Assorted random Fridayness

-0: I am waking up early again, before my alarm clock goes off. Grf. I was awake at least an hour before the alarm today, and it didn't help either that the arrival of the garbage truck in our neighborhood at EARLY-THIRTY IN THE MORNING was extremely loud. I rolled grumpily out of bed and staggered over to the window to pull it shut, which diminished the noise, but which did not let me get back to sleep.

Given the new news about the misbehavior of my thyroid, I'm back to being suspicious of unusual sleep patterns like this. But at least I'm not completely brain-dead on my feet. We'll have to see how long this keeps up this time around, though.

+/-0.5: Speaking of my thyroid, I now have a biopsy scheduled for 6/28. Which is SOON, and therefore a little bit nervous-making. Though I'd like to get it out of the way ASAP, I guess.

+1: Weird things cross my brain when I am lying half-awake in bed early in the morning. Like my first mangling of any lyrics off of My Hand, My Heart; I'm pretty sure that the third track does not in fact go "for bringing me here / and guiding my hand / in this land / the land of the second PANTS". I blame Mystery Science Theater 3000.

+/-2: Hrmm, looks like my job duties are about to change again, and this time into something a bit more high-profile: I get to run the main BVTs for our stuff on Longhorn. Starting Monday, I need to shadow the person currently doing it, and look over her shoulder and absorb everything there is to know across next week. This ought to be entertaining. Especially given that Thursday and Friday, I'll be out for half-days anyway! We'll have to see how it all goes; I've been feeling underwhelmed at work lately, and having something that'll give me known daily duties again would be nice. On the other hand, I don't mind the freedom to figure out my own daily duties. Really, I'd much rather be writing--so as long as I have something to do at work I'm kind of 'meh' about it all.

+3: mamishka and jessicac have kindly invited me along for a road trip up to Vancouver on Thursday of next week--to see the preview of Serenity playing up there! Yeep! Guess I'm finally going to get to see the thing. ;) And from what Meems has to say on the matter, the vigor of the responses to all these previews is really rather bowling over the folks involved with this production.

+4: Friday of next week, I get to go to a SHIP PARTY. That'll be fun, too!

Days without a rejection from Luna: 22
Days without a rejection from agents: 4