3.7 So, nothing to be concerned about, but imagine a giant walked up to your house and kicked it, once. That’s what it felt like. You panic after it’s over. It’s so quick that you don’t even fully realize it’s an earthquake until it’s gone (usually). The cats looked up, peered at the back of […]
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i felt that
Posted in Uncategorized on December 20, 2006 | Comments Off on i felt that
so that’s what I’ve been doing!
Posted in Uncategorized on December 20, 2006 | 1 Comment »
“When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story… When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.” from On Writing by Stephen King
writing “full time”
Posted in Uncategorized on December 20, 2006 | 9 Comments »
It’s been going well this week, though I am still cleaning up a few parts of the book that I had been putting off. One more thing to take care of tonight, then tomorrow hopefully will get started on content that so far has existed only in me mind. The more I listen to the […]
stockings
Posted in Uncategorized on December 19, 2006 | 6 Comments »
My mom made these She is a very accomplished knitter. I bet she could make these for other people, custom ordered, and get a lot of dough. What do you think, mom? So now I get to fill these up with goodies. Hmmmm. Everyone likes q-tips!! Oh and they are hung from the armoire because […]
productive
Posted in Uncategorized on December 17, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Very productive weekend… + laundry + changed bedclothes (I like that word) + finished xmas cards + made progress on xmas shopping + made and bagged extremely large quanities of holiday granola + cleaned floors + made a CD for joshbis (poor guy lost his iPod) + finished writing class My vacation starts tomorrow, and […]
abandoned
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged book on December 15, 2006 | Comments Off on abandoned
I just finished reading this story that I last worked on back in February. Shortly after my last edits to it, I started the book I am now still writing. But I kept all this old stuff, and in fact found it archived in a folder on my work PC. Reading through it (six short […]
Protected: another gift from the mighty flickr
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged book, olympia on December 13, 2006 | Comments Off on Protected: another gift from the mighty flickr
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hair cut
Posted in Uncategorized on December 12, 2006 | 5 Comments »
I got my hair cut. I really like it, and it’s nice to have some of the weight of my thick heavy hair gone. Before Brian took this picture, he said “give me, ‘playful’.” Heh.
tra la la la la
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged book, olympia on December 11, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Tonight I watched about ten minutes of “Deal or No Deal.” Wow. Alec Baldwin was right; it really is just bimbos opening suitcases for an hour. Then we watched eight minutes of a holiday TV movie directly after the suitcase show. It “starred” John Goodman, whose exhaustion and annoyance did not seem like acting; Chris […]
joined
Posted in Uncategorized on December 7, 2006 | 3 Comments »
A pair of twins boarded my train at Embarcadero. Male, looked to be in their thirties somewhere. Identical in almost every way, except for their blue and gray jackets, which were only similar, not the same. They each wore navy blue sweat pants, and had a small fanny pack clipped around their big bellies. They […]