The Aerie
Okay, taxes done, blog updated, FAFSA finished, bus pass considered, bathroom cleaned, desktop organized, faucet replaced, post office box checked, sidewalk salted, next week's paper drafted, laundry done, homework finished, parent teacher conference attended, maps printed, class attended and job lined up for Monday. All that's left is write the Foundation website, update my academic evaluation, build a new Ubuntu server, and pack for this weekend's trip, and I'll be ready to relax!
So yes, I have a job, starting downtown on Monday at a good corporate gig at a good rate that, if I can avoid screwing up and also avoid running into the $*#&@ who fired me the last time I was there (and who fired me in 1999 from a completely different job - yes, I got fired by the same #*$*@ twice at two different jobs This town is too damned small. [And yes, I was fired simply because the *#&@ doesn't LIKE me, not for performance based reasons {and YES I have been fired for performance based reasons so it's not like I wouldn't say if they had been justified firings - they weren't,the #*&@$ just doesn't like me and I really hope she's no longer at this place}]).
This week I could have "taken 'off'" which would have meant building my new server, doing some household chores, and lazing about. But then I realized that I had another paper due March 4th, of the same kind that ended up EATING MY WEEK just last week. And I realized no WAY could I get a paper like that done during my first four days on the new job. And so I did the responsible, grown-up thing, and spent the last three days writing next week's paper. Yes I'm done a week early. I know! It's like I don't know who that is in the mirror!
ANYWAY having accomplished a truly mindboggling list of things, including my paper, my weekly homework, etc., I am NOW ready to relax ALMOST.
This weekend is the big trip to the cabin in Wisconsin with another couple, where there will be no TV reception, no cable, no cell phone reception, no Internet. Just a hot tub, a laptop, and a lot of liquor. Two nights, so I really hope I can decompress a bit tomorrow before we leave, otherwise I'll just get into the rhythm of the thing about when it's time to go home.
As for what I'll write, well, I'd LIKE to work on "Flying Sucks," which is a young adult novel about a kid who wakes up one day and discovers he can fly. Well, float, actually, which is part of the problem. No lateral movement.
But I fell like I OUGHT to work on "Mirek," which is a standard gamers-fall-into-the-game-world story, but set on Tékumel.
Or maybe I'll work on my role-playing setting idea, which is set on a partially-terraformed Mars around the year 2500 or so.
See, this is why I need to get to the place where I don't have to work for a living anymore. Because I'm so chockablock full of ideas that I'd never be idle a single day. Unfortunately I have 7.5 more years of fiscal responsibility before all three kids are through college. After that, WATCH OUT. I'll move into a cardboard box someplace and start writing!
Anyway, WEEKEND HO!
Posted by Albatross at February 25, 2010 11:15 PM | TrackBack