Man, it's hard getting ducks in a row!

Things have been crazy -- I feel like the guy holding down the lid to the manhole while water gushes up from the pipes below him. But slowly I've been lowering the water levels to a manageable level, though I've been getting soaked in the process.

Okay, I think I've about killed that metaphor.

I finally got the last batch of Intracities out in the mail, after Lizzie's help in stuffing and addressing 5 dozen envelopes. I've got all my pre-orders sent out, along with contibutor's copies and review copies. Which leaves me with 90 copies to unload, so click that link and get to buying, please!

Next time I'm charging at least a buck for shipping, as each one costs about that much to mail out in the US. Oh well. I'm not doing this to make money. I doubt I'll even break even. But it was a... learning experience. Yeah. Let's call it that. Another check box on the list of Life To-Dos that I can now successfully fill in.

I also put the final touches on my "Writing Short Speculative Fiction" syllabus for CourseBridge, so if they like what I have there I may be teaching an online course there. I'm really curious to see how that works.

And... speaking of teaching... looks like the gig at the local community college may be the real thing. The catch is they want me to start soon. Like tomorrow. But I've got to give notice at the current Day Job and prepare for three different preps in mid-stream. As crazy as it's been this past week, I think I'm going to take the job!

The really surreal thing about it all is that I may be sharing an office with my father-in-law, who teaches there (I actually helped get him a job there a couple years back when I was teaching there and going to grad school). Why is life so damn weird? It is to laugh.

Speaking of laughing... we watched "Office Space" over a lunch of Rudino's pizza today at the Day Job. The thematic element of this film rang painfully true for many of us watching, especially the two Bobs axing people. My manager, who was one of the the people cut, is a truly cool person. Part of the impetus for me looking to get out of the corporate world and back into teaching was the way she was so poorly treated by this company, after 15 years of working here.

Yeah... that'd be great...

And finally, damn, I think I've got everything done, just two days late, so I can focus on finishing up my novel as part of the October Novel Dare! Everyone else is really kicking ass on their writing, which just warms my cockles. And makes me chomp at the bit to get to my own novel. I'm a competitive bastard. Expect to see some serious word counts tonight and tomorrow. Yeah buddy.