A somehow exhausting day. I'm making my entry early, because Z couldn't RP this afternoon. And here is the end of November ( Read more... )

Sunny today. Getting cold here. Our high was 48F.

A busy day, though not as busy as yesterday and the day before. Two new opening scenes for The Night Watchers, giving the book more context at the outset, those have come together. There was more conversation with the members of the MP2 working group. We've chosen the species name for the new taxon ( Read more... )

Sunny today. Our high was 75F.

Another night of interrupted sleep, another anemic writing day. I managed only 586 words, putting letter H behind me, as The Ultraviolet Alphabet slogs forward.

Imagine this journal entry as a starving dog, all its ribs showing through.

It is to spend long days ( Read more... )

Nuance. I need to write a long essay on nuance, how we as a culture/society have lost it, and how that loss is responsible for so much of what is being called the "culture" war. This tocic illusion that there are two sides to an issue and only two sides, that people come in "good" and "evil", like characters bad fantasy novels. Attempting to ( Read more... )

Anyway...so, after all that, Helene swerved east and hit the Carolinas, which is why Chris and Kat were without power today. We got almost not rain or wind here in Birmingham. No flooding. No loss or power or internet. Obviously, much of the Southeast was no so fortunate. I worried all day about acquiantances in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas ( Read more... )

So, at least I managed a little sleep last night, all of it about about 1:30 a.m. (when I woke the night before). I was awake at 5, though, and I was writing by 6 a.m. Oh, wait, the damn weather. Cooler still today. It would have been great chalk gully weather. We made 89F, but it was overcast and there was a cool breeze. Autumn is coming fast, and ( Read more... )

Our high today was 95F, with a heat index of 105F.

And I realized I have not been in an automobile since June 3rd, the last time I left the property.

I did find a the next book I'm reading, Adam Higginbotham's Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, so there that. As I hurl myself at The Sun Always Shines on TV, it' ( Read more... )

Today is the 20th anniversary of this LJ, which began on this date in 2004. I was about to turn forty, and we lived in a loft in what once had been an elementary school in Atlanta. It's the year that Murder of Angels was published. Thus far, there have been 7,185 posts. This is number 7,186 ( Read more... )

Sunny today. our high was 65F.

I have been making it Outside almost every day, at least for brief walks, since Monday. I will beat this agoraphobia buillshit.

I slept far too late, no idea why, but it led to me getting a LOT less work done than I meant to do. I did manage to proofread and line edit a rather long short story (TBA). I read " ( Read more... )

Overcast this morning, then sunny. Chilly, but not so bad. Our high was 55F.

The morning was spent at the doctor, and it went well, but left me exhausted. I spent the day reading and resting and contacting people and making plans for getting back to work tomorrow. I will (hopefully) have the dentist sometime this week, so that could interrupt ( Read more... )