An Overly Busy Week
Jul. 14th, 2014 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aSo the last 7 days have been overly busy.
The main culprit was Designers & Dragons. Over the course of the week I had to proof all of the second-draft laid-out pages for the '90s book. That would have been a fair amount of work in and of itself, but unfortunately our layout guy and I couldn't coordinate our schedules well, so I ended up doing the proofing on my busiest days of the week, which meant that on Wednesday and Thursday I was going over pages until midnight.
As a free bonus, I also got the proofed pages for the '00s book to go over on Friday night, so that was another late night of juggling priorities.
All of the document-checking wouldn't have been that big of a deal if it weren't a really busy week otherwise. I also had an RPG session to prep for on Friday night, an RPG session to run on Saturday, and a play to see on Sunday. Plus an article to finish for Hasbro over the weekend and at 1-3 histories to write for DnDClassics over the weekend, so. Yeah.
I marked today as the official end of my overly-busy week because I had a dentist appointment and an optometrist appointment scheduled today. And I figured after that, the world would be calmer.
The dentist appointment was the first in several years. (Bad me!) I'd had problems with my last dentist feeling like a bit of a dental-cultist, so I moved on but hadn't ever found a new one. But this year I was encouraged by K. getting out to the dentist and by me having some recurring pain in my jaw. So I got out there today and unsurprisingly there were big problems with tartar build-up (probably causing the pain) and unsurprisingly they had to do a deep cleaning. So I was at the dentist for two hours and I get part two tomorrow evening. Yay, me. So much for my busyness and stress ending today; ah well.
The optometrist appointment was like my 15th this year or something. Seriously. We still don't have glasses that work right and we've been trying since February. These newest glasses had distance and reading that didn't work in my left lens; however, once more I felt validated by scientific measurement: when the doctor measured my eyesight with the glasses they were off by half a diopter! (While when he measured my eyesight with his steampunk tools, he came up with the same measure he always had, so the problem continues to be the manufacture.) The reading glass measurement continued to confuse him because I generally see better everywhere but in the reading lens. I underlined very carefully that the reading glasses were the biggest problem for me at this point (because I still couldn't really work on a computer, though this 6th or 7th try was better than most). The whole glasses thing just fills me with major annoyance at this point and I generally put off visiting for a week at a time every time I need to go back in.
Despite the extra dentistry I'm still hoping things are quieting down now. I do have some DnD histories that I'd like to get written, to stay ahead of the game, but tomorrow night after my dentist appointment I've committed to just relaxing. I have an '80s index to work through for Designers & Dragons starting this weekend, and I've also got plenty of DnD histories to work on, and I need to get started on the next Hasbro article soon. But none of that should be quite as crazy-making, so things should be quieter any minute now ...
The main culprit was Designers & Dragons. Over the course of the week I had to proof all of the second-draft laid-out pages for the '90s book. That would have been a fair amount of work in and of itself, but unfortunately our layout guy and I couldn't coordinate our schedules well, so I ended up doing the proofing on my busiest days of the week, which meant that on Wednesday and Thursday I was going over pages until midnight.
As a free bonus, I also got the proofed pages for the '00s book to go over on Friday night, so that was another late night of juggling priorities.
All of the document-checking wouldn't have been that big of a deal if it weren't a really busy week otherwise. I also had an RPG session to prep for on Friday night, an RPG session to run on Saturday, and a play to see on Sunday. Plus an article to finish for Hasbro over the weekend and at 1-3 histories to write for DnDClassics over the weekend, so. Yeah.
I marked today as the official end of my overly-busy week because I had a dentist appointment and an optometrist appointment scheduled today. And I figured after that, the world would be calmer.
The dentist appointment was the first in several years. (Bad me!) I'd had problems with my last dentist feeling like a bit of a dental-cultist, so I moved on but hadn't ever found a new one. But this year I was encouraged by K. getting out to the dentist and by me having some recurring pain in my jaw. So I got out there today and unsurprisingly there were big problems with tartar build-up (probably causing the pain) and unsurprisingly they had to do a deep cleaning. So I was at the dentist for two hours and I get part two tomorrow evening. Yay, me. So much for my busyness and stress ending today; ah well.
The optometrist appointment was like my 15th this year or something. Seriously. We still don't have glasses that work right and we've been trying since February. These newest glasses had distance and reading that didn't work in my left lens; however, once more I felt validated by scientific measurement: when the doctor measured my eyesight with the glasses they were off by half a diopter! (While when he measured my eyesight with his steampunk tools, he came up with the same measure he always had, so the problem continues to be the manufacture.) The reading glass measurement continued to confuse him because I generally see better everywhere but in the reading lens. I underlined very carefully that the reading glasses were the biggest problem for me at this point (because I still couldn't really work on a computer, though this 6th or 7th try was better than most). The whole glasses thing just fills me with major annoyance at this point and I generally put off visiting for a week at a time every time I need to go back in.
Despite the extra dentistry I'm still hoping things are quieting down now. I do have some DnD histories that I'd like to get written, to stay ahead of the game, but tomorrow night after my dentist appointment I've committed to just relaxing. I have an '80s index to work through for Designers & Dragons starting this weekend, and I've also got plenty of DnD histories to work on, and I need to get started on the next Hasbro article soon. But none of that should be quite as crazy-making, so things should be quieter any minute now ...