Virtual Office Tuesday 11th August

[byslantedlight]

This morning may have involved playing purposeful hooky in the expectation of working all afternoon/evening, but then all plans being thrown into disarray resulting in - eep! But so far so fab... *g*

1. Downloaded (with alot of faff - stoopid drm) the new KJ Charles book (A Fashionable Indulgence, an actual m/m romance book published actually by a major publisher - Penguin/Random House!). It's not the sort of cover that draws me in, to be honest, but she's exactly the sort of author... *g*

2. Phone call from new hairdresser (eep!), catching me just as I was about to leave (eep!) saying my new hairdresser (eep!) was sick today (eep!) but I could see someone at 4pm instead of 1pm, and still have my hair cut (after seven months or so - eep!) So... instead of playing hooky all morning and then having the rest of the day to work... eep!

3. Finally got to NT Place, to attend talk where this thing was opened up for us to see... *g*
It's "the Pope's Cabinet", is all gaudy bronze gilt and polished stone and alabaster, is about 500 years old, was made in Rome and bought by chappy whose heart had been broken when his wife died so he went off on a Grand Tour of Europe because he couldn't stand to stay at home. This was one of the things that he brought back with him... *g* It has hundreds of wee hidden drawers in it - some hidden inside other drawers - and it used to also be partly a musical organ! It's one of my favourite things in the house and you don't get to see inside it on an ordinary visit, so yeay!

Then, as I was innocently driving home like a goodun, instead of going to the supermarket, I happened to glance over at a row of shops and saw that this place was actually open... ...for the first time since I've lived in Somerset (and been going past the shop *g*), so I had to stop. (And, you know, buy a copy of Nation cos Terry Pratchett said he thought it was the best book he'd written) and possibly a t-shirt... Cos. The Discworld Emporium! *g*

And then the main road home was closed, so I diverted the twizzly ways, and then I had to have lunch cos starving, and now I have barely any time to work before I have to leave for my haircut (eep!).

Today's Work
NT talk
Haircut

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Hacktrack mile
Riverford dinner
Fiddle practice
Writing


Ah well, its all good fun and panicked-rush, isn't it... *g*

Comments

[ariss-tenoh.livejournal.com]

Oh no, it shouldn't have been that bad... Unless - did you open it without signing up for the Adobe account? Come to think of it I've done that in the past directly on my Kobo I think, and found that I couldn't download the ebooks to my computer as backup copies.

Yep. *resists the urge to bang her head against a wall*

Hmm... I don't think it will ever be normal. I mean, sci-fi and fantasy novels still are not accepted or given the same respect as other genres. The books that make up an awards' list often are very long, full of suffering, and purple prose^^ And this is what is praised. While it's understandable to wish for wider acceptance and to be seen as "normal", the results of m/m books, novels with non-hetero protagonists, or even fandom people attempting to go mainstream haven't produced the desired result. That's just my personal opinion.

One publisher only releases the works in printed format after a whole year has passed from the ebook version, presumably to maximise ebook sales.