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Being sick has felt like another extended weekend, since just like President's Day I didn't go out, do anything, socialize; I stayed home at the computer, wrote, read, cleaned, and watched DVDs.

For one, I'm over halfway through a novel (M. Monde Vanishes) I only started two days ago, and that's unheard of for me. Especially considering that I've ( Read more... )

Ugh. Went home sick -- couldn't stop sneezing and couldn't breathe through my nose, felt like all the weight of my upper body had collected in the top 10% of my skull. Even though I wish I had more days off, and even though I don't mind being sick actually, unless I'm really sick, I don't like missing work for being sick. So it goes. Also: the ( Read more... )

So I managed to make some real headway, if not what I'd say is enough, with my script, incorporating the notes from Writing Group and inventing a new character (Elodie Morris, your birthday is February 16, 2009) to solve a number of the problems. I made it back to Bridge City Comics and picked up Criminal volumes 2 and 3, and managed to resist ( Read more... )

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Three stray observations from going to Movie Madness on Valentine's Day:

1. The line was pretty long I admit, but it was like a ten minute wait, tops. To the domineering 20-something girlfriend who made her boyfriend put back their movies because "this isn't worth it," -- no wait, let me begin again: To the boyfriend of the domineering 20-something ( Read more... )

It's almost 5am and I spent all tonight (and most of last night, really) scramblingly preparing a detailed outline for tomorrow's writing group. It includes all the detailed information about the story I could come up with, but it sure has a lot of holes and one hell of a weak Act 2 (or 2 and 3, if you subscribe to the 4-act paradigm, which I can' ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention the other thing I did. I indulged in the last of the casual spending before money goes officially tight, and I bought me some comics. Well, graphic novels. The last book of Y: The Last Man finally came out, and allow me to try and sum it up in four panels ( Read more... )

By the way:

This morning Jon, Pat, Debi and I met and went to Bridge City Comics today and met with Mike, the owner (that's him standing there on the webpage). We wandered around, shot a little with the DVX, and talked about where we want to put Gilberto and where we want to put Cassie. Then we went to Muddy's and read Trivial Pursuit questions ( Read more... )