And these tears all over town ...
Friday, 08 December, 2006
Forecast Fox is telling me it's 18° and misty outside. It's been another nothing today and I should have taken better care of myself. It started well with an early arrival to work courtesy of little traffic and only a sprinkling of red lights, the clearing of the sink, the ritual weekly cleaning of the coffee machine (even though I don't drink coffee), the wiping down of the bench—I like to start the day with everything looking nice and clean. And then I solved the plain text problem for CASE news and felt quite chuffed, got one step closer to making my virtual vision for MM a reality, realised it was 11 am and I still hadn't received copy for e-news so phoned Glendon to get the ball rolling.
It meant, however, I couldn't leave at 1 pm as intended. I had planned to use up some of my flex hours to take a little trip into the city—to visit Lincraft for yarn and needles and to do some scribbling in The Tea Centre—and of course my favourite bookstore is having a 20% off sale for members (and look! they've released the complete boxset of A Series of Unfortunate Events in hardcover!) and maybe I could pick up American Born Chinese if my budget could afford it—
But instead I did e-news because my salary depends on our products getting sold, and even though the average time it takes to produce an e-news has been reduced from nine hours to two due to much cleverness on my part, it still took two hours and then Tony wanted to chat about Briefing #341 so I didn't get out of there until 4.
And Ben and I went for dinner and a movie which we've owed to each other ever since October, except I forgot to bring my Greater Union Cinebuzz card as planned so my ticket cost twice as much. We went to see The Prestige, and the selfishness and bitterness of mankind made me sad.
Blinks:
A way of funding writing in the future: pitch and idea and get people to support it.
Place where you can hire play equipment for parties, etc.
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
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Not that this necessarily helps, but I read e-news and sometimes buy because of getting it. So I hope that helps.
hurray for the hardcover version of the books.
I too am interested in seeing “The Prestige”. Was it a good movie, despite depressing themes?
It was excellent and highly recommended. Your brother described it as being “brilliant”.
Karen,
The MM website looks fantastic (I am assuming you’re responsible for the look on the current live site)...I’m sure it will be fantastic. It was a bit of a nightmare before.
Thanks, Ben! You’ve made my day!