I wrote 100 words today, bringing ch. 17 to 1,325.

Unfortunately I hate all of them, and I think tomorrow I will rip up most of what I've written for scene two and start over much closer to the actual point of the scene. Pacing is still a thing, and if I'm boring myself, I'm pretty sure the resulting words are going to bore readers as well ( Read more... )

So my NFE assignment contained two prompts, one of which... um... well, to be blunt, one of which I have already written. Like three times over. This is not to say that I have by any means exhausted the variations on the topic! It's fairly broad, both in temporal and character terms ( Read more... )

1. As of Monday, the smoke shop is now closing at 6pm (Mon-Sat) until our final day. Boss Lady looked at the hourly sales figures and figured there was no real point being open until 7pm just for two cigarette sales, one newspaper, and maybe a few random snacks. (For reference, cigarettes, newspapers, and lottery all have terrible profit margins ( Read more... )

Today I worked with New Hire (upon whom I will bestow a nickname once I know her a little better) for the first time. She seems nice and also competent -- a winning combination ( Read more... )

I got back up to Cornell today -- as on Friday, I took a bus because climbing East Hill in the cold is not my idea of a fun time, and climbing East Hill in the cold on icy sidewalks is even less appealing -- and am now the happy owner of a Cornell University library card ( Read more... )

Today I failed at retrieving books from Cornell. It turns out that Olin library has a bunch of the books I'm interested in, and they are available for borrowing rather than the kind of huge and/or delicate reference texts that cannot be removed from the building. Yay! However, it further turns out that in order for a member of the general public ( Read more... )

I'm still doing research. So much research. All the research -- you have no idea. I did not get up to Cornell today, though I spent a pleasant 45 minutes in the local used book store flipping through indexes and wondering why the two really useful "general background what-life-was-like" books were both centered on the previous century to the one ( Read more... )

I came back from Thanksgiving not only with a bunch of leftovers (I will return the tupperware and extra cooler at Christmas), but also with a new spider plant -- apparently my mom was serious about getting rid of all of hers. Oh well, more for me! :-)


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1. First, some stuff about work ( Read more... )

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