i'm a pixel here, myself

Not dead, just incapacitated. Work has been kicking my ass up and down the street, but it's now official: as soon as the HR nonsense passes and the background checks clear, I'll be a Real Employee (TM) rather than a contractor. In the meantime, I've been roped into preparing the whole department's end-of-quarter (and hence, end-of-fiscal-year) slide deck and it's a helllll of a lot of work, on top of all of my regular stuff and all the *other* department-wide stuff I've been doing. We finally hired a senior analyst who's going to take all this on her plate, but she just started today and the preso has a hard deadline Friday afternoon, since our director is jetting off to Japan, which is where all these presentations will be shown.

On top of that, I've been attempting to learn my lines and music for the new show, but have barely had time to work and sleep and be in rehearsal, so that's not gone too well. I need to be off book by Saturday. Whether or not that's going to happen... who knows? Not I.

I have not actually checked LJ in a while, but I miss you guys and I'll be back in mid-November, most likely. Until then, expect postcards from the edge.