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2,000 words today, 30,200 total. Wiktory!


Now to goof off until archery time. I will probably not be shooting tonight, as my eyesight is blurry (allergies or another, milder bout of that virus that laid me out all damned summer).




30200 / 100000 words. 30% done!


153 / 400 pages. 38% done!

I wonder if these characters are ever going to actually DO anything? Or if they just plan to stand around and chatter for 400 pages....\

Mean things: somebody has a crush. somebody is being mysterious.

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ann_leckie has a smart and awesome post on learning to "write better" here.

Man, slow starting today. Eyes blurry, head cloudy. Food and tea will hopefully help.

(Teddy Bear mug today, which you have already seen. Rose congou tea, Morning temperature 38 balmy degrees, even when I had the dog out at sunrise. And yeah, I was outside with the dog at sunrise and am just sitting down to work, which tells you how much oomph I have today.

On the other hand, I have soba with veggies and quail eggs and ...

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Criminal Minds 5x10, "The Slave of Duty," written by Rick Dunkle, directed by Charles Haid.


pathetic fallacy! Good thing the rain cleared up before the funeral. (Rain at it lifting seems to be a theme this ep.)

And there's everybody's favorite guest star: Spencer Reid's purple scarf.

Aw man. Okay, I managed to keep the waterworks off through the funeral until Hotch lost it. And then Morgan made that little gasping noise and it was all over.

David Rossi, not the guy I would go to for parenting a...

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Kjitten just knocked over the lamp on my dresser. And then dematerialized, as kjittens can.

This is his second lamp this week.

colomon, mandolinjen, what's that thing you say? "For pretty, not for smart?"

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So I had carrot cake and milk for dinner (what? It's veggies!) and I am having bourbon and tea for dessert. Being a grownup has its advantages.

I did indeed attempt that (unrated, but ptobably a 5.8) route on the skywall tonight--twice; the second time I got two holds higher than the first. But I failed to unclip the pro without pumping out and losing my grip, and once you're off this sucker you ain't getting back on. I think I can do it, though--I made it up the overhung part and started the ...

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2100, and virtue is satisfied
mean things: politics, cultural relativism, the Eschaton
tyop: elf-sacrifice


MS word meter:


28200 / 100000 words. 28% done!


Page count meter:


143 / 400 pages. 36% done!

Time to go climb as soon as I eat something here.

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Ahh, tea. Today's tea is gunpowder green mixed with peppermint, as a cure for shoveling. Today's teacup is Paraphilias Involving Bunnies, which I have had since just before college.

Today's morning temperature is 32 degrees on the dot.

And now I am on the job, having been up since seven doing needful snow-related things (and making tea).

It was pretty out there--white snow, black dog, grey morning. (Wasn't that a Joy Chant book back in the day? I should really reread The Grey Mane of Morning ...

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600 words. Good enough for today.

Wasn't this supposed to be a work day? What happened? Where the hell did the last fourteen hours of my life go?

I mean, I know I spent one of them swimming and one cooking and eating dinner. Other than that--

--alt personality? I dunno.

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matociquala: okay, I just have to find an in to this scene.
matociquala: It does not appear to be in KMFDM.
matociquala: Who wants to break it to Sascha that "relax" and "complex" don't rhyme?
stillsostrange: I think that's Pig
matociquala: You're probably right.
matociquala: Who writes the lyrics? *g*
stillsostrange: Check the liner notes. :P
matociquala: Alas. Virtual music.
matociquala: I will ask the internets!

...I have 353 words on Grail and given my Cabdriver Protocol*, I think I may have to...

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Some kind of displacement activity win:

I just made, consumed, and described a new cocktail for a fellow writer, as research, because I had the stuff in the house.

And I don't even like gin.

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