If I knocked one thing off my do list every night, I would be doing excellent. It's not that hard to do, so why do I have such a hard time getting motivated? Really, I'm going to finish one thing tonight.
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The BookWorm
Thursday, January 22, 2004
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
ACK! Too Much to do
Quote of the Day: Besides Shakespeare and me, who do you think there is? -- Gertrude Stein
I promise to get to answering emails as soon as I can. Things have just been really hectic at work, and I haven't had a weekend off in what, a month?
This weekend was clean Faire site, which got stretched over two days, and get the tutorial newsletter and the Library update finished. Monday was off from paid work, and putting down my mother's new hardwood floor. Actually what I'm rushing home to work on some more.
So since this is a short post; I'll get to those emails now.
Read Free!
The BookWorm
I promise to get to answering emails as soon as I can. Things have just been really hectic at work, and I haven't had a weekend off in what, a month?
This weekend was clean Faire site, which got stretched over two days, and get the tutorial newsletter and the Library update finished. Monday was off from paid work, and putting down my mother's new hardwood floor. Actually what I'm rushing home to work on some more.
So since this is a short post; I'll get to those emails now.
Read Free!
The BookWorm
Monday, January 19, 2004
Friday and aftermath
Drive home thoughts
Blogs may not get done at all. My supervisor is a nice lady when she's not supervising. As a supervisor, she is a paranoid, anal-retentive twit who hates to see us enjoying the day or with time on our hands. She'll stand up for us at the same time refusing to get something that will make our jobs easier. I still don't know how these halves reconcile at night.
She says all I'm doing is playing on the Internet. I can't keep my notebook on my desk because that is playing on the Internet.
What it is is bullshit. I'm doing my work and it shouldn't matter that I write a sentence between every five lawsuits. But because we don't do any work unless her eagle eye is on us (in her mind anyway), it matters. I've been dwelling on it the whole way home and now I'm crying and I'm blaming hormones. But it's still bullshit.
Aftermath
I went to Chad's that night, but stopped at a gas station on my way there. A beautiful orange tabby kitten stopped following the drunk he was with and followed me back to my truck. With visions of street pizza kitten in my head, I went back inside with him. The drunk didn't want him, so I took him. His name is Mustard. It appealed to my sense of the absurd. Adopting him also got me out of the funk that the earlier news had put me into.
I'm going to smile and nod and pull it out at lunch. Or when we finish the stupid lawsuits (I estimate three weeks at the max) and she's fuming we have nothing to do.
Newsletter and updated Library go out tonight. Unfortunately, I don't have a new story. I'm too tired to keep working at it and tomorrow I have to help lay new floor down in my mother's house.
Read Free!
The BookWorm
Blogs may not get done at all. My supervisor is a nice lady when she's not supervising. As a supervisor, she is a paranoid, anal-retentive twit who hates to see us enjoying the day or with time on our hands. She'll stand up for us at the same time refusing to get something that will make our jobs easier. I still don't know how these halves reconcile at night.
She says all I'm doing is playing on the Internet. I can't keep my notebook on my desk because that is playing on the Internet.
What it is is bullshit. I'm doing my work and it shouldn't matter that I write a sentence between every five lawsuits. But because we don't do any work unless her eagle eye is on us (in her mind anyway), it matters. I've been dwelling on it the whole way home and now I'm crying and I'm blaming hormones. But it's still bullshit.
Aftermath
I went to Chad's that night, but stopped at a gas station on my way there. A beautiful orange tabby kitten stopped following the drunk he was with and followed me back to my truck. With visions of street pizza kitten in my head, I went back inside with him. The drunk didn't want him, so I took him. His name is Mustard. It appealed to my sense of the absurd. Adopting him also got me out of the funk that the earlier news had put me into.
I'm going to smile and nod and pull it out at lunch. Or when we finish the stupid lawsuits (I estimate three weeks at the max) and she's fuming we have nothing to do.
