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…
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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)
hah. take that.
Know what? I’m not going to do any writing todya. Hah. Take that. In the meantime: I will be stung by a swarm of killer bees How will you die? Take the Exotic Cause of Death Test