June 2006

Dizzy

Dizzy is not good.  I can’t think of a single instance where it is good.  Of course, that’s just me.  I know lots of people like to get messed up.  I don’t. Especially when I’m just sitting here, minding my own business, IMing BJ and writing Keen, and my head starts spinning like  Super Grover […]

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Back to the Word Count?

Maybe.  Because I’ve got a significant one to report.  Yay!! Today as I finish up, the word count for Keen is 10,288 words.  That’s 1700 words of progress!  I love being in the glow of a book. Poor Bly, though.  She has no idea her roommate is about to vanish, leaving nothing but an empty

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Terrifying

Today was Hope’s very first time left alone at the Boys and Girls Club.  So naturally when I went to pick her up, I couldn’t find her. I wasn’t supposed to have to get her.  She was supposed to come to my office after lunch.  She didn’t.  I gave her plenty of time, then I

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Frustration

It was just one number.  I changed one little number from a five to a four, pushing one of the defining moments in Eve’s life back a year. Then I had to change one more number, that was connected to the first number. Then I realized I’d changed the entire history of my galaxy, as

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Editing Disagreement

So 170 pages into editing (we only got as far as page 199 during the drive) I decide Bly isn’t necessarily right about the commas.  In fact, I really hope she isn’t, because the way she wants me to use commas will drive me insane. Ah.  Must be time for research.  Yay!  So I went

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Day Two

Swimming is very good for exhausting children.  Unfortunately it’s awfully good for wearing out adults, too.  I have free time, the kid is quiet and happy and probably about to fall asleep at her desk–and I got nothing. Except that I’m about to fall asleep at my desk.  Why?  Because what I’m doing is boring. 

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Vacation, Day One

And what the hell did I do today? Some stuff.  Honest! Umm…I wrote.  I did that.  Think I cooked some food at some point.  Got a load of laundry done. I hope tomorrow is more productive.

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