day in progress...

[bronze_ribbons]

Have cut 100 words and written 1300 for Project A, and proofread three pages of a Handel book. Sadly, neither of these were for work, which means my day hasn't really started yet. *sigh*

That said, I'm remembering what's so compelling about writing fiction and poetry: it's such wicked fun when the narrators/characters veer into directions I didn't expect, writing my way through that, and then looking back and going, "Hey! That was [clever] [funny] [unexpected]!"

Makes up for all the times I squint at the screen and mutter, "Good grief, a magot with bandaged paws could do better than this."

(I ended up looking up magot yesterday after a conversation about this place, which was in a photograph on a nearby wall. "Magot" means "Chinese grotesque porcelain figure," but it also means "pile of money" and "Barbary ape," at least according to my Harrap's.)

Things I need to do within the next 36 hours:

* revise Project B and forward it to programmer
* wrap up current phase of notes on Project B
* finish Project C and turn it in to editor
* pay bills
* sing in two church services

Things I need to focus on this next week:
* continue work on Project B and Project D
* research and write next sermon
* continue work on lesson plans for the Sayers-Rowling course
* finish the kidlit essay
* deal with heap of accounting chores at the office
* reduce the chaos in personal "For the Accountant" pile

Good things:
* There is a Tylenol sample in the house (from last year's volunteer stint at the Country Music Marathon). This means I don't need to put on shoes and run to the store.
* Perfect weather today. I love it when it's warm enough that moisturizing isn't an ordeal but cool enough that the mosquitoes aren't yet in force.
* The BYM brought home apricot hamentashen.
* This thread at kassrachel's journal. *gigglefit*
* And this one, where she wrote a Snape/Lupin and The Time Traveler's Wife crossover drabble for me. Have I mentioned lately my friends are brilliant? :-)
* I'm doing laundry and roasting chicken (with paprika and chickpeas), so the demands of art and commerce have not totally vanquished my "domestic engineering" skills.

Onwards!

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* This thread at kassrachel's journal. *gigglefit*

Those are two of my college friends, neither of whom are involved with fandom in any way. They are insane and I love them. :-)

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oh, AND, I'm so glad you like the drabble! (Sorry -- haven't had coffee yet -- was a very short night of sleep. Ahh, Delta, how you suck. *g*)