Newsletter and updated Library go out tonight. Unfortunately, I don't have a new story. I'm too tired to keep working at it and tomorrow I have to help lay new floor down in my mother's house.
Read Free!
The BookWorm
Friday, January 16, 2004
Is it possible to get a wireless notebook that will hold together?
Quote of the Day: Success didn't spoil me; I've always been insufferable. -- Fran Lebowitz
Driving home yesterday and trying to write in a regular notebook (having left my car notebook on my desk at work), pages started coming unglued from the spine and falling out. I like my pages neat for when and if I need to tear them out for loose-leaf, but I also need the pages in the notebook to stay in the notebook. Maybe I could put something through the holes.
Alt. BM Site and FoxFire's Palace are finally up and working. Talk about your headaches. I probably need to put a redirect to the new domain at http://bikermice.topcities.com/
But I don't get much of a breather this weekend. Everything else is due on the 19th, Monday. I don't even have the tutorial written yet. Meh, I wonder if Chad minds if I bring my work over?
I need to give myself a buffer with the tutorials. I hate having to produce them at the last minute. The Library's update shouldn't be as difficult, once I figure out what new story to upload. The choices:
A) Gargoyles: A Mist of Prophecies: Caught in the Folded Web Reason not to go up: haven't finished the second half of it yet
B) Legends of Hyrule: Hyrueliana Reason not to go up: needs another edit
C) To Be a Hero: Hero Awakens Reason not to go up: needs the first edit
D) Night Storm Reason not to go up: never finished the rewrite
E) Family, Friends, and Foes Reason not to go up: have one more edit to finish
F) Star Wars fanfic Reason not to go up: never finished writing it
G) Buffy fanfic Reason not to go up: never finished writing it
This is a hard list to compile without my records available. I've been concentrating on original fiction so long, that is immediately what pops to mind.
I want to put the blog inside the Library this update as well. So at least three things to do this weekend along with site cleanup that is scheduled.
It would be easier to write the tutorial if I didn't need to research. This I can jot down between lawsuit entries and hopefully find time to type later. What the hell. It's Friday and I have a deadline to meet.
Read Free!
The BookWorm
Driving home yesterday and trying to write in a regular notebook (having left my car notebook on my desk at work), pages started coming unglued from the spine and falling out. I like my pages neat for when and if I need to tear them out for loose-leaf, but I also need the pages in the notebook to stay in the notebook. Maybe I could put something through the holes.
Alt. BM Site and FoxFire's Palace are finally up and working. Talk about your headaches. I probably need to put a redirect to the new domain at http://bikermice.topcities.com/
But I don't get much of a breather this weekend. Everything else is due on the 19th, Monday. I don't even have the tutorial written yet. Meh, I wonder if Chad minds if I bring my work over?
I need to give myself a buffer with the tutorials. I hate having to produce them at the last minute. The Library's update shouldn't be as difficult, once I figure out what new story to upload. The choices:
A) Gargoyles: A Mist of Prophecies: Caught in the Folded Web Reason not to go up: haven't finished the second half of it yet
B) Legends of Hyrule: Hyrueliana Reason not to go up: needs another edit
C) To Be a Hero: Hero Awakens Reason not to go up: needs the first edit
D) Night Storm Reason not to go up: never finished the rewrite
E) Family, Friends, and Foes Reason not to go up: have one more edit to finish
F) Star Wars fanfic Reason not to go up: never finished writing it
G) Buffy fanfic Reason not to go up: never finished writing it
This is a hard list to compile without my records available. I've been concentrating on original fiction so long, that is immediately what pops to mind.
I want to put the blog inside the Library this update as well. So at least three things to do this weekend along with site cleanup that is scheduled.
It would be easier to write the tutorial if I didn't need to research. This I can jot down between lawsuit entries and hopefully find time to type later. What the hell. It's Friday and I have a deadline to meet.
Read Free!
