For what it's worth ...

( ... post script ... )

Honestly, this motivation thing is such a mystery to me. The way it comes and goes and baffles me with its goddamned stupid timing. Here I've got several hours left that I can make use of and I have the material but all my energy and brainpower has just evaporated. And it's not like I haven't eaten or drunk water. My body should be able to write. ( Read more... )

"So what do you do for a living?"

"I'm a coroner."

"Oh."

I keep thinking what the last few minutes of Leslie Howard's life must have been like. Whether he was amused by the martyrdom to the Allied cause or furious or resigned ... or heartbroken.

All of those things?

I hope they were brief and painless. I wish they had never happened.

Posted ( Read more... )

*sigh* Don't want to go to work today. It's all chill and grey today, the sunshine trapped in the silver air, and I want to huddle under the warm quilts and read some of my Pamela Travers' What The Bee Knows, then alternate with Regarding 'Jane Eyre', and go back to writing my own novel.

( ... deep inside ... )

Oh, and that Loretta Chase. Silk Is For Seduction.

( ... round and round ... )

It's funny how quickly you can get used to something. About two months ago, I was still slightly confused about the whole hash tag thing on Twitter and when exactly to use it and when not. This morning I was replying to a tweet and only after I hit the Tweet button did I realise I had totally hashtagged without even thinking about it. An absolutely ( Read more... )

Today was pretty much charmed, I think.

Every time it looked like it was going to get horrific, something saved me. ( ... and being friends ... )

God, today was torture.

I looked fab --- all red and black today, darlings, with a sparkly red Parisian ribbon tied around the head, half Victorian half rock chic --- and nearly got sent to court but turns out the hearing finished early so I was stuck in the office. Which on one hand was good cos I hadn't brought the journals and I only had ( Read more... )

Things:

( ... thinking about ... )

All right, haha. Another super weird coincidence for the annals, only this time of the fannish variety. Which admittedly only one person on my flist will appreciate but it's worth it for the record.

Spent half the day being quite mad in spirited_w about tomorrow's episode and speculation thereof. When I finally tore myself from the laptop to go return my ( Read more... )