Work and things

[louiselux]

Work fretting, some venting

Next Monday's meeting with my research boss bears a sad likeness to an oncoming juggernaut of crushing doom, where I'll get my arse kicked for not having done enough work.  All meetings make me feel like this, though. Perhaps it's just meetings. 

It's true, I haven't done quite enough work, although I had Bad Arm for a month. Quite honestly, I've been rather depressed about the whole project all summer. I feel like I'm stuck in the mud and lacking in direction, which is not so good when when I'm paid enough to give myself a direction and go.

But feeling unhappy about it has lead to Putting Off that which should be DONE TODAY. Putting Off leads to anxiety, which leads to worry and increased Putting Off, which leads to me being scared of meetings.

Oh, enormous amounts of bum.

But I'm not worried enough to let it spoil my weekend, which will be spent in delightful Tynemouth, at connotations. I'm very excited. Very, very. I've even printed out some of my fic to bring, like toscas_kiss said to.

I'm thinking of bringing some doujinshi too-- Saiyuki and Death Note, some of which I now remember I said I'd scan for lebateleur, but never actually did. I suck, I'm sorry. 

Comments

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

You know, I've been to a couple of cons at this point (Media*West and Arisia) and have never before encountered the practice of printing out one's fic to bring along. I've had discussions with people about fic, and had fic run in fanzines/been recognized for having written fic, but never had printouts passed around and examined, etc. It sounds kind of fun.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Tosca proposed the idea-- it had never occurred to me either, but it's a good one. People bring boxes of zines for reading, so why not their own fic for other people to read, and maybe even discuss with you afterwards.

[hungry-worm.livejournal.com]

It does sound nice to have fics to rifle through. A very interesting idea!