Rolling into a brave new world
Jan. 15th, 2009 12:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clarentineForgive me, LiveJournal, for I have not posted here in better than two weeks. My excuse? Real life ate my head. The good news is that I have not fallen off the edge of the world. The bad news is, I might yet jump. *g*
Some of you who read this journal (::waves at crickets::) will know that my family has been planning a move to the wilds of Tennessee for a while now. That time has finally come and 2009 is the year we move, find new jobs, build a house, etc. To say that this is an involved process is an understatement, as you might guess. (I can has house plans! Woo!) (I cannot attend any cons this year. Boo!)
In addition to that circus, the landscape designers professional organization on whose board of directors I currently sit is involved in negotiating amendments to language proposed by Virginia landscape architects to ensure that, while the LAs gain the licensure they're seeking, they don't wipe off the map the legal right of landscape designers to practice our portion of the landscape architecture pie. I'm rather heavily involved in those negotiations.
In further addition, as you can see in part two above, it's legislature season here in Virginia, and I work for the state Attorney General's office, which is tasked with reviewing every piece of legislation proposed for constitutional issues. While I'm not doing that reviewing, not being an attorney myself, I am one of the people tasked to manage the timely flow of the mountain of paper coming from the General Assembly.
All of which means that I am lucky when, of an evening, I have a spare brain cell to try and produce anything with...and I'm supposed to be continuing to rewrite Break, with edits to Kith to follow.
(And I am still working on those novels. I usually manage to slog through a couple of pages at lunchtime and post-dinner/pre-bed. It's just going really annoyingly slow.)
Be reassured that I do still read my flist, catching up as necessary when I have fallen behind. I'll post Exciting Events as they occur and I have breathing room to do so. If you don't see much activity here, however, don't worry. The absentee owner does still pay her taxes, and I'll be back.
Some of you who read this journal (::waves at crickets::) will know that my family has been planning a move to the wilds of Tennessee for a while now. That time has finally come and 2009 is the year we move, find new jobs, build a house, etc. To say that this is an involved process is an understatement, as you might guess. (I can has house plans! Woo!) (I cannot attend any cons this year. Boo!)
In addition to that circus, the landscape designers professional organization on whose board of directors I currently sit is involved in negotiating amendments to language proposed by Virginia landscape architects to ensure that, while the LAs gain the licensure they're seeking, they don't wipe off the map the legal right of landscape designers to practice our portion of the landscape architecture pie. I'm rather heavily involved in those negotiations.
In further addition, as you can see in part two above, it's legislature season here in Virginia, and I work for the state Attorney General's office, which is tasked with reviewing every piece of legislation proposed for constitutional issues. While I'm not doing that reviewing, not being an attorney myself, I am one of the people tasked to manage the timely flow of the mountain of paper coming from the General Assembly.
All of which means that I am lucky when, of an evening, I have a spare brain cell to try and produce anything with...and I'm supposed to be continuing to rewrite Break, with edits to Kith to follow.
(And I am still working on those novels. I usually manage to slog through a couple of pages at lunchtime and post-dinner/pre-bed. It's just going really annoyingly slow.)
Be reassured that I do still read my flist, catching up as necessary when I have fallen behind. I'll post Exciting Events as they occur and I have breathing room to do so. If you don't see much activity here, however, don't worry. The absentee owner does still pay her taxes, and I'll be back.
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Date: 2009-01-15 06:25 pm (UTC)Yay, new home!
If you'd like to bounce any ideas about the kitchen and baths, feel free to ping me. You may have already nailed them down but the offer's there. :)
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Date: 2009-01-15 06:42 pm (UTC)I'm at clarentine at gmail. I'm going to try and email you directly, if I have your email in my contacts list. If you don't hear from me shortly, would you zap me an email so I have the correct address at which to reach you?
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Date: 2009-01-15 07:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-16 08:00 am (UTC)Best wishes with all the balls you have to juggle!
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Date: 2009-01-16 11:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-17 07:08 pm (UTC)Whoo! ^,,^
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Date: 2009-01-17 08:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-21 10:36 am (UTC)Good luck with it all!
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Date: 2009-01-21 01:12 pm (UTC)Thanks for your good thoughts! I hope your own Real Life stuff gives you some breathing room.