Lily's Pond of Fictional Reflections

Have noticed a bereft wail of despair polite poke from humble_mosquito about my disappearance from the face of the Internet, so am here with a Lily Update.

Headaches still around. Drugs to knock me out through the peaks mostly working. Have discovered that aspirin, which we generally haven't had in the house because Hubby's allergic, actually puts me back on my feet when the pain's at a medium level, where paracetamol and ibuprofen seem to have negligible effect. Have also discovered the hard way that skipping lunch at the same time as the morning's aspirin wears off is a REALLY bad idea.

Off to North America on Thursday week. Looking forward to it in a massively big way. Have a passport in posession, and check its continued existence at least once a day. Have booked flights, car, and all accomodation except for one night where we still haven't heard back from the client we're hopefully visiting. Hubby is freaking out over the travelling already, which is not a good sign, and am providing sincere but stern sympathy.

Am working like a crazy person trying to get my current project ready for the demo that will be leaving on a tour of Europe while I'm away. Am having a surprising amount of fun working in a team of three, where we have to keep fighting over who has the files checked out, rather than the usual arrangement where we each work on fairly disparate modules. Have reaquainted Hubby with the fact that changing the position of a variable typecast from double to single may well be provide a miniscule performance improvement, but is not a sufficiently urgent reason to make me pull out of a difficult major architecture restructure. Am also having a great deal of fun doing stuff that's technologically, functionally, and graphically cool, in a generic way that will mean that even clients not using this new area of tech will benifit in their own areas.

Have completely pushed Remix from my mind. Remix? What Remix? Surely we always knew this would happen.

Editing: reached 25%, then see Remix. Actually, pretty pleased with this. Seriously shows the potential of Return to Sender, and gives me a much better idea of how fast I can realistically edit a nanovel when I'm not driving myself crazy. Am now aiming realistically for next year's Vogels.

Have had the Mystery Festival play returned for edits. They loved it: it's funny and just right. Would I mind modifying it so that all six people run the race but five of them cheated. Oh, and they've heard I'm going overseas next week and they need to start rehearsals ASAP, so could I have it done before I go? Not really whinging about this one, because I knew they would ask me to change things, only I totally am because they are ZOMG DESTROYING MY CREATIVE VISION [/melodrama]. *sigh*

I need a holiday.