Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Remember what I said about doing stuff too quick?
I went back to work too soon. I should have stayed home today, too. But I didn't, and so by early afternoon I felt crappy. I feel kind of crappy now. Oh. well.
I have reations from a trusted reader on Dark Elf and I just finished addressing all that. I've sent her Shift, so now we'll see about that. Today at the gym, I tweaked chapter 17 of the Rake (awesome!) and realized I could with excellent effect resurrect a chapter I whacked. So, now I'm going to go do that.
It didn't rain today. Everything here is wet, wet wet. But incredibly green. I have more tulips in my room and they look very spring-like. My sister was an ornamental horticulture major at Cal Poly so we're guaranteed good flowers around here. She knows all these tricks about plants. Last year, though, she bought this tulip mix and they all came up white. She was pretty mad. This year, the mix is actually mixed. Pink, red, purple, yellow and some stripy ones. She gives me the catalogue, tells me what pages to look at and I point and say, ohh, pretty. Get me some of those! It's working well. Did you know, for example, that you should plant your bulbs at different depths so that when the first round is done there's another behind? It's more complicated than that, but as I said, my job is to say, ooh, pretty, get that, and then later go out with the clippers. I get to skip the dirt part. When I'm out with the clippers, I pretend I'm a heroine having a conversation with a Rake. That's why I like Spring. For the Rakes. And, there is so little actual work involved!
