Thurs. May 30, 2024: It Always Rains When I Go To BIC
image courtesy of Gabriela Palai via pixabay.comThursday, May 30, 2024
Waning Moon
Pluto Retrograde
Rainy and cool
You can read the latest on the garden over on Gratitude and Growth. Next Tuesday, the CSA starts; I will write about those boxes over on G&G. I mean, I’ll mention them here, but I’ll go into detail about the week’s box on the Thursday garden posts.
Today’s serial episode is from LEGERDEMAIN:
Episode 194: Moves and Countermoves
Not all fights are physical.
After today’s episode, there is only ONE more episode left in the season. And then you get to binge the entire 195 episodes, for a limited time.
Adapted more DEADLY DRAMATICS episodes into TAPESTRY, about 7K words. I have 14 more episodes to adapt, and this draft is complete. Each chapter takes 2-3 episodes, so it’s only a few more days down the pike and this draft is done. Once it’s done, I will decide if I’m going with chapter names (which sets a precedent for the series) or just numbers. I also worked on the author note and set up the media kit. I created some of the information, and then will plug in the short excerpts once I decide which ones to use. Some of the material will also go into the series media kit.
Worked on the newsletter, and on a Cerridwen’s Cottage logo for the small books that will repurpose all my articles over the years.
Got my parking information for today’s meeting at the Berkshire Innovation Center. Glad they sent it, because I would have never figured it out on my own.
Updated the large wall calendar, so I can keep an eye on deadlines.
Turned around two script coverages. I call them medium-sized because of the required word count in the coverage, but they were both feature scripts, so reading time was longer than, say, a one-hour pilot or a half hour TV piece. I wanted to do a third script, but I ran out of time.
Headed out for tarot circle. Stopped at Carr’s to pick up the sulfur compound I need to treat the lilacs, and stopped at Wild Oats to pick up something.
Tarot was great, as usual. We always have intense discussions about complicated issues in really interesting ways, with full respect for each other.
Headed home, fixed dinner, finished one of the coverages I hadn’t finished before I left, and then just hung out for a while before bed.
Just before I was ready to turn in for the night, a submission call landed in my inbox – for tonight. I have a play that fits the parameters, so I submitted it.
I got an idea for a kind of a weird screenplay and wrote the first three pages. No idea if it will lead anywhere, but the characters were talking loudly, so I wrote it down to quiet them.
As I tried to go to sleep, the downstairs neighbors were out and about, trying to find their cat/get him back inside (he’d somehow gotten out). They did not succeed, and finally gave up. I felt bad for them and the cat, but yelling at the cat is not going to get him back inside.
At three a.m., it had started raining, and they were out there again, yelling for the cat at the top of their lungs. Don’t know if it worked that time, but it got all of my cats up and about, and they would not settle down.
I refused to get up until five. Then, when I sat down to get some work done before I had to leave for my meeting, the computer screen went black. It was only an update, thank goodness, but I’m tired of forced updates instead of letting me schedule them. It had all night when I wasn’t using the computer to do an update.
I’m trying to get a few things done at the desk before I head out to my meeting. It means skipping the online meditation group this morning; I sat a bit on my own. I was going to run some errands on the way back, but if it’s still raining this hard, I will probably just come home.
I have two coverages to turn around this afternoon. I’m hoping to sneak in some adaptation work in as well.
Have a good one!
