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Jun. 14th, 2001 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sanpaku_backupI wish the LJ community search thing would work. I keep checking it and it doesn't work. Just as I found out about communities it stopped working.
I'm in a bad mood. I worked on a horrible chapter for 3 days and felt pretty good about it when it was done. So far the editor has shat all over it and I'm going to have a lot of work to do. Not that I am so surprised-- they have an unerring instinct to rip out whatever feels original or creative in the chapter and leave you to dumb everything down-- but it has happened so many times in this job, that I feel good about doing something and then the editor craps all over it.
Not that I am feeling so great about my larger professional future anyway. One of my colleagues landed a plum academic full-time job out of the blue. He was a guy I kept saying, "well, if _he_ doesn't have a job, I don't feel so bad." Now I feel like King Loser.
Luna is playing in town tonight but they go onstage at 11:15 pm and I have to work tomorrow. Maybe I can figure something out. But I don't know. I saw them 2 years ago or so and they were great but I am out of the habit of going to $15 shows and all the hassle they entail. Maybe if they had come out with some new songs lately I'd feel more motivated.
Well, yesterday was nice, anyway. Worked at home, went with Mrs. Sanpaku to a diner for lunch, found that the coffeeshop we went to in Roslindale is back to being open until 11, so all that is good. And since I'm waiting for chapters I could spend the day reading about the stock market crash, with an eye toward a module. It will be an excellent module, if I ever get the time to write it, I think.
I'm in a bad mood. I worked on a horrible chapter for 3 days and felt pretty good about it when it was done. So far the editor has shat all over it and I'm going to have a lot of work to do. Not that I am so surprised-- they have an unerring instinct to rip out whatever feels original or creative in the chapter and leave you to dumb everything down-- but it has happened so many times in this job, that I feel good about doing something and then the editor craps all over it.
Not that I am feeling so great about my larger professional future anyway. One of my colleagues landed a plum academic full-time job out of the blue. He was a guy I kept saying, "well, if _he_ doesn't have a job, I don't feel so bad." Now I feel like King Loser.
Luna is playing in town tonight but they go onstage at 11:15 pm and I have to work tomorrow. Maybe I can figure something out. But I don't know. I saw them 2 years ago or so and they were great but I am out of the habit of going to $15 shows and all the hassle they entail. Maybe if they had come out with some new songs lately I'd feel more motivated.
Well, yesterday was nice, anyway. Worked at home, went with Mrs. Sanpaku to a diner for lunch, found that the coffeeshop we went to in Roslindale is back to being open until 11, so all that is good. And since I'm waiting for chapters I could spend the day reading about the stock market crash, with an eye toward a module. It will be an excellent module, if I ever get the time to write it, I think.