The BookWorm
Thursday, January 15, 2004
Cleaning House Blues
Quote of the Day: The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. -- Fran Lebowitz
Between the apple crisp air freshener and apple scented dish soap and orange scented Clorax wipes, my kitchen is starting to smell like a fruit stand. It's a little less of a disaster area now. I still need to exchange microwaves, and sort my toolboxes, but at least the majority of the dishes are clean and the water bottles refilled and the new clock hung on the wall.
We did cubicle rearrangement over a week ago, and the phone numbers still haven't been switched. At this point I may just save them the trouble. I think the phone wire I have at home is long enough.
I think I have worked out the kinks in my email the to do list plan. And since I'm going through things trying to cut down on the extra papers I'm carrying (and losing), here's the notes I made on the next scene in the Rose.
Rose Notes 1/07/04
1). Show Beast through Beauty's eyes: fawning, courtious, offering the rose coursage, tricked into going upstairs with Beauty
2). Beast had no date, Beauty lures him upstairs with a story how hers went up with another girl
3). Beauty leads him to a hotel room, 4 boys attack and lynch him, leave the body in the room
4). School and hotel officials conspire to hide the murder and shield the students
5). The Rose of the title now signifies the corsage.
6). The narrator gains a new mission on Earth which needs to be mentioned with the last bit about the ghosts.
There now I can't lose this. :D
This note I was keeping because of a URL. I think I have it bookmarked at home, but I'll put it here just in case: www.ipsrx.com
Not bad; I think I'm down to 4 sheets now.
Read Free!
The BookWorm
Between the apple crisp air freshener and apple scented dish soap and orange scented Clorax wipes, my kitchen is starting to smell like a fruit stand. It's a little less of a disaster area now. I still need to exchange microwaves, and sort my toolboxes, but at least the majority of the dishes are clean and the water bottles refilled and the new clock hung on the wall.
We did cubicle rearrangement over a week ago, and the phone numbers still haven't been switched. At this point I may just save them the trouble. I think the phone wire I have at home is long enough.
I think I have worked out the kinks in my email the to do list plan. And since I'm going through things trying to cut down on the extra papers I'm carrying (and losing), here's the notes I made on the next scene in the Rose.
Rose Notes 1/07/04
1). Show Beast through Beauty's eyes: fawning, courtious, offering the rose coursage, tricked into going upstairs with Beauty
2). Beast had no date, Beauty lures him upstairs with a story how hers went up with another girl
3). Beauty leads him to a hotel room, 4 boys attack and lynch him, leave the body in the room
4). School and hotel officials conspire to hide the murder and shield the students
5). The Rose of the title now signifies the corsage.
6). The narrator gains a new mission on Earth which needs to be mentioned with the last bit about the ghosts.
There now I can't lose this. :D
This note I was keeping because of a URL. I think I have it bookmarked at home, but I'll put it here just in case: www.ipsrx.com
Not bad; I think I'm down to 4 sheets now.
Read Free!
The BookWorm
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
I Always Forget One Little Thing
Quote of the Day: I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. -- Madonna
My to do list; I'm going to have to develop a better way to transport it. Maybe I should email it from home and work. What I have been doing is transferring the items not done yet to the next day's once I reach the office in the morning. And I forgot yesterday's list at home today. Did good otherwise, even made it into work early enough to read the web comics.
I even remembered the quote book, Wild Words From Wild Women. I'm going to try to list a quote I find memorable every day that I post. We'll see how long this initiative lasts.
I also need to figure out how to keep better track of deadlines. They are self-imposed deadlines, but I would really like to start meeting them. The problem is not having one central location for reminders. And you see how well carrying it with me works with the to do list. I'm considering the calender in my Yahoo Group.
In other news, the BookWorm's Library is finally ad-free. And I shouldn't get those "over bandwidth" messages any more. I'm going to have to pay more to get the new domain name set up, but I think for my long-term plans it will be worth it. Having a new webmail addy will be pretty cool. And it looks like the new domain for Alt Biker Mice Site is working too. More on that as it develops.
