To Everything There Is a Season

[akirlu]

Well, it's August already. I guess I had better post something.

Today is a Do All The Things day. Over the summer, when the office is not so crazy, especially not so crazy as it was this particular Spring quarter, when it was totally Cray-Cray-ku-RAY-ZEE, I have arranged to take Fridays off. After doing some puttering with my annual leave numbers and accruals and such, I realized that at an absolute minimum, I have to take 16 days off between now and next February, lest I hit the cap for annual leave and start losing it. (No, I can't take it as cash unless I quit.) So I've been taking my Fridays and enjoying the three day weekends, which mostly still isn't long enough to get up a proper head of steam to accomplish all the stuff that needs doing around here, but today, by golly, All The Things.

By which I mean empty the Billy bookcase in my office so it can be shifted, bring up the Craigslist find medium Billy bookcase from the basement to the new, created space, take a bunch of books off to Magus for sale, and pick up a third second-hand Billy in Phinney Ridge. This will net me 2 medium and 1 narrow birch Billys for $50 which I consider to be a damn fine deal, and may -- I say may -- leave me with enough shelf space to corral all my loose books and binders and get them on actual shelves. And if I can do all that, I can go to the last Clarion West party of The Season tonight and consider myself well accomplished.

Actually, since I already have a Freecycle taker for my old Martha Stewart Living and various beading magazines, and a back-up in case the first one fails, I feel somewhat accomplished already. Now, to the breach, dear friends.

Comments

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I have a ton of days off. Very few of them coordinate with John's days off. It is frustrating.

Are you sure you wouldn't like to go with me to Sweden for a week and attend Fantastika?

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

You know I would love to go to Sweden with you and attend Fantastika, and some day, possibly before then, money should fall out of the sky and I can actually plan things like travel. But until the money stuff gets resolved, I am on hold for such things. On the other hand, one of the other things I did get done on Friday was send off my signature on the settlement agreement for the lawsuit my brother is tied up in, and that just possibly, might actually kick loose some of that pending money. It might also trigger a few trips to California, to get back to prepping my parents house for sale. But for now, waiting is.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Money, it is always a problem. Glad you got your papers signed.