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Hot and Cold
Aug. 5th, 2009 09:07 pmI can't think of a better way to start this post but with an excerpt from some writing:
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The last days at my apartment were really noisy, because they're building new student housing across from the parking lot outside my window. They had been tearing a huge hole in the middle of the parking lot in order to install plumbing, so there was a lot of noise that Thursday starting at precisely 7AM and continuing until 3PM-ish.
Anyway, it's been nice being at home. Last week we got the garage and front step repaved, and right after that was done and left to dry for a day, it started pouring rain. I've been stalking my email and IM obsessively over my cell-phone, though, and that's been doing not-good things to my right hand. In fact, especially when I do any typing or writing, there's a numbness that I can't describe in any other way than that it makes my bones feel like they're all fragmented.
I also managed to get through "negotiations" over compensation for my editing services, so while there were some difficulties and some disagreements, we managed to define the scope of my work better and bring it back to "editing" at the end rather than trying to do tech-writing/editing/proofing/language-advice/graphics-advice all at the same time while major changes and adjustments are still being made.
I tend to low-ball my prices because I don't want to be greedy, but I guess everybody's happy when they get paid...
It's been rainy every day since the weekend, and it's expected to continue all week. It's been so cold that it feels like late winter again, and just as depressing. I can't even decide between crying because of kaihoa suomen saloille or because of how frustrating the editing stuff has been (with the editing there's also a sense of disappointment with the whole thing, but I've just thought of this yesterday and so I haven't thought it through yet).
But the real reason I've been motivated to write this post is because I'm on my new computer. It's shiny and I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to do with 8GB of RAM :)
( Cut for length )
The last days at my apartment were really noisy, because they're building new student housing across from the parking lot outside my window. They had been tearing a huge hole in the middle of the parking lot in order to install plumbing, so there was a lot of noise that Thursday starting at precisely 7AM and continuing until 3PM-ish.
Anyway, it's been nice being at home. Last week we got the garage and front step repaved, and right after that was done and left to dry for a day, it started pouring rain. I've been stalking my email and IM obsessively over my cell-phone, though, and that's been doing not-good things to my right hand. In fact, especially when I do any typing or writing, there's a numbness that I can't describe in any other way than that it makes my bones feel like they're all fragmented.
I also managed to get through "negotiations" over compensation for my editing services, so while there were some difficulties and some disagreements, we managed to define the scope of my work better and bring it back to "editing" at the end rather than trying to do tech-writing/editing/proofing/language-advice/graphics-advice all at the same time while major changes and adjustments are still being made.
I tend to low-ball my prices because I don't want to be greedy, but I guess everybody's happy when they get paid...
It's been rainy every day since the weekend, and it's expected to continue all week. It's been so cold that it feels like late winter again, and just as depressing. I can't even decide between crying because of kaihoa suomen saloille or because of how frustrating the editing stuff has been (with the editing there's also a sense of disappointment with the whole thing, but I've just thought of this yesterday and so I haven't thought it through yet).
But the real reason I've been motivated to write this post is because I'm on my new computer. It's shiny and I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to do with 8GB of RAM :)
