Note to self: Never work as a midwife on a Day Assessment Unit.

That's really all I have to say about the college-related portion of my day, other than to once again point out that I really do like wearing scrub suits. The best way I can think of to describe what it feels like to wear a scrub suit is to say it's kind of like showing up at work in your pyjamas and nobody giving a damn. It's great.

That aside I haven't had a very good day, but I won't go into it here. There's a place to complain about work issues and, for fairly obvious reasons, that place probably isn't an online journal.

Oh well. All things considered, I don't feel all that bad right now. I finally thought of a way to finish my recalcitrant fic chapter on the way home tonight. Didn't make a start on writing it up because my brain was being stupid and wouldn't let me do anything like as challenging as actually write anything, but I did at least sketch it out in outline - partly, I'll admit, because I was worried about forgetting it. Once again, things are taking a turn for the bleak. This kind of scares me. How much more bleak can one fic contain? I blame Schuldich. Every time he shows up things get real damn angsty, real damn fast. But that can be fun, too...

I've come to the conclusion that really don't like trying to wrestle with already-written fic chapters, by the way (otherwise known as 'minor rewrite'). After the condensed nightmare that was trying to edit one of the scenes in chapter thirteen of 'Seuche', I must have decided I hadn't suffered enough. For some reason I spent a good part of last night trying to tweak 'Honey Trap' in order to up the shounen-ai content a bit and goddamn but it took me the best part of four or five hours to write about 700 words. I finished playing around with the thing at some godawful hour in the morning and I have yet to get round to proofreading it. Still, you have it to do.

Maybe I should make another Winamp skin sometime soon. I like making Winamp skins and I have a few pictures I want to try and use, but the last one I made completely fried my brain and ate my enthusiasm for them because it was such a nightmare to get it looking half-decent... not to mention I've been on a heavy writing kick for the last few months. I swear, writing stuff eats up virtually all my spare time and really, how many Ken skins does one girl need?

It's taken way too long to write this update. All I can guess is that for whatever reason my brain just wasn't up to the job tonight. My head feels funny and kind of alien - I don't feel so much tired as dazed and a bit dull-witted, so that might go some way to explaining it. Oh well, as long as it's back in gear tomorrow, that's all that matters. I really want to update my fics, though every time I do I'm worried about what people will think of them. Ah, the joys of fundamental insecurity about your own abilities (or otherwise) as a writer... going by how long it took me to write an essentially pointless LJ post, though, I'm quite right to be worried. ^^

Oh, and before I close...

Someone I know recently got laid off from work. This is all very sad, but in this particular case the individual in question had been given nothing to do for near as dammit the entire of this year. Last time I checked, it was nearly the end of March - that's almost a quarter of a year of irrelevance. How long can any individual expect a company to pay them for, essentially, sitting on their ass doing nothing but check their emails and surf the net? I like to think that in a sizeable percentage of cases, this would have served as some kind of clue type thing that perhaps they needed to think about making their presence felt at work in no uncertain way, or looking for another job. With three months to do it in, they could at least have made a start on job hunting, right? Or am I being too logical?

Good to see I was right about 'Miss Congeniality 2'. At least the reviews are amusing, I suppose...