Well, seeing as nearly everyone is gone, I think I’ll stop writing here. I have the hardest time trying to figure out even where to read other people’s blogs that it just doesn’t seem worth the effort. If you want to read my stuff follow me at any of the following locations:

Personal: http://jaikaies.wordpress.com/

Book Blog: http://jkbooklover.wordpress.com/

Travel Blog: http://jktraveller.wordpress.com/

And if you follow me, I’ll be able to follow you back!

❤ SUMR

A fair bit has happened since April. The play is finished, May and June were pretty crazy months as we were gearing up for the performance and then doing 16 shows. I messed up a couple times, usually once per night, but didn’t think much of it. I had practiced as much as I could and even wrote out all my lines every day as part of my show-prep. I think it went really well!

In July I got a new editing assignment, and that’s just been a real… mess. It was supposed to be three novellas, but the author says three anthologies, and the agent says nine short stories. We finally got things sorted -three collections consisting of seven short stories- but the author and the agent are both aggravating. Well, the agent might just be due to the author being annoying to both of us and having to deal with it. I’m thankfully almost done these stupid things!

The freelance editing job I had last summer that took twice as long to do half the book was sent back to the author last fall to fix the second half before I looked at it. He finally emailed the whole thing back to me. I guess he edited the first half before rewriting the second half… and that’s probably a good thing so he’d know what to fix! As soon as the aggravating agented author project is finished, I’ll get back to this one.

For August I had six days of full-time work to do a project at the day job. I needed a day or two more to finish up, but boss-lady said I was taking too long and gave it to the new intern she hired. He messed it up and I was emailed at home to finalize the project. Sadly, unless I can sneak the hours onto my time card gradually, I won’t get paid for it.

Both the intern and a new girl had been hired when Ali said she was leaving. With their coming, going out the window was the promise I’d get more hours when Boss-lady had her baby. Boss-lady had tried to entice Ali to stay, saying she’d put Ali in a management position and hire new people as she wants to revamp the company. Ali asked her why not just give me more hours rather than hire more workers, but Boss-lady had no answer to that. I think over the Christmas holidays last year my boss decided she no longer liked me and wished I would go away.

Anyways, Ali left and the intern was by himself for a whole week because Boss-lady wants to stay close to home near her due date and refused to give me more hours. I came in for my shift and he was just sitting there playing on the computer. He’s supposed to be covering for the new girl who couldn’t start until today or doing his own “job” of sales, but he didn’t know what to work on. Seems he isn’t as “bright” as boss-lady claimed and I had to give him a list of things to do. He messed up one thing and I had to not only rewrite it, but beg Ali to redo the layout because I had no access to the necessary file.

September means I’m all the more closer to both the voyage to Caro’s wedding and to my expected SWAP departure—if all goes well. I’ll be starting a travel blog that’s geared more to the general experience, or maybe written with the intent to become a novel once all is said and done. I expect I’ll be blogging more here for the more personal aspect of the adventure… y’know, the whinging about my job and drooling after cute men with accents

❤ SUMR