A day of harsh reality

[cornerofmadness]

Tuesday is a long grueling day at the best of time. The non-stop standing for 6 straight hours makes my leg go numb (spinal issues). Today was worse. Some of the students make me want to shoot them. But the harsh reality wasn't for them (okay it was that too) I got to work to learn my coworker/friend's dad passed away last night. Honestly I knew it was coming and I know he's not going to deal well. I feel very sorry for him. And here's the creepy thing, yesterday's date was also the date his mom died years ago. So I guess the funeral will be in a day or two.

My toe is beet red. Still doctoring.

I DID shred my damn story bits. I'm pretty upset right now. I'm just as upset that I changed my mind again. I'm pretty sure I do not like Jo Evans as a pen name. Yes it's easy. Yes it reflects my grandmother's name but I just don't know. Is thatbetter than Concetta? Is Auleria too hard to spell? I don't know. My parents have opinions but they won't voice them. They will voice useless advice though. I'm about to cry (thank you that time of the month)

I aslo wrote myself into a corner. I was trying to fix a problem in the Scarred Soldier story that both mamculuna and evil_little_dog spotted and I fucked it up royally. So now I have to start all over. There is no way the conversation can go as I have it since Aaron and Sebastian are not in a relationship yet when Kyle threatens Seb's kids. So for this to work he either ignores the threat to his daughter and the relationship has time to happeyn or goes to save his kid sees the threat to Aaron and says fuck it, I'm doing it anyhow. I have to figure out if i can salvage ANY of this. what a waste. Maybe it's better I stuck the shit in a shredder by accident.

And Mom and Dad are really missing Rogue

This week can go suck itself.

ETA - I forgot to mention that I got a call today from India to tell me that he was with computer services and that they have detected a virus on my computer and he was here to help. I told him that in no way does my antiviral programs HAVE my phone number and to go to hell before hanging up.

Comments

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

That story is way to good to give up on! You can take out the kid threat altogether and just focus on the part after that, rather than abandon. Love the characters, just need a little tweaking. Don't abandon it!

I know that feeling, when there's something deeper than sentence level to fix, but really, that one can be done by just taking out some stuff, I really believe. In the morning I'll look again at the draft.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Oh no, i'm not abandoning the story just this 'fix it' scene. I am going to have to break it in half use part here and part later on but i need to figure out where to break it and of course i really did lose several pages to the damn shredder

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Arghh, shredder. Breaking in half sounds good!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I think i know where as well. Right after Sebastian's mother tells him to go warn his wife and leave the rest of the angst for later. But I STILL have to figure out why Sebastian will still go out with Aaron knowing Kyle/Morcant is around

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the motivation is the hard part. When you get time, I'm sure it will work out well. Sometime it helps me just to let some thing like that cook in my brain while I do other stuff.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes that often that helps too. The only thing I can think of is that Sebastian believes that Kyle won't harm a human since it's taboo

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Does he have reason to believe Kyle plays by the rules?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

probably. I'm thinking maybe he never considered Barre's death (you haven't heard of him yet, it's in the new stuff) was anything other than an accident until maybe Kyle let's something slip in a later conversation and THEN he worries about Aaron.

Or at least that would be the easiest way of explaining away why he'd get involved with Aaron after knowing Kyle is around. He probably just considers him a nusiance.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Not having seen the new stuff, can't be sure, but definitely sounds intriguing!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. actually if you want to be on the original fiction filter you can. I'll surely put it there at some poiint

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Thanks! That would be interesting.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i'lll go ahead and add you

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

You're not giving up on the story. You're too stubborn for that.

J. Concetta Evans.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

no, what I'll have to do is break it into 2 scenes but i have to figure out where and how.

Hmmmm

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Well, there you go...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i just need more hours in a day. why the hell did i decide to teach summer school

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Because you were allergic to forensics.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

snort

[lunaria-kitty.livejournal.com]

Bah, sorry to hear about your story. :( I hope you can work the kinks out of it. Maybe try taking a step away from it for a day or two and then come back to it with a fresh perspective? It doesn't always work, but maybe it'll help.

As for names, I really like Auleria. Or like what evil_little_dog did. That looks nice too.

I hope the week gets better.

Oops, html fail. *fixes*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

right now my problem and frustration is I'm teaching summer school and making a new class and I have NO time and I want to get this novella out the door so i'm pulled in 100 directions at once.

I do like Auleria myself

[lunaria-kitty.livejournal.com]

That does complicate things. :(

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes indeed. me being a workaholic is sometimes a problem

[rahirah]

Yeah, right, the day any IT service calls us to fix a problem is the day pigs fly...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

no kidding. it's like how dumb do you think I am?

[ital-gal.livejournal.com]

sorry about everything..
what a day

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks

[sp23.livejournal.com]

Aw, you're such a big blue meanie. Here IT calls specificially to help you out, and you're mean to them. Shame on you! LOL

I like ELD's suggestion for your nom.

Your poor mom & dad. I know how they feel about missing their kitty.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I know. how cruel can I be to some poor dude in Mumbai

thanks.

Yeah I know. I still miss poor Roy

[seta-suzume.livejournal.com]

Ugh, too many problems.

I think Auleria is really pretty.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thank you very much

I do too

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

I may be alone on this, but I like the name Jo Evans. And YIKES - sorry for the shredded :(

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. you're not alone

yeah that annoys me that iw as so careless