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I slept reasonably well last night. I had some trouble getting back to sleep after Scott got up, but I did manage it eventually, and I didn’t get up until 10:00. I meant to go to bed early, but somehow, once I got to 8:00, I wasn’t actually sleepy any more. I headed for bed around 11:00 and had just gotten into bed when the phone rang. Scott hadn’t put the bedroom phone back after the whole putting the phones in the refrigerator on Saturday night, so I had to stumble to the living room and find a phone there. It was his work calling to say they wouldn’t need him at 3:00 after all. Which was what I figured it had to be.

I woke with a headache, but coffee helped. I rather suspect that it was the sugar in the creamer rather than the caffeine. I didn’t end up taking anything else for it.

Cordelia ended up with two friends over to watch Attack of the Clones yesterday. They didn’t finish the movie before the other two needed to go home, but I don’t think they cared. The friend who won’t let them talk over movies wasn’t there, so they talked a lot, some making fun of the movie and some just talking. Cordelia made me leave the living room so that they could watch. I suppose that, with me in another room, they could pretend that I couldn’t hear them.

I’m going to have to do two loads of laundry today. If I have energy for it, I may try to work on the books in the basement again. I haven’t touched them since mid-June, and there are bits I can manage in five minute increments. I’ll have to go down there three times to deal with laundry. If I can do five minutes of books each time, that will add up.

I spent a good bit of time yesterday writing and expect to do the same today. I’m working in little scraps, creating things that may not actually ever fit together.

I’m a little… I’m not even sure what I am, but it’s Yuletide nomination time in another few weeks. I don’t know if I’m going to participate this year or not. Unlike last year, I probably could this year. I’m just not sure that I want to. I’ve been busily writing fragments of a lot of things that I might, in theory, be able to finish and that I will almost certainly abandon if I do Yuletide. I also… I don’t think that darkfic is appropriate for Yuletide unless it’s specifically requested, and that seems to be the direction I’m still going right now. But Yuletide gets me to write things I’d never have tried otherwise, and I really love that.

I suppose that nominating doesn’t commit me to anything.

I’m tempted to do a poll asking what I should write next, but I don’t think I’d actually follow the results, so it would mainly be an exercise in seeing if anybody cares about what I’m working on. And six of the things I’m thinking about are very definitely novel length or longer.

Here’s a question I’d like opinions on— In terms of works in progress where I have multiple chapters that I’m fairly certain are solid and not going to change, should I post those chapters? I haven’t been willing to do that since I realized that I was stalling out on Rheotaxis, and I can’t promise that I won’t stall out on these, too. In fact, it’s pretty likely. I think I’m mainly tempted because I want to talk to people about these worlds in my head, and I’m not certain that posting to AO3 would give me conversation.

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Our water has been running brown the last 2-4 hours (I’m not actually sure). The city website doesn’t have any record of a problem near us, but that might be because most people around here aren’t home at this time of day. I don’t know. It might also just be us.

I think I got the water to clear by running it for several minutes, so maybe we’re okay. The toilet bowl is actually showing red brown staining, but I’d have thought a single afternoon too short a time for iron stains, so I don’t know. I mean, they definitely look like iron stains. (Where we lived when I was a teenager, we had hard water with lots of iron. I know iron stains.)

The water smells fine, at least.

The laundry I washed before realizing there was a problem smells and looks fine, even the whites. I was a little worried because one white t-shirt looked a little grungy. I couldn’t remember if it had before or not, but the other whites were still very definitely white.

I reported the problem on the website, but they want water issues reported by phone, and I just… I don’t think I have the resources to do that at the moment. If I’d had a couple of nights of solid sleep in a row, I’d probably manage. Scott does not understand this at all, but I’m out of the ability to deal with such things.

Scott’s picking up some bottled water on his way home. We don’t normally do that, but it’s nice that we have the option. I drink a lot of water most days, so not having definitely drinkable tap water is a real hardship.