Springtime weekend

Is it officially springtime yet? I don't remember. Then again, what with it starting to get sunny here on the west coast while the east coast gets hit with yet another snowstorm (as well as the time change that took place while we were on vacation in a state that doesn't observe it), I'm still a bit out of sorts there. I'm actually kind of surprised it's Saturday already.

So what's going on? It's been a while since I updated here, aside from the Scintilla posts. Been a while since I've posted anywhere, actually. My online presence has been sparse all around. Most of the time I've been working on the last stretch of the A Division of Souls revision, but I've just been tiring of online drama and trying to keep up with quick-witted Twitterings. In a way, I think I've just felt like living life at my own pace for awhile instead of trying to keep up with everyone else, and I'm feeling the better for it. Mentally I've been feeling a lot calmer and my thoughts have been clearer.

Now that I'm back on the mainland and back on track, I do plan on returning to my various writing projects this weekend. I need to continue working on the Blogging the Beatles posts, plus I have quite a few Hawaii pictures I'd like to put up on my Tumblr...I also want to work on Walk In Silence, as I've got a few ideas I'd like to work on.

I did manage to get a lot of cosmetic editing done on ADoS during my vacation (thanks to my Nook!), and hope to finish that up as well. I can see where I may need to back up and fix a few things from about halfway through and on to the end, but for the most part it's coming along well. I'm aiming for being done by mid-April and making the first steps for submission in May.

So! What are we doing this weekend? It's going to be a nice couple of days out there, so chances are good we may end up going for a walk in one of the parks. A bit of shopping (we emptied out our cupboards before we went on vacation), maybe a stop at Japantown (yay, manga and cupcakes!). It's been a crazy week of trying to catch up on sleep and get ourselves back on track, and I'm quite happy the weekend is here.

#scintilla13: what's in a name?

Write about spending time with a baby or child under the age of two.

It was brief, but this was what came to mind...I was working at the Sony Theater in Somerville in the spring of 1995 when this happened. I was stuck behind the concessions counter one morning, when a young family came up. The mother was holding a toddler and had to put him down for a second or so while she took out her wallet, and I offered to keep an eye out on the kid while she got her stuff together. I forgot exactly what the kid's name was, but it was long and of African descent and I couldn't quite pronounce it correctly, though I gave it the college try, much to the mother's amusement.

After the mother got her stuff ready, she took the toddler back, and in doing so, she caught my nametag, which just had my first name, "Jon". She looked at it for a second, and asked, "How do you pronounce that?"

If anything, that event got me thinking about the meaning and etymology of names, and helped me come up with some interesting ideas for my writing. :)