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juldeaThe following post covers the topics of:
my sleep schedule
where I am with Arisia things
my Blind Mag costume, its awesomeness, and maybe entering Masquerade with it
winter, how I fell on the ice yesterday but did NOT get injured
the Jason Webley concert I attended last night
my attempts at LJ catchup
the office move we completed at work this weekend
a rough outline of this week's schedule
Apparently I have been really shafting myself on sleep recently. I've been getting 5-6 hours a night, and while I've been able to get through days, it all crashed down today - I wound up with an afternoon freer than I thought it would be, and took a nap that ended up lasting about five hours. Now, of course, I'm up at 3am, but I will solve this soon by going to bed for another five hours of sleep, and hopefully tomorrow my body will think I have somehow gotten something between five and ten and not complain too much.
Arisia things are going much better than I thought they would at this point. I've still got lots to do, but it has turned out to be managable. I showed up at the "get your stuff from storage" session today to find out that others had taken care of my stuff for me out of miscommunication, thinking I wouldn't be there. We went over what stuff I had, and then I snagged the two people who could info dump at me and they did so. I ended up going away with, "Oh, I don't need to worry about X, Y, and Z, it'll be provided to me!" hence freeing up my day. Phew.
The Second Shift performance will be awesome. Please come see it if you're not otherwise busy; Sunday afternoon at 2pm in President's CD.
The Blind Mag costume I've been working on is pretty much done. At this point I could just pick up the necessary makeup and call myself done, actually, but there are a couple finishing touches I could add to make it better and I plan on doing so. The sewing portion of the costume just fell into place in a manner that made me feel like the most awesome person on the planet -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
christhegeek, oddharmonic, I feel like you two would be proud of me for my creations. Anyway, the costume has ended up being awesome enough that I am thinking of entering the Arisia Masquerade with it. I think I'll make that decision after debuting the costume at the Repo show on Thursday night and seeing what other fan's reactions are and how well I feel the costume itself holds up. (It's possible I leave feathers behind me everywhere I go.) Pictures will of course be posted for all of you non-locals, if only because I am an attention whore.
It continues being winter in New England, with snow and ice and all that entails. I have been prevailing against the weather's attempts to injure me. However, there was a close call last night! When walking down the oh-so-slight slope of a sidewalk's ramp down onto a crosswalk, there was a second wherein I was vertical and the next second, I was horizontal. I don't recall the moments inbetween, but I found the fall pretty momentous - I didn't seem to fall on my butt first and then over backwards, but just straight and flat from on feet to on back. I did crack my head back rather hard on the ground, enough to clack my teeth together and to be audibly worrisome tousernamenumber, but I must've just hit it on snow because it was neither sore immediately afterwards nor is now. My neck, however, is pretty tense now. But all in all I was able to immediately stand up, shake my head a bit, and finish walking across the street without a limp or leg/ankle/knee twinge to be had, so I count that as a non-injury incident and remain with my count of "24 days since injury" (the count having started on Dec 17 when the weather turned bad; not since the actual last injury.)
This incident occurred after attending a pretty magnificent concert in Inman Square last night with usernamenumber. The performing musician was Jason Webley, whose music I can only describe as "hobo folk" and very definitely reminiscent of some of the darker sides of Gaea Spore in a way that made me want to call upwithlyn and make him listen. He's got awesome stage presence, and when you're at home unable to experience that his music and lyricism fill in the gaps. There are a few tracks on his MySpace page if the concept of a hobo-gypsy-folk-bard appeals to you. I recommend "Map" and "Eleven Saints," but don't blame me if the latter gets stuck in your head.
I have spent the past two hours attempting to catch up on my friends page entries, which it turns out I haven't read in a week. I am happy with LJ's new view friends page by date feature - I am now caught up through the 6th, and that'll be that for the night. It turns out there's generally 60-80 posts on my flist per day, which yeah, is pretty rough to catch up on if you spend over a week too brain-blasted to read up. So anyway, if I comment on old posts in the next couple of days, that's what's up - I'm catching up. (Ha - like I'll have time to do that the next couple of days.)
In work news, my office has now officially moved floors from the third to the second, so I have a new desk and a new view and more direct oversight from the less-cool owner of the company. We shall see how this ends up affecting my online time from work, which is generally low anyway. The moving process was pretty grueling, in that we're a small company and didn't hire anyone to move us, but rather everybody came in Friday and Saturday in jeans and getting-dirty shirts and hauled and lifted and moved. No bonus pay for it, though Saturday earned us a free vacation day sometime later in the year, and of course we were fed pizza and donuts and bagels. I did a lot of IT work laying wires and hooking up the network and computers, and had a brief discussion with the boss regarding my new add-on job title of "IT specialist," the results of which are, "We're a small company and people wear many hats, no you don't get any paperwork saying this, but I'll back it up if you ever need to put it on a resume."
So this week I'll probably still be offline a bit: tomorrow is both jobs and then meetingdiego001 for dinner, Tuesday is TTC and then Second Shift rehearsal, Wednesday is TTC and then a trip to a new salon for girly stuff and then an evening probably spent panicking about whatever I have left to do for Arisia and Repo, and Thursday is TTC and Repo, and then Friday is ARISIA, OHSHI-.
