A quick one while I'm away

Wait, what? I swear I had something clever with that title, and then...*poof*. Meh, in any case, it's that time again, and I need to make up something to write for this time. Because honestly, for me these last two weeks have not done a lot more than exist. Don't get me wrong, they've been good, and some stuff has happened, but they've just kind of moved on by, you know? Bleh, enough droning on. Here's the beef!

Work is...well, work. Not exactly fun, but necessary, useful, profitable, and even slightly self-satisfactory. Donations have slowed waaay down from the cooler weather and the end of the yard sale days, and as per most things here, that's both good and bad. It means less junk and fewer unknown substances to wash out of my shirts, but also less to do and more time wasted searching for random jobs to take care of. For example, on Tuesday I spent most of the day going through all the books and holiday boxes we had stored outside the building. It was nice because it was generally kind of private out that far, and I could do it at my own pace and really make sure I did a good job; but honestly, that's really not what I should be doing in my job on a usually-busy day of the week. Similarly, we've gotten a big influx (ok, 3 people) of community service people, the majority (2) of which are only really needed outside. This means I need to find jobs for them to take care of, as I stand there in the empty rear parking lot struggling to figure out something for ME to do. Thankfully, the two I work with are remarkably diligent and careful in their work, at least compared to some of the service workers I've had to deal with before, where the time-spent-texting vs. work-done ratio sometimes reached 10 or 15 - 1. They haven't minded the crappy cleaning jobs I've had to stick them with, at least as far as I can tell. The only thing keeping us all moving is the Halloween rush; between that and some good sales, we've actually had some really good profit days. Personally, I've been kind of perversely hoping it'll rain a lot more so I can run around and move all the boxes and tarps and things. It's fun, makes time go by quickly, and keeps us all occupied; the downside, of course, is that we lose massive amounts of merchandise to water damage. A WORTHY SACRIFICE TO AMUSE MEEEEE--

One fun thing is I've had a lot of chances to hang out with Lakeport friends this week. Spending time at various people's houses, seeing movies (Real Steel, while silly and predictable as all heck, was undeniably a lot of fun to watch), and just spending loads of time talking and catching up. It's nice to have friends you can just shoot the breeze with without having to really talk about anything, you know? Speaking of which, note to self: don't talk so much around Lakeport friends. I worry I might be getting to be a bit of a bore around them. No, seriously, despite what you may know of how much I talk, around them, I talk A LOT.

Haven't gotten much done on the story lately, sadly. Time's been taken up with friends, shopping (I seem to be running out of everything this week), and trying to catch up a bit on sleep. Also on other writing projects too, at least. A bit of poetry, a couple of short papers on all kinds of topics, a few rants...the usual stuff. It's weird, I just about always feel like writing more of the big story, but every time I start thinking about it, I realize just how much more needs to be done on it, and it kind of crushes my creative spirit. I've got to get back in the mindset that none of it should be work, and all of it is something fun I'm doing just for me. Just fun, not work, and so very very easy to just pick up and chicken scratch on even for just a few minutes. I'll get there, you'll see!

Also, DJ Hero is a wonderfully fun time sink. I have no regrets about (all) those hours. Good night!