Making use of the time I spend waiting for my roommate to get out of the shower...

[dira]

...by updating here! Because why not.

1. Soon, soon I will never have to wait for my roommate to get out of the shower, because I am MOVING NEXT MONTH to CHICAGOLAND to LIVE BY MYSELF in a ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT and it is going to be GREAT as long as it turns out that everyone involved (me, the leasing agency) is correct to believe my cheerful assertion that I can totally pay my rent for at least a year on my income from writing full time.

1a. I am maybe a tiny bit stressed out about all of the above.

2. Coinciding uncomfortably closely with the above, I am going to WisCon this year, mainly in order to facilitate a writing workshop just for fic! (???!!!) This is going to be either awesome or HORRIBLE. And I should probably register for the con and reserve a hotel room. And get back to the writing workshop person to say yes, I mean it, I'm in.

3. I came down with a cold this weekend that was kind of immobilizing on Saturday and merely very, very unpleasant yesterday. Still waiting to see what sort of day today will be.

3a. Fortuitously and/or ironically, I had already made a pre-moving please-write-me-some-extra-Adderall-prescriptions appointment to see my doctor this morning, so I guess I can also make sure that the extra-persistent stuffiness of my right ear is just because I sleep on that side and not because I'm cooking up an ear infection?

4. Regardless of what I feel up to doing today, when I had taken the day off (day job) work anyway, my writing productivity on any one day is not an inescapable harbinger of what my writing productivity will be in the future when it is Really My Job For Real.

5. I really gotta finish my SmutSwap story, though, that deadline is LOOMING.

5a. Also at this rate rubynye's birthday fic is going to be more of a half-birthday fic.

6. Okay the water has shut off so now I can just stare fixedly at the bathroom door waiting for roommate to come out of there and let me shower, right?

Comments

[grammarwoman]

Congrats and best wishes on the life changes! Chicagoland will be lucky to have you, and getting to VVC will be that much easier. :)

So will you be in the city proper, or in the suburbs?

[gwyn]

I think you will do great at the writing workshop--it was helpful just chatting with you last year on that unfinished story, so I think you will be fine!

[mmegaera]

Brave! I hope it all goes well.

[sperrywink]

Good luck on the moving and the writing gig!

[nafs]

Excellent news! Good luck with everything!

[burnishedvictory]

The move sounds awesome - I think you'll do great!

[poisontaster]

Congratulations! Chicago is a wonderful city; I miss it all the time. I hope it's as great for you!

[dira]

Thanks! I'll be in Evanston. :)

[dira]

Thank you! I hope so--I think a lot of the work will be in making sure everyone comes in with the same set of expectations for what we're doing, since writing workshop norms and fic beta/critique norms can be... quite different.

[dira]

Thank you!

[dira]

Thank you!

[dira]

Thanks! :)

[dira]

Thank you!

[dira]

Thanks! I'm looking forward to it, it's a city I've been fond of for a long time. :)

[grammarwoman]

Ooo, nice - I used to work in Evanston. I miss a bunch of aspects of it, like all the great restaurants and entertainment options!

[lannamichaels]

Good luck! :D Chicago's a great place.

[riverlight]

YAY NEW ONE BEDROOM PLACE.

<3 <3 <3

[dira]

My ginormous couch is coming with me! Visitors welcome! :D

[dira]

Thanks! :D I AM EXCITE. ALSO I DID NOT ACTUALLY KNOW I WAS MOVING TO EVANSTON WHEN I PUT CHRIS AND BETH THERE???? MAGIC.

[everbright]

I honestly can't wait till you move in properly! I'd like to take you out to the museums or something, since I've been reading your fic since it seems for ever. (But only if you're comfortable with that!)

Good luck good luck I wish you all luck!

[casspeach]

I am so pleased and excited for you, and I hope this works out beyond your wildest imaginings!

[starmaki]

Oh, Just found out you're a fellow Wisconsinite and you are moving. Lol! Big congrats on your move though, you won't have to share the shower in your new apt. I do like Chicago and plan to visit again this summer when I go to Wizard Con. Hope you are feeling better.

[templemarker]

Best of luck with the movie! Smart move on the adderall -- I always try to get a month or three worth of prescriptions when I'm moving or switching insurers. For the stuff that requires signatures, I ask for as many as they'll give me! It's arduous setting up new health care arrangements.

[dira]

Oh, yeah, we should definitely meet up sometime once I'm moved! :D

[dira]

Thank you! :D

[dira]

Oh man, isn't that always the way! But thanks--I managed to get sick again but hopefully am on the mend again now. :)

[dira]

Thank you! :)

[riverlight]

Yayyyy! <3