Let's see how it takes for this activity to reduce me to a blubbering madwoman. (Let's just say, there's a reason I've been shirking it for so long...)
SO FAR: Have answered everything from the past two days. Am feeling slightly blubbery, but still on top of things....
Update: 8:35 pm: Okay, spotted a clerical error which resulted in my mis-scheduling a project and not getting it finished on time. (Which I would have easily spotted if I hadn't been so chickenshit about checking my e-mail in the last week or so.) Sadly, to me, checking e-mail is a lot like chemotherapy: necessary for my survival, but I'll be lucky if I can get through it without vomiting all over myself.
Update: 10:39 pm: Good GOD, this is taking a long time. (I've only answered e-mails back to 7/15 now.) A large part of the problem is that is someone wants a quote from me, then I have to do a fair amount of time-consuming research before I can send them that quote. I can't just pull a figure out of my ass and hand it out to them. I have to look up the cost of materials, see if there aren't some shortcuts I could take, look up possible methods for making certain things. And there's no guarantee that the person I'm doing all this research for will accept my quote in the end. (Of course, this sort of thing isn't just a thorn in my ass, it's the bane of freelancers everywhere. I wonder how many hours in a year I spend just giving out free labor like this. Hmm...)
Update: 11:03 pm Random Discovery I Made While Engaged in Current Costume Research #1: This is the fucking coolest Alucard costume ever.
Update: 11:37 pm Random Discovery I Made While Engaged in Current Costume Research #2: Ye hairy flippin gods! What kind of crack are Japanese character designers smoking these days? It's like Aztec meets Tron meets H.P. Lovecraft...
Random Discovery I Made While Engaged in Current Costume Research #3: This site. I'd much rather handcraft a serviceably nice doll like the ones featured here than shell out 800 bucks for some dead-eyed overpriced Volks monstrousity. (These would be easier to carry around too, I imagine...)
Update: 12:38 am Answered every e-mail sent to me back to 7/9/07. (I'm now into the "sorry I took so fracking long to get back to you" excuse stage. Soon I'll be at the "I'm sorry, I was abducted by aliens who needed me to use my Powers Of Cosplay to defeat a cashmere-sweater-wearing Evil Overlord and I didn't get back home to Earth until just now" excuse stage...)
Update: 1:23 am: Well, I've answered everything back to the 4th of July. (Of course, I do realize I'm going to have to deal with approximately 187 replies tomorrow. And the madness shall begin anew. (Oh Nostradamus, why couldn't you have been right about the world ending in 1999?...)
Update: 1: 48 am: Oy.
Update: 2: 03 am: Wow. I didn't know James Joyce was still alive and writing ad copy for spammers...
Update: 3:46 am: Oh gods, I really need to empty my trash more often...
Update: 4:40 am: Swiftly lumbering towards blubbering madwomanhood... I did take about 1/2 hour off to burn a few things to disc. (Since my copy of Nero and my Eudora e-mail program don't get along very well, I couldn't work with them both at once...) I've answered all of my e-mail back to 6/10/07. I figure anything past that probably isn't relevant anymore, although I'm going to try and answer it anyway.
Crap. I really need a fucking secretary...
Update: 5:14 am: Okay, I got all of June done. Still have all of May to do...
Aw hell I should just go for it and get it done with. Even if I am slightly less coherent than Lindsey Lohan on a Saturday night...
Update: 5:57 am: 12 hours from when I started (around 6 pm) 12 hours and I finally answered (or at least made a rambling cut-and-paste excuse to) every e-mail inquiry in my inbox. (There's still a couple 'o people whom I have to contact and tell some updatey kinds of things to, but everything HAS been replied to....Well, except for the stuff that arrived SINCE I started doing this. Which I'll reply to asap......Honest... I mean it this time.....)
Gods, my neck.....I hope I never get another attack of TEH STUPIDZ and let this kind of thing happen ever again....*sigh*...
SO FAR: Have answered everything from the past two days. Am feeling slightly blubbery, but still on top of things....
Update: 8:35 pm: Okay, spotted a clerical error which resulted in my mis-scheduling a project and not getting it finished on time. (Which I would have easily spotted if I hadn't been so chickenshit about checking my e-mail in the last week or so.) Sadly, to me, checking e-mail is a lot like chemotherapy: necessary for my survival, but I'll be lucky if I can get through it without vomiting all over myself.
Update: 10:39 pm: Good GOD, this is taking a long time. (I've only answered e-mails back to 7/15 now.) A large part of the problem is that is someone wants a quote from me, then I have to do a fair amount of time-consuming research before I can send them that quote. I can't just pull a figure out of my ass and hand it out to them. I have to look up the cost of materials, see if there aren't some shortcuts I could take, look up possible methods for making certain things. And there's no guarantee that the person I'm doing all this research for will accept my quote in the end. (Of course, this sort of thing isn't just a thorn in my ass, it's the bane of freelancers everywhere. I wonder how many hours in a year I spend just giving out free labor like this. Hmm...)
Update: 11:03 pm Random Discovery I Made While Engaged in Current Costume Research #1: This is the fucking coolest Alucard costume ever.
Update: 11:37 pm Random Discovery I Made While Engaged in Current Costume Research #2: Ye hairy flippin gods! What kind of crack are Japanese character designers smoking these days? It's like Aztec meets Tron meets H.P. Lovecraft...
Random Discovery I Made While Engaged in Current Costume Research #3: This site. I'd much rather handcraft a serviceably nice doll like the ones featured here than shell out 800 bucks for some dead-eyed overpriced Volks monstrousity. (These would be easier to carry around too, I imagine...)
Update: 12:38 am Answered every e-mail sent to me back to 7/9/07. (I'm now into the "sorry I took so fracking long to get back to you" excuse stage. Soon I'll be at the "I'm sorry, I was abducted by aliens who needed me to use my Powers Of Cosplay to defeat a cashmere-sweater-wearing Evil Overlord and I didn't get back home to Earth until just now" excuse stage...)
Update: 1:23 am: Well, I've answered everything back to the 4th of July. (Of course, I do realize I'm going to have to deal with approximately 187 replies tomorrow. And the madness shall begin anew. (Oh Nostradamus, why couldn't you have been right about the world ending in 1999?...)
Update: 1: 48 am: Oy.
Update: 2: 03 am: Wow. I didn't know James Joyce was still alive and writing ad copy for spammers...
Update: 3:46 am: Oh gods, I really need to empty my trash more often...
Update: 4:40 am: Swiftly lumbering towards blubbering madwomanhood... I did take about 1/2 hour off to burn a few things to disc. (Since my copy of Nero and my Eudora e-mail program don't get along very well, I couldn't work with them both at once...) I've answered all of my e-mail back to 6/10/07. I figure anything past that probably isn't relevant anymore, although I'm going to try and answer it anyway.
Crap. I really need a fucking secretary...
Update: 5:14 am: Okay, I got all of June done. Still have all of May to do...
Aw hell I should just go for it and get it done with. Even if I am slightly less coherent than Lindsey Lohan on a Saturday night...
Update: 5:57 am: 12 hours from when I started (around 6 pm) 12 hours and I finally answered (or at least made a rambling cut-and-paste excuse to) every e-mail inquiry in my inbox. (There's still a couple 'o people whom I have to contact and tell some updatey kinds of things to, but everything HAS been replied to....Well, except for the stuff that arrived SINCE I started doing this. Which I'll reply to asap......Honest... I mean it this time.....)
Gods, my neck.....I hope I never get another attack of TEH STUPIDZ and let this kind of thing happen ever again....*sigh*...
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