Freakishly prolific

I'm not a prolific writer. I'm sure I could be a BNF with minions and have shrines all over the net to me if I was more prolific.

(for the general audience, that's a joke. Please keep the rotten cabbage to yourself)

But I seem to be suddenly strangely prolific, maybe as a way to dampen my pain -- taking refuge in writing ridiculous fanfic. (Oh my god, Camille Bacon Smith was right -- we're writing through our pain! Feh) I may never actually finish the longer Buffy story, but for now I have a short one and also a reasonably sized Mag 7 story, both just posted at my site.

They're both really odd -- neither is in my "traditional" 'ships. The Buffy story features Dawn and Spike, although in my head and heart it's about Spike and Buffy. The Mag 7 story is a thank-you to a kind and generous friend, so it's E/B.

The main page has the blurbs, and the stories, individually, are here for Buffy and here for Mag 7.

More about the employment situation later. I can't thank everyone enough for their kind support.

Off the rollercoaster

Update on the employment situation. First, to those wonderful people who sent me kind thoughts, thank you so much: morgandawn, cynlock, jorit, destina, caille, and lizyjn. (And you too, CS!) It really meant a lot and made a very bad day easier to get through.

My fellow editor just left. He ended up taking the voluntary layoff, which essentially "saved" my job, although I'm not sure how I feel about that. They were, apparently, going to lay me off -- as I suspected, my name was at the top of the list. But his volunteering flip-flopped it, and frankly, I think they're insane to not axe both of us, only I think that MeanSupervisor probably said if they both go, I go, and they kept me. All the bigwigs spent time today with me, worried that I was going to be angry and hate them for finding out I was at the top of the list to go. I don't -- I knew it was coming. But they're freaked I think it's insulting. They actually already had me off payroll! So I won't get my check for a bit. :-D

I really don't want to work here anymore, though. It's miserable and depressing, and two others who took the volunteer thing I adored -- one super cute young designer, and our so gay he's post gay strategy guy. Now I don't have anyone to be bitchy with. So, I'm going to reduce my hours to four days a week, and start trying to really ramp up for freelance work, and maybe, eventually do that completely. In some ways I wish they'd laid me off and my fellow editor's decision hadn't affected me; in others, I know I need the paycheck and the benefits. Now I guess I have to start, if not a new chapter, then at least a new page.

And hey, there's still the T1 connection here at work. And next week is vacation to La-La Land and Escapade to see my friends. ;-)