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The BookWorm
My to do list; I'm going to have to develop a better way to transport it. Maybe I should email it from home and work. What I have been doing is transferring the items not done yet to the next day's once I reach the office in the morning. And I forgot yesterday's list at home today. Did good otherwise, even made it into work early enough to read the web comics.
I even remembered the quote book, Wild Words From Wild Women. I'm going to try to list a quote I find memorable every day that I post. We'll see how long this initiative lasts.
I also need to figure out how to keep better track of deadlines. They are self-imposed deadlines, but I would really like to start meeting them. The problem is not having one central location for reminders. And you see how well carrying it with me works with the to do list. I'm considering the calender in my Yahoo Group.
In other news, the BookWorm's Library is finally ad-free. And I shouldn't get those "over bandwidth" messages any more. I'm going to have to pay more to get the new domain name set up, but I think for my long-term plans it will be worth it. Having a new webmail addy will be pretty cool. And it looks like the new domain for Alt Biker Mice Site is working too. More on that as it develops.
Read Free!
The BookWorm
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Ouch, ouch, ouch!
My longest To Do list yet. My To Do list have changed. Now I have to list everything that I need to do on the Internet but I can't until lunch or until the work is all done. I have no idea when we'll have that free time again.
And of course, I gave an opinion on Biker Mice From Mars Unofficial Fan Site's Discussion Board and had my throat jumped down. I guess I'm going to have to do what Jazz did and drop it completely. I do lurk in case something comes up, but honestly, all they ever do is chat to each other. At least BMFM related questions go up at Red Planet and people are working on fanfics and fanart.
Lunch hour almost up. Time to see if I can cross something off my list.
Read Free!
The BookWorm
And of course, I gave an opinion on Biker Mice From Mars Unofficial Fan Site's Discussion Board and had my throat jumped down. I guess I'm going to have to do what Jazz did and drop it completely. I do lurk in case something comes up, but honestly, all they ever do is chat to each other. At least BMFM related questions go up at Red Planet and people are working on fanfics and fanart.
Lunch hour almost up. Time to see if I can cross something off my list.
Read Free!
The BookWorm
Monday, January 12, 2004
The Deer is probably dead
Going to pick my car up from the Inn (Dripping Dog Inn which is a building on the RenFaire site that Chad lives in), I saw a huge flock of buzzards. Over twenty; it's been a while since I've seen that many all at once. We all think that's where the wounded deer ended up.
I should have took pictures of the damage, but forgot all about my digital camera. Still shook up I guess. Our insurance decided to cover it under comprehensive, which means I only have to pay a $250 deductible. I can pay that so much better than $500. But the car is driving fine, so all that is wrong is really cosmetic. Though I'd feel happier without the deer hairs caught in the broken glass. We got the car to the collision center repair people today, and they said it would be finished sometime next week. So for now I get to drive the truck to work.
Chad is shooing me home before dark. I don't know what he'd be doing if I had real hysterics on him that night. I know he cares, and it's having to get used to that I guess. I don't know.
Mom got me an early birthday present, the hall tree I had found shopping earlier that Saturday. It's a repruduction peice with a faux marble top, but I love it to peices and it looks great by my front door. Too bad I can't find the entertainment center I need for $50.
Happy birthday baby sister!
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The BookWorm
I should have took pictures of the damage, but forgot all about my digital camera. Still shook up I guess. Our insurance decided to cover it under comprehensive, which means I only have to pay a $250 deductible. I can pay that so much better than $500. But the car is driving fine, so all that is wrong is really cosmetic. Though I'd feel happier without the deer hairs caught in the broken glass. We got the car to the collision center repair people today, and they said it would be finished sometime next week. So for now I get to drive the truck to work.
