~clockwork-zero

I can't believe how busy I've been. Work has been so stressful I thought I was having a heart attack on Monday at noon. I have a bunch of Admins I work with that really don't care about our customers. It drives me crazy. Stuff blew up on Monday.. but now, finally its all fixed. My frustrations with them are compounded by the fact they seem to think they don't need to maintain our machines. grr.. grrr!

anyway, I've also been super busy after the gallery show. It went pretty well. I sold a few pieces.. which was really great. I'm probably going to end up signing with them - so I'll have a semi-permanent spot. Its a nice offer and their commission is only 30% so its really fair.

What else?
There's going to be a "Goth, Steampunk, Cyber, Artist etc Craft/Yard sale and Swapmeet" here in Toronto - that sounds really keen. There are about 8 crafters going to be there - and it looks like just a few jewelers. I might find some clothing I like and swap one or two of the Cyberpunk necklaces for something if I can find it in my size.

I realized because I'm on here so rarely I had about 200 messages plus to get through. I finally got all caught up today. Thats the good news. The bad news is that I'm going to be on here LESS when they firewall down our workplace - leaving us crippled.

do you ever think / dream of finding another job?
lol
My own personal job - tech support - has been lovely. I work with / am a geek. I love the people. Great bunch of guys. (90% guys - we do backbone support and I do webserver support). Love this job... but.. but ... its been getting stressful. And we're owned by a Big USA giant that is doing the lockdown of our stations, monitoring all calls and questioning why we spend 10 min on the phone. Its annoying. They have offered me a new position but it is not so technical... so we shall see. I hope I'll like it.

and what else...
I've not been writing so much lately. The editor poked me about getting him a short story for some new anthology but .. all my energies seem to be focused on the jewelry. Why can't i do 10 things well at once? why? sigh. Still I'm nearly 2/3rds through writing novel #2. And about.. 1/2way through novel #3. and editing 4 short stories to submit. And i've gotta book a week off really - to get novel #1 edited. Sure. I've been editing it for 2 yrs. Editing is my bane.
:: head desk::

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anyway
Toronto: Goth, Steampunk, Cyber, Artist etc Craft/Yard sale and Swapmeet Sunday May 11th

Time and PlaceDate:
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Time: 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Fredericks Manor
Street: 115 Westmoreland Ave
City/Town: Toronto, ON

i didn't organize this though.. but i'm excited to meet others here in Toronto who are into Cyberpunk and Steampunk! Whoop! I've got a bunch of new things planned for it... earrings and cyber-ish stuff. I think it will be fun.