We had gaming tonight, so I thought I’d take Chanti for a nice long walk today to wear her out. We walked about 4 miles, plus our mile-long walk this morning. She was pooped. :) By about two miles into the walk she’d sort of lost interest in trying to snuffle things and stuff and was just sort of going along doggedly. (Doggedly! Ahahahah! I’m so funny! o.o) Between walking and gaming I finally took some time to read Robert Buettner’s coming-of-age war novel ORPHANAGE. ORPHANAGE was one of the…
not doing anything
Not doing anything today. I don’t even know why. I don’t even feel like not working, I’m just not working. Instead of working, I’m considering going for a long walk and maybe bleaching my hair. Not at the same time. If I bleach my hair, I can then take a picture of me that looks (as much like) like the icon on this posting (as is possible), which mony asked me to do a long time ago. But my hair wasn’t long enough then. The flip side, of course, is…
not dead!
Not dead! Been busy all day. Got 2800 words written and have another couple chapters to do, then must go over the whole book again and do more edits and then give it to some people to read because by the time I’m done with that I won’t be able to stand looking at it anymore. If I am Hideous Cool I’ll have all that done by Monday morning, but Tuesday’s more likely. Also did laundry, walked four miles and made some bread. I’m pretty sure the thing is I…
I’m losing my mind. : )
This book I’m writing is in first person. I just got up from working on it and went and got some gorp and tossed it into my mouth, and thought, and this is *exactly* what I thought: “This isn’t,” I thought, “exactly what I wanted. Maybe I was thirsty instead of hungry.”” Then I thought, less clearly, ‘crap, I’m thinking about myself in the active first person,’ and then, in the active first person voice again, “Well, this can’t be a good sign.” I’m losing my mind. :)
reading
Boy, Garth Nix’s SABRIEL, LIRAEL and ABHORSEN are really good books. I read Sabriel a few years ago but somebody told me to not read Lirael until Abhorsen was available because Lirael didn’t so much end as stop, and they were right. I just got around to reading them all three in the last couple days. By the end of Abhorsen the trilogy has reached a really magnificent crescendo. It is extremely worthy. I’m going to take my entirely unworthy self off to work on TBF some more now. :)