By the light of this torchiere lamp...

[csecooney]

"As she only cries about once a year I really ought to have gone over and comforted her, but I wanted to set it all down here. I begin to see that writers are liable to become callous." - Dodie Smith (I Capture the Castle)

Love that book. Took it from my shelf this morning and read a few pages during my lunch break.* Now want to reread Town in

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[wirewalking]

Tonight I will FINISH A CHAPTER is what.

Send me a scene to read! A scene you had SUCH FUN WRITING. I have a couple new ones to swap if you're the barterin' sort.

[csecooney]

Send your favorite (I know, they are ALL your favorite!) and I'll send this chapter when I'm done with it, as it is making me laugh to write it.

[wirewalking]

nah, not ALL my favorite. Though I am quite pleased with this revision. Kelly really is a hell of a reader. She called me out on every single instance of me being lazy/cutting corners. Of which there were, uh, several.

Tangentially it may amuse you to know that I have such an itch to wrangle these characters SOMEHOW into a noir story.

Yes, send chapter! Miscellaneous has always, I think, been my favorite of yours. Hell, send HOWEVER MANY CHAPTERS.

[bogwitch64]

The yin and the yang, eh? Living alone comes with the perks of having only your own mess to clean, you own dinner to make, your own time to kill--but it gets lonely. And yet living with people fills your life with the joys of having company, but comes with their messes and their needs and, yes, sometimes their voices when all you crave is silence.

[asakiyume]

but it gets lonely . . . but comes with their messes and needs

Yep: that's the tension and the rub.

[csecooney]

It's quiet enough here that I've never craved silence yet, the way I used to STARVE for it growing up in a house with four (and sometimes five, in the summer) brothers.

But I have come to think I like the mess better, having known both. That may flip again. And may flip again after that. But for now, it is right. And it is my turn to serve, I think. I think that's okay.

[asakiyume]

(or - only occasionally "seamful", anyway)

You crack me up :-)

And Sita is all kinds of inventive to have made use of that folding chair that way: more power to her.

... And I'm embarrassed to say what validation I get from your remark about the multiple children and the cooking, etc., and the being tired.

[csecooney]

Sita has been doing TOO MUCH. Inventive and AWESOME as she is. She needs to slow down this coming week and keep still. She's been very gracious about being coddled, but she needs to be more gracious when I'm NOT AROUND. Thankfully, I will not be working six days a week and will be able to EXERT MY AUTHORITY.

How autocratic we become, when we're scared. She will be coddled OR ELSE. I misliked the look of her ankle today. She will eat ALL THE GREEN THINGS and DRINK GREEN TEA and be STILL and keep elevated and STOP DOING DISHES AND MAKING FOOD!

That's all. My capslock is over.

[asakiyume]

One great way to cook kale is with chopped up bits of pepperoni in it. You put oil in a frying pan, shred the kale in it, add chopped up pepperoni, and a splash of soy sauce and maybe a splash (but only the tiniest one) of water, plus, if you want, a chopped-up garlic clove, or garlic powder.

Yes, I do hope she will rest! I understand her urge, but if she is to heal properly she must give in and just rest, *even though* it means you--whom she cares about and wants to spare from this--must work and then come home to face more duties.

I wish I were around to offer a hand :-(

[csecooney]

:-) Well, as Delia Sherman says: "We cannot live all lives."

We'll get through the next few weeks. I don't want her going back to work in her present state, that's for sure, and March 1st is only 6 days away, or so. Not counting today? I dunno. Math.