ooh look, there was a blank unaddressed email in my "Drafts." guess i was in the middle of saying nothing to no one and got interrupted. now, taking up where i left off...
god, maybe i should send this to everyone. i'm basically waiting for one file from sean then i update the swill website; i could recreate it from the version i have and i will if it's close enough (i have a hardcopy to compare to.) then our big deal issue 4 will be available to our hordes of followers next week; i'm posting July 24 as the release date - that's friday and i'll be mailing out authors' copies saturday.
so freaking tired right now, and i get up early all next week to open the store. which won't, of course, affect me going to writers group at 7:30 tuesday - hell, that tends to energize me, just means i'll be tired wednesday. if i can just make my brain work while i'm tired...
i think the house fire may have something to do with my fatigue. i know it did the night it happened, kind of hard to sleep while wondering if maybe the fire department missed something, even though they have these cool mri cameras that look behind the wood - i've read too much science fiction to have faith in technology. i guess if i read the front part of the newspaper i could have had the same response.
things not to do: don't let your house catch on fire. don't lose your best employee while your second best employee is on vacation (he's not leaving yet and she'll be back before he's gone, and i recommended him for the management job in our company - again, i think it's doing this shit the same week the house catches fire.) oh, and if your house does catch fire, don't let it fuck up any doors so they don't shut right, because then you don't know whether insurance will pick up the tab if you get the door fixed before your claim is processed - basically, i'm making this door workable without knowing what that entails but i pay enough in premiums and they're no doubt going up, i'd better get every fucking penny's worth out of this. also, avoid doing all these things in a shitty economy when you're about to launch a personal project and you want to do everything possible in terms of marketing.
good news is, i have a copy of swill 4 in front of me and it looks fucking great. one fucking typo and it's already been corrected, we print from the corrected file start of next week.
ok, this was going to be a deeply personal email to a close friend of mine but god knows who so we're going with this, all you close personal friends who make your way here. but if you happen to make it past the blog and all the way to my house, the two drink minimum applies only to me, you may leave as much alcohol behind as you like. Cheers!
5 comments:
I'm glad you shared it with the close personal friends who check out your blog. You're a fucking champ for making it through this week and life shall reward you richly with beer in the very near future, if not in the current moment.
You'd better mean in the very near future AND in the current moment. I've got now under control (as much as the facade of having something under control can exist.) Oh god, Devo's Mongoloid just came on my shuffle. Some moments are just fucking great.
Just take it one drink at a time, buddy. One drink at a time.
Sorry you're having such a shitty week. It sounds like it could have been lots worse, and I don't know why you need a door that closes in a nice neighborly town like Oakland, anyway.
Things will get better. That's what I tell myself and sometimes they do.
We lock the doors for an ego stroke, Jen - pretending we own something that someone would steal. Really, we had a couple of break-ins a few years back and were robbed of valuable yogurt and video games. Anyway, I played handyman on the door once I realized I could fix it by doing something destructive - hammer and chisel, fun toys. Not as fun as crowbar and sledgehammer, but I couldn't figure out how to fix anything with those.
So now we're back to dealing with things, making appointments with insurance people then rescheduling - some day we'll get this finished. Or at least started.
Post a Comment