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dev_chieftain) wrote2012-05-16 11:40 pm
dev_chieftain) wrote2012-05-16 11:40 pm
And think of all the time I could spend: just being vulnerable again
I drew fanart of Fionna dressed as Utena as per the request of leosboots, the girl I mentioned in my previous post about that AT fanart that bothered me. It came out pretty good in some respects, but sorta terrible in others. I have SUCH a hard time drawing clean lineart, and that shows. Blargh!
Today was all right. Workouts were really good, and Danny had picked up Struggle of Catan, which is the card game version of Settlers of Catan, apparently. We played a game of that after workouts, which was fun. Then I got to drawing to kind of put my sour mood out of my mind.
See, today was all right; I spent the whole day working my ass off again on yet another arbitrary new project thrown our way by the client I deal with, and I'm behind for my second client. (Thankfully, third client has only had minor requests lately so I have been able to keep her happy.) I even decided to stick around an extra half hour to get my paycheck because mysteriously, it didn't show up before 3:30.
I ended up leaving because I needed to be home in time for workouts; just as I got home, my coworker called me to let me know that apparently, 'something happened' with funding again, and we're not getting paid till tomorrow morning. Any of us.
This is the fourth time this has happened in the last six months.
I'm actually doing okay for the first time in a LONG time right now, but it doesn't really put my faith in my employer's ability to keep me employed, which is pretty worrisome. I've been looking for a new job, but tomorrow's the first time all week I'll really have time to dig in and just churn out as many applications to places that I would genuinely WANT to work for as possible.
Fingers crossed I'll hear back from someone soon.
Comic script edits: I have been working on the second draft of Silvertongue for the collaboration I'd mentioned some weeks back. I'm really excited and simultaneously nervous about it. My artist buddy pointed out some really important flaws with the original so it's needed something of an overhaul. I continue to be amazed at how difficult it is to actually edit something, for me. It's not that I can't see what needs to be fixed or even that I can't fix it or that I don't want to. For some reason, having the existing structure there, knowing exactly what needs to change, knowing more or less how I want to enact that change-- it's all not quite the same as actually doing it. I definitely need to force myself to do this more in all things writing, but in this case I just hope I'm not writing one of those dreaded scripts that no artist would want to have to work with.
Today was all right. Workouts were really good, and Danny had picked up Struggle of Catan, which is the card game version of Settlers of Catan, apparently. We played a game of that after workouts, which was fun. Then I got to drawing to kind of put my sour mood out of my mind.
See, today was all right; I spent the whole day working my ass off again on yet another arbitrary new project thrown our way by the client I deal with, and I'm behind for my second client. (Thankfully, third client has only had minor requests lately so I have been able to keep her happy.) I even decided to stick around an extra half hour to get my paycheck because mysteriously, it didn't show up before 3:30.
I ended up leaving because I needed to be home in time for workouts; just as I got home, my coworker called me to let me know that apparently, 'something happened' with funding again, and we're not getting paid till tomorrow morning. Any of us.
This is the fourth time this has happened in the last six months.
I'm actually doing okay for the first time in a LONG time right now, but it doesn't really put my faith in my employer's ability to keep me employed, which is pretty worrisome. I've been looking for a new job, but tomorrow's the first time all week I'll really have time to dig in and just churn out as many applications to places that I would genuinely WANT to work for as possible.
Fingers crossed I'll hear back from someone soon.
Comic script edits: I have been working on the second draft of Silvertongue for the collaboration I'd mentioned some weeks back. I'm really excited and simultaneously nervous about it. My artist buddy pointed out some really important flaws with the original so it's needed something of an overhaul. I continue to be amazed at how difficult it is to actually edit something, for me. It's not that I can't see what needs to be fixed or even that I can't fix it or that I don't want to. For some reason, having the existing structure there, knowing exactly what needs to change, knowing more or less how I want to enact that change-- it's all not quite the same as actually doing it. I definitely need to force myself to do this more in all things writing, but in this case I just hope I'm not writing one of those dreaded scripts that no artist would want to have to work with.