Randomosity
Mon, Jul. 24th, 2006 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scarlettinaFoot: My foot really hurts. I wonder if I've redamaged it somehow. It's just bad tonight. I'm scheduled to see the doctor two weeks from now. I'm thinking about not going to work tomorrow and just spending the day with the foot elevated and iced. Now's not a bad time to call in sick; I'm smack dab between projects.
Crafts: I finished my frame-and-mirror project for my cubicle and brought it in today. It looks really good. Wish I had a picture of it that I could post here. I'm quite proud of it.
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markbourne and his E bestowed upon me a belated birthday present last night, a purple hand-knit washcloth that E made. It's beautiful and I'm going to use it until it's in shreds.
Writing: I woke up this morning with a way to completely restructure the beginning of the novel I've been poking at for a while now in a way that will actually make the book work, rather than keep it chained to the seed idea. Seed ideas can be problematic, I think. My experience with this particular situation is that I fell so in love with the seed idea that it just kept dragging me away from the functional part of the story. With this morning's revelation, I've come to integrate something that I'm sure I heard in the Kris-and-Dean workshop lo these years ago: that seed ideas are great as long as they actually produce a story, but must be discarded if they don't work in the end. Or maybe it wasn't them. Anyway, I'm putting the seed idea away for another time. Its time will come. Eventually.
TV blogging: Project Runway: Finally saw the season's second episode. (My icon is in tribute to tonight's TV viewing; wrong show, I know, but it felt this way to me.) What the heck was Malan thinking? Brown for a pageant gown? Yikes! Frankly, I had a hate-on for Malan as soon as he was introduced; I'm not sorry to see him go. I loved Laura and Michael's dress— the one with the rhinestones all over it. I thought the neckline, the whole silhouette was just elegant. At this point in the game, I could comfortably put money on Laura to win the season; I worship at her feet. And Michael? A close second . . . but we'll see. As for Vincent and Angela: what a freak show. I wonder if the true dysfunction wasn't Angela's but Vincent's. Neither one of them came out looking very good. With Malan gone, my hate needs a target; they're both in the running. And can I just say that Jeffrey's neck tattoos are the ugliest thing I've ever seen? They make his neck look both long and fat; I can't see his face for his freakish neck. I like tattoos, but I just find these repellent. ANd what will they look like when he's 80? Next episode looks interesting. Wonder what comes next.
Sympathy: I send thoughts and prayers out todochyel and family on the sudden and unexpected loss of their beloved kitty Tegan, whom I had a hand in bringing to their doorstep. She was beautiul, well-loved and lived a good life as The Rabbi's Cat. I'm sure both of her household predecessors and Flatbush will welcome her on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge. I bet that between the three of them, they know where all the good catnip is.
That's it for me. I have a litter box to clean.
Crafts: I finished my frame-and-mirror project for my cubicle and brought it in today. It looks really good. Wish I had a picture of it that I could post here. I'm quite proud of it.
Birthday:
markbourne and his E bestowed upon me a belated birthday present last night, a purple hand-knit washcloth that E made. It's beautiful and I'm going to use it until it's in shreds.Writing: I woke up this morning with a way to completely restructure the beginning of the novel I've been poking at for a while now in a way that will actually make the book work, rather than keep it chained to the seed idea. Seed ideas can be problematic, I think. My experience with this particular situation is that I fell so in love with the seed idea that it just kept dragging me away from the functional part of the story. With this morning's revelation, I've come to integrate something that I'm sure I heard in the Kris-and-Dean workshop lo these years ago: that seed ideas are great as long as they actually produce a story, but must be discarded if they don't work in the end. Or maybe it wasn't them. Anyway, I'm putting the seed idea away for another time. Its time will come. Eventually.
TV blogging: Project Runway: Finally saw the season's second episode. (My icon is in tribute to tonight's TV viewing; wrong show, I know, but it felt this way to me.) What the heck was Malan thinking? Brown for a pageant gown? Yikes! Frankly, I had a hate-on for Malan as soon as he was introduced; I'm not sorry to see him go. I loved Laura and Michael's dress— the one with the rhinestones all over it. I thought the neckline, the whole silhouette was just elegant. At this point in the game, I could comfortably put money on Laura to win the season; I worship at her feet. And Michael? A close second . . . but we'll see. As for Vincent and Angela: what a freak show. I wonder if the true dysfunction wasn't Angela's but Vincent's. Neither one of them came out looking very good. With Malan gone, my hate needs a target; they're both in the running. And can I just say that Jeffrey's neck tattoos are the ugliest thing I've ever seen? They make his neck look both long and fat; I can't see his face for his freakish neck. I like tattoos, but I just find these repellent. ANd what will they look like when he's 80? Next episode looks interesting. Wonder what comes next.
Sympathy: I send thoughts and prayers out to
dochyel and family on the sudden and unexpected loss of their beloved kitty Tegan, whom I had a hand in bringing to their doorstep. She was beautiul, well-loved and lived a good life as The Rabbi's Cat. I'm sure both of her household predecessors and Flatbush will welcome her on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge. I bet that between the three of them, they know where all the good catnip is.That's it for me. I have a litter box to clean.