Told ya I’d be busy.

• Have a caffeine-fuelled start to the day. I finish off a hazelnut instant coffee tin that Amanda stuck with me with last year which I love but she hated. One last cup. Sniff.
• Wade through emails. Most of them were read on holidays but all need to be filed and most acted on. Inbox Zero, Inbox Zero…
• Turns out there were a load of new sketches that came in during the week that I hadn’t seen. We’re almost full up for the page count we have projected. Wooo!
• Very last thing I did before I left the office was send out loads of briefs to our Creative Services team. They’re almost all done, so I nip over to our other building to see the last few, and of course, change a few things.
• Have a non-meeting in our new staff room – Monkey Ranch. It’s lovely (the room, not the meeting, although it’s not bad either).
• Out of that and into our regular Monday all-staff meeting. It’s packed. We have something like six new starters – I lost count.
• Back at our desks, I go over our Big Secret presentation with Spaff. It’s 50 slides long, and probably needs to be 150, but the 50 we have are good – some, exceptional. They’ll need to be for what we’re asking for….
• Considering we have so many sketches I decide to start planning the sketchbook properly. This means a flatplan, which is basically a layout plan for what will go on what page.
• I realise I’m too jittery from the super-strong coffee I had in the Monkey Ranch, so venture out into the rain, high winds for a sandwich. Bread calms me down, weirdly.
• See an email from a player with feedback on our first podcast, and realise then that it must be live….
• After eating, work on the flatplan the old fashioned way – on paper. Six pieces of A4, folded in half, equals 24 pages.
• Work on wording for MOO cards which we’re using to distribute trial codes at the MiniCon. Not much space and lots to say on those puppies.
• Regretfully pull out of a weekly meeting I was supposed to attend, but have missed for a variety of reasons for about a month. I can’t keep flaking out so I pass the torch.
• Make decisions on what stock to bring to the MiniCon; we’re taking more than we ever have. People better buy it!
• Put in our final orders with our printers for a couple of things for the player meet – posters and a sticker sheet.
• Then realise I need to order a sticker to go on said sticker sheet. Whoops. After this, glance at the clock, see it’s 5pm. Where’d the day go?
• Last thing: read a CV I got sent last week for a freelancer who has loads of pen and paper RPG experience. Huge lightbulb goes off above my head; we can use this guy. Possibly.
• Play with Spaff’s iPhone. Slowly but surely I’m starting to think I’d really like one. How long can I hold out?
• Feel energy seeping out of me, so go home.

Tomorrow, back for more.