Back at the Unnamed Law Firm

Started back to the law firm today, filling in from now until end of August or whenever after Renee will come back. If she does. Lightening strike me, but I hope she does decide to go ahead and retire as she'd talked about, as I want her job. Yup, I do.

I love the three attorneys. Ed is smart and fun and challenging to work for, Bill is a sweetheart that despite being like the second bigshot attorney in the firm is always careful to ask if I have time to help him, could I? And Davis is the young dude who does all his own work--except when I am around. All three kept me hopping doing a mixture of federal (Ed), banking (Bill and litigation (Davis). I love love love it though man they exhausted the hell out of me today! I swear I should get a pedometer to see how many steps I take in a given day.

So tonight am pretty darn zonked, but happy. I was so depressed (again) about not working (despite my unemployment and having plenty in the bank). I just like being useful and productive and doing something that is good and awesome and...yeah. I like thinking 'job well done today, C!' at the end of the day rather than 'oh man, I am a useless, horrible lazy creature.' I am simply not one who can write all day--I get 2-3k a day and that is my happy point and that only takes an hour or two at at time. More than that and my hands and brain hate me.

WRITING: oh man, writing is going so well! 2-3k a day, and this first draft WILL be done by Sunday night! YEEESSSSSS!!!! It is going to end up around 75k maybe 80k in the first draft so I figure knowing me I will add 15k to that by the time I am done. Excellent! Very happy with the progress, loving the story so much. It has been amazing to write an entire story top to toe in such a short amount of time (considering my last ms took me 3 years...).

PUBLISHING STUFF: Still waiting to hear back from editor on edits. I hope there isn't a round two. I want a publication date!

FENCON: Going end of September, and am doing the writing workshop. I have to turn in my first 5-10 pages by July 15th. I am still wavering on what to do. Fantasy? (all the Game of Thrones talk sure has me hyped up for that). I am thinking so. Still attending the WWBC group on Saturdays when I can, and working on it there, but am impatient with the process, and am just ready to write already, dammit! So yeah, probably that for FenCon.

JOB: see above, happily freelancing for now.

TRAVEL: Got my ticket to the UK bought and purchased, and lol the law firm is actually getting ME a temp in to fill in some while I am gone. A temp for the freelancer? Crazy!

SCHOOL: Am still excited about taking the non-US history course, even if it does mean I will be away from my babies twice a week! They aren't gonna like that.

HEALTH STUFF: Doing well. Am determined to lose 8 more lbs. before I go see cruentum though he doesn't care about such things--just that I am happy with myself. This is why I adore him.

What else? Can't think of a thing--it is almost 10:00 p.m., and I should go read now. Reading Vonda McIntyre's amazing DREAMSNAKE...absolutely a fav book from my childhood, no longer in print but she has it available for 4.99. I sent it to my Dad, who introduced me to the book when I was a kid (and he was THRILLED to get it), and to my sister who also loved it and to whom he also introduced it. I am much savvier and understand far far more about it than I did back then (there was a poly relationship? I totally missed that at thirteen, silly naive me), and Snake is just...I think hands-down she is my most favorite character ever.

And that is all. Why am I not in bed? I think I am just unwinding. Tomorrow I can wear jeans to work, and it will be a calmer day as Ed is gone. And I don't have to be at work until 9! I love that, 9-5.