Chinese Study

However does the week go speeding by so quickly? Just... NYOOM.

I have now worked 8 days in a row, and will hit 11 before I get a day off. I wasn't supposed to work on Saturday, and in fact had Many Things Planned, which got kiboshed when I got asked to come into work. Le Sigh. At least I got a few things done that have really needed doing, like cleaning the bathroom and changing my bed sheets. It wasn't even really necessary that I went in on Saturday, since I was scheduled for Sunday, but... argh. 

Speaking of kiboshing things, last week I taught my therapist the word schlep. Apparently he has very limited Yiddish exposure, haha. 

Shakes went well; we stopped right before the bear pursuit scene, because we want Allesy to get to enjoy it too since she's having a rough time of things right now. Everyone should get to experience "exeunt, pursued by a bear" at least once in their lives.

Happy stabby happened, and I checked in re: the referrals that are outstanding. They remain outstanding - the doctor's office said that they're taking at least a month right now, which is super sucky. You'd think that since one is for, y'know, a cardiologist, they might rush that one? But noooo. It would be nice to get in to see the hand specialist soon too, since I've run out of physio appointments until I get someone else to OK more visits. Then again, there hasn't seemed to be a whole lot more progress there, which is another reason I want to get in to the hand specialist soon. Would like less pain, thx.

Did not actually accomplish my goals this week, as I discovered that the P&L for Maureen is hella fucked, and I just... didn't with mom's stuff, heh. I did, however, read something not tax related! Huzzah! John Scalzi's Redshirts, which was a fun little book. 

I finished yet another mini tax class thing, this one on military returns, so now I only have class to do before I level up again. Boss wants me to get to level 4 before next season, which apparently is gonna be doable considering I'm so close to 3 and will have... most of a year to finish 4. Once I hit 3, I can get small business certified. Level 4 brings advanced small business certification and Tax Pro Reviews, which is where the $$$ are, supposedly. Boss is also still making noises about training me to replace her when she retires, which... I don't know if I want to do that. 

We finished watching The Day of Becoming You, which was a fun little het romcom with bodyswappping, which I suppose makes it inherently queer in a way. The actors did a pretty darn good job of playing each other, which when one was Zhang Xincheng, I expected. Not sure what our next show is going to be. Maybe we'll just do a few movies or something until after I get back from Escapade.

Speaking of! Escapade is this weekend! I Am Excite! I still haven't got my stuff together for the art show, but I got a few things mostly finished up today, and will hopefully have some non-raining time tomorrow before work to get some pieces out of the shed to list for the show. I'm not sure what to bring this year; I feel so out of the loop re: fandom and creativity and everything. 

And tomorrow is LNY! I don't have anything to give anyone, but then again, I am not the boss so I don't have to! I'm hoping that I can make it to see Z1L's new movie after Escapade, but it would mean leaving pretty dang quickly, which is never ideal. I like seeing mah frends! But Z1L!

Goals for the Week: actually get everything prepped for the weekend (record hymns, art show, pack). survive the Big Bosses' visit tomorrow. try to get one of the two P&Ls actually finished, aiii.

Good Things: hummus. massive chocolate chocolate chunk cookies. rain at times I'm not driving.

Last weekend got away from me like crazy, much like this weekend threatened to do. 

Hamlet was impressive. I can't imagine being able to remember all of those lines, and there were a couple of spots where Suzy didn't remember either, but they covered very well. There were a few line changes that I was thrown by - "I know a hawk from a heron" rather than a handsaw? It made no sense to change it, but they did. I was also sad that they cut the line about telling Claudius to seek Polonius in th'other place himself if his messenger can't find Polonius in heaven.

That whole evening was pretty heckin' fun though; three of us carpooled down, so Robin and I got to talk c-dramas the whole way, then we picked up Alex and met Airawyn at Scum and Villainy for dinner before the show. And then I prevented myself from punching Joss Whedon in the face! Which I'm not like. Proud of? I totally wanted to punch him, but obviously not doing so in public and getting arrested was a win.

