I'm doing a rewrite/polish on Save Firefly, which will be the sample essay in the proposal. I expect to complete it by tonight, and was wondering if anyone could do a quick beta to make sure I'm not on crack. I have to add the piece about the movie getting made, and the growing myth that we had anything to do with it.

Allyson, did you finish it, yet? I just ask, because I was reading the Firefly 1 thread this morning. I came across a bunch of posts on 10/31/02 telling you how awful something was. I scrolled back to find the context, and saw that everyone was referring to a post you made in Press. I looked up the post in Press, and it all came flowing back.

Allyson "Sunnydale Press" Oct 31, 2002 9:59:02 pm PST

I'm writing the formal proposal which will go with the sample chapter and annotated table of contents. Sample chapter is pretty much done (thanks for the help, Amy, I think I fixed what needed fixin').

Formal proposal? So unfun. So very unfun. It's like writing your own job review. Bleh. But I plan to be really arrogant and all, "I RULE" about it. Still. Unfun.

I think I'm a big moron, though, Allyson -- did I send you back the original instead of the one with my comments on it? Feh. Anyway, good luck with the formal proposal. Very unfun, I know.

(Squeaking through with "currency"...How apropos!)

Social Change

It’s that time again. End of the month and the check’s late, again. Time to raid the change. I hold the jar, enjoying the heft for the last time. I think, as I always do, “Look at it all hanging out together. Check it out. Social change.” And promise again to find somewhere to use it, a promise unfullfilled until now. My mom doesn’t find our whisper-thin safety net funny. Not that I do...the wisecracks are just hard to turn off. It’s either that or contemplate being like some rich person’s crazy cousin living in their garage, and even puns are better than that.

Allyson, sent, very late last night. Please to excuse if incoherent.

Another squeaker!

Trust

The smell of the pastry was mouth-watering. I asked the baker, “Cuanto cuesta?” He rattled off a sequence of words. I thought I recognized “cien”—hundred—or was it “cientos”—hundreds, the plural?

Shopping in Jerez was part of our orientation tour. We’d been taught common Spanish phrases earlier in the week, including the denominations of the local currency.

I glanced in confusion from the change in my hand to the baker. Gently, he plucked a gold cien peseta piece and three smaller coins off my palm. We smiled at each other, completing our transaction in an unspoken currency—trust.

Tep, new topic? I just finished a grisly copyedit (after a marathon three-day edit) and I'm itching to drabble.

Need suggestions? I've got:

"heat"
"wicked"
two people in a cemetery
"growing"
one person exploring an attic
"toys"

Why can I never get formatting right the first time? Grrr.

I just sent all my R&RNF readers something. Input desired, please.

Also under the wire.

Coin of the Realm

It's nothing personal, they assure me. Disembodied voices over the phone tell me my life is about to change drastically, yet again, without my permission.

Nothing personal. The company's decided to go in a different direction. My services are no longer required.

It stings a bit nonetheless, of course. A cog being stripped out of the corporate machine still has some feelings. Inconvenient though they are.

Disposibility being the coin of the realm, though, I’m not as surprised as I was the last time.

So, I wrap up my ennui and my experience, and set out for the next camp.

I'm posting the new drabble challenge, but, for you last-minute "currency" posters, if you want to post it to the LJ community -- and, as always, I think you should -- by all means, PLEASE do.

That said....

Challenge #70 (currency) is now closed.

Challenge #71 is The Other Side. (And I just creeped myself out by remembering the Other Mother from Coraline. Eeep!)

Catch you on the flip side.