Fried. With a capital fruh.

[valis2]

I am absolutely melted. I am completely done for.

I'm so tired I can barely think. Chasing after a nine-year old isn't that big a problem, but doing it while having a round of insomnia AND the evil monthly curse is another thing entirely. At this point I am not able to form coherent thought patterns.

The roller coaster is picking up speed. Tomorrow I leave to take the kid back to WI, and from there we (the WI friends and I) leave for Chicago and what should be a super fun show (I am actually looking forward to it...No, really). After that, I'm home for a few days, then off up North to visit my parents and do a show in their teeny town, and then from there it's back home for a day, a teeny show, home for a day, a big show, then two days, then--Terminus, where I am presenting a paper with gmonkey42. Not to mention the crack_broom recs for August (I signed up, thinking I wouldn't be in the queue until November, but clearly I can't count) .

*blinks*

I have no idea where I'm going to find the time to craft, write the presentation, finish writing thank you notes, work on crack_broom recs, or even breathe. Thank heavens I can bring the thank you notes with me. And I've already written two of the c_b recs.

I am also bringing my Mary Sue materials (*snort*) so I can work on the paper part of the presentation, but eee--I am still nowhere near looking up the 100 stories I had hoped to compile. Fortunately, I think we can get away with 25 or so. In that case, I'm 1/4 done. whew.

So I'll be back a week from Sunday, and I'll be climbing under the covers and sleeping. I wish I could do that right now. Oh wait, that's exactly what I'm going to do.

*hugs the flist*

Comments

[verdenia.livejournal.com]

Eeeeyah. *hugs*! See you there!

[valis2.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Yes, definitely!!

[saruwatari.livejournal.com]

Packed weeks! Good luck with it all, and enjoy that flop-and-sleep when you get back. <3

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Yeah, two months of crazy, followed by honeymoon. Thank goodness!

I'm going to get to behind on the flist...eep!

[gmonkey42.livejournal.com]

I could help with the paper if you want. It sounds like you've got the outline all set but I could help edit it.

I've enlisted Meghan to help read fics too.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I think I'll be okay on the paper--it's the researching fic part that's freaking me out.

I've printed out about 40 pages of stuff I've said about Mary Sue in the past, so I should have no problem putting all of that together into a presentation--I've been thinking about it quite a bit, and that's something I can do away from a computer, even.

I don't plan on "writing" the presentation, because then I'll have to read it to the audience, which is really unnatural for me--I end up reading too quickly and I get scared about losing my place. It's much easier if I write a detailed outline (which I definitely will forward to you once I have it in a bit more appealing form because I rly rly want your input) and then I can just pontificate from the outline. lol.

Thank you a thousand times--and please thank Meghan a thousand times as well for helping! Because honestly, that's the part that's scaring me the most--the sheer volume of reading is staggering. I'm trying to cut it down to fics that are 10-11 chapters because it's a bit rough slogging through longer ones--sometimes it takes too long for that Flying Unicorn Animagus form to show up, y'know?

*giant hugs*