Edited to add this sentiment because I wanted to keep it, it was clever:
"I am to the stage of packing where I am 80% done but every time I do a little more I remember something I forgot so I am basically a Windows install taskbar."
( To-do lists are boring to everyone else )
"I am to the stage of packing where I am 80% done but every time I do a little more I remember something I forgot so I am basically a Windows install taskbar."
( To-do lists are boring to everyone else )
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as distinct from the usual monkey-herding, making dinner tomorrow since dinner today was called on account of power failure due to the EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM, and necessary frantic wrangling related to the miscellaneous house chaos involved with getting the holes in my office walls fixed (which will mean that we can paint the office, and then move the bedroom into the office, and then get the holes in the bedroom fixed, and then paint the bedroom, and then put the bedroom back, and then put the office back, and if this strikes anyone else as being basically one of those slidey puzzle things where in the end it reads 1 2 3 4 / 5 7 6 8 / 9 10 11 12 / 13 14 15 and one can't quite manage to fix the 6/7 problem there YES that is exactly what it is like only with the zombie apocalypse preventing us getting the 4 in place in the first row for four months and heavier pieces).
( Just some to-dos, no further amusing venting )
( Just some to-dos, no further amusing venting )
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* do taxes
* edit pass on romance novel
* fuck with hair
* help resolve house repairs questions
* finish "Ragdoll"
*set early alarm for tomorrow because tomorrow will be utterly batshit
*sign up for class that I think starts the 30th if I'm gonna do that
* do not expire of creeping ennui (ongoing project)
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* changed Twitter profile photo to something more like me-now
When I came back upstairs from house meeting my computer, which had been left playing music to itself, was playing "Life is a Lemon (and I want my money back)" and I believe the correct idiom for this is #mood.
* edit pass on romance novel
* fuck with hair
* help resolve house repairs questions
* finish "Ragdoll"
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* do not expire of creeping ennui (ongoing project)
Also done:
* changed Twitter profile photo to something more like me-now
When I came back upstairs from house meeting my computer, which had been left playing music to itself, was playing "Life is a Lemon (and I want my money back)" and I believe the correct idiom for this is #mood.
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I have so much stuff to write.
* Monstrous theology poem
* Auto-invocatory poetry
* Whatever other poetry I need for my homework
* Opening post for Patheos gig
*Possibly contribution to magic-and-disability antho Alas, book announcement, not CFS, but that's off my list at least.
* Elizabeth's piety survey
* Polytheistic ethnography survey
* Stuff
* Things
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* Monstrous theology poem
* Auto-invocatory poetry
* Whatever other poetry I need for my homework
* Opening post for Patheos gig
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* Elizabeth's piety survey
* Polytheistic ethnography survey
* Stuff
* Things
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Current and lapsed projects.
( Trying to sort this out. )
That should keep me busy for ... a decade or two.
( Trying to sort this out. )
That should keep me busy for ... a decade or two.
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Trying to organise brain for con...
(Do not have appropriate userpic for AUGH.)
( Mostly interesting to me. )
(Do not have appropriate userpic for AUGH.)
( Mostly interesting to me. )
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Pretzel cookies
Molasses cookies
Cucumber dip
Onion dip
Eggnog
Assemble veggie plate
Assemble cheese plate
Assemble chips
Tidycleanage: living room/dining room
Tidycleanage: kitchen
Tidycleanage: upstairs hall bathroom
Swap towels in the bathrooms
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Shopping run: sodas and the like
Shopping run: other snacks and so on
DIning room table, redux
Clear pathways
More decorations?
Make pretzel cookies
Continue cycling dishwasher
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Sugar cookie dough preparation
teinedreugan's oatmeal-date cookies as neededmolasses cookies
eggnog
cider
dip
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Hokay.
Put sealant coat on the kids' menorah.
Get the kids' menorah set up in the window.
Put the leftover crafting supplies in the basement.
Clean up the mess from making the kids' menorah off the dining room table.
Get the dining room table cleaned up.
Move the booze from the random basement room.
Put the booze in the liquor cabinet in some sort of sensical way.
Cycle remaining dishes in the kitchen.
Strip my/KJ's beds and put the sheets in the wash.
Put the sheets in the dryer.
