Very pleasant evening had at the Murphy/Lee household tonight. Mom & Dad came over for dinner and we watched the extended version of Fellowship of the Rings, which definitely had some good bits that shoulda been in the movie. Also, it had an intermission, which also shoulda been in the movie. :) Moving backwards through the day, we went to The Music Man, which was the guitar shop I was told did rent-to-owns. Well, that’s true, but they don’t do it for the kind of guitar I was told to…
Author: mizkit
I’ve trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space…
Columbia explosion. I’m having a hard time saying or writing those words, because my fingers, my mouth, my brain, all know the words. “Challenger explosion”, and having to put a new word, a new shuttle, into that space makes me stutter and break. Several years ago, my dad asked me if there was anything in my generation, a defining moment that we all remembered, like his generation remembered the Kennedy assassination. It took no thought at all to answer, “The Challenger.” My friends, the people I know, the people I’ve…
goals: year to date
This is the only thing I meant to post this morning. I wish it was the only thing there was to post. Goals: year to date Words written anticipated: 34,100 actual: 35,000 Miles biked anticipated: 0 actual: 9.25 Miles swum anticipated: 10 actual: 5.5 Drawings drawn anticipated: 10 actual: 2 Books read anticipated: 10 actual: 10 Pounds lost anticipated: 2.5 actual: +1
shuttle disaster, mark 2
oh, god. no. not again. just a couple of days ago i was watching a ‘remember the challenger’ special blort on cnn. and remembering like i always do, the shock and disbelief i felt. And remembering the drawing that an ElfQuest fan did in rememberence, a picture of Skywise standing in front of a television with an expression of incredible sorrow on his face, head lowered and fingertips on the top of the tv, and below it written the date. To me, because I’m a great ElfQuest fan, that image…
this is not writing?
Hm. I spent several hours this afternoon doing edits/rewrites on the first 3 Josie chapters — well, the first 2.3 Josie chapters, and then my brain shut down — but going with my 50% wordcount for editing, I accomplished about 3450 words written today. This is not writing? ytd wordcount: 35,000 (holy moly)