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Dec. 11th, 2017 09:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckThe write in here went well. All of us achieved new words, and we laughed over common fandoms and difficult Yuletide requests. Both of my guests brought Skinny Pop popcorn. We'd discussed options beforehand, and that actually hadn't been on the list. It also wasn't anything that any of us said we couldn't have. I had baby carrots and hummus and a kettle for heating water, and one of the others brought clementines.
They both arrived about 2:00 and left at the same time, around 4:30. As we did last year, we all said we wanted to do this again and not necessarily wait for Yuletide. Who knows if we will? Last year, I was kind of too stressed to try to organize anything, so maybe this year I actually will manage it. I think that doing it here instead of at Espresso Royale worked well. Our dining room table has plenty of space for three laptops, and we have places to charge laptops. Our chairs aren't great, but I don't think they're any worse than those at Espresso Royale which are wooden with sharp corners.
I think I have two stories near ready to post, one Amber and one Sky High. The former needs a title. The latter needs time to sit so that I can spot whatever structural/flow problem is in there or so that my beta reader can. They said there's something to address there but that they couldn't quite pin point it. I added near to another 700 words to the Sky High story yesterday. I can see a couple of spots where things might be off, but I'm not sure what exactly or if I'm spotting the same thing(s) the beta did. There are also two specific sentences that I want to consider carefully because I put one in present tense and one in future tense while the rest of the story is in various forms of past tense. I'm not sure I want to keep them that way. I might, but I also might not.
I have a couple of people willing to give me a third set of eyes on the Sky High story if I wait until some time in January. This is a very, very busy time of year for pretty much everybody writing and beta reading fic, and this one has no deadline but my own impatience.
Scott and Cordelia went out and ran errands during the first part of the write in. She and her friends are doing some sort of gift exchange with each girl giving one of the others something. Five girls total, two of whom don't actually celebrate Christmas. I think the Christmas part is just an excuse. Scott was looking for gifts for our nieces from Seattle. I told him exactly what to get. He found the book I specified for the younger, but the one for the older was out of stock. We consulted and picked something else. Right after we finished that discussion, his sister emailed the family to say that she'd purchased the thing we'd originally planned to get, so it was just as well. We'd have had to return it.
Barnes & Noble apparently had a display of Studio Ghibli related merchandise. Scott sent me some pictures, and Cordelia talked, kind of wistfully, later about how she wished that the prices had been lower or the things being sold either larger or better quality.
I think I forgot to take my bedtime medications last night. I kind of suspected that I hadn't, but that came to mind after I was in bed with the c-PAP rig on. There really isn't any way, under my current system, for me to check if I've actually taken my medications. I just keep a routine, tying the medications to other things that I always do. That gets disrupted once or twice a month At any rate,
I woke about 4:00 a.m. with my throat burning just a tiny bit in a refluxy sort of way. It's better now (I take stronger medication for that in the mornings). I don't see how it could have been anything I ate, so I think it was likely that I forgot to take my evening ranitidine.
They both arrived about 2:00 and left at the same time, around 4:30. As we did last year, we all said we wanted to do this again and not necessarily wait for Yuletide. Who knows if we will? Last year, I was kind of too stressed to try to organize anything, so maybe this year I actually will manage it. I think that doing it here instead of at Espresso Royale worked well. Our dining room table has plenty of space for three laptops, and we have places to charge laptops. Our chairs aren't great, but I don't think they're any worse than those at Espresso Royale which are wooden with sharp corners.
I think I have two stories near ready to post, one Amber and one Sky High. The former needs a title. The latter needs time to sit so that I can spot whatever structural/flow problem is in there or so that my beta reader can. They said there's something to address there but that they couldn't quite pin point it. I added near to another 700 words to the Sky High story yesterday. I can see a couple of spots where things might be off, but I'm not sure what exactly or if I'm spotting the same thing(s) the beta did. There are also two specific sentences that I want to consider carefully because I put one in present tense and one in future tense while the rest of the story is in various forms of past tense. I'm not sure I want to keep them that way. I might, but I also might not.
I have a couple of people willing to give me a third set of eyes on the Sky High story if I wait until some time in January. This is a very, very busy time of year for pretty much everybody writing and beta reading fic, and this one has no deadline but my own impatience.
Scott and Cordelia went out and ran errands during the first part of the write in. She and her friends are doing some sort of gift exchange with each girl giving one of the others something. Five girls total, two of whom don't actually celebrate Christmas. I think the Christmas part is just an excuse. Scott was looking for gifts for our nieces from Seattle. I told him exactly what to get. He found the book I specified for the younger, but the one for the older was out of stock. We consulted and picked something else. Right after we finished that discussion, his sister emailed the family to say that she'd purchased the thing we'd originally planned to get, so it was just as well. We'd have had to return it.
Barnes & Noble apparently had a display of Studio Ghibli related merchandise. Scott sent me some pictures, and Cordelia talked, kind of wistfully, later about how she wished that the prices had been lower or the things being sold either larger or better quality.
I think I forgot to take my bedtime medications last night. I kind of suspected that I hadn't, but that came to mind after I was in bed with the c-PAP rig on. There really isn't any way, under my current system, for me to check if I've actually taken my medications. I just keep a routine, tying the medications to other things that I always do. That gets disrupted once or twice a month At any rate,
I woke about 4:00 a.m. with my throat burning just a tiny bit in a refluxy sort of way. It's better now (I take stronger medication for that in the mornings). I don't see how it could have been anything I ate, so I think it was likely that I forgot to take my evening ranitidine.
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Date: 2017-12-11 04:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-12 12:29 am (UTC)Last year, Cordelia was deeply suspicious about the whole thing because Strangers from the Internet!!
The schools really emphasize that it's not safe to meet people face to face if you've only met them online. I wish for a little more nuance on the subject that clarifies things like meeting two people in a busy coffee shop when your family knows where you are and who you're with is different from sneaking out of the house at midnight to meet someone in a park.
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Date: 2017-12-12 02:24 am (UTC)There should be some nuance in that discussion once they get to high school. I can see telling earlier grades that it's just a bad idea period because it's difficult for kids that age to get nuance.