I know there's more to say - there's a couple of posts I've dropped in here in the last week that I really, really would like to pick up on the threads of, and most importantly to CLARIFY, but that would take way more spoons than I have right now. So thanks everyone for sticking with me, and everything should return back to "normal" in a little over one week. (And then will be shaken up again with a trip out of town and moving, but ah well, such is life.)
Apparently I have been really shafting myself on sleep recently. I've been getting 5-6 hours a night, and while I've been able to get through days, it all crashed down today - I wound up with an afternoon freer than I thought it would be, and took a nap that ended up lasting about five hours. Now, of course, I'm up at 3am, but I will solve this soon by going to bed for another five hours of sleep, and hopefully tomorrow my body will think I have somehow gotten something between five and ten and not complain too much.
Arisia things are going much better than I thought they would at this point. I've still got lots to do, but it has turned out to be managable. I showed up at the "get your stuff from storage" session today to find out that others had taken care of my stuff for me out of miscommunication, thinking I wouldn't be there. We went over what stuff I had, and then I snagged the two people who could info dump at me and they did so. I ended up going away with, "Oh, I don't need to worry about X, Y, and Z, it'll be provided to me!" hence freeing up my day. Phew.
The Second Shift performance will be awesome. Please come see it if you're not otherwise busy; Sunday afternoon at 2pm in President's CD.
The Blind Mag costume I've been working on is pretty much done. At this point I could just pick up the necessary makeup and call myself done, actually, but there are a couple finishing touches I could add to make it better and I plan on doing so. The sewing portion of the costume just fell into place in a manner that made me feel like the most awesome person on the planet -
christhegeek, oddharmonic, I feel like you two would be proud of me for my creations. Anyway, the costume has ended up being awesome enough that I am thinking of entering the Arisia Masquerade with it. I think I'll make that decision after debuting the costume at the Repo show on Thursday night and seeing what other fan's reactions are and how well I feel the costume itself holds up. (It's possible I leave feathers behind me everywhere I go.) Pictures will of course be posted for all of you non-locals, if only because I am an attention whore.It continues being winter in New England, with snow and ice and all that entails. I have been prevailing against the weather's attempts to injure me. However, there was a close call last night! When walking down the oh-so-slight slope of a sidewalk's ramp down onto a crosswalk, there was a second wherein I was vertical and the next second, I was horizontal. I don't recall the moments inbetween, but I found the fall pretty momentous - I didn't seem to fall on my butt first and then over backwards, but just straight and flat from on feet to on back. I did crack my head back rather hard on the ground, enough to clack my teeth together and to be audibly worrisome to
usernamenumber, but I must've just hit it on snow because it was neither sore immediately afterwards nor is now. My neck, however, is pretty tense now. But all in all I was able to immediately stand up, shake my head a bit, and finish walking across the street without a limp or leg/ankle/knee twinge to be had, so I count that as a non-injury incident and remain with my count of "24 days since injury" (the count having started on Dec 17 when the weather turned bad; not since the actual last injury.)This incident occurred after attending a pretty magnificent concert in Inman Square last night with usernamenumber. The performing musician was Jason Webley, whose music I can only describe as "hobo folk" and very definitely reminiscent of some of the darker sides of Gaea Spore in a way that made me want to call up
withlyn and make him listen. He's got awesome stage presence, and when you're at home unable to experience that his music and lyricism fill in the gaps. There are a few tracks on his MySpace page if the concept of a hobo-gypsy-folk-bard appeals to you. I recommend "Map" and "Eleven Saints," but don't blame me if the latter gets stuck in your head.I have spent the past two hours attempting to catch up on my friends page entries, which it turns out I haven't read in a week. I am happy with LJ's new view friends page by date feature - I am now caught up through the 6th, and that'll be that for the night. It turns out there's generally 60-80 posts on my flist per day, which yeah, is pretty rough to catch up on if you spend over a week too brain-blasted to read up. So anyway, if I comment on old posts in the next couple of days, that's what's up - I'm catching up. (Ha - like I'll have time to do that the next couple of days.)
In work news, my office has now officially moved floors from the third to the second, so I have a new desk and a new view and more direct oversight from the less-cool owner of the company. We shall see how this ends up affecting my online time from work, which is generally low anyway. The moving process was pretty grueling, in that we're a small company and didn't hire anyone to move us, but rather everybody came in Friday and Saturday in jeans and getting-dirty shirts and hauled and lifted and moved. No bonus pay for it, though Saturday earned us a free vacation day sometime later in the year, and of course we were fed pizza and donuts and bagels. I did a lot of IT work laying wires and hooking up the network and computers, and had a brief discussion with the boss regarding my new add-on job title of "IT specialist," the results of which are, "We're a small company and people wear many hats, no you don't get any paperwork saying this, but I'll back it up if you ever need to put it on a resume."
So this week I'll probably still be offline a bit: tomorrow is both jobs and then meeting
diego001 for dinner, Tuesday is TTC and then Second Shift rehearsal, Wednesday is TTC and then a trip to a new salon for girly stuff and then an evening probably spent panicking about whatever I have left to do for Arisia and Repo, and Thursday is TTC and Repo, and then Friday is ARISIA, OHSHI-.I know there's more to say - there's a couple of posts I've dropped in here in the last week that I really, really would like to pick up on the threads of, and most importantly to CLARIFY, but that would take way more spoons than I have right now. So thanks everyone for sticking with me, and everything should return back to "normal" in a little over one week. (And then will be shaken up again with a trip out of town and moving, but ah well, such is life.)