The Calm before the Holy Week Storm...
Mar. 19th, 2005 08:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrixrefugeeI got most of my Easter shopping done today. I figured if I didn't "hop" to it, everyone else would beat me to the gooood stuff between now and next Saturday.
And come to find out that it was a good idea that I got the bulk of it out of the way...
"The Frenchman" gave me a ton of hours next week. Yes, I know it's gonna be *CRAZY* week, since the holiday is a week from tomorrow. At least this year, Greek/Eastern Orthodox Easter is wicked late, so we won't have *CRAZINESS* two weeks in a row. And Passover is later than usual, too... odd...
Edited to add strikethrough:Plus, tomorrow, I'm heavily committed: I'm marching in the Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade, as part of a contingent of people from Holy Trinity who'll be there to help raise awareness of the problem looming over our heads... I'll just have to put up with marching behind the German oom-pah band that's hosting us. (An oom-pah band in a St. Patrick's Day Parade???)
::Now trying so hard not to make like John Constantine, and give the finger to whatever demon that possessed O'Malley the Mook when he earmarked Holy Trinity for the slaughter, Edited to Add: And trying not to do the same to the demon who posessed the mook in the parade commitee who, at the very last fricken minute decided our banner was "too contraversial".::
The upside is, I get to stay up later tonight and work on my "Constantine" fanfic, inspired by this incident. I might even be able to publish it -- No, no, don't get your shorts in a knot, Comic Book Purists: I wasn't even *thinking* of going anywhere near DC/Vertigo. I was thinking of filing off all the serial numbers and selling it as a horror story somewhere. Ursula LeGuin recently admitted somewhere that her first novel, "The Left Hand of Darkness" was based on an idea she got after watching an episode of "Star Trek". Jim Kelly, a local writer, said at a book signing that *his* first novel was "an Ursula LeGuin novel with the serial numbers filed off" (hence, where I got the metaphor). And yesterday I was reading an archived entry on Neil Gaiman's blog where he said he basically had *no* opinion on fanfiction, and that he'd written a lot of stuff as a kid where he'd borrowed other people's characters and universes.
Well, either way, I'm going with my dad to help out with the teardown on the Flower Show.
And Monday morning, bright and early, I've got the appointment at Lahey Clinic about my possible AS. That crept up on me: I'm nervous now.
Thus, it's gonna be questionable how much I'll be availible next week for chatting, etc. I've got an early start tomorrow, so I'll be jacking out around 11.30 tonight. Tomorrow, I have no idea how late I'll be out, so I may not be online at all, especially since I have to be up early Monday morning for my appointment. Monday night through Wednesday night are normal nights. Friday, I have the morning shift, so I'll be unhooking early on Thursday night. And between holiday preparations and working the later shift Saturday, I doubt I'll be online at all, not till Sunday night. Maybe. I'll keep you all posted. If I'm online, say hello to me; if not, please don't think I've vanished from the 'Net.
And come to find out that it was a good idea that I got the bulk of it out of the way...
"The Frenchman" gave me a ton of hours next week. Yes, I know it's gonna be *CRAZY* week, since the holiday is a week from tomorrow. At least this year, Greek/Eastern Orthodox Easter is wicked late, so we won't have *CRAZINESS* two weeks in a row. And Passover is later than usual, too... odd...
Edited to add strikethrough:
::Now trying so hard not to make like John Constantine, and give the finger to whatever demon that possessed O'Malley the Mook when he earmarked Holy Trinity for the slaughter, Edited to Add: And trying not to do the same to the demon who posessed the mook in the parade commitee who, at the very last fricken minute decided our banner was "too contraversial".::
The upside is, I get to stay up later tonight and work on my "Constantine" fanfic, inspired by this incident. I might even be able to publish it -- No, no, don't get your shorts in a knot, Comic Book Purists: I wasn't even *thinking* of going anywhere near DC/Vertigo. I was thinking of filing off all the serial numbers and selling it as a horror story somewhere. Ursula LeGuin recently admitted somewhere that her first novel, "The Left Hand of Darkness" was based on an idea she got after watching an episode of "Star Trek". Jim Kelly, a local writer, said at a book signing that *his* first novel was "an Ursula LeGuin novel with the serial numbers filed off" (hence, where I got the metaphor). And yesterday I was reading an archived entry on Neil Gaiman's blog where he said he basically had *no* opinion on fanfiction, and that he'd written a lot of stuff as a kid where he'd borrowed other people's characters and universes.
Well, either way, I'm going with my dad to help out with the teardown on the Flower Show.
And Monday morning, bright and early, I've got the appointment at Lahey Clinic about my possible AS. That crept up on me: I'm nervous now.
Thus, it's gonna be questionable how much I'll be availible next week for chatting, etc. I've got an early start tomorrow, so I'll be jacking out around 11.30 tonight. Tomorrow, I have no idea how late I'll be out, so I may not be online at all, especially since I have to be up early Monday morning for my appointment. Monday night through Wednesday night are normal nights. Friday, I have the morning shift, so I'll be unhooking early on Thursday night. And between holiday preparations and working the later shift Saturday, I doubt I'll be online at all, not till Sunday night. Maybe. I'll keep you all posted. If I'm online, say hello to me; if not, please don't think I've vanished from the 'Net.
