InsaneJournal

Current mood:

drained

Well puck!
I was getting ready to do my live reading today, and just started feeling like crap. I couldn't make myself do the reading, and once I logged out, I realized I was running a fever. So I took some aspirin and had a lie down. Then I worked a very small amount on fixing a chapter in a book, and I went over an editing job.

About the editing. It seems that in spite of me being an utter bitch last year and turning down the job offer to run two magazines without training, the glass company has come back with a counter offer. Now they only want me to edit and format a few press releases at a time, and I get paid a fairly decent rate for what is mostly easy proofing work. So yeah, if they're offering it as steady work, I'll probably take it. Right now it's supposedly only a "few extra articles." But that still works out to almost €300 for me, and that's almost another payment to my editor, depending on which book I send to her. I'm thinking it will be the shorter one, and since I'm cutting some fluff from the third chapter, it will arrive to her in an even shorter state.

I still don't get credit for this editing job, and in that respect, it bugs me. Okay, I'm something like an assistant editor, and I don't do that much. But at present, it's still not something I can include on a resume. "Occasionally edits for various sources."

I suppose if I start working for regular pay again, I'll have to stop calling myself retired. Which would be fitting. I never could get a job working as a computer animator. No, instead I became a computer technician. So, wouldn't it just be fitting if I can't sell a book to a publisher, and I end up becoming an editor instead? Oy.

Oh, and obviously, I didn't get a podcast reading done. I don't mean to procrastinate on it, really! I sat down this morning and opened a word document to type up the show intro script, and I just blanked out. I didn't recover my head until hubby got home, and once he's home, it's flat out impossible to record a podcast. I'll try and recover from whatever has hit me this time, and hopefully, I'll still be able to get a podcast out this week instead of next week. Double oy.

And on a lighter note, I've now hit 1,000 posts at the horror forum. For some of the heavy posters, that's probably nothing. But for me, it's a big deal that I can stay ANYWHERE long enough to make 1,000 posts. I usually end up wandering at some point, and I always come back to this place. Either for advice, or just to take a break and lurk, it's been a good place to visit. So for my 1,000th post, I said thanks. It felt fitting. I TOTALLY was planning to explode and have a sarcastic rant, but I just couldn't find any inspiration for it. Oh well, maybe at 2,000. ^_^

All right, beddy time, for me.

Later...