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Saturday, November 11, 2006

Desperately Seeking . . .

Today I have been engaging in avoidance behavior. My son and I were in the car this morning, just about to leave for his soccer game when I checked my messages and, oh, the game is canceled. So, gosh, then I had to work instead. Drats. My challenge of the weekend is to rewrite chapter 2 of Scandal from the heroine's pov. It's right, I can feel it, but I'm having trouble channeling her. Because I'm trying to preserve the words I have. Mistake, I know. I worked on that for about a thousand years and didn't get much past the first couple of paragraphs. Then I took my son to see Borat. Totally inappropriate for him. In some ways. Only it was perfectly clear from his reactions that none, and I say none of the themes in the movie were unfamiliar to him. There are naked men in the movie. Homosexuals, Prostitutes. Livestock. Evangelicals speaking in tongues, Rednecks, Poop in a bag and more. Plus Pamela Anderson. We were in fits laughing, and pretty much in the same spots. Afterward we talked about the fact that Sasha Baron Cohen is Jewish and the reasons he might have had for creating an anti-semitic character. Actually, I'm glad I took him. I think it's encouraging that the movie got made because it is so completely politically incorrect.

Then we came home and I made cookies and ate too many. Then I worked for another thousand years. About twenty minutes later, I remembered I needed to finish the Unexpected Synopsis, which I did. Just to point out how much I didn't want to fix chapter 2, I actually preferred to finished the synopsis. Then I made dinner and worked on one of the Crossword Club's puzzles from hell. I figured out the trick (there is always a nasty little trick) but I'm still stumped on some. Then I went back to Chapter 2 from Hell and started it in a different place and now it's working better, only now I'm taking this break.

I'm listening to Alan Jackson's latest album Like Red On a Rose. I love this album. It's fantastic for writing to. There are multiple songs I listen to over and over, and let's face it, how many albums have more than 1 or 2 incredible songs? This one has several.

OK. Back to work for another thousand years.

P.S. Tuesday should be a good news day. Here's hoping so.

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