So, about a million years ago, I started a fic or two that I haven't finished. I don't know if anyone still reads or wants to, but I've had the occasional email asking about it. However, because of a few shakeups in my life and (generally positive) universe flips, I stopped writing in 2008, managed to find my words again, briefly, in 2010, and now, in 2013, I've been trying to reclaim them. So far, I've been mostly unsuccessful.
Last week I was hunting through some cartons of paperwork and such looking for my birth certificate (note to self: you packed VERY VERY well last time you moved. Try to do that again next time, yes?) and found a thick bunch of papers I didn't recognize. Flipping them open, I realized they were the almost-complete chapters of Eris and Aurora, part 7, that I wrote in 2011.
I moved in 2011 to a rental closer to work. My computer was a casualty, and I had to replace the hard-drive. I managed to save the notes and some of the files for E&A, but I thought I'd lost the actual chapters, and most of my problems with continuing the story seemed to be that I couldn't recreate what I had, and didn't like what I replaced them with. So, finding the 20-odd pages of part 7, minus only the coda, which, until an hour or so ago, I hadn't finished and am still not sure I like, was almost a miracle in a week that seemed to have a couple of those.
So, I have to say, in a few hours when I'm done editing, I'll be posting the final installments of Eris and Aurora. I started the story in 2005. Eight years, huh? I don't expect comments or feedback, though I will value highly anything I receive. I'm posting to complete some long-ago promises and remind myself that once upon a time, I wrote pretty good fic.
For those who pushed, prodded, cajoled and begged me, so long ago? I'm so sorry it's late. I hope you like it.
Okay, so: Big Damn Back gave me a really good job. I'm enjoying every (or nearly every) minute of it, but three weeks in and the 90min commute is doing a number on me. I get home and have roughly an hour and a half of downtime before I need to zzz.
Doesn't make it any easier that I am usually a night owl. The whole sleeping without prior hours of reading is difficult without total exhaustion. Thankfully that doesn't seem to be a problem. I have lotta exhaustion to go 'round.
Adjusting to full time after irregular hours for years is tough, natch.
I think it's just a little worse right now, because I finally got my eyes retested, and to my astonishment, the glasses I've been wearing for four years didn't have the right correction on one eye. My left's always been way worse and astigmatised, and yet my glasses had two identical lenses, just right for my relatively fine right eye.
Now my new prescription is giving me headaches and headspins thanks to the massive adjustment. Ugh. Even though the right eye prescription's bearely changed, and under ordinary circumstances (that being, the last lot of glasses weren't WRONG) I probably wouldn't have needed anything more than a better set of frames, the adjustment now is wierd and hard and even the contact lenses I'm trialling make me dizzy.
Bleh.
But I still love my job. I had some great feedback today. But as one of the team leaders pointed out: in my last job, I was practised and experienced and fantastic, and seeing I'd done it for a while, I was forgetting how rough my first few weeks probably were. Starting the new job, we all expect to be totally lost for a few days and then bang up to standard, and it doesn't happen quite like that. Still, the feedback I got was that I am a little ahead of the curve, and that my comms are excellent.
YAY. I like this very much.
Given how little time I'm getting right now to work on things ficcish, I'm printing out my notes and drafts for E&A to take to work so I can get this last stubborn part-chapter some attention. At least I have 2x90min train-rides to do that in.
was going to do diet report and 'day two' of work, but I'm exhausted.
Maybe I shouldn't be trying to break my coca-cola addiction the week I start work with 13-hour days? *sigh*
I am loving the new job and very excited still, but I feel like I haven't slept for a week.
They gave me candy at work again. That's two days in a row. Maybe they're used to new recruits having the desperate need for energy, or something? *ponders*
No vacuuming last night. Nine PM hasn't ticked around yet, though, so I can only say that OCD Neighbour is not vacuuming tonight YET but that doesn't mean a great deal. She vacuums four and five times a week sometimes.
Leda has a job with big damn bank. Starting Monday.
*faints with relief* It's been a hell of a week. The person handling the communications for my job offer left the company suddenly, leaving me in limbo for a week. The replacement rang yesterday to say "do you know where you need to be on Monday? Who you need to check in with?" and I said "Oh, am I employed?". LOL! We had a good chuckle. Now I have a week's worth of being sleepless on tenterhooks to catch up on, before I start training Monday.
It's great. Everything about it, except the location, is wonderful. It's a long commute, just over an hour, but I actually enjoy the train, it gives me relatively quiet time in an otherwise hectic household.
Gods, I'm so relieved. Thank you all for your good wishes last week. I hope you had a wonderful week!
Now, I'm out to celebratory lunch with my besties.
Also: I have broken my promises (again) re E&A, but I do assure everyone, it's being worked on. I didn't get much done this week, no concentration, but I'm penning a Cottle section and working on the final confrontation / reconciliation some more tonight.
So, today I got to the final step in the applications process for a job I really wanted. I'd aced the skills testing, got through the interviews and security checks, the medicals, the works. The final step? check your references.
My work referees are two people who gave me glowing reports. I knew they would. However, one of them commented that I had excellent admin skills to go with the customer service which was the focus the new employers were after.
Got to be the first time I've ever been turned down for a job for being multi-talented.
And I really wanted that one. Back to the drawing board.
Will be occupying my stupid head with E&A this weekend. Again, no promises, but it's nearly done anyway.
It never occurred to me that trying to combine jobhunting, writing and renovating half my frakking house at the same time would be tiring. God, I can't move my arms.
I've had three interviews this week, and half-a-dozen callbacks. I pretty much have a customer-service liaison role with ... dun dun duuuunnnn: evil telecommunications giant if I want it, but I'd really like to hear back from a few of my other interviews.
The house has a huge back deck now. A new floor in the TV room, new curtains and insulation most places. My computer's now back in the office, rather than in the living room. The couch leaves to be reupholstered this week. The workmen are coming this week to pave my paths and lay a new slab for the shed in the yard, rain permitting. The electricians are finally finished - new cabling for TVs, new aerial. The roofers are winding up too, at long last.
Now I just have to strip and sand and restain half the furniture, buy rugs, and move everything back wherever the hell they belonged.
*collapses*
At any rate, I've been kind of busy. I wouldn't blame anyone for worrying about my posting schedule for E&A, because, hey, I've said this before. But the chapter / finale's about 4/5'ths written, and while I'm not 100% happy with it yet, I can see what I need to do.
Just need a little more time. Sorry all.
On another note, why, when I cannot STAND reality TV shows, am I addicted to SYTYCD Au? WHHHHY? It's bad enough that I loved one hot ballroom boy first season and a ballet girl in second season, but this year I keep going back for the abs. All the abs. On all of them.
Title: Eris and Aurora, 6b/7 Length: 6302 for entire chapter Rating: M. Sex references, language, violence. Characters: Kara/Lee, Adama. Genre: Drama, Angst, Romance.
Notes: AU, begins during the mini-series. Occasional backstory flashbacks. No spoilers for anything beyond the episode Act of Contrition at this point. Naturally, characters and concepts are property of RDM / SciFi / Larson.
Summary: "You broke your ship, sir," he pointed out, and left without being dismissed.