The one damper on the evening was that Munchkin (Allesy's kitty) was ill and very sadly, that continued after the evening. He was a good kitty, and had a good, long life. I'm very sad about it, but even more sad for Allesy having to make that decision but he was not going to get better. 

I also got asked to go into work early on Saturday after the show, which, ugh, I wanted my whole morning to rest up post show. And then I ended up staying an hour and a half LATE too, and all for no work, just sitting around studying. That's not entirely true, I did sit in on a few interviews and caught a deduction for someone that the TA didn't see. I think it's going to be very helpful that I've just taken the ITC and have had more recent training on stuff even though there are so many things that I'm like "oh shit do I actually know this?"

Also had to work Sunday, after wurch, which sucked, and again, there was nothing to do so we closed early, heh.

The week was.... a week? Mom had a meeting with her teachers that left her very upset, and we're all brainstorming what to do about the situation. She really wants to not be running the business anymore (even though she does very little with it), but no one wants to take over and she doesn't really want to just drop everything entirely. Personally, I would like to not have to deal with the business every again, because I am sick and tired of charter school stupidity, so if we could find someone to take it all over, I would be peaceing the fuck out asap.

Got taken off the schedule for Saturday, and then on Thursday boss asked if I could come in after all. Good thing I did, because I ended up getting two clients, bringing my total for returns up to 5! I'm not entirely sure I did everything right for the one though, because it was a military thing, and there is so much weirdness around how to do military taxes. I didn't do anything WRONG I'm pretty sure, but I probably could have done it more Right. Chatted with our tax expert at the Methodists today and am starting to think that maybe that should be where I put my focus with taxes. There are so many different niches you can go into, and around here, or anywhere with a military presence? Having that expertise would make me highly sought after.

Also had a chat with my former piano student today about possibly becoming a piano technician, which, ha. That has been kicking around in the ol' noggin for years too and I've never done anything about it. But it could potentially be a good outside of tax season gig; just do piano tunings over the summer/fall. I dunno. I know nothing. I'm worse than Jon Snow about what I know.

Got a lot of random little things coming up this week that I really wish I could just smoosh into one day and have done with it, but nooooo gotta carve out lots of little pockets of time that eat up my non-work time and make it hard to get anything else done. Hard to believe Escapade is week after next - I haven't done anything for the art show yet, and I have no idea if I'm going to be able to do any prep for the fan fair or anything else. Or if I'll be awake enough to do it (last year I just decided to rest, and that was an excellent decision). Hopefully I will get to actually have Saturday off this week so I can do some stuff for that.

Lunar New Year is next week too; Z1L's new movie is supposed to come out over the holiday, but I haven't been able to find any local info, and since it's mid-week I probably won't get to see it, nooooo. They gave it a really stupid English name too, despite the original name being perfectly good. Honestly, at this point I'm just hoping I won't be asked to close on the 17th so we can go do holiday food.

Media stuffs: finished The Immortal's Ascension, annoyed that it was a season one with no promise of a season two. Now we're watching The Day of Becoming You, which is a het romance body-swap and so very funny. Zhang Xincheng and Liang Jie both do a wonderful job being each other's characters. Last night was "Saturday Night at the Movies" as dad likes to call it, but rather than a movie we watched the new Agatha Christie's Seven Dials mini series, which was actually quite enjoyable. We also binged the first half of Wonder Man on one of the nights I got back from work late (but also early?) and didn't want to subtitle, and that has also been highly enjoyable so far. I keep thinking about Trevor Slattery and the couple of monologues that have just been transcendent. Like, yeah, if THAT was how he did Lear, then yes, his Lear would have been the talk of Croyden. Anyway, still have three eps of that, which maybe we'll do post Superb Owl (but maybe we'll do Olympics).

I am ANNOYED that I will not get to watch any of the curling that I'm interested in because of THINGS HAPPENING at the SAME TIME. Rude.

Goals for the week: finish P&L for MCC, finish P&L for mom, read something not tax-related.
Good things: physio, snuggly blankets, ginger snaps (again, because they are Still Good)