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What the What?
I might be going back to work, maybe, sorta?
Ouch
It still hurts when I walk and particularly when I descend the stairs, but the Orthopedic specialist declared me fit to return to 12 hours on foot in the factory. I notified them last week and they still haven’t sorted out my work schedule.
In the meantime, I also haven’t received my most recent WC check. I don’t know if none was issued or if it’s just really late in the mail. In either case, it’s a nerve-wracking pain in the ass.
No check. No schedule. No money.
Going to have to get creative and stop depending on others. What a goddamned pain…
Make It So
So, before Christmastime kicked in and put me in panic mode for my holiday site (which I swore up and down I wasn’t going to do this year), I had some projects cooking. Since I have suddenly found myself in a world of poodoo, I’m going to have to figure out a way to multitask and get those projects cooking.
In most cases, people who have neither work nor support are basically screwed. That’s only if you’re not an entrepreneur.
Granted, I suck at being an entrepreneur but at least I have the opportunity to get it right this time. I have the infrastructure, some tools and the never-ending hope that I can make the formula work this time around.
If I can’t even count on the employer telling me when I’m allowed to turn up (so that I can limp around in pain for 12 hours and probably get fired for not being 100% as they have already stipulated), then I think it’s time to look past the paycheck and get going with the home business.
I’ll let you know how that turns out.
Technique
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist. ~Marianne Moore
I’ve been hard at it, creating my Christmas daily posts but the Sentinels are still rattling around in my mind. Since my ribs are mostly healed and I can comfortably lay in a prone position, I’ll soon be able to begin writing again in earnest.
I know it’s a weird constraint, but I really find it hard not to write in a prone position. Somehow, that puts me in a creative mode.
Since I haven’t been actively putting pencil to paper, I have been mulling over ideas for plot points and story chronology. It’s still a bit of a nebulous haze that’s swirling around in my mind, but I believe that once I’m done cranking out my Christmas dailies for the season that I can get pencil to paper and start making some serious headway.
That’s the long and short of it today. I hope you’re having a wonderful week. I’m honestly not sure what kind of a week I’m having.