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So I'm off the bench next week for a 10-day job. Fixed price, so they need it done on time and to spec.
There's a brief meeting on Wednesday morning - 2 hours in the morning, out near a big fabric/craft store... *whistles innocently*
It will be nice to have work again, although now I feel like I've just wasted the two weeks I've had. (I probably haven't: I've written quite a lot and plotted quite a lot, and sewn quite a lot. I just always feel like it's not enough. Ever. I suspect that if I wrote a novel in a week, I'd still feel guilty for not having written two...)
Anyway this (last) week of freedom will be the week of Doing Things.
I have at least one quilt top to get quilted at the local quilting store. I have time booked in with the local quilt shop - we'll see if I can do two in the three or so hours I have before the store closes!
The plotting for Crazy Epic Avengers Fic is...not going well. It got all tangled up when the bad guy changed, and now I have to unwind all the plot threads and reconnect them properly.
The Brisbane job hasn't fully materialised yet - the office is still negotiating the contract for our work, but if it does, it's probably going to be after the 10 days (which are here in Sydney - thankfully). And it's going to suck because hockey starts up over easter.
Speaking of hockey, we had massive dropouts this year. From three teams last year, we're down to only two this year. And, naturally, the instant we say "we're not taking any more registrations" half a team's worth of people will contact us asking "oh, can we register, we're sorry we're late". ARGH.
The drop to two teams is going to be a problem, because we had a team in A-grade, C-grade, and D-grade. Half the A-grade team is gone, and most of the women remaining are quite okay to go down to B-grade. Half our C-grade team from last year can go up to B-grade, and the team will probably manage to hold their own.
However, the D-graders from last year aren't good enough to move up to C-grade, we have a couple of juniors coming up from the junior competition, and while I'd place one of them in C-grade to bring her skills up, the other certainly isn't C-grade material. Frankly, I suspect the other half of the C-grade team will mop the floor in D-grade. Especially if they have our C-grade coach.
Too many people injured, or taking a year out, or pregnant. (We have four or five pregnancies in the club - one's due to pop in April, the others are mostly due September or something.)
We've got a bunch of new people, which is good, and some of them are very good. Some of them...aren't. But we'll all play and have a good time together. It's just stressful in the organising stages of everything.
There's a brief meeting on Wednesday morning - 2 hours in the morning, out near a big fabric/craft store... *whistles innocently*
It will be nice to have work again, although now I feel like I've just wasted the two weeks I've had. (I probably haven't: I've written quite a lot and plotted quite a lot, and sewn quite a lot. I just always feel like it's not enough. Ever. I suspect that if I wrote a novel in a week, I'd still feel guilty for not having written two...)
Anyway this (last) week of freedom will be the week of Doing Things.
I have at least one quilt top to get quilted at the local quilting store. I have time booked in with the local quilt shop - we'll see if I can do two in the three or so hours I have before the store closes!
The plotting for Crazy Epic Avengers Fic is...not going well. It got all tangled up when the bad guy changed, and now I have to unwind all the plot threads and reconnect them properly.
The Brisbane job hasn't fully materialised yet - the office is still negotiating the contract for our work, but if it does, it's probably going to be after the 10 days (which are here in Sydney - thankfully). And it's going to suck because hockey starts up over easter.
Speaking of hockey, we had massive dropouts this year. From three teams last year, we're down to only two this year. And, naturally, the instant we say "we're not taking any more registrations" half a team's worth of people will contact us asking "oh, can we register, we're sorry we're late". ARGH.
The drop to two teams is going to be a problem, because we had a team in A-grade, C-grade, and D-grade. Half the A-grade team is gone, and most of the women remaining are quite okay to go down to B-grade. Half our C-grade team from last year can go up to B-grade, and the team will probably manage to hold their own.
However, the D-graders from last year aren't good enough to move up to C-grade, we have a couple of juniors coming up from the junior competition, and while I'd place one of them in C-grade to bring her skills up, the other certainly isn't C-grade material. Frankly, I suspect the other half of the C-grade team will mop the floor in D-grade. Especially if they have our C-grade coach.
Too many people injured, or taking a year out, or pregnant. (We have four or five pregnancies in the club - one's due to pop in April, the others are mostly due September or something.)
We've got a bunch of new people, which is good, and some of them are very good. Some of them...aren't. But we'll all play and have a good time together. It's just stressful in the organising stages of everything.