state of the katster

[katster]

The state of the katster is a rapidly falling apart California.

Oh, wait, I screwed that up again, didn’t I? Well, here it is. I’m…I guess the best word for what I am is okay. It’s not awesome, but it’s not depressingly miserable either. I attribute the fact that it’s not the latter to the fact that I’ve actually, you know, been bothering to take my meds. But it’s not all light and sunshine either, which is a reminder that being happy is tougher than it looks.

Anyway, I’ve been pretty busy. Work’s eating a lot of time, as is doing the Antelope to Rancho to downtown commute. By the time I get home and get dinner cooked, I am *exhausted*. I’m hoping this will ease up a bit when my mother’s job in Rancho ends in the near future.

Baycon was mostly a blast, although there were a few things that could have gone better. I plan to write a full post on this when I get some time to breathe. Also on the writing front is that I need to write a couple of LoCs (letter of comment, for those not up on your fannish acronyms) to a couple fanzines. I also have a couple half-drafted articles on the computer that I need to finish, tighten up, and ship off to the various fanzine editors that are waiting for them.

I desperately need to clean my room, but the chaos is such that the only way to clean it is going to be tearing all the stuff out and putting it back in the room in a semi-rational order. Also, I desperately need to figure out where I can stuff a second bookcase in my room, as I really could use the extra book storage space. Of course, tearing it out is a problem when my whole family is here, so I’m glad my folks and my sis are going camping at the end of the month, giving me the chance to clean that up and lift a weight on my mind. I’m not the world’s neatest person (there’s a reason my mother nicknamed me ‘Hurricane Katrina’ all the way back when I was a young child — that’s the eighties, for those keeping track) but even I think this is too messy.

I’ve been idly pondering starting my own fanzine. Haven’t decided for sure yet, but I’ve been dithering back and forth for a while now. One of the things that makes me a bit nervous about this endeavour is that I’m not sure how to ask folks for contributions, particularly in the art department, because my particular skill has always been writing and my art skills top out at stick figures. Also, I’m trying to figure out the proper balance between paper and electrons — I think most of it will be electrons, but I know there’s folks that prefer paper, and I’d like them to have a chance to read too. Also, there’s the point that paper involves copying costs and postage, which is a strong incentive against doing it all on paper. All these questions, no real answers. But if I do go ahead with this idea, at least I have a title, which is somewhat unusual for a katster project.

Other than that, I can’t think of much else interesting. If you’ve got questions, I’m probably willing to answer them.

And I’ve got a question for all y’all out there in Internet land: Is anybody out there?

Originally published at retstak.org. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

*waves hand*

Am here; generally don't have much to say, but I'm here.

[aris-tgd.livejournal.com]

Hi! I live! I am glad to hear you live, although not so glad to hear these things about California I hear these days.

Are you still interested in website work?

[katmoonshaker.livejournal.com]

I'm here. Fanzine for profit or not? Talk to me. What kind of art are you looking for and how much?

I totally understand the cleaning bit. No, really.

Reality check cashed.

HUGS!!

[katster.livejournal.com]

Not for profit. This is more of a fun little hobby for me; any money I get will be plowed back into mailing and printing costs. And I'd love anything you might feel like doing. See my more recent post: http://katster.livejournal.com/677334.html for a bit more detail.

-kat

[katmoonshaker.livejournal.com]

If you can use any of my Kats, let me know. I'm not the world's best beyond that!

[eiviiaru.livejournal.com]

Cleaning is hard. I'm working on unpacking a new apartment, and right now, everything is everywhere -- it's total chaos. Best of luck!

What kind of fanzine would this be? I'm also more a writer than an artist, but I've never really done the zine scene, and I'd be tentatively interested in seeing what's up.

[katster.livejournal.com]

Science fiction fanzine, actually. There's great examples at efanzines. If you want to write something -- it doesn't even really have to be SFnal in content -- feel free to do so. I'm shooting for a July 15th date to have everything in. (The next deadline will be early/mid-October.)

-kat

[jrenken.livejournal.com]

*waves* :) You might want to talk to Minty - she's got an on-line project (http://www.coilhouse.net/) that also ended up generating a paper zine.

[jaeai.livejournal.com]

yo!

[salinn.livejournal.com]

I am here, and about to wave on Thursday/Friday when I take the train past your neck of the woods. :)