gillpolack @ 2015-07-21T20:07:00

I'm sorting out chapters five and six. I keep telling myself and I'm doing it and I'm surprised that it's happening. I might be caught up by the end of next week, if I've written all these chapters well enough. If I haven't done them to my usual standard, then there'll be more rewriting than usual but, if I can finish these chapters and the final one by the end of next week, there should be time. I also want to do the bibliography next week, mind you. I'm determined that the eye isn't going to slow me down, basically. It's not easy working through it (because the vision still changes and because the virus isn't past) but I'm at a good stage in the thinking and I really, really don't like it when life gets the better of me. So it's not going to.

There really isn't any other news right now. A friend helped me with the housework that was too heavy (would have made my eye bleed again - it doesn't like anything that puts pressure on it) and I'm doing the rest gently and not agonising over things. The same friend is watching out for visibility garments of the sort several people have suggested (thank you for the suggestions!) so that I can get a bit more mobility in the early evenings. In the meantime, being home every evening gives me the chance to stagger my work, so that my eyes can get heaps of rest.

My eye isn't improving, but my ability to cope with it is. That's the big thing. And the rest of me is fine this time, so I can get everything done and meet my deadlines and even gloat a little.

And in other news there is none. There will be soon, though, for the Beast will be available in the US and Australia. Officially available, not just through Book Depository. it's my first book actually obtainable in UK bookshops, too. So many firsts this year.

And in other news, someone called me intelligent yesterday. I refrained from laughing. People only call me intelligent on days when i feel stupid, you see.