crrrrrap

Crrrrrap. I have just discovered that Ben and Laura’s wedding is in New Jersey, not Conneticut. While I remember Laura saying that it wasn’t in Mystic *itself*, I seem to have missed the fact that it wasn’t in Conneticut at all. Now waiting to hear back from either Laura or Ben about which airport would be best to fly into, and then going to see if I can switch our plane tickets. This, as we say, changes everything. Nrf!

v. sleepy!

V. sleepy! I accidentally bought three books this weekend. I only read two (not of the ones I bought over the weekend), so I’m clearly not keeping up on my noise to signal here. Besides, only one of them was a real accident. Two I bought for book clubs, one of which caused me to stand for fifteen minutes in the YA section at B&N and admire how many YA novels have come out since I was a YA myself. I restrained myself from buying forty books, mostly because I…

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ytd

Another 2700 words written this morning, for a respectable 5K in the last 2 days. Too bad that’s all I’ve done in the last six weeks, or at least most of what I’ve done in the last six weeks. Oh well, it’s darker out now and it’s easier to focus on writing. Trying to get anything accomplished in the summertime up here is generally a total wash. ytd wordcount: 163,450 miles to Rivendell: 182 I forgot to put up a goals chart for July, so parenthetical numbers indicate July and…

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thinks to do, and stuff

Let’s see. Anything interesting so far this weekend? I called Deirdre yesterday, ’cause it was her birthday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEIRDRE!) and they’d had a v. nice day of going to the zoo and the aquarium. I wrote 2300 words and made bread and edited a little of Sarah’s book, which she has finished (YAY SARAH!) and we went to see Bend It Like Beckham and saw several people we knew at the theatre, which was cool. Came home and watched Stargate (almost done with season 3!) and ate way too…

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thinks to do

Thinks to do, Friday August 29: 1. walk the dorgy 2. write 1100 words* *Okay, so actually I wrote my 1100 words for Friday on Saturday, but at least I wrote them! Thinks to do, Saturday August 30: 1. walk the dorgy 2. write 1100 words 3. send writersweekend check 4. edit sarah’s book 5. work on sarahpalmero 6. make bread