Remake my bed.
Remake KJ's bed.
Deal with the fivetwo crates of kitchen stuff.
See about moving that chest into the seating area in the kitchen somehow.
Work on assembling shopping list for Massive Cookie Preparation Extravaganza.
Start diaper laundry.
Move diaper laundry to dryer.
Put KJ's new books in the catalogue.
Cycle the rest of the remaining dishes in the kitchen.
Cycle the unpacked stuff through the dishwasher as appropriate.
Find a place for trivets to live.
Work on seating in the kitchen seating area.
Get the dining room table cleaned up.
Remake my bed.
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I've been following bits of the Wiscon/Elizabeth Moon debacle, as one does, though Wiscon is a con I have actively never considered going to, and the last couple of days I've been pondering picking up The Otter and Saint Jude again. I think I need to do some hefty revisions to get it back on track, but ...
... I started writing this thing years ago. And one of the things that's important about it in this context is that the Otter is a Sufi, more or less. (A chance-encounter-converted-this-species-to-Islam sort of Sufi.) And it's a major part of her character, but it's not, in the grand scheme of things, important to the story; she's just a Muslim character in spaaaaaaaaace. (I'm not writing it to write a Muslim character, y'know, it's just that the character I'm writing is.)
But I'm left with the sense that somehow this book needs to be written so that it might be out in the world. Because I'm more than a little agitated byjames_nicoll being able to rattle off more than one "Scary scary Islam!" SF title when asked. So I'm not writing it to make a political point, but I might finish it to make a political point. Or something.
( A bit of the draft, in which Otter quotes the Qur'an. )
... I started writing this thing years ago. And one of the things that's important about it in this context is that the Otter is a Sufi, more or less. (A chance-encounter-converted-this-species-to-Islam sort of Sufi.) And it's a major part of her character, but it's not, in the grand scheme of things, important to the story; she's just a Muslim character in spaaaaaaaaace. (I'm not writing it to write a Muslim character, y'know, it's just that the character I'm writing is.)
But I'm left with the sense that somehow this book needs to be written so that it might be out in the world. Because I'm more than a little agitated by
james_nicoll being able to rattle off more than one "Scary scary Islam!" SF title when asked. So I'm not writing it to make a political point, but I might finish it to make a political point. Or something.( A bit of the draft, in which Otter quotes the Qur'an. )
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- Something off the lullabye playlist
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Hokay. I have the first draft done.
At this point I have sufficient structure in place to go review my reference books to see where I am missing critical things and flesh out what I have into a form sufficiently close to final that I can submit the manuscript. (As opposed to the first time I read half these books, where a fair fraction of what I read was "I should probably use that somewhere but I have no idea where", and thus shaped what I was doing without providing concrete detail.)
I did a pass through Reading Egyptian Art last night and tweaked a few things, and then I put the book away. And today I did a scan through the heaps of books I have everywhere and pulled out the ones I don't need anymore and put those away too, so now I have a short shelf of books for review and a much cleaner side table.
Thus what remains for the revision pass is( behind the cut: )
Sixteen books. A four of fours; how pleasant. Completion of completion. Some of these will be really quick; some will take a while, but that feels eminently workable.
"Let there be, let there always be neverending light."
At this point I have sufficient structure in place to go review my reference books to see where I am missing critical things and flesh out what I have into a form sufficiently close to final that I can submit the manuscript. (As opposed to the first time I read half these books, where a fair fraction of what I read was "I should probably use that somewhere but I have no idea where", and thus shaped what I was doing without providing concrete detail.)
I did a pass through Reading Egyptian Art last night and tweaked a few things, and then I put the book away. And today I did a scan through the heaps of books I have everywhere and pulled out the ones I don't need anymore and put those away too, so now I have a short shelf of books for review and a much cleaner side table.
Thus what remains for the revision pass is( behind the cut: )
Sixteen books. A four of fours; how pleasant. Completion of completion. Some of these will be really quick; some will take a while, but that feels eminently workable.
"Let there be, let there always be neverending light."
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I suddenly can't remember if I checked wordweaverlynn's tickybox for "make lots of lists"....
( Packing notes, just for me. )
wordweaverlynn's tickybox for "make lots of lists"....( Packing notes, just for me. )
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