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Feb. 4th, 2007 08:55 amAnother 40^C day yesterday but today is cool enough to leave the lair. Not much to report! I went to the dentist last Wednesday and am still reeling from the pain. The bill, this is. The actual check and teeth-scraping was uncomfortable but bearable. I'm sure the dentist must've saved enough to buy his private island by now.
The federal court system has begun to wake up, enough for me to do three days last week. Our office is very confused since both the manager and the supervisor are quite new, our 'old' supervisor having screamed and run as they so often tend to do around our particular gulag. I'm hoping it will improve but being a born cynic, am aware that "they ain't seen nuthin' yet" until they have a bunch of court registry people all screaming for their transcript at once.
My rat Henry, the heart patient, is doing very well, enough so that he's on the heart drug only, not the diuretic. I'm sure Henry is glad to be able to stop peeing now and then and so am I, being the recipient much of the time.
Hopefully I can do a bit of writing today. No grandiose lists or expectations, I find those hinder rather than help. In fact I've stopped keeping a lot of records such as books read and accounts of what I spend. I guess I'm trying to clear my mind of unnecessary complications! New ideas for stories are coming in, albeit slowly and I'll worry about markets for them down the line. If any editors read this and are interested, feel free to contact me (g) and I'll try to tailor a story for you.
Low-key is definitely my goal at the moment. Partly it has to be as I don't have spare money for a social life and even books need to come from the library. Partly I need to keep my stress levels lower than they were last year or the year before ad infinitum. I've realised I don't actually need the gadgets with which so many people surround themselves. Mobile phone? Why? I dislike talking on the phone and if people need to find me they can always email. I sure don't want them to find me while I'm travelling or at work and so on. DVD? That'd be nice but really can't afford right now. I wouldn't want movies on my computer, it's much more comfortable to watch the telly. If I got all these shiny electronic things, I'd have to work more! Perish the concept :-)
The federal court system has begun to wake up, enough for me to do three days last week. Our office is very confused since both the manager and the supervisor are quite new, our 'old' supervisor having screamed and run as they so often tend to do around our particular gulag. I'm hoping it will improve but being a born cynic, am aware that "they ain't seen nuthin' yet" until they have a bunch of court registry people all screaming for their transcript at once.
My rat Henry, the heart patient, is doing very well, enough so that he's on the heart drug only, not the diuretic. I'm sure Henry is glad to be able to stop peeing now and then and so am I, being the recipient much of the time.
Hopefully I can do a bit of writing today. No grandiose lists or expectations, I find those hinder rather than help. In fact I've stopped keeping a lot of records such as books read and accounts of what I spend. I guess I'm trying to clear my mind of unnecessary complications! New ideas for stories are coming in, albeit slowly and I'll worry about markets for them down the line. If any editors read this and are interested, feel free to contact me (g) and I'll try to tailor a story for you.
Low-key is definitely my goal at the moment. Partly it has to be as I don't have spare money for a social life and even books need to come from the library. Partly I need to keep my stress levels lower than they were last year or the year before ad infinitum. I've realised I don't actually need the gadgets with which so many people surround themselves. Mobile phone? Why? I dislike talking on the phone and if people need to find me they can always email. I sure don't want them to find me while I'm travelling or at work and so on. DVD? That'd be nice but really can't afford right now. I wouldn't want movies on my computer, it's much more comfortable to watch the telly. If I got all these shiny electronic things, I'd have to work more! Perish the concept :-)
