exanimate2. Despite being blazingly ill, I managed to make my word counts on Blackout both days, and am on track to hit 100,000 words on April 23rd. This is good, since it means I may actually finish the book, you know, on time. I love finishing things on time. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy and slightly less completely deranged.
3. Saturday night was GP's birthday party! I did not come home that night, as it was late and we were all exhausted and sort of drunk (and yes, this may have dealt my immune system the fatal blow). Thomas showed his disapproval by climbing onto my computer desk, gently nudging aside the dolls on the second shelf, pulling down the jar in which I store my earplugs, opening the jar, dumping out the earplugs, and eating half of them. I do not know why he is so obsessed with eating the damn things, but he's why I bought that jar in the first place. Now he shits little pink bullets, and looks smug.
4. My vet has confirmed that this won't hurt him, but is also sub-optimal. I have moved my earplugs.
5. The first draft of "Crystal Halloway, Girl Wonder, and the Terror of the Truth Fairy" is finished and being hacked at by the Machete Squad. This is seriously the most depressing, nihilistic story I think I've ever written. Which makes it appropriate that I wrote it while I was sick even unto death. This thing reads like the prologue to a Vertigo comic series.
6. I am not writing a Vertigo comic series. Unless, of course, DC asks me to.
7. I also got started on the first draft of "Rat-Catcher," a Tobyverse story set in London, in 1662 (yes, only a few years before the Great Fire, and the Great Plague). In it, a young Prince of Cats named Rand must stop playing theater cat at the Duke's Theater long enough to find a way to deal with his father, keep his sister from doing something monumentally stupid, and oh, right, maybe save the Cait Sidhe of London from a fate worse than death. Is this Tybalt's origin story? Why yes. Yes, it is.
8. Things already pulled from my research shelf in service of "Rat-Catcher": The Writer's Digest Guide to Character Naming (second edition), London: A Biography, Sex and Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, and The Wordsworth Dictionary of Shakespeare. Make of this what you will.
9. Being sick did allow me to catch up on some of my cache of SyFy Original Movies, including the second half of Meteor with Marla Sokoloff. This was a disturbingly good, surprisingly high-budget feature, especially for a SyFy Saturday. Also, not only were women competent and realistic characters, they didn't all die. Well done, SyFy. Keep up the good work.
10. Zombies are still love.
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It's that, or cook and eat 'em.
April 13 2011, 23:48:03 UTC 6 years ago
\o/ Tybalt!
Wishing you a speedy recovery.
April 14 2011, 15:42:26 UTC 6 years ago
April 14 2011, 00:03:34 UTC 6 years ago
I have put up a charm to ward off the evil eye in my bedroom and have been slowly and vaguely planning an RPG campaign involving time travelers in the Georgian era.
April 14 2011, 16:11:03 UTC 6 years ago
Awesome.
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April 14 2011, 01:00:09 UTC 6 years ago
Strep throat is going around my school and I am trying to avoid it. I think seven or eight of my students have it. Luckily, spring break is next week! Woohoo!
Also, at karate class, Sensei taught us this trick to make "an unbendable arm," then proceeded to disrupt our ki energy with is own and, y'know, bend our arms. It was insanely cool. Karate is love- and will be so very useful if I ever need to fight off zombies. Or wicked creepers.
April 14 2011, 16:11:36 UTC 6 years ago
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April 14 2011, 01:16:12 UTC 6 years ago
okay that was true before I read this.
*smishes* Feel better, dear one.
April 14 2011, 16:11:46 UTC 6 years ago
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April 14 2011, 02:22:58 UTC 6 years ago
I jotted down two novel ideas in my "To Be Gotten To After Thesis" file. In between, I finished my MP3 "re-read" of "Feed" while driving, jogging, and grocery shopping and Steven Brust's "Tiassa," in my pre-bed reading. Dino-dance for both.
Seanan, has anyone ever compared your witty dialog to Brust's? There's a definite similarity. Anyway, a McGuire-Brust collaboration is on my big wishlist (along with a McGuire-Claremont collaboration, and a Grant-Cherryh (C.J.) collaboration).
Oh, and I finally added Twitter to my phone. It was nice to get witticisms over the weekend. I hope some of the healing energy hit you.
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I've been figuring out what supplies to spend the remains of our budget on to stock up for next year's cuts. And trying to work out where in the lab I'm going to stash nine cases of petri dishes.
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The Head of Wardrobe I'm spending two weeks as a dresser-type slave for has made similar comments. I've told her to get busy reading Feed.
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A friend went to London and returned with a T-shirt (for me) that reads "Zombies hate fast food" and shows a smart human running away from the shambling undead.
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2. Yay!
3. Yay! (The party, not the cat.)
3-4. I'm wincing, but I'm also giggling.
7-8. *hyperventilating with glee* (Okay, not literally, I'm kinda fond of breathing.)
...sigh. Now I need to behave like an adult and call the insurance company to get a replacement card for the one I lost. And then go get my allergy shots (they already have the card on file, luckily). Fun. :P
April 15 2011, 17:36:16 UTC 6 years ago
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