Upon entering the house this morning, I was greeted with a sharp “BIP!” from the smoke detector, which was clearly possessed of a failing battery. Sadly, I could not cause it to stop BIP!ping, so I called my daddy and asked if he was a hero. He came over with a ladder and a screwdriver and took it down and took the battery out while I wailed, “I’m an artist! I can’t work under these conditions!” Smoke alarm dismantled, I admired my Heroic Daddy. He looked modest. He prepared to…
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hlp
hlp i m pinnd don by cts on my rms. cnnot use lft hnd t ll or reech fr sde of keybord. ish someone ould tke picture of mmmlin ssistnce. hlp, hlp (xclmtion point)
25% & counting
I know I’m talking about nothing but metrics, but I swear, that’s all that’s going on. Ted’s doing all the heavy lifting (literally) for the move and I’m just up here trying to get this book written. And doing a reasonably good job of it: 28,271 / 110,000(25.7%) But that’s about all there is in Whoville. ytd wordcount: 229,900 miles to Isengard: 10.9
thinks & thoughts
I’m trying to figure out a schedule that doesn’t totally wipe me out at mid-day. I don’t seem to have enough stamina, right now, to get up and swim in the morning, then write. I fall asleep during the writing part, and then end up not getting my words done until 6 or 7pm, which feels Very Late Indeed. OTOH, yesterday I started writing early so I could go see The Incredible Hulk (which delivered, I thought. It wasn’t as good as Iron Man, but I thought it pretty much…
thinks to do
thinks i gotta work out the time to do while continuing to write a chapter a day: – revise “frwl” – get the “frwl” *contract* signed, it seems – write THE IMPERATOR’S HEIR proposal – email scott re: covers – work on bursary grant application – figure out which other grant to apply for swear to god, at some point this headlong rush is going to all be over and i will have *no idea* what to do with myself. I had at least two more things to put on…