Chad is shooing me home before dark. I don't know what he'd be doing if I had real hysterics on him that night. I know he cares, and it's having to get used to that I guess. I don't know.
Mom got me an early birthday present, the hall tree I had found shopping earlier that Saturday. It's a repruduction peice with a faux marble top, but I love it to peices and it looks great by my front door. Too bad I can't find the entertainment center I need for $50.
Happy birthday baby sister!
Read Free!
The BookWorm
Saturday, January 10, 2004
And today was such a good day
I was bringing Chad home and we hit a deer with my lovely, lovely car. Not so lovely now. Nobody was hurt except the deer. It was a buck; I saw the horns and you can tell where a horn hit the windshield. Damage tally: Hole in left corner of bumper, cracked headlight cover, dents in left panel, dents in hood and possibly roof, driver's side mirror gone, cracked up windshield that will spiderweb completely. It was sometime between 7:30 and 8:30 at night; it was 8:30 by the time we reached the Inn.
Have no idea what the verdict will be from insurance.
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Have no idea what the verdict will be from insurance.
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The BookWorm
Thursday, January 08, 2004
Finally got some time to type!
Well apparantly, I have done a better job limiting my Internet use at home than at work. The supervisor decided to move three of my coworkers and me (the reason cited for me is that I'm hanging on the Internet). We switched cubicles yesterday. Despite being more visibe to the office, I think I got a better deal. My new cubicle is bigger.
So here I am, jotting this entry in a notebook, because I keep leaving home late and have not time to type before work, and hoping I'll have time to type during lunch. (Hence the title.)
It seems like the mad rush of renewals is over, and we're catching up on lawsuits. For some reason, our office was given the task of entering details of personal injury lawsuits into a database. Mind numbing work and since we have a couple thousand to enter in, we'll be at it for a while.
You'd think I'd be getting a lot done at home. Sunday was my last day of energized cleaning. Monday was an evil late night--left work at 6:45pm and madie it home by 7:45pm (no crashes due to a Holden wanna-be bank robber trying to evade the police very badly). Foxy and I worked on upgarding Alt BM Site, and then discovered we had to wait 24 hours before uploading new content. Tuesday was a doctor's appointment and rest of the day with Chad, which I cut short to go upload and we still hadn't gotten the new info. It didn't come Wednesday either, and I could have spent that time working on something but read instead. Until a mouse sighting at 11pm galvanized me to go clean the kitch. Obviously, I'm going to have to do something about the office.
It's not like I'm running out of projects. If anything, that list always gets longer. I just have no energy when I get home. Though, I think I can blame yesterday's lethargy on the sugar binge on the drive home.
Driving--my brakes were making funny noises and made me worry on wet streets this morning. Might be time to replace tires.
Quote of the Day: "If all was nothingness," Elora asked, "who was there to take notes?"
Chris Claremont & George Lucas Shadow Star
Read Free!
The BookWorm
So here I am, jotting this entry in a notebook, because I keep leaving home late and have not time to type before work, and hoping I'll have time to type during lunch. (Hence the title.)
It seems like the mad rush of renewals is over, and we're catching up on lawsuits. For some reason, our office was given the task of entering details of personal injury lawsuits into a database. Mind numbing work and since we have a couple thousand to enter in, we'll be at it for a while.
You'd think I'd be getting a lot done at home. Sunday was my last day of energized cleaning. Monday was an evil late night--left work at 6:45pm and madie it home by 7:45pm (no crashes due to a Holden wanna-be bank robber trying to evade the police very badly). Foxy and I worked on upgarding Alt BM Site, and then discovered we had to wait 24 hours before uploading new content. Tuesday was a doctor's appointment and rest of the day with Chad, which I cut short to go upload and we still hadn't gotten the new info. It didn't come Wednesday either, and I could have spent that time working on something but read instead. Until a mouse sighting at 11pm galvanized me to go clean the kitch. Obviously, I'm going to have to do something about the office.
