starving.

Starving. Meow. Meow. Meow. Soon I’ll get food, but I thought I’d post first. RillAnna tells me that the University Bookstore was at CascadiaCon and had copies of URBAN SHAMAN at their table at the front part of the dealer’s room, and that they sold out the copies they had. *beam* Awesome. It is very, very, very wet outside. But my hair is newly bleached, so it was worth walking home in the very very very wet. And I got a frog for my backpack in the mail. :) He’s…

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more house stuff

Wrote another 300 measly words yesterday, not even on the thing I was supposed to be working on. I had a dream yesterday morning involving a very anti-heroic protagonist, and wrote a bit about her, and spent much of the day considering what’s necessary to make an anti-hero a likeable, sympathetic, or otherwise compelling enough character to keep the reader involved with her. Riddick is an excellent example of an anti-hero that people like. Peter David’s SIR APROPOS OF NOTHING character is, OTOH, so utterly vile that I stopped reading…

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she’s a tired little ticker

i’m too tired to finish clearing up the path to the bed, and the bed, so i can go to bed. ted did a magnificent job of replacing the toilet without losing his temper. aside from some caulking, the bathroom is done. it looks completely different. the kitchen is also done. it also looks completely different. it’s quite amazing. possibly i’m easily amazed, but it’s quite amazing and i’m very pleased with it. so there. :) in fact, the whole downstairs is done, although the bathroom down there needs to…

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dammit, dammit, dammit

dammit, i did not factor walking the dog into my things to do today. argh. i’ve run out of paint. there’s a small chance there’s more in the garage. i’m not looking to find out. i’m going to go paint something else a different color, and then i’m going to walk the dog, argh, argh, dammit, argh, and write and make dinner although i may just say screw that and go with leftovers, and make jam. and i just took my contacts out and my eyes are exhausted. i’d sleep,…

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