Perhaps predictably, the morning did not go the way I hoped for it to. It began by being unable to breathe last night and having to prop myself up on cushions on the sofabed in my office so I could eventually sleep. I did wake up at a not-unreasonable hour, around 10 to 8, and thought, well, okay, I can work with this, and got up and fed the cats and came back upstairs to work. Wrote a paragraph, then, after about fifteen minutes of nodding off at the computer,…
Author: mizkit
not bad
Today’s triumph: actually breaking 40K on the book, which I did not intend. Although I’m a *long* damned way from the downhill side of this thing, I in theory now have fewer than 100,000 words to write on it. Right now that feels remarkably like finding the downhill side. Later it won’t, but with any luck it’ll get me through a big writing push this week. The week’s goal is 25K. 5 5K days, and taking Saturday *off*. The plan is to both go to bed and get up early,…
oi with the weather already
It’s completely miserable out, dumping rain and gusting wind with a vengeance. In response, I have decided to wear floppy pants and a floppy t-shirt all day and pretend I have no reason to go out of the house. This decision has nothing to do with all my jeans being in the washing machine or dryer right now, of course. (I do need to leave the house. There’s the matter of the compost bin, and perhaps more importantly right now, a matter of finding something to help negate the effects…
reading, not writing
Ted and I went to a kendo class this morning, which was a lot of fun. Neither of us had ever done kendo (though Ted’s done a lot of other martial arts) and among other things we learned is that there are no blocks in kendo, only parries, because the swords are too expensive and precious to risk damaging. So Duncan and Connor have been manhandling their poor katanas all these years. :) Then we watched Torchwood, and Kate dropped by with muffins so we could pretend we’d gone out…
thinglets
Here we are at a quarter after nine, and I’m pushing the boundaries of wakefulness. This getting up and exercising thing knackers a person! Today, according to the Celtic calendar, is the first day of spring. Imbolc, or St. Brigid’s day, which explains why people’ve been selling St. Brigid’s crosses on the street all week. I did not know, previous to discussing this with Mom, that I knew off the top of my head that the name for the first day of spring was “Imbolc”, but when Mom said it…