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Jan. 18th, 2018 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI'm now at about 28K words for the month (and the year). Having several stories going at once and moving from one to the other as I get stuck seems to work really, really well for me.
I slept badly because I have an appointment I have to deal with today. Normally, I'd take Ativan the night before an appointment so that I sleep, but I don't want to risk that on top of the Halcion because I haven't cleared that with my doctor. At any rate, I woke with a headache that I didn't get rid of until I lay down for a pseudo-nap (by which I mean my body rested while my brain chewed through story ideas in a very coherent, focused way. It's not sleep, but it's about as close as I can get).
We had an extra kid for part of the evening yesterday, Cordelia's best friend's younger brother had an orchestra concert. He had to be there at 6:30, and his parents couldn't have gotten him there if he'd gone home after school. He and Cordelia watched Mulan in her room until she and Scott needed to leave.
The boy was prepared to walk to the school with no coat (20F without calculating windchill). I persuaded him to put on a coat but made no headway on getting him to wear his boots rather than his dress shoes even though the snow in some places was up to his ankles. He also told me that he didn't know if he'd be back after the concert but left his boots and his backpack here. There's something about being that age that kills common sense.
I'm watching a DVD from the library that I don't think I'll end up finishing. There's no captioning, and it's really aimed more at people who are likely to watch. Listening is pretty painful because many characters have really really heavy and fake accents (the characters from the same places don't have the same accents). Also, what I'm following of the plot is beyond dull.
I slept badly because I have an appointment I have to deal with today. Normally, I'd take Ativan the night before an appointment so that I sleep, but I don't want to risk that on top of the Halcion because I haven't cleared that with my doctor. At any rate, I woke with a headache that I didn't get rid of until I lay down for a pseudo-nap (by which I mean my body rested while my brain chewed through story ideas in a very coherent, focused way. It's not sleep, but it's about as close as I can get).
We had an extra kid for part of the evening yesterday, Cordelia's best friend's younger brother had an orchestra concert. He had to be there at 6:30, and his parents couldn't have gotten him there if he'd gone home after school. He and Cordelia watched Mulan in her room until she and Scott needed to leave.
The boy was prepared to walk to the school with no coat (20F without calculating windchill). I persuaded him to put on a coat but made no headway on getting him to wear his boots rather than his dress shoes even though the snow in some places was up to his ankles. He also told me that he didn't know if he'd be back after the concert but left his boots and his backpack here. There's something about being that age that kills common sense.
I'm watching a DVD from the library that I don't think I'll end up finishing. There's no captioning, and it's really aimed more at people who are likely to watch. Listening is pretty painful because many characters have really really heavy and fake accents (the characters from the same places don't have the same accents). Also, what I'm following of the plot is beyond dull.
