LIfe Update

[jeriendhal]

Job: Is actually going better than I thoguht it would when I first started. The work is mind-numbing but not overly difficult, and I am picking up a regular salary, which is the most important thing. My first bi-weekly evaluation went very well. I thought I sounded terrible in the playbacks, but my supevisor seemed to like what she heard, to the point of sending one of my co--workers over to listen to my technique the enxt day!

Stories: As i feared, I'm getting stuck on the next plot bit for "Black Hearts". Writing Miles in a panic is easy, writing him trying to out-clever the villian is damned hard. Especially when Mavra is definitely niether gullible nor in a position of weakness. On the plus side I think I finally nailed down the middle and end-game of the unfinished T&M story "Unforseen Consequences". Admittedly it does involve a literal deus ex machina, but at least I don't have Tez going on a murder spree and he and Maria running away into the night as the manor burns down with the bodies inside.

"Flyboys" is also itching at me. I'm convinced that mjkj's plot idea is the way to go now. I want to get T&M's next bit finished though, if only to be one step closer to getting their stories published on lulu.com.

In other news, perhaps I really ought to lay off the suggestions of Yaoi between Teri and Matt now.

Comments

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

Yay! Tez and Maria!! Yay!!! (I promise that I will be leaving work on time starting this week. That might actually allow my brain to work on other tasks!!! I may get back to the stories! Squeee!)

Ahem. I'm really glad the job is working out.

Re Black Hearts... Perhaps we might get a look at how Leeza and Kareen are doing? I'm personally quite worried about them...

Ooohhh?

[mjkj.livejournal.com]

Really??? *is astonished*

I will take you up on that promise....


mjkj

Re: Ooohhh?

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

*glares* responding to LJ comments to make me open it isn't helping much! :-PPPP

Re: Re: Ooohhh?

[mjkj.livejournal.com]

Well, _I_ did not force you to respond.

That is your own free will you have...

...and you have to exercise it to respond...

*lol*


mjkj

Re: Re: Ooohhh?

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but isn't it impolite to ignore somebody's comments? ;)

LOL

K.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Ooohhh?

[mjkj.livejournal.com]

Well, nobody says you have to respond immediately... =P


mjkj

Re: Ooohhh?

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

True. On the other hand, nobody guarantees I will remember to, later. And you know how things slip by me these days :-P

Anyway, go read the Tez and Maria installment!

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ooohhh?

[mjkj.livejournal.com]

Well, if you leave the notifications unopened in your email you will still see at home that you did not visit these and can do it afterwards :)

So, it stays as I have said, it _is_ your free-will decision... =P


mjkj

Re: Ooohhh?

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

Well. I'm not arguing the free will part. Just the propriety :)
OK... (besides, I'm currently waiting for my colleagues to finish something off)

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ooohhh?

[mjkj.livejournal.com]

Propriety... well, it is not impolite to respond a bit later... =P

Yeah, always blame the colleagues...

...for the lack of self-restriction and -restraint...


mjkj

Fw: Re: Re: Ooohhh?

[mjkj.livejournal.com]

...to respond...

...or not...

to respond or not respond that is the question...


mjkj

Re: Ooohhh?

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

*giggles**

Re: Re: Fw: Re: Re: Ooohhh?

[mjkj.livejournal.com]

*lol*

I knew you would like that =P

*lol*


mjkj

Re: Re: Fw: Re: Re: Ooohhh?

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

But of course! Whoever can resist a bit of Shakespeare, it ain't me.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Fw: Re: Re: Ooohhh?

[mjkj.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah =P

Definitely not possible for you...


mjkj

Re: Ooohhh?

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

Precisely. Out of the question. LOL (sorry for cluttering up the entry, Royce... I'll try to keep quiet...)

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fw: Re: Re: Ooohhh?

[mjkj.livejournal.com]

Yeah *oops*

I also were just thinking about what Royce would think of our chatter and clogging up his post... *lol*

I hope he does not mind too much - well he even can make them invisible...

..if he wants

*sorry* *tries to behave...*


mjkj

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[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't mind.

*quietly begins to weep when he thinks how much beta-reading they could have done on UD if they'd just quit frelling around on LiveJournal!!!!!!*

Ahem.

Re: Ooohhh?

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

Oh but beta-reading requires concentration - which I am absolutely incapable of exerting, atm... *sighs*

While, on the other hand, LJ doesn't.

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

Glad the job is working out.

writing him trying to out-clever the villain is damned hard.
*sympathizes*
That's one of the reasons I'll remain solidly on the consumer side of this business!

Good luck.

**lol**

[mjkj.livejournal.com]

Nice to hear that the job is fine - and you are even used as a good example =P

Ooooooohhhhh, I am soo looking forward to the new part of Flyboys :)


mjkj

Fw: **lol**

[mjkj.livejournal.com]

Ohh, well, then concerning Black Hearts...

...well, if you are stuck, then leave it be for a while - then it is easier than forcing it and mostly better, too...

*smiles*


mjkj

Re: Fw: **lol**

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I may end up leaving it alone for a bit. The new part I'd tried to do with Kareen and Leeza just came out flatter than a pancake, and much less tasty.

[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

A little tad touch off topic, but HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I hope it's a super great one!