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Monday, I made a list of things I needed to work on and attempted to rotate through by setting an alarm every 15-20 minutes. It kind of worked and kind of didn't. The alarm reminded me that time was passing, and I didn't find that I'd just lost hours, but the things I worked on weren't generally the things I'd put on my schedule.

I think this might be a good strategy for future Mondays. It's just not as great for days when I'm exhausted.

I managed to watch several of my library DVDs, so those are off my list. The TV season that's left is a rewatch and not something I feel a great need to pay attention to.

Today's to-do:

Shingles vaccination (at 1:50)
DC mini bang (due Monday)
Beta reading
UCon preparation
Yuletide canon review
Any one of the 20 October prompts I haven't yet touched
Change sheets
An assortment of emails and phone calls
Read a library book that can't be renewed

I really want to nap, but Scott's father is here to do some yard work. Scott's mother isn't coming, so I need to keep an eye on him and not let him overdo. Cordelia will be home around 12:30 because it's an early release day. I'm hoping that we can leverage that in us taking him to lunch before my vaccination appointment, but I don't know that it will happen.

Maybe I can get him to drive me to donate some things? We've got things that I can carry (under 15 lbs) which means he pretty certainly can carry them. I just have to remove or conceal the teapot that they gave us years ago. (It's pretty, but we've never used it, so...)

Fic Announcement

Title: The Arithmetic of the Sea
Fandom: Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny
Rating: T
Length: 5116
Characters/Pairings: Martin, Luke|Rinaldo, with background/implied Luke/Merlin
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Captivity, Betrayal, Compromise, Emotional Manipulation, Revenge, Martin POV

Notes: This is the third story in a sequence I'm calling Until It Has Been Witnessed. The previous two stories fit together, but I hadn't officially made them a series before because they stood on their own. They still do, but this one leans enough on "Witness Now This Trust" that I thought I should formalize it.

I'm not sure I'll take this one further because I don't currently see a resolution that isn't tragic. I don't want this arc to go dark, so I need something else before I take it further.

Summary: Merlin had left notes. Because of course he did. The first one ended with, "I'm sorry," and started with, "All of the manuals are in the red cabinet against the left wall. You can't miss it."

Since it was the only red thing in a blue glowing cave, I really couldn't. I wasn't grateful then, but those fucking manuals kept me from breaking anything I needed to stay alive. They also gave me something to focus on apart from my realization that this wasn't a joke.

The Arithmetic of the Sea on AO3.