It's not like I'm running out of projects. If anything, that list always gets longer. I just have no energy when I get home. Though, I think I can blame yesterday's lethargy on the sugar binge on the drive home.
Driving--my brakes were making funny noises and made me worry on wet streets this morning. Might be time to replace tires.
Quote of the Day: "If all was nothingness," Elora asked, "who was there to take notes?"
Chris Claremont & George Lucas Shadow Star
Read Free!
The BookWorm
Wednesday, January 07, 2004
Flashback January 7, 2004
Victorian dress
Victorian cross dressing
Victorian corset
(I think this is a Dickens Faire shopping list.)
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Victorian cross dressing
Victorian corset
(I think this is a Dickens Faire shopping list.)
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The BookWorm
Sunday, January 04, 2004
All Right Already
That man of mine is not eating up too much of my time :p Sad truth of the matter is I got used to not blogging on weekends and we just had another 4 day one. Happy New Year's from the state.
And I forgot to ask again about giving out names. LOL I should reread this tomorrow and remember.
Wednesday night had the New Year's party, actually two. Ended with fireworks and bagpipes.
Thursday: boy friend had lunch with my family. My family didn't scare him off. Course, he says "I have met most of them over the course of four years."
Friday: rented a storage unit and not for my own junk. Back in July, Mom got the gumption and started renovation the former garage. It's only been enclosed for four or five years now. Stuffed stored in it moved to my grandmother's storage shed and my porches until they got finished. I think they promised me two weeks.
Saturday me and my boyfriend filled the storage unit with their boxes so we could move some of the furniture into the shed and I would have porches again and stop feeling so damn claustrophobic in my own house.
Sunday I finished cleaning most of the back porch. Still one junk can to go through, and I have to figure out where to store some other items. I also fixed my great-grandmother's Mission style loveseat, and finished most of the pages for the Alt. BM update tomorrow.
I'm exhausted.
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The BookWorm
And I forgot to ask again about giving out names. LOL I should reread this tomorrow and remember.
Wednesday night had the New Year's party, actually two. Ended with fireworks and bagpipes.
Thursday: boy friend had lunch with my family. My family didn't scare him off. Course, he says "I have met most of them over the course of four years."
Friday: rented a storage unit and not for my own junk. Back in July, Mom got the gumption and started renovation the former garage. It's only been enclosed for four or five years now. Stuffed stored in it moved to my grandmother's storage shed and my porches until they got finished. I think they promised me two weeks.
Saturday me and my boyfriend filled the storage unit with their boxes so we could move some of the furniture into the shed and I would have porches again and stop feeling so damn claustrophobic in my own house.
Sunday I finished cleaning most of the back porch. Still one junk can to go through, and I have to figure out where to store some other items. I also fixed my great-grandmother's Mission style loveseat, and finished most of the pages for the Alt. BM update tomorrow.
I'm exhausted.
Read Free!
The BookWorm
Tuesday, December 30, 2003
Flashback Dec. 19, 2003
Office party for Christmas today as well as one of our student worker's 21st B-day. And I'm going to have to start loading my car at night. Her birthday present is sitting on my desk with the rest of the office Christmas gifts.
Got the newsletter emailed out and some new people have joined the list; people whose emails I don't recognize. :D
Alt. BM Site's update is delayed due to financial considerations. It does give me time to work on the graphics.
Weekend plans: Mythos LARP at the Faire site. I need to establish my NPC bard character. I've bought a leather-bound journal to write in while I'm playing.
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The BookWorm
Got the newsletter emailed out and some new people have joined the list; people whose emails I don't recognize. :D
Alt. BM Site's update is delayed due to financial considerations. It does give me time to work on the graphics.
Weekend plans: Mythos LARP at the Faire site. I need to establish my NPC bard character. I've bought a leather-bound journal to write in while I'm playing.
Read Free!
