GAH EVERYTHING SUCKS

[jazzfish]

Work is being workish and just dropped a ton more work on my head, on top of all the work I've been putting off because hey look over there, a procrastinabob! So the next couple days will be awful. Starting tonight.

And likely because of that I'm still in hiding-from-everything mode and don't want to do anything, and haven't revised a bit of my stupid deeply frustrating story. Which I wanted to have out the door by the time summer con season got started. GUESS WE BLEW THAT ONE.

And I go to the beach next week. Which would be awesome and relaxing but there will be work, and why will there be work? Because I felt stressed out and slacked off and didn't get it all done by now, that's why. Not to mention the packing and planning and non-work everything that needs to happen before we leave. Including figuring out how we're getting to SeaTac (current best answer: by Amtrak bus, getting us there IF EVERYTHING GOES RIGHT at 8:30 PM, half an hour away by transit for a 10:15 flight).

After that we'll be in Richmond (Va) for a couple of days and then in the DC area for a couple of days, and then we fly to Madison for Wiscon. Which will hopefully not suck, and will in any event be populated by a large number of awesome people I have not seen since October (or, in two fortunate cases, since March).

But the DC part is going to be rough because there is simply not enough time to see all the awesome people I want to see.

There's a Hokusai exhibit at the Sackler gallery, and since I just finished rereading Zelazny's only-female-main-character mood piece "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai" we are likely going to that on Monday. And dinner with my folks on Tuesday and working from work Tues and Weds and flying out of National on Wednesday night. Gah time.

And then after Wiscon I come home and go back to work, nominally relaxed and recharged and in reality just jetlagged and lonely.

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Today I am grateful for the perfect weather, for being a beta-tester for Spectromancer for iPhone, for a handful of pretty kick-ass friends. For having a job that pays me to be where I want to be.

Comments

[rbandrews]

people I have not seen since October (or, in two fortunate cases, since March).

Don't forget June!

[jazzfish]

... right, or in two other cases stretching back to June.

[rbandrews]

Reminds me, do you want anything German? I can mail it to you. Except Kinder Eggs, because apparently those are actually really difficult to sneak back into the states. But games should be cool.

There are a whopping two things I want to see in Berlin: Checkpoint Charlie, and the biggest game store I can find (because no Origins, that's why). I just... don't know of a ton of stuff to do in Germany... I'm looking forward to the hackathon more than the tourism.

[notyourwendy]

Kinder Eggs can be gotten all over the place in Canada. It's just the US that has some freaky problem with them.

(I confess, I mostly just checked in here so that I could use my chocolate octopus icon)

[rbandrews]

Don't tell The Man™, but I know a place to get them here too.

Seriously though, apparently places here selling them get raided all the time. It's crazy.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

it's the itty bitty pieces, I think. though i'm always amused by the huge long string of languages in which they print 'don't let your kid kill himself with this'

Urgh, difficult timing for a foo, that. And I'm committed to teach at Glen Echo on Monday, though could conceivably bail around 8. Virtual hugs.

[jazzfish]

Hm. I don't think so. If anything comes up I'll let you know. I imagine there are game-related things I'm interested in that are just not coming to mind.