Aaaaand that's another week off of work for me.

[apocalypsos]

It's like I figured. The boss just called me to offer me a layoff and pretty much told me that if I hadn't said yes, I probably would have gotten mandated anyway since nobody else was willing to take this week off. Considering I don't plan on going anywhere or doing anything other than write for the next week, this shouldn't be a problem about whether I can afford it or not, especially since this now means I'll only be working three days for the rest of the month and so I'll maybe be spending twenty bucks on gas and thirty bucks on food what with the holidays. And if my grandfather gives me money for Christmas AND I end up getting a refund for that necklace for my mom that never made it here, I really won't have a problem.

Ahem. So, my schedule for the day looks like this:

1. Finish outline for DMIDS.
2. Add a thousand words to Nearly Departed.
3. Finish a chapter of GPW.
4. Tear down the DMIDS wallpaper and put up new brown paper for a Hollow Girl outline.
5. Eventually get up from the couch for something other than using the bathroom or raiding the fridge.
6. Become rich, acquire superpowers, fuck Jensen Ackles. (What? It's not like I've got a good history of finishing things on lists. Why not reach for the sky?)

Also, TWoP recommended Let The Right One In (a Swedish coming-of-age vampire romance) as a better alternative to Twilight, so I'm downloading it to see if they're right. That can be my present to myself if I manage to get more than one of the things on that list done. HA! Shyeah, right.

EDIT: *checks Yuletide website* Fourteen hundred people have to post their stories in six days?! Oh, man, that website's gonna craaaaaaaash.

Comments

[greenet.livejournal.com]

Let the Right One In is, I think, the direct opposite of Twilight, and it's very, very good. In a Swedish social commentary sort of way. With vampires.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it sounded like it'd be right up my alley. :)

[penmage.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm curious about Let the Right One In. Let us know how it is, okay?

Also, you never told me. What's the intended audience of your fiction?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, totally. I figure I'll watch it after I get everything else done, which I hopefully should get out of the way by five or so, and post about it afterwards.

And it's usually adult urban fantasy, for the most part, although I've been brainstorming to stretch out into teen stuff and romance lately. Basically, the same people who watched Buffy and Angel, the Dresden Files, that sort of thing. :)

[thespatz.livejournal.com]

I've had multiple people recommend Let The Right One In to me. Go for it!

[beautifulstars.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the film of 'Let the Right One In,' but the novel is pretty brilliant. If you'd like to read it, and send me your mailing address (and are willing to wait for the 19th for me to send it off) I'll send you my copy as a Christmas prezzie!