Today’s been one of those days that feels simultaneously very busy and not at all productive. I’ve done a lot of laundry. I made dinner. I placed a grocery order. I left the house for a bit. I wrote nine pages. I cleaned the kitty litter. I’m going to yoga in a while. I called about the cooker. I watched an episode of “Heroes”. I collapsed the collapsing air bed (it decided to stop holding air at around 1:30am Sunday morning, while my parents were trying to sleep on it).…
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what fresh hell…
I sat down today to start writing–facing, mind you, draft #5 of this book, which has not yet broken 300 pages–stared at the computer for about ten minutes, and got up and left again. Went downtown and bought a rather spiffy hardback blank book and two reasonably decent pens, and came home again to begin writing. I am going to write as much of this book as is necessary by hand, because I don’t seem to be able to sit down at the computer and not try to work in…
packaging
Since moving to Ireland and beginning recycling, which is What’s Done Here, Ted and I have discovered that we produce very little *garbage*. Once we get a composter going, we’ll produce almost *no* garbage. What we do produce, or have a lot of, is *packaging*. Most (all) of that’s recycleable, but it’s been starting to get on my nerves. It seems so incredibly, incredibly wasteful, and so I’ve been finding myself trying to think of ways I can cut down on packaging. There are some things that could be pretty…
kitsnaps
Very pleased with this photograph. Also, , this one’s for you. :) I read a second (not the second, as I didn’t have it, but a second) ROGUE ANGEL book, and sadly it wasn’t nearly as good as the first one. I’d be willing to pick up others on the chance that I would get the Right Alex Archer, or at least a Good Alex Archer, but if the font size/line spacing is indicative, I should be able to tell the good from the less good by simply skipping the…
my geek is showing
I did not even *notice* (fortunately, my editor did) that I wrote “zwoot suit” when I meant to write “zoot suit”.