How to play catch up when your head feels like it's in a vise...

[matrixrefugee]

...Oddly enough, the heead-in-a-vise feeling happens either when I'm at work or when my mother is yattering at me, thus this has been leading to more than the usual computer-room dwelling.

SUNDAY: Inventory night, and thankfully for the third time in a row, I didn't have to help inventory the freezer cases. One of the teenaged chickies who insist on wearing boobie blouses in the dead of winter had to. Instead, I was inventorying about twenty feet of the pasta sauce aisle (which went like the proverbial well-oiled machine, since I was with a group of well-organized people) and about four feet of the canned vegetable aisle (which took longer because I was working with teenagers who kept bickering over who was counting what).

YESTERDAY: I think I'm fighting the cold my mother has, so I ended up calling in sick. Usually, she yatters at me for not sleeping enough, today she yattered at me for sleeping too much. I can't win.

TODAY: Tried working on some writing, but I kept getting interrupted by my mother bugging me. Any ideas how to keep her from bothering me when I'm trying to write, and then explain to her why I can't get stuff done, after she kept bugging me? Locking the door to my room, putting on AC/DC to near-blasting levels, notes on the door, nothing seems to work. Now I know why Neil Gaiman has a writing cabin he retreats to when he's working...

Comments

[nightofcydonia.livejournal.com]

That's parents for you. I don't have to deal with as much of it as you seem to but that's probably thanks to having three younger siblings so it has to be spread around, with the two youngest siblings drawing the bulk of it. Of course, having three siblings has it's own set of problems but I can deal with them. Usually by doing my own rather large amount of 'computer room dwelling'. The only thing I can suggest is going somewhere else to write, although since I know naff all about your area, I can't help with suggesting possible locations. By the by, is there anything in particular that your mum keeps bugging you about, because if there is then that might help with figuring out how to get her to leave you alone.
~Weaver

[ladyneferankh.livejournal.com]

Hi there, this is just a quick message, asking if I may make use of the term "mecha-hugger" which you coined back in '02. I will give credit of course! But I just wanted to ask the original inventor first.

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Hee, I'd be glad if you used it!

[ladyneferankh.livejournal.com]

Thanks *puts term on profile *

Btw--about how I left the fanfiction group etc; oh-so-long ago? No hard feelings, you guys were great, it was just--personal matters that had come up.

P.S.
Might we hope for updates on you fansite in the future?