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Gnnn, the last couple of weeks have knocked me down big-time. I finally gave up and went home sick yesterday, and took today as a sick day also. I feel really weird about calling in sick to a temp job where I've only been working for two weeks, but damn it, I've been sick for nearly ALL of those two weeks, I haven't been sleeping, I've been working 6-day weeks, and I just wasn't getting over it.

So I came home yesterday afternoon, crashed for a while, then slept in this morning, and mmmmm, I think I'm finally shaking off this cold. I feel so much better. Still pretty hazy in the brain department, but I'm finally starting to have some energy again.

I've also been re-reading the Dresden Files books (SIDE JOBS SOON YAY) ... it's been ages since I read the first one, and I'm pretty sure I never actually read the second one (I started with book 3 originally, then went back and read book 1 afterwards just to see how it all began, but I never got around to going ahead and reading the second one!). It's really fascinating to see how many of the later developments were obviously planned from the beginning, and yet, how much less layered it is in the early books -- it's so obviously a film-noir-with-magic story in the first book that it's fascinating to think about how it developed later. And he's so isolated in the first couple of books; even Murphy is pretty distant, and she's basically the only friend he's got. Oh, Harry.

The list of this year's nominated Yuletide fandoms is up - this is the unmodified list; that is, they may later disqualify some of these. I noticed Dresden Files is on there and I'd be really surprised if this one makes the cut (though it did last year, so it might this year). Anyway, nominations close today, so you might want to see if all the fandoms you want are on there!

I have all of my winter-season ficathon assignments now except for Yuletide (obviously), so I guess I should start working on those, shouldn't I? Perhaps I'll start poking at those this afternoon. It feels so weird to have no pressing projects hanging over me right now, other than the fannish ones.

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Overworked, underpaid, exhausted, but hanging in there. I think I've only broken down a couple of times in the last few months. I'm beginning to worry that I'm going to go postal on the place though...not literally, but definitely figuratively. I desperately need to get the hell out of my job. But that's a whole sad story you don't want to hear about.

I'm trying Nanowrimo for the first time this year! I'm hoping to follow in your, awesome footsteps! I just read your post below about your novel! That is so, so, so awesome! I'm totally in awe!

Thank you! :) But, about the job ... ugh, that's no good. I have missed you around the internets, and I wish that I was able to meet up with you guys in November (you're still doing that, right?). Anyway, I'm sorry to hear that, and I hope you're able to find something better.

I was lucky enough to get out of my soul-killing job last year, and then they suckered me back in this month ... and it's been all the things that made me leave before (punishing hours, morale-flattening bureaucracy, office infighting and all the rest). I'm just counting the days until I'm free again for a while.