thene | frantic and snowblind

So I have hit the 55-hour-workweeks part of the year again and oh god why am I even bothering? I don't earn enough for it to be worth the money, and I have so many better things to be doing. This time last year was fine-ish because I was able to cut back at job a, which I can't really do right now because, having already officially quit, I am now covering for someone else who quit last week. Job b will be of much more use when it comes to finding work after I finally somehow move, so much as I hate D.M. it is currently less of a pointless grind. Besides, it's easier to write or study on the clock over there. (at some point this year I need to study business tax a little more than I already have, so hey).

I had yesterday off, and not knowing when I would next have an entire day off, I just let my fic id do whatever the hell it wanted with one of those late-night thoughts that should not have been worth the effort of sharing; almost 3.5k later, I am both amazed how fast & easily I can work when I stop pretending to be clever, and somewhat concerned that the ♠verse is now much like the d:eletionverse in that it is an AU that is essentially horrible but has nevertheless generated ABSURD amounts of sidefluff. (bite me, I was equally terrible on Christmas Day). Why do I always get ambushed by the comfort, WHY :( I did get some more useful stuff done on the ♠wreck while I was at work today, but it was slow and will probably need cutting as soon as this chapter develops any flow ever.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

let me commiserate with you.

Because work unexpectedly picked up for me, and that is good but also bad for my writing and my sleep. :( This time of year is the worst. It needs to be spring already ~~oh wait it already is~~

huh seriously? I always heard the food industry picked up around Valentine's Day, didn't know the rush started this early.

I have to try to be REALLY good about giving myself enough sleep when I'm working this crazily hard; I'm lucky that most of my shifts at job a start at 11am right now, so at least I'm not crawling out of bed too early. I find the amount I write has a really unpredictable relationship with working hours; there was one week last April when I worked over 50 hours and wrote something like 9-10k, and when not working at all I sometimes find it hard to get motivated to use my time well, but some things are just easier when you've got more time to think about them. IDK.

seriously wtf is this winter. I heard you guys had a tornado?

We just had a warning in my part of the state; it just rained a lot.

At work this time last year it was totally dead, but this year we only had one week where it was really slow, and then it began picking up. So idk either.

I vary, with writing tbh. Sometimes when I'm busy and stressed I get like that ad crank out a lot of words, but I guess right now I'm more busy, less stressed. And also figure skating is cranking up so I am anxiously awaiting results for US Nationals later on in the week. omfg Canadian Nats what.

Well that's good, I guess? Both my jobs are slow atm but the tax job will probably pick up a bit as of Friday; the other one, I have literally been standing at the front desk writing fic on the nearest bit of paper some nights but hey, one of the front end gals just quit and someone has to be standing at the front desk.

aw, you are making me remember when I was a tween and the skating calendar was MY LIFE. /should probably start paying attention again, if only to Dat Ass

Oh god, thene, stay away from skating because it is so much more frustrating now with the new-ish, supposedly ''cheat proof'' judging system. :/ Someone needs to bust Chan's knee with a pipe and do it right this time, I swear to god. (not really okay, I'm not that mean spirited, but why couldn't he have decided to be a fucking concert pianist) He's certainly a good skater technically, but his presentation and artistry leaves me cold, and the way everyone is hailing him as ~the savior of figure skating~ is laughable.

I will stop now before I mke myself mad again, but at least my bbs Jeremy and Elladj medalled. :')

At least there's no predetermined winner at US Nats; anything can happen this year.

SPORTS FANDOM: WHERE WANK NEVER DIES

guuh I was talking to Oude about that this morning; I don't even know how the new scoring works, but at Vancouver it just seemed painfully obvious that most of the Americans and many of the Canadians in all four competitions were painfully soulless; I guess they are just playing it safe for the sake of pointz now, and this is policy at an institutional level? At one point I swore Apolo Ohno was being way more fun to watch than most of the American figure skaters, sigh. :/

Thene, no one understands Code of Points, and the fact that the ISU keep changing it doesn't help matters. They just added even more point value to quads; it's great if people can do them, but there is more to skating than fucking jumps, and now we have men who can do quad toes but can't land a clean triple axle. :/ And the spins are so ugly and boring now (fucking A spins what) because now it's all about having to do a certain number of foot and edge changes. Now you can fall all over the damn place *COUGHPATRICCHANCOUGH* and still win. all. the things.

But tbh a lot of skaters at Vancouver, especially the men, had pretty shitty performances. Even Stephane Lambiel was oddly flat, and he's normally a very entertaining skater. But the state of American pairs is pretty dismal, and has been for the last decade. Our ladies are talented, but are major headcasers internationally. We do have reigning ice dance World Champs, though, so I guess that's something.

*working this much, I should say. Neither job is presently being at all hard.

frantic and snowblind

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject