? I couldn't have done worse if we'd gone to Archives at lunch. -_-

Mum is off to Tasmania for a week on Sunday, and I'm off to Dad's tomorrow afternoon, so it will be a day of cleaning and packing and running... and probably of installing F12 in a virtual box, since Marco was handing around CDs this afternoon. I REFUSE TO LIKE IT but I'll feel bad using it as a coaster without so much as giving it a fighting chance. Also, I wouldn't mind doing a little bit of work on the Seam 2.0.2 documentation this weekend, since it came in late and the Seam docs are uuuuuuuuugly, to quote the hyenas.

Mmmm. ^^ I'm looking forward to the weekend, though. And the week after that. I'm... looking forward to things. And comfortable. And this is rare enough that I enjoy it all the more.

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Still no idea what is happening with my job. Argh.

I have no playlists. *weeps* How am I supposed to paint with no playlists. Well there is always the whole plug iPod type arrangement but still, I weep for my playlists!

I also I have a new IJ layout :D This makes me happy. Also makes me thrashflail with the need for new icons and an updated links list.

I really need some new icons. Actually, I really need to pay for my IJ account again come to think of it. I can't remember the last time this was a paid account...

Hmm, maybe a new layout too. Time for a bit of a change up I think.

Okay. Today is Tuesday. My goal for this week is to finish my Kiraen portrait and do two more by this time next week. This is a pretty easy goal since I can usually finish a portrait in about five hours but I am starting off small and working my way up. This is mostly so I can factor in work retardery and not feel like a complete failure if I set myself a harder goal and not even get close to reaching it.

EDIT:

My devart page looks abandoned again (which it pretty much has been). I need to start uploading to that again.

My mother added a handful of blueberries to my cereal this morning, perfectly innocently, as I have blueberries all the time. ... WITH VITABRITS.

Thus through the house there did echo:
"What are you DOING?! What are you-- BLUEBERRIES DO NOT GO WITH NUTRIGRAIN."
"Blueberries go with everything!"
"RUINNNSES ITTTTT."

And this is why you shouldn't add things to my food before I have consumed tea: impromptu Gollum impressions.

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District 9 was amazing. Amazing. I fear I think it should be viewed by everyone, everywhere, as soon as possible. I felt ill for a lot of it. But it was amazing. Really well-crafted, and perfectly book-ended by the 'news coverage'. It starts you off with a documentary, isn't-this-fascinating feel, then drops you right into the middle of the horror, from a number of angles, and then pulls back at the end and bookends it again, like this is how easily you'll forget. And because it made that point, you won't.

It was amazing. Go watch it.

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http://comments.deviantart.com/1/122659098/1282816984 <-- TINA I HAD TO ACTUALLY CHECK THAT THIS WAS NOT FROM YOU. Oh internets. You are so entitled. And yet I am still more inclined to listen to this person than to any of the people demanding that I finish F&F. I WONDER WHY THAT IS.

So I guess I'm painting while I watch District 9, then.

I'm oddly contented this evening. I'm okay with not finishing NaNo. I'm really looking forward to getting back to work on AtM and F&F. My clockwork earrings continue to be awesome. I'm... just really satisfied and enthusiastic. I wasn't expecting to be at all. ^___^ Yay for Mondays that improve as they go.

(Not that this morning was bad, either. XD Forgotten fire alarms ftw?)

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Where the hell has my day gone?!

I keep looking up at the clock and being stuned by the time. I mean, sure I've been busy and the time usually goes fast but I feel like I've not done nearly as much work as I should for how much time has past. The meeting about the new web-based campaign and working with Jo to get the proposal done took me up to 11:30 cue me going wtf when I looked at the clock. Then the Delegate: How To manual and a flyer for the Education Campaign has taken me through to quarter to 3. I haven't really finished anything!

I did have a yummy caeser salad for lunch though.

Yeah. So. The following shall be a recap of everything worth noting that's happening to me in the last few weeks because I totally fail at writing in this thing despite telling myself over and over that I want to IJ this and IJ that. Argh. Yes. So.

- Work still hasn't sorted out my employment details properly. I am still in limbo land with each month dragging on til the next, my current 'project' being extended because meetings get canceled and posponed. I am supposed to get some idea this week when yet another meeting is scheduled to discuss it. I am not holding my breath.
- Despite not knowing how I am being employed from month to month, work has been both interesting, frustrating, irritating and BUSY. I am working pretty much from 7.30ish to about 5.30/6.00ish every week day and doing at least something on the weekends. One minor payoff to this is Channel 7 news actually used my footage from one of our rallies for its story because their cameraman failed to get anything. I have it taped XD
- Somehow, despite having to get up at 6am, drive an hour to work, work for 8 plus hours then drive an hour back home again, cook dinner (or stop off to get it), feed them animals, do chores and keep up a household I've managed to both win NaNoWriMo this year and finish Assassin's Creed 2. I honestly do not know how I did this. Probably lack of sleep.
- NaNoWriMo has given me three new characters who I already love and a new verse to play around with. I am not sure if this is a sensible thing but it's something that I am excited about all the same.
- I HAVE MY NEW COMPUTER. It is sexy and awesome and powerful and big and shall be known as Anthion. Also the new Magic Mouse is the best. thing. ever.

I am sure there is more things to make note of but I am pretty much sucky at remembering things XD

Okay. It is officially impossible for me to finish NaNo this year unless I start writing at work, and that's okay. I want to concentrate on writing all year 'round, not just during NaNo, and I need to learn to make that a priority. Therefore it is okay that I do not finish NaNo this year, when I have so much else going on.

I may need you all to remind me of this over the next week when the inevitable I suck, I can't even finish NaNo, I'm too lazy to be a writer depression sets in. I predict onset about noon tomorrow, but hey, it could be noon today because I know I'm not even going to try. Surprise! Only, y'know, not really.

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