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Feb. 1st, 2007 11:14 am
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susandeer and hastka! I wish I had some kind of supercool art for each of you, but rogue_megawolf has the corner on the stick figure market, and I know better than to muscle in on his territory. :)
January was just...crazy. Right after the hectic holidays, there was National Poetry Writing Month and all that entailed (mostly, just making the daily posts, finding good poems every day, and reading everyone's submissions while making my own), Further Confusion, and then...well, catching up on all of the work that I left behind to head to the convention at my illustrious bookshop.
All in all, it's been real. ;) I had an awesome time at the convention, and was surprised by the number of familiar faces I got to see. It was especially nice to see Horses Ghost, Lenny, Ipequey and Potoroo, and Caleb and Kenket! Mostly, though, I really got to know a lot of the 'locals' better. Didn't do much explicitly con-related, really, though I did join in on the Texas Hold'em tournament (I went to the final table as an alternate forshaterri and was the first man out) and the FMCL Cribbage Tournament (I do believe I lost to the eventual champion, KensterFox). Somewhere, I also found my calling as a poker dealer. Anyone know where I could find a job for that locally?
After that, there was...work. It was decided to put in new media displays for CDs and DVDs pretty much a day before I left for a five-day vacation. I did what I could in the time we had, but I left the job half-finished, which I felt guilty about but...I put a lot of work into organizing the sections so the transfer from the old tables to the new displays would be smooth. So I didn't feel *too* guilty. :) When I came back, though, everything was disorganized; genres of CDs blended in with each other, all the stuff I had been alphabetizing was painfully mixed around, and entire sections were just...non-existent. The other media guy hadn't shown up much during my vacation, and was out with a back injury for a week after I returned. So...guess who cleans up the mess? *flexes*
It's about two weeks later and I'm *still* recovering. Oog. I had to drop my attention for everything else to take care of CDs, so...we just finished organizing DVDs, and now video cassettes are in serious shape, and after that, we have to start organizing laserdiscs, etc. etc. Job security is not an issue with me. :) Pay is, though, so I've been redoing my resume and getting all kinds of feedback from people about job openings. Now that NaPoeWriMo's done and I have a bit of free time again, the job search can begin in earnest.
National Poetry Writing Month was...different from last year. We had a different crowd, and even those who stuck around from last year are in much different places from 2006. Personally, it was a lot harder to do for me; after the convention, though, and after I stopped trying to make every poem as good as they were last year, things got easier and the poems I produced had a lot more potential. Now it's time to shelve them for a while so I can work on the poems I wrote last year. :D
Other than that, Ryan and I are doing...really well. Better than I thought we would. There's been almost no friction at all since moving in together, and we make each other tremendously happy. It's...odd to think that we've already been together for five years now. It just feels so natural and easy to be here, with him. I am very used to it, already. ;)
This isn't to say I don't miss folks back home in Arkansas, because I do; I really want to head down there for at least a week sometime this year, and summer I think is the best bet for it. Is there any time you guys won't be scattered to the four winds for conventions?
Now, onto my next big few projects; mostly, editing poetry, writing haiku, keeping track of the writing groups and writing reviews for movies and such. I should probably read at some point, too.
A rabbit's work is never done!
susandeer and hastka! I wish I had some kind of supercool art for each of you, but rogue_megawolf has the corner on the stick figure market, and I know better than to muscle in on his territory. :) January was just...crazy. Right after the hectic holidays, there was National Poetry Writing Month and all that entailed (mostly, just making the daily posts, finding good poems every day, and reading everyone's submissions while making my own), Further Confusion, and then...well, catching up on all of the work that I left behind to head to the convention at my illustrious bookshop.
All in all, it's been real. ;) I had an awesome time at the convention, and was surprised by the number of familiar faces I got to see. It was especially nice to see Horses Ghost, Lenny, Ipequey and Potoroo, and Caleb and Kenket! Mostly, though, I really got to know a lot of the 'locals' better. Didn't do much explicitly con-related, really, though I did join in on the Texas Hold'em tournament (I went to the final table as an alternate for
shaterri and was the first man out) and the FMCL Cribbage Tournament (I do believe I lost to the eventual champion, KensterFox). Somewhere, I also found my calling as a poker dealer. Anyone know where I could find a job for that locally?After that, there was...work. It was decided to put in new media displays for CDs and DVDs pretty much a day before I left for a five-day vacation. I did what I could in the time we had, but I left the job half-finished, which I felt guilty about but...I put a lot of work into organizing the sections so the transfer from the old tables to the new displays would be smooth. So I didn't feel *too* guilty. :) When I came back, though, everything was disorganized; genres of CDs blended in with each other, all the stuff I had been alphabetizing was painfully mixed around, and entire sections were just...non-existent. The other media guy hadn't shown up much during my vacation, and was out with a back injury for a week after I returned. So...guess who cleans up the mess? *flexes*
It's about two weeks later and I'm *still* recovering. Oog. I had to drop my attention for everything else to take care of CDs, so...we just finished organizing DVDs, and now video cassettes are in serious shape, and after that, we have to start organizing laserdiscs, etc. etc. Job security is not an issue with me. :) Pay is, though, so I've been redoing my resume and getting all kinds of feedback from people about job openings. Now that NaPoeWriMo's done and I have a bit of free time again, the job search can begin in earnest.
National Poetry Writing Month was...different from last year. We had a different crowd, and even those who stuck around from last year are in much different places from 2006. Personally, it was a lot harder to do for me; after the convention, though, and after I stopped trying to make every poem as good as they were last year, things got easier and the poems I produced had a lot more potential. Now it's time to shelve them for a while so I can work on the poems I wrote last year. :D
Other than that, Ryan and I are doing...really well. Better than I thought we would. There's been almost no friction at all since moving in together, and we make each other tremendously happy. It's...odd to think that we've already been together for five years now. It just feels so natural and easy to be here, with him. I am very used to it, already. ;)
This isn't to say I don't miss folks back home in Arkansas, because I do; I really want to head down there for at least a week sometime this year, and summer I think is the best bet for it. Is there any time you guys won't be scattered to the four winds for conventions?
Now, onto my next big few projects; mostly, editing poetry, writing haiku, keeping track of the writing groups and writing reviews for movies and such. I should probably read at some point, too.
A rabbit's work is never done!
