I am so looking forward to abandoning ship

[savvyliterate]

Well, thank you, AT&T, you've added two extremely good reasons to why you are getting dropped like a hot potato as soon as my iPhone 4S comes in at Verizon.

I'd been asked to wait for a summons to come into work on OT only to get a message at 3:30 finding out they'd been trying to call and text me for more than an hour and I had my phone next to me the entire time. I was livid and my poor boss got the brunt of my going, "Wait a minute! Are you sure you don't need me? I can come in, I cleared my entire afternoon for this!" then finally admitted I was really pissed at AT&T. I finally went up to the office anyhow because I needed to drop off my time card and apologized for freaking out the way I did, but my boss made the very good point that I've gotten the most OT on the night staff this year and it's good to mix it up. But, we were still perplexed at why I never got his messages and blamed AT&T. I'm sure I'll get them in March 2012.

So, I came back home and told Mike and wound up losing it all over him as I sobbed that I was so worried I wouldn't make enough to support us, and if I didn't, what would we do? Mike, being the wonderful husband he is, virtually shook some sense into me and got me to admit that I've been working so hard lately that I've been coming home in near tears. I've not told anyone because I refused to let anyone worry about me or feel guilty. I keep feeling like I'm the laziest person alive, but he insisted that I work harder than anyone he knows and that I'm always working. He finally got me to relax a bit and admit that I needed a break more than we needed the OT, and we'll figure everything out once he's over here and has a job.

Reason #2 came an hour or so later when I walked out of the bedroom to see two missed calls and two voicemails from my dad back to back. I grabbed the phone thinking something happened to my family or else he wouldn't call like that, but no, Dad wanted my advice on buying an iPad 2. He's getting one. ^_^ But at the end of the call, he mentioned my voicemail greeting was gone. AT&T randomly dumped it. Grr ...

I went to the West Shore write-in for NaNo, but it was so crowded with this teenage study group that I didn't figure out who the folks were until I'd been there an hour. Then, my brain was so dead from trying to work on the crossover that I didn't feel very sociable. By the time I did feel like saying something, we were evacuated from the place because of an electrical fire. Oops. I said something right at the end that made them realize who I was and felt bad I didn't speak up before.

I did make my word count for the day, but my brain was stuck in the 1930s AU I spent the weekend writing. It's actually only my second AU I've ever written (first was 10 years ago for Rurouni Kenshin), but damn I loved the universe I cooked up for the Doctor and River. I managed to grind out the required 1,667, then when I got home, I rebelled a bit and went back to the original prologue of Time and Death and worked in about half of it because it's so better worded than the parts I tried to recreate.

Writing I've done in the past couple of weeks:

Doctor Who

On Assignment (1930s AU where the Doctor and River work for a newspaper): Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 (Complete)

Your absence was felt in so many ways (M-rated short sequel to "On Assignment")

A Merry Chase: Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4