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Weekend Diary Randomness
Jul. 6th, 2008 08:59 amWell, I was hoping this weekend would be a much more exciting and relaxing one, but a stomach bug had me feeling a bit off the last few days. Didn't stop me, though...Friday we did quite a bit of walking around the neighborhood, down the length of Columbus towards the Transamerica building, stopping to eat at the Elephant & Castle on Clay (the first place we went to eat when we were first looking for an apartment here, and also known as 'the bar that has my music collection' :p ) and walking back. We had hot dogs and macaroni salad (separate, of course) for dinner, and watched the insanity of foot and car traffic in our neighborhood because of the fireworks. And yesterday we went various places in the Mission, including this ice cream shop (which had some ZOMG YUM flavors of ice cream), Luna Park for lunch, Imagiknit (hey, Emm had a viable reason), Borderlands Books, Dog Eared Books, and a few other shops. By that time, though, we were both tired and in need of naps. Anime was meh last night (please, Naruto, make those damn filler episodes end soon!) so random TV was watched...
Today I'm feeling a bit better, though we really don't have much planned except some shopping and I'd like to switch and wash the bedsheets. Given the way our laundry facilities have been acting lately, though, I'll have to see about the second. Other than that, I'm thinking some more writing work is on tap. I've been lazy on that the last few days due to feeling a bit under the weather.
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Other stuff: After slogging through Douglas Coupland's Polaroids from the Dead as my to-and-from-work reading (far from his best, it's more of a mishmash of random nonfiction musings and a way-too-long ending section inspired by OJ Simpson's Brentwood), I've decided to take a break from his fiction and read some other stuff. In particular? Malory's Le Morte D'Artur. Why, of all things, am I reading that? Partly because Emm was watching a documentary about it on the Roku, and partly because both of us had a hankering to read some classics (she's been jonesing for The Canterbury Tales lately). And in all honesty, with that classic memes book going around, I think I need to read more of them. ;)
Writing: Again, took a few days off from LLB Revision 2 due to feeling a bit off and exhausted, but hope to pick it up again today. Emm mentioned yesterday about "narrative urgency" in mystery books and how she's been foisting them upon me in hopes that it sinks in. ;) And it has! I have to say that my worst enemy when writing first drafts is that I have a habit of writing 'mood scenes' of characters looking frustrated and saying something to the effect of "something's wrong but I don't know what, and it's pissing me off." Granted, it's okay to have one or two of them, but I use those reflective scenes way too often. Call it one of the downfalls of writing cinematically, I guess. Still, it looks like Emm's cunning plan has worked, as R2 has caused me to do two things: rewrite weak scenes, and cut out a lot of the reflective scenes as well. I'm even happier than usual as to how it's turning out as well!
October Trip to New England: Still on, of course. However, we will need to contact Expedia (or Delta) to tell them that if they're going to consistently reschedule the flights (which is understandable), they're going to have to take into account that we CANNOT land in Atlanta at 9:40 in the morning to catch a connecting flight to Bradley that takes off at 9:15. Trip's not until October, but still...I'm thinking we'll have to call at some point in the next month or so to have them fix that little error. ;)
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...and I think that's about it for now. I need to shower so we can do our shopping and spend the rest of the dayslacking off watching TV relaxing. Hope life is good elsewhere out there in LJ Land!
Today I'm feeling a bit better, though we really don't have much planned except some shopping and I'd like to switch and wash the bedsheets. Given the way our laundry facilities have been acting lately, though, I'll have to see about the second. Other than that, I'm thinking some more writing work is on tap. I've been lazy on that the last few days due to feeling a bit under the weather.
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Other stuff: After slogging through Douglas Coupland's Polaroids from the Dead as my to-and-from-work reading (far from his best, it's more of a mishmash of random nonfiction musings and a way-too-long ending section inspired by OJ Simpson's Brentwood), I've decided to take a break from his fiction and read some other stuff. In particular? Malory's Le Morte D'Artur. Why, of all things, am I reading that? Partly because Emm was watching a documentary about it on the Roku, and partly because both of us had a hankering to read some classics (she's been jonesing for The Canterbury Tales lately). And in all honesty, with that classic memes book going around, I think I need to read more of them. ;)
Writing: Again, took a few days off from LLB Revision 2 due to feeling a bit off and exhausted, but hope to pick it up again today. Emm mentioned yesterday about "narrative urgency" in mystery books and how she's been foisting them upon me in hopes that it sinks in. ;) And it has! I have to say that my worst enemy when writing first drafts is that I have a habit of writing 'mood scenes' of characters looking frustrated and saying something to the effect of "something's wrong but I don't know what, and it's pissing me off." Granted, it's okay to have one or two of them, but I use those reflective scenes way too often. Call it one of the downfalls of writing cinematically, I guess. Still, it looks like Emm's cunning plan has worked, as R2 has caused me to do two things: rewrite weak scenes, and cut out a lot of the reflective scenes as well. I'm even happier than usual as to how it's turning out as well!
October Trip to New England: Still on, of course. However, we will need to contact Expedia (or Delta) to tell them that if they're going to consistently reschedule the flights (which is understandable), they're going to have to take into account that we CANNOT land in Atlanta at 9:40 in the morning to catch a connecting flight to Bradley that takes off at 9:15. Trip's not until October, but still...I'm thinking we'll have to call at some point in the next month or so to have them fix that little error. ;)
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...and I think that's about it for now. I need to shower so we can do our shopping and spend the rest of the day
