Of course now I'm working in a job where we essentially use coded text speak but hey, we get places via all kindsa weird paths.

A new language? LOLcop?

I have, but not for a long time. I can't imagine slowing my brain down enough to meditate right now (and I realize that the *point* of meditation is to slow my brain down, so I have a whole chicken-and-egg thing going on).

I'm still on my media fast...which is both easy and hard...but wanted to comment on an option for meditation that is easier for me than traditional meditation.

I, too, have a whirly-gig mind so simply 'emptying it' doesn't seem possible for me.

So, besides drawing...which is doing me a WORLD of good, I use Heartmath. I bypass most of the zen language and focus on the physical aspects of the process and it works pretty well for me.

Contracts are signed and our journals are officially no longer our journals. (We have to send the bi-monthly journal to the printer tomorrow, though, so I'm still working on stuff.)

We aren't having a meeting about the transition period or anything until Monday (rather than tomorrow). Inefficient to the end.

I'm trying to hold my shit together, man. This is huge. Plus I have a journal to finish.

Steph, do you have an idea if staff for certain are all being let go? Or is that still up in the air?

Only one staff member is staying on, because he manages the peer-review process, which is an arcane and weird thing, and one the new publisher won't be able to just pick up from Day 1. So he has a contract with them. The rest of us wait to see what kind of severance we get and how many office supplies we can steal.

Katy Perry assures me I am a firework, so it'll all be okay. After the hyperventilating panic attack.

Hey, Steph, did you know I'm going to be in Columbus in November? I'm going to be in Columbus in November. Come visit me on November 10.

I can do that!

Sweet! I would also be free for dinner on November 9, but I figure it's easier for you to come in for a day. I have another friend who's actually in Columbus too, anyway.

I can't imagine slowing my brain down enough to meditate right now (and I realize that the *point* of meditation is to slow my brain down, so I have a whole chicken-and-egg thing going on).

Ahahahaha! Yeah, I can relate to that. I have told myself that starting tomorrow, I am going to take 20 minutes a night to just sit and color in a coloring book. Not look at the interwebs, not work on a sewing project, not write any of the bazillion projects, but zone out and play with colored pencils.

(This doesn't start tonight, because tonight is the Neil Gaiman reading! Whoo!)

Tep, I hope your Alternative Doctor can help you in the short term.

Have fun, Jilli! I'm more than a little jealous. Your Dracula book isn't goin to go out until next week. Sorry. I was supposed to do it today, but it was a very bad day.

I'm having lunch with DX this week! Aren't you all jealous?