Weekly Accountability Post, the 1st

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Like many other people, I'm relieved and reasonably happy with today's events. I'll go with cautious optimism for the next while and see how it feels to try that on again. Favor quote for today: "Big day for complete sentences." (Bryan Taylor Cohen). :-)

I've been unemployed for a week now so I'm planning on doing a weekly post about what I'm up to in the interim:

• Built a giant spreadsheet checklist and began working my way through it.
• Taught "No More Lone Wolves: Writing Characters in Community" at the Rambo Academy on Saturday and had a very good class.
• Was on 2 panels at virtual Arisia, which went reasonably well, and attended a couple of other events. Had a pleasant time.
• Applied for unemployment
• Activated my LinkedIn job search and started following up on tips and such.
• Worked on my next chapter for my Patreon novel in progress and got it posted.
• Put in for our State of MN Political Donation refund.
• Started looking at trying to get Jana a PPP loan and bogged down.
• Began to tackle the giant cleaning and organizational projects that I've been wanted to get done for months now.
• Sent out promo info and blurb and review copies of Blood Moon (coming 3/15/21!)
• Mailed people their book orders.
• Blurbed Juliette Wade's new novel.
• Read submissions.
• Began poking at my new online accounting class.
• Started organizing for taxes.
• Also, on the Queen of Swords Press front, delighted to see a story from The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper by A.J. Fitzwater on Nerds of a Feather's Hugo Recommended Reading list!
• Thanking lots of people for supporting my Patreon and the QoSP Ko-fi. buying Jana's work from Etsy, buying books from Queen of Swords Press, and in the case of Elise Matthesen, making a lovely piece of jewelry and auctioning it off. (See previous post for links). You all rock!
• Watching: Black Sails (finally - enjoying!), new Batwoman (liking a lot), Miss Scarlet and the Duke (PBS - Victorian mystery, also liking a lot) and Wynonna Earp Season 3.

Next up, finish a short story, finish submissions, finished drafts for Kickstarter project and send them out for review, and then tackle the next hundred or so things. Onward!