gra_is_stor started her Irish classes this evening. Turnout was quite encouraging, with over a dozen people in the room. One person from the schmooze was going to come but had a meeting he couldn't avoid happening at the same time, so he handed me some money for her and said he'd be there next week.

We didn't really cover any language stuff I hadn't known before, but she did talk about dialectical differences in a much more interesting way than I'd heard previously, and I realized how much of my Irish pronunciation had been skewed by singing in Seirm for several years in Scots Gaelic. Pronunciations can be quite distinctly different, even for the same words.

After I got home, I poked my nose back into my current fic file. I haven't added a lot, but I went back and did some editing and then got to adding things to the current scene before moving along to advance the scene. It needed some fleshing out, I thought, before I could move on. I'm hoping to finish at least this one scene before I head for bed tonight. (eta. 78,800ish words as of now.)

The last few nights have been heavy insomnigrackle artillery, with me not getting to sleep until at least after 5am, sometimes later. Tomorrow I've got my VA spirituality group, so I have to be up and around to get into Seattle for my 3pm appointment.

Email today brought notice about the upcoming Sisters of Seshat initiation, and the script for the ritual at PantheaCon in February. I'm once again realizing how damned much I need to get done before I head down to San Jose. The CR schmooze will be next Monday, but that's relatively simple. Burns Night is late this month as well.

I'm kind of wishing I could crawl into a little hole and pull a rock over me, but I know I feel like this every year when I'm getting ready for PCon, so I know it'll pass. It's kind of uncomfortable when I'm in the midst of it, though.

I agreed to do part of a podcast in March. I'd explained about the whole phone phobia thing, but the podcast has a text chatroom, and I can participate there, which is perfectly acceptable to me. It's so much easier for me to type than to talk on the phone. More on that as it gets closer. For the moment, PCon is a huge priority.