I actually made my word count today! See Discipline Under Fire for the proof.
Tonight's plans: I have to go shopping for some essentials in at least 2 different stores. Yuck. Then I have to work on the take-home final for English 611 and finish the house cleaning before the trip. The adjuster is coming tomorrow night too.
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Scene of the Crime by Anne Wingate, Ph.D. page 14: You can wear a gas mask.... Or you can wear a floater mask, a modified gas mask designed only to filter out bad smells. But if you're like me--a gas mask doesn't fit around your glasses, and a floater mask fogs them so badly that you can't see--you just go in. This makes you look very macho, even if you do happen to be a five-foot-tall grandmother.
Here's the secret--and let's not tell it to those standing at a distance admiring you. If you stay in a bad odor about three minutes, your olfactory nerves go numb and you can no longer smell the odor. If you keep rushing out to get breaths of fresh air, every time you go back in it's just as bad as it was the first time.
Of course, Zy wears a breather, which is my space age answer to the floater. It plugs into the nostrils. Xeryl and D'pa eventually stay in long enough that their nerves go numb and Mealte can shut his off.
Noted for editing. When I get to it. Now onto the final. Last time I have a drink before starting one.
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