Friday, December 23, 2005
working away more or less
My son's better, thank goodness. I've finished almost all my shopping. Then, my son and I took a very long walk, an hour and a half with the border collie who behaved herself wonderfully. She's very high strung, but at least she's no longer freaked by every car that goes by or every dog or person she sees which she used to be when we first started taking her for walks or runs. We had a fun day and now I feel less like a slug for the nice long walk.
I've been going through the material I'm supposed to send to my agent. I think it will have to wait for Monday to go out. I'm trying to get the best shorts ready. The problem is that at least one of them is completely and utterly politically incorrect, but it's got the most interesting and unique voice I've ever had. I think I can tone it down a bit and maintain the twistedness. The WIP chapters are simply not ready to go yet, so they'll have to wait. I may send the synopsis which I pretty much got done last night. Shift needs some fixing, too. But now I have only the weekend plus Monday to crank out a lot of work. I'd been counting on my son being in day care or at soccer camp Wed-Fri. This morning, he decided he wasn't up to the soccer camp and then came back to me crying because he wasn't sure he'd made the right decision. The poor kid. Day care was closed, but I took him shopping with me as noted above and we had an excellent time. It's just as well he didn't do 8 hours of soccer.
So, that's where things stand going into the holidays.
