My day in review.

[ellenmillion]

Gar! GAR! Internet was kaput shortly after my last post for the rest of the day. Which was VERY irritating, because I had updates planned and many, many emails to work on. Darn it! And now it's all evening like and I'm soooo unmotivated to do any actual work, so I shall not because I don't have to. *sticks out tongue*

Instead, I matted a copy of Freedom, and though I screwed up said matt (it wasn't square, and I didn't check to see if it was before I started cutting - doh!!), the results made me oo and aw and I printed up two more of them for other colors of mattboard that I have around and I'm going to either send them to conventions, put them on eBay, or hang them at Kristen's. Or something else I haven't thought of. And next time, I check for square. Pretty, pretty mattboard, all suede and rich looking. I planned to go to Michaels, but didn't have enough time before I had to pick Jake up (my car is still under three feet of snow). So instead I went to Gulliver's and bought a used book of short fantasy stories for $1.75. Not as satisfying as buying art supplies.

I also meant to get orders out, but that I actually DID do. Except one, that I couldn't get the address I needed for, because of the previously mentioned Internet outage.

I also wrote 1200 words of fanfiction drivel. And finished the Atlantis piece (that was several hours) and printed a print service order that I haven't actually been paid for yet, though it's a customer I'm sure will come through. And... I must have done something more than that. Stood in line at the post office, taped over the broken taillight of the truck... just piddly stuff.

So, that's how thrilling my life is.

(I'm journalling in part right now as a follow-up to reading 'How to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci,' which is a book Jake got me for my birthday and so far I'm rather intrigued.)

Comments

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

The internet was very, very bad today. It wasn't just you. I was offline most of the day too.

[chamois-shimi.livejournal.com]

Because it's *so* **many** dots! Now me, see, I can do some dots. But after say, a hundred or so of the buggers, I just want to scream and eat the carpet, so I've never gotten into the stippling. It's not a matter of stippling being an easier technique than other things, it's the cramping-my-fingers and killing-my-eyeballs-ness of it. Oooooog.

So yeah, you're my hero. ;)

[chamois-shimi.livejournal.com]

PS- Does Gullivers still do the evil trading policy of giving you a percentage of the actual cover price, then scratching out the cover price and selling it for 1/2 of what the /current/ cover price would be if it were a brand new book? Just curious about that. The first time I did used-book-trade-in after leaving Fairbanks, I got shocked and horrified looks from the bookstore employees when I asked them if that was how they did it, too.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

That's what Title Wave started doing when they moved into their new store here. I'm still annoyed by that.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Ya know, I haven't tried getting credit in yeeeeears now. All my books are in storage (wail!) and the ones I usually buy are the .75 red x books that they won't take back, or I take books on vacation and leave them at the airport or hotel room when I finish them. So I dunno!