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Oct. 4th, 2014 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckIt's been raining since yesterday. I don't know if we'll actually have a soccer game tomorrow (no games today because of Yom Kippur). The fields may be too water saturated by then. If they're not, we're going to be wet and cold during the game. It's not supposed to get past 55F. I'm not sure which I hope for. If they have to reschedule, it would probably be for November 1st, and I'd rather not be outside then. Not to mention that that might conflict with volleyball; we already have one game that conflicts. Cordelia hasn't decided yet which game she wants to go to. She loves volleyball, and it will be warmer inside, but it's the last soccer game of the season, and she's saying she may not play in the spring.
I need to find a way to get Cordelia to exercise when she's not playing sports. Even when she is, that's two hours a week of exercise, not as much as she should be getting. I'm not sure what would appeal to her that we can do in our house. Maybe I can get her on the treadmill with my iPod if we clean the basement. Right now, she's afraid of the basement, not hugely afraid but reluctant to go down there afraid. There are spiders and mouse turds, you see.
I wrote about two sentences yesterday which is better than I've done for a while. I think my problem with this chapter is that I have no shape for it. I have a couple of vague ideas for things to happen, but I don't know that those things serve any purpose but world building. World building is all very well, but Rheotaxis is a character driven story. Any world building I do has to serve to illuminate the characters somehow, and I'm not sure how any of this does. I need something to nudge Nagi into thinking that all may not be right just because everything's the way he wants it to be, but I can't for the life of me think how to do that in this chapter.
I'm hoping that Scott didn't get into trouble at work this morning. He was scheduled to go in early and to work twelve hours. He said it was incredibly unlikely that they'd need him to come in early, but I made him go to bed early anyway. When his alarm went off at two, he tried to call work and got no answer. He tried both lines. He decided to go back to bed, that they'd call him if they needed him. I could see him getting into a lot of trouble for that, whether they actually needed him or not. It doesn't help that he knew he was scheduled (starting at seven) for the worst job the plant has to offer-- running three machines simultaneously and trying to keep them all running well. It's a job nobody wants. They call those three machines 'the monster.'
Scott does say that the overtime needed to cover third shift should be decreasing. One guy came back from medical leave, and they hired somebody else. Whether or not the new hire stays is, of course, up in the air, and he won't be up to speed for a couple of weeks if he does stay. You'd think, though, with unemployment as it is, that they'd have no trouble finding people who want the jobs. No such luck.
I need to find a way to get Cordelia to exercise when she's not playing sports. Even when she is, that's two hours a week of exercise, not as much as she should be getting. I'm not sure what would appeal to her that we can do in our house. Maybe I can get her on the treadmill with my iPod if we clean the basement. Right now, she's afraid of the basement, not hugely afraid but reluctant to go down there afraid. There are spiders and mouse turds, you see.
I wrote about two sentences yesterday which is better than I've done for a while. I think my problem with this chapter is that I have no shape for it. I have a couple of vague ideas for things to happen, but I don't know that those things serve any purpose but world building. World building is all very well, but Rheotaxis is a character driven story. Any world building I do has to serve to illuminate the characters somehow, and I'm not sure how any of this does. I need something to nudge Nagi into thinking that all may not be right just because everything's the way he wants it to be, but I can't for the life of me think how to do that in this chapter.
I'm hoping that Scott didn't get into trouble at work this morning. He was scheduled to go in early and to work twelve hours. He said it was incredibly unlikely that they'd need him to come in early, but I made him go to bed early anyway. When his alarm went off at two, he tried to call work and got no answer. He tried both lines. He decided to go back to bed, that they'd call him if they needed him. I could see him getting into a lot of trouble for that, whether they actually needed him or not. It doesn't help that he knew he was scheduled (starting at seven) for the worst job the plant has to offer-- running three machines simultaneously and trying to keep them all running well. It's a job nobody wants. They call those three machines 'the monster.'
Scott does say that the overtime needed to cover third shift should be decreasing. One guy came back from medical leave, and they hired somebody else. Whether or not the new hire stays is, of course, up in the air, and he won't be up to speed for a couple of weeks if he does stay. You'd think, though, with unemployment as it is, that they'd have no trouble finding people who want the jobs. No such luck.
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Date: 2014-10-04 03:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-04 03:27 pm (UTC)I suppose I could try to find some exercise DVDs that appeal to her. Those would be boring, too, I suspect.
She does still get recess at school which helps. (I'm very pleased about that. The big middle schools don't have recess at all.) Of course, when the weather gets nasty, that goes away.
Even if Cordelia decides to do soccer in the spring, she still be without a sport for January, February and March, three months when I can't simply send her outside to play. If she doesn't play soccer, she won't have a sport until softball starts in late June.
Fortunately, I do exercise, so it won't be me telling her to do something I never do.