Thursday Morning Blues

I haven't had a hell of a lot of time for real updates lately (OK, not in quite a while), but this week even less so. With great promotions come great responsibility, or something like that. I found out this week that another person in my department had resigned, so I was basically going to be taking all of my new responsibilities and keeping all of my old ones, because they were going to replace her. I found out yesterday, after spending the entire day fumbling through half-remembered HTML code and breaking our website no less than five times, that they are actually going to bring someone else in. That announcement couldn't have come at a better time.

Last night Liz was gone at puppy training, so I put my time to good use and knocked out another thousnd words on Crocodile Man. I have one last half of one scene to go to complete the current chapter, which I'm going to try to do this morning before I go to work if I can. I also tried my hand at a freelance contract I received, future contracts hinging on my work with this one. It's pretty simple, writing a press release, but it's for a completely different kind of company than the one I work for in my regular job, so I enjoyed the challenge. I had to distill a whole lot of rambling information into a compelling story, and it went through a couple of iterations until I think I got it right, with Liz offering advice and input as I went.

Tonight, I'm going to a Sherman Alexie book signing / reading at a bookstore downtown, and depending on when it's over, we may hook up with Kevin and Kim to see Shrek 2, which looks fantastic from all the reviews I've seen.