Old York, London, Paris, Frankfurt!
This week I have been mostly looking for IT contract work, having eyedrops put in my eyes, Doing Sums, Dreaming About The Future and dreaming about the future.
I've decided the obvious solution to all my money-earning woes is short-term software engineering contracts, and I'm not sure why I didn't think of this before. I guess I was a little bored of software engineering, but you know what they say about absence... after spending a day last week reading this site here, I got all nostalgic for my days of geekery and now I want to be a software engineer again. Just for a little while. Just while I earn a pile of dosh (it's SHOCKING what IT contracters get paid) And then I'll stop and be a novelist again. And that way I'll never get bored of either of them! Hurrah!
And in the meantime I might even get a publishing deal. Did I mention my book is going to Frankfurt? Well, it is. This weekend. Eek!
I had a lovely long telling-bone conversation with another writer-woman the other day, and she was full of praise and plaudits for my literary agent, who is also her literary agent, and apparently he's really rather good at this selling-books business, and blimey maybe he might actually sell my book too. But even if he does it'll take ages for any money to come through so I'll still need to do the short-term IT contract thing but still and all the same... ooh!
Oh, and today an optician put drops in my eyes and dilated my pupils and blinded me for three hours and it was really weird cos it made me feel like I was on drugs and made me realise how hard it is to see proper when your pupils are dilated and he looked at my eyes under a microscope and I have an area of pigmentation called a nevus (sp?) on my left retina and I was ever-so-slightly worried about it but it's OK and really it's just a freckle and I like the idea of having a freckle on my retina.
And that is all.
Oh, and I'm going to Paris! On Friday! To see a Chinese Opera! But I'm barely even aware of it cos I'm too busy being excited about Frankfurt.
And I'm going to York tomorrow. I'm only mentioning that so I can give this post the title it has. But never mind that, my book's going to Frankfurt.
Oh 'eck.
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I've decided the obvious solution to all my money-earning woes is short-term software engineering contracts, and I'm not sure why I didn't think of this before. I guess I was a little bored of software engineering, but you know what they say about absence... after spending a day last week reading this site here, I got all nostalgic for my days of geekery and now I want to be a software engineer again. Just for a little while. Just while I earn a pile of dosh (it's SHOCKING what IT contracters get paid) And then I'll stop and be a novelist again. And that way I'll never get bored of either of them! Hurrah!
And in the meantime I might even get a publishing deal. Did I mention my book is going to Frankfurt? Well, it is. This weekend. Eek!
I had a lovely long telling-bone conversation with another writer-woman the other day, and she was full of praise and plaudits for my literary agent, who is also her literary agent, and apparently he's really rather good at this selling-books business, and blimey maybe he might actually sell my book too. But even if he does it'll take ages for any money to come through so I'll still need to do the short-term IT contract thing but still and all the same... ooh!
Oh, and today an optician put drops in my eyes and dilated my pupils and blinded me for three hours and it was really weird cos it made me feel like I was on drugs and made me realise how hard it is to see proper when your pupils are dilated and he looked at my eyes under a microscope and I have an area of pigmentation called a nevus (sp?) on my left retina and I was ever-so-slightly worried about it but it's OK and really it's just a freckle and I like the idea of having a freckle on my retina.
And that is all.
Oh, and I'm going to Paris! On Friday! To see a Chinese Opera! But I'm barely even aware of it cos I'm too busy being excited about Frankfurt.
And I'm going to York tomorrow. I'm only mentioning that so I can give this post the title it has. But never mind that, my book's going to Frankfurt.
Oh 'eck.
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