Or something like a whiteboard, so I can write down the next day’s activities on it without forever posting thinks lists to LJ. Perhaps that would help me to remember, say, doing the laundry (which I still haven’t started today). And exercise. And things like that. Or maybe it’d just hang unused, but it’d be an attempt, right? Right.
I’m suffering from Chaz’s usual Difficulty With Delivery Men. Having missed yesterday’s delivery, I am now waiting at home obediently for a delivery which might be “a little later” than yesterday’s 10am delivery. It’s now noon. I could’ve gone out and done errands by now. I could have showered by now. I could have done any number of things, but instead I’m sitting here in the fear of missing the delivery man. I was able to make brownies, though, ’cause that’s an occupation one can dash to the door during.
On the positive side, I’ve finally finished reading FRANKENSTEIN, which, my God, I don’t think I’ve ever read a duller book with a less sympa…no, I’ve read two with a less sympathetic protagonist, but one of them was more interesting up to the point I stopped reading it. Anyway. God. At least that’s done with and I don’t have to do it again. o.O
I also finished “The Christmas Hollidays” short story, but for the first time in history I’ve sent a short out to beta readers because the ending seemed Very Spoilerful. The two readers who have responded so far agree, and think I should cut it somewhere other than where I intended to, at a place which is far, far more agonizing than what I’d planned. So it’s their fault. :)
So now I just have to write the new Old Races story and then I can spend the Christmas weekend reading instead of writing. I have three ARCs from friends, the new TWENTY PALACES novel by Harry Connolly, Kate Elliott’s Gate Trilogy, the latest 2 or 3 Cast novels by Michelle Sagara, and I just started reading HIDDEN STEEL by Doranna Durgin, and it’s wonderful so far.
…there’s no way I’m getting all that read before next Monday (and that’s just what I can remember, nevermind the pre-Napoleonic War history I’m trying to ingest), but I’m gonna give it the old college try.
I wish I knew how to make WP post to LJ again. I guess I’m gonna have to go find a new crossposter. :p
You’re going to *love* the Twenty Palaces prequel. It made my Thanksgiving weekend.
Cannot to be left hanging on that agonizing Kick Starter ending!
I am just finishing the Twenty Palaces prequel myself. I’m loving it. I’ll have to look at the other titles you mentioned.