Fox Paws!

454 words tonight! And that's just end result, which is important because I'd also been rampaging through the story cutting, adding, and rewriting words as part of my goal to add Plot. Well, okay, it was probably just plot, but it's so rarely seen in my stories, I felt it deserved a capital letter. I would share my darling, but everyone else would think it was stupid, so, eh. The only mean things I've done, really, is made my main character publicly acknowledge a child is the one she gave up for adoption years ago, which is a major faux pas. She's already been rescued from it, though.

Other good things I have done today: got up at 7:30, took my vitamins (not on an empty stomach again, thank you--I didn't think I'd make it to work without throwing up.) got to work early, handled all my tech support bugs, and had a vegetable with dinner--linguine alfredo con asiago and spinach salad with CA dressing. God, I love this dressing.

In unrelated news, while driving to the airport, we passed the Nipple Convalescent Home. A classic, particularly when coupled with the intense literalness of the whole area--the porn shops are "Adult Books" and "Adult World". There's no subtlety, ever.

Also, today's discovery: boys on Match.com are actually literate. Like, can spell their favorite sports, which I've never considered a particularly high bar, really, but has sunk many a boy on chemistry.com. (boys on Match.com can even actually write intelligent 'about me' pieces, which is beyond crazy, and verging on twilight zone.)

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I'm an idiot. i took my vitamins without food AGAIN. You'd think that 40 minutes of queasiness would be enough to put me off taking them without food the second day in a row, but apparently not.

Oh, my godlessness. It's POURING outside. And grey and dark and 40 (6 for the rest of the world). This is why Late winter/early spring is my least favorite season.

We had a delicious lunch today at Stephanie's on Newbury. Add this to your list of Boskone Editor-paid eateries, if you keep one. It was very good, and not at all cheap. (also, huge portions. I barely finished half of my mac and cheese, and the two desserts we split between 7 people weren't finished.)

The rest: Same as always.

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Since I didn't really read anything last week, so far as LJ is concerned, I would ask you all to tell me/point me to anything interesting that happened in your life in the last week, as is standard procedure for those who lose their place in time, but my guess is that for at least most of you nothing really exciting happened and if, by some fluke, anything really sizable did happen, I will eventually figure it out from clues over time. So, you know, suit yourself.

Words, again.

I'm browsing flickr while I wait for word races, and looking for pictures of what my cemetary will look like in Exposing the dead. Thank you, ancient ruins, for giving me photos:


grand entrance
Originally uploaded by Dan65


Salamis 053
Originally uploaded by lukemarquardt17

It's not quite either of those, really. but it's somewhere between the two, but with many many more pillars, and only the oldest pillars (the ones closest to the town) are that white. They start out painted and with things around the base of it, and then they fade over time to white and the grass grows up around the sides and such. They're mowed around every few weeks, but only edged once a season or so, if that, so the grass is tall and messy around the pillars, and ankle height or so where you'd be walking, with wildflowers (of the weed sort) and grass seeds and such. If you had allergies, you'd sneeze yourself out at the cemetery.

There isn't really a tradition of going to the cemetery regularly. You go for the funeral, and then maybe once a year for a couple of years, and then even less frequently. So they don't stay shiny and clean. They're not supposed to.