The BookWorm
New ideas
I plan on uploading the update for Alt BM on Jan. 5th. That should be enough time for contributors to get their submissions in. Everything else is due on Jan 19th.
My big new idea is called "Flashback." Occassionally, I write myself dated notes and in an effort to clean out notebooks, I'm posting them in the blog. Saves me from having to come up with new material on the days when I haven't got anything, and also lets you into this wacky brain of mine a little more. Right, like you really want to know more. Those entries will be titled "Flashback" with the date, so you're warned.
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The BookWorm
My big new idea is called "Flashback." Occassionally, I write myself dated notes and in an effort to clean out notebooks, I'm posting them in the blog. Saves me from having to come up with new material on the days when I haven't got anything, and also lets you into this wacky brain of mine a little more. Right, like you really want to know more. Those entries will be titled "Flashback" with the date, so you're warned.
Read Free!
The BookWorm
Monday, December 29, 2003
That's All I Ask of You
Oh it was beautiful. The Saenger Theater's Italian Baroque style fit with the stage scenery for Phantom of the Opera. And I loved how they shifted to different locations of the opera house with the minimum of sets. Highlights would be the crashing chandelier, the elephant for Hannibal, the moving staircase as the actors went down into the basement, and the candles that came up through the stage floor. I'd love to see how that was managed.
I took yesterday as my be-a-lazy-bum day. I refused to get dressed and spent the day coloring desktop wallpaper, and trying to organize the From Mars archive into something I can put up and people will be able to use the links inside it. I also finished the second story in the Evil Jack series "In Sickness." *Shrug* It was my lazy bum day and I wasn't working on anything I didn't feel like. Which means original works have become too guilt ridden and a must-do.
I will get back to them.
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The BookWorm
I took yesterday as my be-a-lazy-bum day. I refused to get dressed and spent the day coloring desktop wallpaper, and trying to organize the From Mars archive into something I can put up and people will be able to use the links inside it. I also finished the second story in the Evil Jack series "In Sickness." *Shrug* It was my lazy bum day and I wasn't working on anything I didn't feel like. Which means original works have become too guilt ridden and a must-do.
I will get back to them.
Read Free!
The BookWorm
Saturday, December 27, 2003
What a week
We have been so busy at work, I haven't had a chance to type in the blog daily. I doubt next week will be much better since all the renewals are due by January 1st. We went to my sister's for Christmas and had a lovely time. She got Phantom of the Opera tickets for me for tonight. Course her way of keeping me in the dark, left me the distinct impression she needed my boyfriend and I to help her move. My boyfriend would have appreciated a heads up on what clothes to get though.
The other odd thing was I went and took pictures of Normal Hill, which is the oldest part of campus and I have always gotten strange vibes from it. I was hoping for something to submit to Ghoststudy. I took the pictures with my digital camera, put that camera back in my purse and left it alone. (That would be how it traveled up to Natchitoches.) Go to download the pictures this morning and there is nothing on the camera.
Oh well, so much for my ghostbusting. Have to go get ready and get the new printer installed.
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The BookWorm
The other odd thing was I went and took pictures of Normal Hill, which is the oldest part of campus and I have always gotten strange vibes from it. I was hoping for something to submit to Ghoststudy. I took the pictures with my digital camera, put that camera back in my purse and left it alone. (That would be how it traveled up to Natchitoches.) Go to download the pictures this morning and there is nothing on the camera.
Oh well, so much for my ghostbusting. Have to go get ready and get the new printer installed.
Read Free!
The BookWorm
Thursday, December 18, 2003
Daily Report
I'm still speechless. Return of the King is phenomenal. No scouring of the Shire, but I understand stylistically why Peter Jackson changed it. And the Witch-King's helm crumpled like tissue. *Insert jumping up and down and giggling* And I want Eomer's helm. And shiny pretty swords for the hacking and slashing. And the green Arwen dress Museum Replicas is selling is in the movie, but I still say that is an ugly green. I'd rather have the riding dress or some of the velvet she wears. Or Eowyn's dress.
