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melayneseahawk"Danse Macabre" is finished, posted, and entered in the contest, with 10 minutes to spare. I rock. It can be found here, with all warnings. It's going to be one of a series, I get a feeling. Enjoy!
Work continues to be frustrating as hell, but I'm going to lay it all out in an entry tomorrow before I call the boss's boss to complain. *le sigh*
NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow. Oh dear. That's all I have to say about that. (I mean, I won't be writing tomorrow, since I have a head-start of sorts, but still. Gah.)
One more thing to get in before November. Earlier this year,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
copperbadge came up with the idea of a Dead Year, which he described like this:
What I think I have to do, for my own sanity if nothing else, is to take a part of 2006 and simply declare it a Dead Year. A doesn't-count, I'm-on-base time-out. Several months lifted out of my life, where I can come down from this standard a little. Working a menial or non-professional job isn't an issue for me, I've done it before, but where I twist up is working a menial job when I have a degree that should be getting me jobs within my profession. Where I'm not living up to what I know I can do, if given the opportunity. If I can let go of that for a set period of time, things might go better. Or something. I don't really know, but I know that I like the idea of the Dead Year.
After some thought, I think I'll be doing something similar. I'm setting aside this next year, from tomorrow, 1 November 2006, to 31 October 2007. I'm still doing NaNo, I'm still anticipating returning to school in the spring, but I'm going to try to take some of the pressure off. I'm going to a bit of the death-themed material likecopperbadge did, but only a little. Basically, I like the liminal idea of it: this next year is building toward something, but without the pressure. And I think the roadtrip is a great way to start this.
No, I'm not suicidal, you don't have to worry about me. I'm hoping this will make me happier, rather than less so. So, Happy Dead Year, all.
Work continues to be frustrating as hell, but I'm going to lay it all out in an entry tomorrow before I call the boss's boss to complain. *le sigh*
NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow. Oh dear. That's all I have to say about that. (I mean, I won't be writing tomorrow, since I have a head-start of sorts, but still. Gah.)
One more thing to get in before November. Earlier this year,
copperbadge came up with the idea of a Dead Year, which he described like this:What I think I have to do, for my own sanity if nothing else, is to take a part of 2006 and simply declare it a Dead Year. A doesn't-count, I'm-on-base time-out. Several months lifted out of my life, where I can come down from this standard a little. Working a menial or non-professional job isn't an issue for me, I've done it before, but where I twist up is working a menial job when I have a degree that should be getting me jobs within my profession. Where I'm not living up to what I know I can do, if given the opportunity. If I can let go of that for a set period of time, things might go better. Or something. I don't really know, but I know that I like the idea of the Dead Year.
After some thought, I think I'll be doing something similar. I'm setting aside this next year, from tomorrow, 1 November 2006, to 31 October 2007. I'm still doing NaNo, I'm still anticipating returning to school in the spring, but I'm going to try to take some of the pressure off. I'm going to a bit of the death-themed material like
copperbadge did, but only a little. Basically, I like the liminal idea of it: this next year is building toward something, but without the pressure. And I think the roadtrip is a great way to start this.No, I'm not suicidal, you don't have to worry about me. I'm hoping this will make me happier, rather than less so. So, Happy Dead Year, all.
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