News and notes.

Two days ago I abandoned all pretense to prose in the current novel draft. Tonight I reached the end of the narrative. Now I need to go back and start editing it up together with the last version. It's a weird feeling - the back half of the story needed a lot less work, in part because the comments I got only covered the first part and in part because there was a lot less that needed to change to keep the story intact for what I'm trying to say with this thing.

I think I'll take tomorrow to work out some dates and details, the rest of the week to psych myself up, and next week start more prose wrangling.

It's my last week at work, with Friday as my last official day. It's also the last couple of weeks for the current offices, with next Friday as their last official day on the current lease. This means there's not a lot of stuff for me to do under my main job description and a lot of cleaning out I'm volunteering myself for in order to fill up the hours. In cleaning out some drawers and cabinets and finding a not-insignificant number of obsolete training and instruction manuals, I also found some small paper shopping bags. Small paper shopping bags the ideal size for standard issue office paper.

Somehow this combination of items - putting paper in a bag - got the office manager to enthuse, fairly loudly, about how neat and tidy everything looked and how great a job I was doing.

I spent a couple hours this afternoon with maristu, who has lovely purple hair and a host of wonderful stories. She's someone I met not through a journal or blogging site, but a fandom slack group. The methods of making connections change, the results stay consistent.