When real things happen to imaginary people

Hi, I've been kind of quiet lately, because I am ridiculously, ridiculously busy. My team is understaffed right now (epic understatement there, and hey, if any of you are technical writers or editors and are job-hunting, drop me a line), so I am currently juggling ...

::stops to count, cross-references with the White Board o' Insanity::

... 4 different projects. All of which are happening right now now NOW.

In addition to work being Do All The Things, homelife is chaotic right now, too. The Stroppy One has a tight deadline, I have a tight self-imposed writing deadline for a project, and hey I probably should get around to writing another Gothic Charm School column, shouldn't I? In addition to wanting to find time to see my friends and family, get some exercise, and start trying to go to bed earlier.

Let me put it this way: I am having to work on reminding myself that pushing and guilting myself to Do All The Things is a quick ticket to exhaustion, CrazyTown, and finding deep emotional resonance and meaning in the lyrics of Pete Wentz^*. Ahahahaha.

Anyway, here, have some Goth at the Office photos:

( Behind the handy cut tag! )

... the idea of taking tonight off from my assorted responsibilities and projects sounds REALLY enticing. Hmmm.




^*The new Fall Out Boy album is delightful, and I find a little too much fun in figuring out which lyrics are going to be rattling around in my head when I'm having a Bad Day.

You guys! As I was waiting to fall asleep last night, I was idly thinking of all of the upcoming things, and GOOD LORD, when did my schedule get this packed?

Coming up:

- Photo shoot.
- The Stroppy One's birthday, yay!
- Vampire Ball 3/27
- Norwescon 4/1 - 4/3
- The StuntHusband's birthday, yay!
- Faith and the Muse concert 4/11
- Reading at Night Kitchen 4/15
- HIM concert 4/17

All of these are very fun and exciting things I am looking forward to. I'm just kind of amazed at how busy my schedule got. Time to dust off my time-management skills, because in addition to all of that and the day job, I've got a bunch of writing to do. Whoosh!

This week has been one long case of sleep deprivation. Which means I've kind of been in a "can't brain" state all week, and wow is that not helpful for getting writing done. At least now that the weather has decided to just go ahead and rain, I no longer want to drill holes in my head to see if that would help with the sinus headaches.

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Good grief, the next handful of weeks are busy! This weekend, pix_kristin is visiting, yay! Next weekend, it's stroppy_baggage's birthday! The weekend after that, the Vampire Ball in PDX! Then there's the Jill Tracy CD release party on April 1st (which tolkiencub is kindly escorting me to. On his birthday. This is one of the many reasons why he is the best stunt husband ever.), and then April 8 & 9 is another trip to PDX to see TWO MCR shows in a row. (Yes, I'm going to both. You can roll your eyes at me all you want, I don't care. Wheeeee!)

Along with all of that is a lot of writing I need to do, stroppy_baggage working on a tight deadline, and oh, did I mention a mad scramble of stuff at work? Yeah. I may be kind of scarce for a bit.

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One of my dreams last night was about me sitting in a meeting discussing color swatches and packaging mock-ups for a limited edition GCS line from MAC. Ha! I would love for that dream to come true (come on, you have to admit a "snarkling" lipstick would be FANTASTIC), but I'm not going to hold my breath until it does.

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In Things I Really Should Be Aware Of news: it's a simple 5-minute bus ride to get from my office to a local thrift store. This is dangerous information for me to have.

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::looks at FL:: Hey, I owe some of you email replies, don't I. I'll do those today, I swear.