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gwendolyngrace) wrote2009-01-08 02:03 pm
gwendolyngrace) wrote2009-01-08 02:03 pm
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I hate having a cold.
I'm sniffling and my nose is running like a river. My throat hurts. I don't feel sick - no loss of appetite or flu-like symptoms - but my head is muzzy and my nose hurts.
I stayed home from work today and I'm logged on to the work computer. Rah. I've done a load of laundry and I'll start packing to go away this weekend...soon.
I had to go to the store to get OJ and more milk. I know I need the OJ because it tasted uncommonly good. I'll have to be careful not to give this to the sprog when I see her.
Also, for the past three days, the tendons in the backs of my heels / ankles have HURT. I thought it was maybe a little bruising from my construction / winter boots, hitting different pressure points. But it hasn't gone away. Going up and down stairs, even walking, feels like my Achilles' tendons have been strained, like the muscles are pulled. It's OWIE. Am I just falling apart, or is this something else?
/hypochondria
In other news, I got a callback for Nine - sounds like they are looking at me for one of the minor characters, which is just groovy - I could have a hella good time with the reporter or the lady of the spa or something like that. It's unrealistic to expect a *leading* role in a company I've not worked with before. They also said it's primarily a dance audition, though, so I really hope I can keep stretching my ankles and get over whatever this musculo-tendon thing is before then.
Work-wise, I dunno, I've just been alternately "meh" and "Grr" about it lately. No particular reason, I don't think. Just generally annoyed. Maybe doing a show will help.
Oh, and for Capers, I'm trying to decide what to perform. I think it's not necessary to sing "Cabaret" - especially since the accompanist is also the Music Director for Cabaret - but also because he's asking to meet up with people ahead of time, so it might be possible to do something a little more involved. (Plus we're already planning a trio that pokes fun at what happened, and singing *another* selection just feels petty.) I dunno - maybe it's time to do Scarlet Pimpernel or something.
Ugh, I really feel crappy. I cannot breathe. I had to record a SpellCast reading last night, too - sorry in advance, folks. It's dot gudda soud bardicularly good.
What else? S'about it.
ETA: Forgot to add this. I found out from my chief editor the other day that our publisher has decided to stop producing hard copies - going electronic only, in other words - and we're leaving that publisher as a result. It also sounds like some other changes are happening, because when I asked about the anthology we had been working on, she said she didn't think it was going to happen and didn't have "a good feeling" about it. Also two other editors (not part of our original group) would be the ones working on it.
So. It sounds like my editing with that group is coming to an end, at least for a while. We are changing publishers - the new one will be Dark Quest Games - but it also means that I can work up a few stories, including the one that was going in the next anthology, and start looking for a place to publish them on my own.
Which is good and bad. I mean, working with Sidhe Na Daire was fairly low-key and easy and moderately successful, and I'm not sure I have the energy or the time to push my own writing forward without something so easy. Yes, I'm lazy. I'm also busy.
Maybe when Azkatraz is over and I don't have something else to obsess over. Hah.
I'm sniffling and my nose is running like a river. My throat hurts. I don't feel sick - no loss of appetite or flu-like symptoms - but my head is muzzy and my nose hurts.
I stayed home from work today and I'm logged on to the work computer. Rah. I've done a load of laundry and I'll start packing to go away this weekend...soon.
I had to go to the store to get OJ and more milk. I know I need the OJ because it tasted uncommonly good. I'll have to be careful not to give this to the sprog when I see her.
Also, for the past three days, the tendons in the backs of my heels / ankles have HURT. I thought it was maybe a little bruising from my construction / winter boots, hitting different pressure points. But it hasn't gone away. Going up and down stairs, even walking, feels like my Achilles' tendons have been strained, like the muscles are pulled. It's OWIE. Am I just falling apart, or is this something else?
/hypochondria
In other news, I got a callback for Nine - sounds like they are looking at me for one of the minor characters, which is just groovy - I could have a hella good time with the reporter or the lady of the spa or something like that. It's unrealistic to expect a *leading* role in a company I've not worked with before. They also said it's primarily a dance audition, though, so I really hope I can keep stretching my ankles and get over whatever this musculo-tendon thing is before then.
Work-wise, I dunno, I've just been alternately "meh" and "Grr" about it lately. No particular reason, I don't think. Just generally annoyed. Maybe doing a show will help.
Oh, and for Capers, I'm trying to decide what to perform. I think it's not necessary to sing "Cabaret" - especially since the accompanist is also the Music Director for Cabaret - but also because he's asking to meet up with people ahead of time, so it might be possible to do something a little more involved. (Plus we're already planning a trio that pokes fun at what happened, and singing *another* selection just feels petty.) I dunno - maybe it's time to do Scarlet Pimpernel or something.
Ugh, I really feel crappy. I cannot breathe. I had to record a SpellCast reading last night, too - sorry in advance, folks. It's dot gudda soud bardicularly good.
What else? S'about it.
ETA: Forgot to add this. I found out from my chief editor the other day that our publisher has decided to stop producing hard copies - going electronic only, in other words - and we're leaving that publisher as a result. It also sounds like some other changes are happening, because when I asked about the anthology we had been working on, she said she didn't think it was going to happen and didn't have "a good feeling" about it. Also two other editors (not part of our original group) would be the ones working on it.
So. It sounds like my editing with that group is coming to an end, at least for a while. We are changing publishers - the new one will be Dark Quest Games - but it also means that I can work up a few stories, including the one that was going in the next anthology, and start looking for a place to publish them on my own.
Which is good and bad. I mean, working with Sidhe Na Daire was fairly low-key and easy and moderately successful, and I'm not sure I have the energy or the time to push my own writing forward without something so easy. Yes, I'm lazy. I'm also busy.
Maybe when Azkatraz is over and I don't have something else to obsess over. Hah.
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