These 26-hour days were not supposed to happen anymore

[issenllo]

My job is primarily as an explainer of things.

Eg (1):
Me: Your mortgage will be paid off when you sell the property.
Client: Why can't I pay off my mortage a few months after I sell the property?
Also me: *struggles to define "mortgage" in an easy-to-understand way*

Eg (2):
Me: You're supposed to repay your loan with the money you get from the sale.
Client: But I hate handling large sums of money. Why can't you do it?
Me: Because.

Eg (3):
Client: Yes, my wife and I are buying the house. Does she need to come and sign the documents?
Me: *What do you think?* Yes.

So, work has been fun. Add some RL stuff and it's been time-consuming thing after time-consuming thing. Which is another way of saying ficcing is taking more time than I planned. Which pisses me off, because I have all these things in my head to write, and when I come to write them I'm already out of energy, gah.

Part of that could be the new obssession with The Untamed, ahahah, which comes in novel, animated and live action versions, so you're spoilt for choice. Well, it's a good problem to have.

Lan Zhan|Lan Wangji/Wei Ying|Wei Wuxian (I gotta say, I'm loving this birth name & courtesy name thing, it's so layered) fics:

It's Only Time, by etymologyplayground

Grand Pianos Crash Together, also by etymologyplayground

The Heart of a Lan, by cerbykerby

The (Several) Convenient Kidnappings of the Chief Cultivator by the Yiling Patriarch, crack, by misscam

And not forgetting the still unforgettable Trapped:

Every Spark a Conflagration, Jack/Zhao Zi, by skuldchan

Also, is anyone writing Trapped for Yuletide? Because I went to nominate it.

Comments

[larryhammer]

The coordination spreadsheet shows multiple nominations for The Untamed, but none for Trapped -- but a lot of nominations don't get captured.

[karalee]

Allllll my sympathies on the day job front. *e-hugs*