Editing week this week and I'm working on "The Rose." It dates back to 1996/1997, when I thought I could create a short story collection of rewritten fairy tales. It's my "Beauty and the Beast" story with a science fiction setting and unhappy ending. In an undetermined future of Earth, the people who have settled in space have ended up mutated and passed those mutations to their children. A mutant goes to Earth to discover what happened to her brother. In my original version, the Beast died of a broken heart when Beauty rejected him. I decided that's not realistic enough for any of the characters. Probably influenced by Emmett Till's murder story, but I think it will work to crystallize Beauty's characterization. And I thought I was wasting time with Crime Library.
Writing, I haven't been able to make much time for. Tonight I need to go home and work on web updates. The newsletter needs to go out; I really need to put up a sign-up box here as well.
Alt. BM Site needs the most work I'm afraid. We have to get set up for no-ads and FoxFire's Palace sub-domain. I need to make graphics and tweak others. Nothing too hard, just time consuming when I'd rather not spend my time at home. And tweaking the wall paper, I always forget that.
And I have to go to the store and get the sandwiches for the party at work tomorrow. The bad thing is that store would put me halfway to where I want to be instead of home where I will work. A laptop would come in handy for these situations.
I try as hard as I can to stick to the update schedule, but I have to admit the days do slip by. I should have the update ready for tonight. I'm not even close. Though the big deal is to get the no-ads and sub-domain done. I can finish the rest of the tweaks later. But all this blabbing about it doesn't get me any closer to finishing.
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Editing week this week and I'm working on "The Rose." It dates back to 1996/1997, when I thought I could create a short story collection of rewritten fairy tales. It's my "Beauty and the Beast" story with a science fiction setting and unhappy ending. In an undetermined future of Earth, the people who have settled in space have ended up mutated and passed those mutations to their children. A mutant goes to Earth to discover what happened to her brother. In my original version, the Beast died of a broken heart when Beauty rejected him. I decided that's not realistic enough for any of the characters. Probably influenced by Emmett Till's murder story, but I think it will work to crystallize Beauty's characterization. And I thought I was wasting time with Crime Library.
Writing, I haven't been able to make much time for. Tonight I need to go home and work on web updates. The newsletter needs to go out; I really need to put up a sign-up box here as well.
Alt. BM Site needs the most work I'm afraid. We have to get set up for no-ads and FoxFire's Palace sub-domain. I need to make graphics and tweak others. Nothing too hard, just time consuming when I'd rather not spend my time at home. And tweaking the wall paper, I always forget that.
And I have to go to the store and get the sandwiches for the party at work tomorrow. The bad thing is that store would put me halfway to where I want to be instead of home where I will work. A laptop would come in handy for these situations.
I try as hard as I can to stick to the update schedule, but I have to admit the days do slip by. I should have the update ready for tonight. I'm not even close. Though the big deal is to get the no-ads and sub-domain done. I can finish the rest of the tweaks later. But all this blabbing about it doesn't get me any closer to finishing.
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The BookWorm
Wednesday, December 17, 2003
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
No time for anything fancy
"How many great literary works were written in totalitarian nations or under societal pressures, such as obscenity laws? Outlining seems like no restriction when compared to the rack or a firing squad." (J. Madison Davis Novelist's Essential Guide to Creating Plot 45)
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Monday, December 15, 2003
Monday morning
Well, I got a lot done, but precious little of it was writing. Okay none of it. A writing schedule goes out the window when you have a boyfriend to go see. I'd bring my writing with me, but I know I wouldn't get anything done.
I do have two days this week to get some headway. Nothing will happen Wednesday night but "Return of the King." And I have to go Christmas shopping.
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I do have two days this week to get some headway. Nothing will happen Wednesday night but "Return of the King." And I have to go Christmas shopping.
Read Free!
The BookWorm
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