The Fortnightly Thud

[leahbobet]

July 15, 2007 Progress Notes:

"Miles to Isengard"

Words today: 1000.
Words total: 5600.
Reason for stopping: It was like squeezing blood from one's own lower intestine already.
Liquid Refreshment: Water with lemon.
Munchies: Sushi. I was virtuous and deserved such today.
Exercise: Bathroom cleaning.
Mail: Nomail.

Darling du Jour: He disappears into the flashlight-shadow until I can't see nothing but the tips of his long brown toes. Kids didn't grow up with toes like that in my generation. Ours were all bent from wearing shoes young. Our mamas didn't let us run barefoot.

Tyop du Jour: as the wind tilts the trailer gently back and forth on its tired.
Words MS Word Doesn't Know: Nada.

Mean Things: Taking ethical advice that's really just you projecting on someone who can't speak up to contradict. Fatigue-induced discharge of firearms.
Research Roundup: U.S. National Parks, more travel directions.
Books in progress: John Milton, Paradise Lost; Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette, A Companion to Wolves; Ken MacLeod, The Execution Channel

The glamour: My bathroom, I has cleaned it!

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This is for sure going to be at least a novelette. I don't think it'll track into novella territory, but it's going to be the longest thing that's not a book I've ever written, and I fear for the selling of it if I actually finish it. Why the finishing? I seem to be down to a "thousand words every two weeks" sort of schedule.

(Yes, I am doing school right now. I am turning out more than that weekly in papers and stuffing my head with evolutionary biology and Milton in accelerated courses that I need -- and largely am getting -- good grades in. That does not get this guilt gorilla off my back.)

((And no, that's not a request for pats on the head and/or validation and external permission to be writing less lately. I know I have permission. I gave me permission. I'm busy. I'm just saying I feel bad about it, and I suspect that's not going to change until I have the room in my head to get back to 500-750 words a day.))

(((Any more brackets and this'll get silly.)))

Let's cut to meme!

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1. Leave me a comment asking for your very own interview!

2. I respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.

3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.

4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.

5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.

jbacardi interviewed me:
1) If you could go on vacation anywhere tomorrow, where would you go?

Barcelona. In five seconds. I was there in 1998 on a March Break trip for three days, and that city has imprinted itself into some corner of my soul.

There's a fountain on Las Ramblas that, stories have it, if you drink the water there you will be bound? fated? to come back to the city. Of course, I did. Can't say if it's local magic or just placebo effect, but I've never gotten that city out of my head since.

2) Favorite mixed drink?

Is a mojito a mixed drink? If so, that. If not, probably some value of martini. I'm not actually much of a mixed drink person: I only really drink at conventions, and there it's beer or scotch, or a glass of wine if I'm at a restaurant with a tablecloth.

3) What actor is enough to guarantee that you'll go see a movie starring him?

I don't think there really are any. I'm not really a movies/TV/visual media person. If led to one, I will partake, but I very rarely seek them out on my own. Case in point: I rented Bridge to Terabithia this week and watched it, but only because dolphin__girl was going to the video store and said "so come with".

4) What's the craziest thing you've ever done?

...heh. Inviting someone I'd never met in person to travel 1200 miles and spend the weekend in my home because I had a crush so big I'd routinely almost trip over my own feet every time I thought about him.

It's worked out just fine. :)

5) What was your favorite crayon color as a child?

Periwinkle. I just loved the name. It rolls off the tongue.

Comments

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

mmmmm … yummy bracketses …

(Not actually asking for questions — I'm notoriously lazy and not clever enough to come up with interesting answers/reciprocal questions.)

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I'm actually not sure if that many brackets is allowed.

[jbacardi.livejournal.com]

Odd thing about periwinkle and me- I remember being a little kid, 6 or 7 maybe, and seeing the flower (http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/botany/perihist.html) growing wild in a field nearby my house as I was walking home on a hot summer day, and thinking "Hey, that looks just like the crayon!" I knew then that that was what they named the crayon color after. I can't remember many things from my childhood, but that memory stands out for some reason.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Huh. Those used to grow wild in this field that was behind my first elementary school, along the fence where all the bushes and trees from people's backyards pushed through. I lived in my head a lot as a kid, and there was something ridiculously special about those flowers coming up every spring. I didn't even know the name until I was in my teens. Just that every time I see one it still makes me ridiculously happy. :)

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Ask me if you'd like.

[subject-zero.livejournal.com]

the actor thing you may want to back up on. I'll watch anything with Gary Oldman.

Even if the movie sucks, you know he'll give you a damn fine performance.

I've never seen him do the "I'm just here for a paycheque" thing.

=]

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I still don't really seek out movies, though. *g*