Not dead! Just not real updatey. Nothing really to say. Except I’m sitting in my office singing ‘Walk Through the Fire’ at the top of my lungs, and enjoying working at home. :) thinks to do today: 1. write 1700 words 2. swim 3. watch Buffy music: Once More With Feeling, Buffy soundtrack
words!
A good day, writing-wise. Almost 3100 words, and I might do some editing on MD later tonight. Might. While I’m watching Dead Zone. During the commercials, anyway. :) 50K in 30 days count: 19,347 ytd wordcount: 38,080 (ack! almost at 10%!)
quiet sunday
Quiet day Sunday. I read two books, watched two Highlander episodes (one of which was *amazingly* bad), and went to the gym. Biked for 10 minutes (2 or 3 miles?) but couldn’t take it anymore because the news channel in the cardio room kept coming back to the Columbia, and every time I looked up there was something about it on. Even without sound, I just couldn’t stand it. I don’t want to see the mourning families, I don’t want to see re-plays of the explosion, and I _really_ don’t…
in news that’s not tragedy
Very pleasant evening had at the Murphy/Lee household tonight. Mom & Dad came over for dinner and we watched the extended version of Fellowship of the Rings, which definitely had some good bits that shoulda been in the movie. Also, it had an intermission, which also shoulda been in the movie. :) Moving backwards through the day, we went to The Music Man, which was the guitar shop I was told did rent-to-owns. Well, that’s true, but they don’t do it for the kind of guitar I was told to…
I’ve trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space…
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…