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Such is Sunday

My writing group is taking a break for the next couple of weeks, so today was spent mostly working on Kaleidotrope‘s spring issue, which, if I get everything together, will go live next Sunday, April 1.

I’m pretty sure I can get it ready by then. At this point, it’s mostly the archiving of the winter issue that’s a potential issue, and figuring out how to put comments back on the pages. (I tried a forum with the winter issue, which I hoped would spark more interactivity and solve some layout issues, but almost nobody’s used it, and it’s maybe time to go back to the way things were.)

Beyond prepping the issue and e-mailing contributors, I did the Sunday crossword — that probably goes without saying — and I did my taxes. I also watched this week’s episode of Fringe, wherein love conquers all except bad writing. (Well, not terrible writing, but the show has been better.)

And that was my Sunday. Thrilling stuff, I know.

A short long week

How can a four-day week have felt so long?

It’s over at least, and the weekend is here. Rumor is, we’re going to get a few inches of snow before the weekend’s out, but it remains to be seen. Aside from a flurry every now and then, we haven’t had any snow here since October. A very marked contrast to last year, I’ll say that much.

No big plans for the weekend. Some writing, reading some Kaleidotrope slush, most likely. By the way, if you haven’t yet read any of the stories or poems in this month’s issue, now would be a great time. And I’d love if more people would join up and post in the forums what they thought of the issue, good and bad.

Okay, I think I’m going to fall asleep now. It seems like the only sensible thing to do.

Hail Soyka!

A quiet day, spent mostly reading Kaleidotrope submissions. (The zine’s open again to submissions til the end of March.) On the back deck of all places, since it was warm enough to hang out there in short sleeves for most of the afternoon. Seriously. What’s with this weather?

I tried to do a little writing, but it didn’t really pan out. I did this weird experiment this past week, where on Monday I’d write for ten minutes, then on Tuesday for twenty, and so on. I don’t know. My brain suggests weird things sometimes. I had some pretty mixed results with it, to be honest. I think the important thing is to write almost every day, so I’m going to do that next week, in the evenings, instead of incrementally increasing the amount of time. At least half an hour each day, and I’ll see where that takes me. I really do want to get back into writing more consistently. I don’t feel like I’ve really done that since I went to Banff in September. And here it is, January.

Anyway.

This evening, I watched the…smartly funny? cutely quirky? movie Drones. I enjoyed it.

And that was Saturday.

It was a nice vacation while it lasted

An unexciting day, one spent mostly finishing putting together the Kaleidotrope website in preparation for its launch on Sunday. I think it’s finished. I mean, all the content is there, and there’s a forum that I hope people will use to comment on the stories and poems, but it will be an interesting learning process. I have another issue coming out in just another four months, so we’ll see.

Oh, and I need artwork. I’m open again to submissions on Sunday as well, but artwork and nonfiction are probably the only things that could squeeze into an issue this year. (Don’t let that deter you, fiction writers and poets: January 2013 is right around the corner!) Send submissions to kaleidotrope at gmail dot com, and feel free to pass the word along!

Beyond that, just winding down the vacation — and along with it the year. Where did both of those things go?!

For all I know, this could be Thursday

The cold and wind continued today. At one point this evening, I even wore gloves.

I spent the early part of the day running a few errands, getting a haircut and my monthly train ticket for January. Which means, I guess, that I’ve resigned myself to the idea that my vacation is actually ending and I will have to go back to work. We don’t get off on Monday for the New Year, unfortunately, but after thirteen days (and counting) off, I’m not really complaining.

The rest of the day was spent working again on the Kaleidotrope website — nearly finished, I think, and almost ready for unveiling — and watching a couple of movies, Hello Dolly and Enter the Dragon. They make for an odd double feature, admittedly, but both were quite entertaining.

And that was…whatever this day was. They tell me it was Thursday, but I honestly have my doubts.