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savvyliterateDear body,
OK, I have earned the right to sleep in. Or at least get a solid eight hours sleep. This clearly means that I must wake up after only six and a half hours and not feel like I've slept much at all. I suppose clean laundry is a high priority for you after all.
No love,
Me
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Yesterday was an adventure. Around the time I was writing my LJ post, I got a call from one of my co-workers saying the power had gone out three times already at the newspaper's main offices, and she needed to let someone know. Because I'm a good girl, I promptly notified the editor on-call. As a result, we wound up taking the precautionary move of transplanting the night production crew to the press plant until Monday in case the power kept going out.
The end result is that I wound up at work from roughly 2:30 p.m. to nearly 1 a.m., and I was so exhausted I was about in tears. A good summary of the day is pretty much that I wound up sending my local front four times because I kept screwing up a single paragraph. I did get a brief second wind on my way home, and wound up doing some writing. It helped that pretty much all of my favorite Doctor/River writers updated or posted new fic right around the end of my shift. It was kind of like a gift from God, the universe, Cthulhu, whoever you choose to believe in.
But, I did manage to make my co-workers' night better, and that's always a plus. Because I knew last night would be hard on all of us, I dug out my stash of Thornton's hot chocolate (white and dark), made my way to Turkey Hill for a gallon of milk, and took it all with me to work. The press plant has a proper kitchen, so I was able to boil part of the milk, found a carafe for it and hauled it all upstairs. I'll do the rest of the milk tonight. Everyone loved it, and once they realized I was talking to Mike over IM, began putting in requests. I'll ask him to bring the toffee hot chocolate. We also took my editor up on the offer to order ourselves pizza, and it really did make the night that much better. I dropped the rest of it off for the press crew on the way out, and hearing three stories of thanks being shouted at me from the presses did a lot to improve everything.
I found out that Books-A-Million, an Alabama bookstore chain I'm very familiar with and worked for my final year of college, is coming to Harrisburg. It's moving into the old Borders in Lower Paxton Twp. That's pretty cool. I have fond memories of working there, and it's where I got introduced by a customer to the "In Death" series, even though I didn't read it until I was working in Selma. They had a pretty good discount program, though it's shot up in price from $10 to $20 annually. Like with Borders, they developed a really good manga selection. I wish it would also come to the old Borders location in Lower Allen Twp., which is closer to the apartment. However, I understand why they wouldn't go there. It's just across the street from Barnes & Noble while the Harrisburg store has no competition around it at all.
We got about 3.5 inches of snow, but it was a real wet, heavy snow, and an absolute bear to work with. I've decided Mike can help me get the snow off the car once he moves, because he's nine inches taller than I am and can probably get the entire roof. I also didn't have any gloves because I never got around to buying new ones yet. Guess what I'm doing today? Yup, gloves and a pair of slippers. I'm noticing the older I get, the more I just can't get my feet warmed up during the winter. Usually just socks takes care of it, but I guess not now. So, I'm going to go find a pair of really awesome slippers to wear.
The West Shore kick-off for NaNo was canceled because of the snow, but the East Shore is still on, and I might go to it while running errands before work. It's over by Harrisburg Mall, and depending on how bad I-83 is, we'll see. I'm going to the write-in on Tuesday anyhow at Juice and Java, so I'll just probably stay on this side of the river to begin with.
OK, I have earned the right to sleep in. Or at least get a solid eight hours sleep. This clearly means that I must wake up after only six and a half hours and not feel like I've slept much at all. I suppose clean laundry is a high priority for you after all.
No love,
Me
-----
Yesterday was an adventure. Around the time I was writing my LJ post, I got a call from one of my co-workers saying the power had gone out three times already at the newspaper's main offices, and she needed to let someone know. Because I'm a good girl, I promptly notified the editor on-call. As a result, we wound up taking the precautionary move of transplanting the night production crew to the press plant until Monday in case the power kept going out.
The end result is that I wound up at work from roughly 2:30 p.m. to nearly 1 a.m., and I was so exhausted I was about in tears. A good summary of the day is pretty much that I wound up sending my local front four times because I kept screwing up a single paragraph. I did get a brief second wind on my way home, and wound up doing some writing. It helped that pretty much all of my favorite Doctor/River writers updated or posted new fic right around the end of my shift. It was kind of like a gift from God, the universe, Cthulhu, whoever you choose to believe in.
But, I did manage to make my co-workers' night better, and that's always a plus. Because I knew last night would be hard on all of us, I dug out my stash of Thornton's hot chocolate (white and dark), made my way to Turkey Hill for a gallon of milk, and took it all with me to work. The press plant has a proper kitchen, so I was able to boil part of the milk, found a carafe for it and hauled it all upstairs. I'll do the rest of the milk tonight. Everyone loved it, and once they realized I was talking to Mike over IM, began putting in requests. I'll ask him to bring the toffee hot chocolate. We also took my editor up on the offer to order ourselves pizza, and it really did make the night that much better. I dropped the rest of it off for the press crew on the way out, and hearing three stories of thanks being shouted at me from the presses did a lot to improve everything.
I found out that Books-A-Million, an Alabama bookstore chain I'm very familiar with and worked for my final year of college, is coming to Harrisburg. It's moving into the old Borders in Lower Paxton Twp. That's pretty cool. I have fond memories of working there, and it's where I got introduced by a customer to the "In Death" series, even though I didn't read it until I was working in Selma. They had a pretty good discount program, though it's shot up in price from $10 to $20 annually. Like with Borders, they developed a really good manga selection. I wish it would also come to the old Borders location in Lower Allen Twp., which is closer to the apartment. However, I understand why they wouldn't go there. It's just across the street from Barnes & Noble while the Harrisburg store has no competition around it at all.
We got about 3.5 inches of snow, but it was a real wet, heavy snow, and an absolute bear to work with. I've decided Mike can help me get the snow off the car once he moves, because he's nine inches taller than I am and can probably get the entire roof. I also didn't have any gloves because I never got around to buying new ones yet. Guess what I'm doing today? Yup, gloves and a pair of slippers. I'm noticing the older I get, the more I just can't get my feet warmed up during the winter. Usually just socks takes care of it, but I guess not now. So, I'm going to go find a pair of really awesome slippers to wear.
The West Shore kick-off for NaNo was canceled because of the snow, but the East Shore is still on, and I might go to it while running errands before work. It's over by Harrisburg Mall, and depending on how bad I-83 is, we'll see. I'm going to the write-in on Tuesday anyhow at Juice and Java, so I'll just probably stay on this side of the river to begin with.
