Sunday, September 07, 2008
First, some Humor....
That's one of my all time favorite cartoons. And I love
xkcdI'm not procrastinating by the way. Yesterday, I pulled out the chapter outline for
The Next Historical and added in all the new stuff and then rearranged the new and the old so I'd know what the new chapter order should be and which ones needed to be deleted. Two of them. The others I think have enough to warrant staying for a total rewrite. Then I reordered my chapters. Then I read
Travels in Turkey and Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt (1844) and got some really good background information. But I had to also do some quick side research on
The Levant Company to confirm a suspicion of mine about the Consuls. Uh, yes, it's true. The British Consuls were appointed but apparently needed to be approved by the Levant Company which was kind of the Middle Eastern equivalent of the East India Company. Politics and commerce. Hand in hand.
Today, my son had a soccer game in a town about 35 minutes away after which we went to Art in the Park where he ate a lot of food and looked at art. I bought a couple of things that will go into the contest stash and a couple of things I liked for me. Then I went grocery shopping then we came home. I was at the computer for a bit and when I actually fell asleep sitting up for a minute, I figured I needed a nap which I did for 2 hours. Then dinner, then cleaning up and now blogging. And so, maybe I surfed the web a bit, maybe.
Anyhoo -- off to get SOME work done because I have two deleted chapters to make up...
Labels: art, research, stuff, The Next Historical, writing
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Friday, January 11, 2008
Ah, Friday, you come too soon
Sometimes Fridsy just seems like a two minute wonder, doesn't it? There's a soccer tournament this weekend, so we're off very early tomorrow. On the road by 7:00 AM I'm hoping. I had to do some work for the day job this evening. I got the power seat at Starbucks and fired up the two laptops etc and got done by 7:15ish. In between waiting for stuff to finish, I worked on Xia. I was actually kind of po'd when everything finished because I had to stop at an exciting part. The guy behind me kept having distracting conversations with or about his girlfriend. Oh my gosh. Why do people put up with baloney in relationships? He's yakking to a friend about why he even has the woman in his life, blah, blah blah, and I'm thinking, Look, pal, just dump this loser babe. And then he gets on the phone with her, so I presume, and he's all, not quite whiney, but sounding like he really wants her to love him more than she apparently does. It was quite clear the two have different visions of the relationship. Mars. Venus. I'm not even sure they were having the same conversation with each other. Anyway, I was the evening's technology winner, what with two laptops, two phones and a thumb drive. Hah.
I have to say I'm tired of hearing about the plagiarism scandal. I can never decide if I like the Smart Bitches blog because sometimes they're just so darn mean, and I get these proto-hives and think, man, someday that could be me they're bitching about like that. I end up feeling kind of sick. But when they're discussing stupid plots or tropes, I end up laughing and saying, right on! But sometimes I just want to say, ya know, there's enough really awful stuff in the world is it really necessary to be vicious, personally vicious? And you know why? Because when I was growing up, I was not one of the cool kids. I was a dork and a bit too chubby, and smart, too. I didn't have to work very hard to get A's and I wasn't all that attractive, either. And I was the target of mean and vicious boys and young women. People played mean, horrible pranks on me and boys said mean horrible things and threw things at me, too. Great. I know exactly what it feels like to be on the receiving end of someone who's being vicious to someone who can't fight back. Then I went to college and got skinny fast and guys would ask me out, and I would look at them and just shake my head. I thought they were trying to trick me. Seriously. I hate vicious people. And I guess I think the Smart Bitches should mention their findings and then just shut up about it instead of conducting a mean-fest.
Labels: overheard, stuff, Xia
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Monday, March 05, 2007
Is there a way to write Monday in all droopy text?
I'm tired. I'm going to bed soon. I can't even remember why I was up so late last night. Oh, yeah, I was notebooking Megallan's Witch, closing in on what I think is the final Big Tweak before the story really takes off. But here's the news that matters to me!
The following items have been shipped to you by Amazon.com:
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Amazon.com items (Sold by Amazon.com, LLC):
1 Lover Revealed: A Novel of... $7.99 1 $7.99
Shipped via UPS Next Day Saver (estimated arrival date: 06-March-2007).
This, in case you live under a rock, is
Lover Revealed by
JR Ward. And March 6 is tomorrow.
Sorry, JR, I don't care about your lay down date.
In other news, what a day. It went like this: Get up 4:30am blah blah workout, day job, get mangled automated voice message that implies my son has 2 overdue library books (
me: WTF?) pick up my son, mention overdue books. He gets a look on his face and asks if it's okay for him to run back to his classroom to get the overdue books I knew nothing about (there was a field trip) get him home to change for Aikido, drive him to Aikido, drive to library to return books, go grocery shopping, then drive home, unload groceries quickly because I am 5 mins late to pick up son, go to bookstore to get a book on Japan because the library is closed now and he has a report. Buy book on France. Buy $50 of other books, one of which is about Japan,
But the are really great books..... Get awesome take and bake Margarita with extra garlic pizza for dinner, come home cook pizza. Feed son. Check email, blog.
Now I go read to my son and fall into bed.
Labels: Magellan's Witch, stuff
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