Awkward Tasks
May. 8th, 2018 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
periegesisI have to tell my mom I'm going to a writing convention, and when. Which, as I realized like on Monday, is next week, not the week after next. It's the middle of the month already. She's going to be pissed at me for spending money. (Possibly also for missing my night to cook dinner.) I am hoping some talk of networking and connections and possible copy-editing gigs (though lbr most writers are fic writers and fic writers don't pay betas, it's the culture) will smooth that over. I can at least take the bus into the city, since I doubt she'll be free next Wednesday at 1:30. (Make sure you have change, and check the fare is still $1.75. Highway robbery, is public transit in this country.)
I need to make business cards sometime in the next 5 days--I just realized this as the page was loading; I need something with my full name, email address, and brief list of skills. Maybe with a QR code to scan my contact details into someone's phone? So I'll spend the morning designing this.
I am probably going to use my birth name, this year, unless I can decide on something else in the next...(looks at clock, considers business hours at Staples)...12-16 hours. Some of which I will be sleeping, or having my hair cut, or cleaning up my room or the kitchen. My main fear is that using my birth name could cause confusion in subsequent years, if I decide on something else later. I don't hate my birth name. It's just the wrong gendered ending in basically every language I understand any of (except maybe Japanese, but I don't think my knowledge of that counts as understanding of anything but the phone keyboard), and people make assumptions. And they usually mispronounce it. The gender thing is worse when they pronounce it right.
It wouldn't be the end of the world if I don't get the cards printed until Monday, but I'd prefer sooner so I have time to pack. I also need to pack for moving. I do not have many things that are not already in various household storage containers that can easily be transferred to cardboard boxes and also not in regular use; some books, some winter clothes, some of the contents of my nightstand. The clothes will probably go in the large duffel anyway, most of them. I have very few things that wrinkle. My good suit would be one of the rare exceptions. (I'm not packing it for WisCon. I don't think there's anything formal enough to justify the space.) It will take maybe a day to pack everything that isn't personal luggage or on-hand medication. There's only so much I can pack before we find out if the house is actually sold, though; if it goes on the market again, I'll have to keep out the room furnishings. Mostly furniture, which I wouldn't be packing anyway, but my lantern and that plant. During the whole hospital saga, I acquired a houseplant--a gerbera daisy. (The name makes me think of baby food. I am pretty sure it is not edible.) You can't really pack a plant, anyway. There's relatively little of my stuff in the rest of the house--a few boxes in the basement, a handful of kitchen implements. It's been a very long while since I've put down roots anywhere. Six years. Life as a series of flowerpots. Much longer than that since I've been more than two years anywhere, really--getting to be half my life, now. I hope that changes someday.
What to pack for WisCon? Apart from meds and underwear: both leather jackets, black pants, red pants, leggings, the floral shirts, black turtleneck, dino tee, one extra tee, swim gear (actually, no idea if the hotel has a pool, but it's the only presentable pair of shorts I've got anyway, unless I go shopping tomorrow but I don't want to spend more money), pajamas, converse(?), boots, brown belt. That's probably enough for 6 days of uncertain weather, 2 of them traveling. (Includes what I'll be wearing when traveling, too. Dino tee, black belt, black pants, boots. Carrying the brown jacket, because it's winter weight and huge.)
This is rambling and pointless to any reader, and I should go to bed.
I need to make business cards sometime in the next 5 days--I just realized this as the page was loading; I need something with my full name, email address, and brief list of skills. Maybe with a QR code to scan my contact details into someone's phone? So I'll spend the morning designing this.
I am probably going to use my birth name, this year, unless I can decide on something else in the next...(looks at clock, considers business hours at Staples)...12-16 hours. Some of which I will be sleeping, or having my hair cut, or cleaning up my room or the kitchen. My main fear is that using my birth name could cause confusion in subsequent years, if I decide on something else later. I don't hate my birth name. It's just the wrong gendered ending in basically every language I understand any of (except maybe Japanese, but I don't think my knowledge of that counts as understanding of anything but the phone keyboard), and people make assumptions. And they usually mispronounce it. The gender thing is worse when they pronounce it right.
It wouldn't be the end of the world if I don't get the cards printed until Monday, but I'd prefer sooner so I have time to pack. I also need to pack for moving. I do not have many things that are not already in various household storage containers that can easily be transferred to cardboard boxes and also not in regular use; some books, some winter clothes, some of the contents of my nightstand. The clothes will probably go in the large duffel anyway, most of them. I have very few things that wrinkle. My good suit would be one of the rare exceptions. (I'm not packing it for WisCon. I don't think there's anything formal enough to justify the space.) It will take maybe a day to pack everything that isn't personal luggage or on-hand medication. There's only so much I can pack before we find out if the house is actually sold, though; if it goes on the market again, I'll have to keep out the room furnishings. Mostly furniture, which I wouldn't be packing anyway, but my lantern and that plant. During the whole hospital saga, I acquired a houseplant--a gerbera daisy. (The name makes me think of baby food. I am pretty sure it is not edible.) You can't really pack a plant, anyway. There's relatively little of my stuff in the rest of the house--a few boxes in the basement, a handful of kitchen implements. It's been a very long while since I've put down roots anywhere. Six years. Life as a series of flowerpots. Much longer than that since I've been more than two years anywhere, really--getting to be half my life, now. I hope that changes someday.
What to pack for WisCon? Apart from meds and underwear: both leather jackets, black pants, red pants, leggings, the floral shirts, black turtleneck, dino tee, one extra tee, swim gear (actually, no idea if the hotel has a pool, but it's the only presentable pair of shorts I've got anyway, unless I go shopping tomorrow but I don't want to spend more money), pajamas, converse(?), boots, brown belt. That's probably enough for 6 days of uncertain weather, 2 of them traveling. (Includes what I'll be wearing when traveling, too. Dino tee, black belt, black pants, boots. Carrying the brown jacket, because it's winter weight and huge.)
This is rambling and pointless to any reader, and I should go to bed.
