Friday, August 19, 2005
Get Thee Behind Me
So, the page proofs are done, all packed up and ready to overnight on whatever day I am near a post office. Now, I can focus on The Rake and Shift and my dark elf, and finish that gosh darned Sleath paper which is a complete draft instead of a partial! Anyhoo. The wooden stakes are also in a box and addressed. I thought I'd be sore today but I'm not. I ate five cookies so the guilt level is pretty high. But they were really good. I think that craving for fat is an indication of stress for me. Gee, am I stressed? It's not like I thought ADC was boring and horrible or anything like that. I keep thinking, people (who aren't me) said it was really good. CK seemed to think I did a great job, those were his words. Everyone except CK could have been lying to protect my feelings, but it's possible that at the end of the revision stage, it was then not in his interest anymore to not to lie.
Ok, double negative there. So sue me. After all, by then, it was too late to send me back for more. Right?
Sigh. It's not what I hoped. At all.
My son starts school Wednesday (I start Thursday) and I had to take him shopping for new soccer shoes because he's grown out of and worn through the other pair and he has a two-day tournament this weekend. Then I had to get him school clothes. Usually he is really picky, but we were able to find 12 slims and tee-shirts he liked, plus black socks. Then we had to get a new bedspread for him because his is falling apart. Then I had to get the box for the wooden vampire stakes and an envelope to mail the page proofs, and then wash all the new stuff, feed him, finish the page proofs. etc.
Plus my best friend and college roommate is in San Francisco from Denver and so I'm going to SFO tomorrow night, leaving straight from soccer. I stayed up until midnight last night because I didn't want to admit the day was over, so it took extra espresso to keep me awake today. And, some personally identifying information was on a Sonoma State U computer that got hacked, so I had to do the credit protection dance and the people on the phone had the NERVE to lecture me about phishing and using a firewall and antivirus. Perhaps I interrupted before they got to patching, but then maybe he was just a freaking
idiot. Anyway I told the fine gentleman on the phone, maybe not very nicely at one point, that he needed to lecture SSU, not me. Which brings me around to this - I have another grad school application to consider, which, interestingly enough, is for infoSec. They want 3 letters of recommendation and right there on the form for the letters is a big space for my SSN. So, let's see, supposedly the school that FBI and police attend for Computer InfoSec uses SSN to track their students.
This is STUPID And then, they think it's fine to expose my SSN to whoever happends to handle my letters of recommendation. Well, gee. I think I know problem number one with U.S. government infosec.
Umm, so maybe I got a wee bit off track there. I could keep complaining, but actually, I'm excited to see Jen, it's been years!
