Copyedits were going along swimmingly today, me having achieved 180 pages worth of ’em and feeling like hey, I was going to make my 200 page goal without a problem, when I turned the page to a new chapter, saw through the page that there was a CE note on the next page (I couldn’t, mind you, *read* it, I just saw it was there), and thought, “Oh, fuck you.” I was clearly done at that point. :) The good news, though, is that having gotten more than 2/3rds of…
things is good.
Ted’s birthday was very nice yesterday. Kind of a quiet day all around, but we had a v. lovely dinner and he got a couple things he wanted (or one he wanted, anyway, and one he didn’t think about but which was good), and next weekend we’re going down to Cork for their annual gaming convention, so that’s the other part of his birthday and it shall be Good. We’re both looking forward to visiting Cork very much, though he’ll be at the con all weekend and I’ll be writing…
Tedday!
It is Ted’s birthday. In celebration, I’m, er, well, working, mostly. But in-the-kitchen-work, ie, copy edits at the table, while I bake him a birthday cake. This makes me very happy. :) Lucy-cat has, in the past week, developed a whole new habit. She abruptly decided that my cereal milk bowl was The Best Thing Ever, which would be more understandable if I’d, say, given her a milk bowl within the past six months. But no, and she never was the one who came begging for the milk bowl in…
mostly metrics, plus lamb
Ted is in the kitchen roasting lamb bones and sinew, which he will shortly be turning into stock and then into a reduced au jus for the Patagonian lamb he plans to make for his birthday dinner tomorrow. I will merely be making a German chocolate cake, which is his favorite but which I fear lacks the wow factor of Patagonian lamb. :) (He says not. :)) Um. Well, gee. I thought I had more to say than that, but I don’t really seem to. Then again, what can really…
workful day
I may have to do that morning post of lonely little word wars every day, as it was unexpectedly successful today. Afternoons are easier, as morning comes on in America, so people start turning up. Anyway, 3K today, a whole chapter, which was the goal. Yay. Ted nearly kissed another woman at the gym this morning. *laughs* A woman came in a couple steps behind us, and got into the sign-in line before me, but Ted hadn’t seen her. So he signed in and turned around to kiss me, except…