The snack cake curse and other things to do
Tue Sep 30, 22:22 | RandomI’ve got a lot on my plate except the one thing I can’t stop thinking about: prepackaged snack cakes.
Specifically, the Vachon Billot Logs – sickly sweet vanilla spongecake rolls filled with lardish frosting, jam, and coated in coconut and a substance that can only be called by the name “pink.” I’ve finished an entire box in less than two days whenever I’ve purchased them.
On my plate:
- The comic con is less than two weeks away. Paintings must be painted, prints must be printed, tables must be organized… so much left to do. So much for getting a jump on it.
- The comic con also has about ten posters left to do, next year’s site to redesign, a print ad to prep… and all after I thought I was nearly caught up, too.
- I need to wrap up my Dr. Girlfriend costume I’m preparing for the con. I have the boots, gloves, and a pink dress. I still have to restyle the dress (including purchasing buttons), make the pink pillbox hat, and figure out how I’m going to curl my hair to a full bob.
- I have to write all my post-dated cheques for my apartment, and make up some self-addressed stamped envelopes for my receipts.
- We have the okay to repair the holes in the walls in my apartment and repaint them. This is good news, as once this is done I can fully unpack, and then we can focus on recaulking the bathroom, preventing the eventual shatter of my cracked toilet bowl, and so on.
- Tomorrow night, my cable, phone, and internet access are getting hooked up in my apartment. There’s only a small issue: the TV is on the floor, there isn’t a phone to be found in the apartment, and there aren’t any computers either. I’ve been wondering whether I’ll even need a landline and TV once my six-month reduced fees dry up – I have to think whether it’s worth the expense.
- I’m in the middle of preparing my course outline I’m teaching for Lanoie.com and it’s going relatively well, but it just needs much more time. I need to start pushing myself to work on it during lunch and when I should be sleeping.
- With a new apartment comes many, many address changes. I don’t even know all the things I have that have my address, let alone who I need to contact about the changes.
- My sister needs my dad’s surprise party photos uploaded to Costco’s photo service so they can be printed. I haven’t even had the chance to plug in my camera lately.
- Work still takes eleven hours out of my day – eight for work, one for lunch, and two for commute. I can’t get time off because I haven’t earned a vacation, nor can I leave when elections and contests and such are all going in full force.
- My personal site redesign has been cruelly shelved yet again, as has Huevos Rancheros, Radio Schizophrenio, and PatrickMichalishyn.
Meanwhile, I’m getting sleepier than usual, am always cold because of the changing weather and a limited wardrobe, and my muscles feel like I’ve been struck with a large vehicle.
Right now, I really could benefit greatly from hearing from some people I haven’t heard from in quite a while.
Well, that and being able to stop sleeping on the floor.
The cacophony of creatures, and not the me kind Ideababies give you the worst morning sickness
The only advantage to having a landline is long distance calls. If you’re only ever calling locally, it’s a complete waste of money—I only have a cell, and it runs me ~$30 / month. If $30 / month on my cell covers all my needs, why would I pay extra for a landline?
— Aaron Wed Oct 1, 10:48 #