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November 2nd, 2007

03:34 pm - To Do: Weekend Edition. Oh, goodie. A to-do list with holdovers from MONDAY. Just call me Miss Productive. :-P Vacuum. Clean cat box. Clean bathroom. Bills. Rent. Groceries. Laundry. Grade midterms. Student e-mail. Lesson plan. Litmag e-mail. Write 2500 words. Read and respond. Finish Their Eyes Were Watching God. Take notes on last howevermany books. Finish Madame Bovary. Decide if continuing with Swann's Way and Life: A User's Manual. Failing continuing on with above, start another. Current Mood: blah Current Music: Emmylou Harris Tags: domestic, to do

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October 29th, 2007

10:51 am - To Do Clean cat box. Vacuum. Subdue dishes. Take out trash. Wash towels and socks. Otherwise, wet, cold feet. Errands. Grade seven papers. Grade five midterms. Answer student e-mail. Write 840 words novel(la). Read and respond. Finish Their Eyes Were Watching God. Take notes on last howevermany books. Get back into Madame Bovary. Decide if continuing with Swann's Way and Life: A User's Manual. To Avoid Watching Law and Order. Check. Surfing the interwebs for every last recap of and/or opinion about the World Series. Check. Reading The Swimming Pool Library and/or The Prestige. Current Mood: cold Tags: domestic, to do

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October 15th, 2007

08:37 am - Dun Worry Meme I've been seeing. Given yesterday's complete and utter fail, this looked like a good thing to do. Rules: post 10 things that recently made you happy. 1.) Despite not reaching my weekly word count goal (largely because I didn't start writing last week until Thursday), the writing this past week made me all the happy. Because those 2523 words were 2523 more words than I've written in months. 2.) Cooler weather. It is finally possible to walk somewhere and not get there a sweaty ball of snark. There's even been a sweatshirt or two donned. 3.) Fantastic prose. Mainly that of Jhumpa Lahiri, whose The Namesake I finally picked up the other day. She has said in interviews that she finds writing extremely difficult. It sure doesn't show. Her prose is effortless. Her sentences read like they've always existed. 4.) Fall Break. Which is technically over, but since I'm on a Tuesday/Thursday schedule this semester, I'm still basking in the glorious time off. 5.) A thoroughly straightened up apartment. I cleaned out all of those places in the apartment where I'd been tossing things I didn't know what to do with. So both of the closets and that cabinet in the desk are now neat and tidy, and I can actually open their doors without risking death. 6.) Unexpected gifts from the Ents, namely a copy of Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks. I probably fall somewhere in between the first two categories (not a beginner surely--would you like to see my baseball card collection from the late 80s? but not any sort of an expert) and am definitely aligned with the last. 7.) Snap-shots of things like Graduation Weekend at college and English MAs playing softball. 8.) The cat perching on top of the bookcase. As you do. 9.) Unexpected phone calls from Sheff. 10.) The news that Ian McKellen very much wants to reprise his role as Gandalf should a film of The Hobbit be made. That the news is coupled with the speculation that Peter Jackson would not be involved in such a project dampers the happy a bit. But "despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt" and all that. Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: Altan's 'So Do Mhaimeo I Tags: meme

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October 11th, 2007

09:22 pm - Writing for 10/14/07 Current Mood: discontent Current Music: Mark Abis Tags: writing meter

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11:15 am - Taking a Page from Sheffie's Book. And never giving it back. Muuuhahahaha. The theory is that if I'm accountable for it, I might actually do it. And posting it to IJ makes me accountable. Sure it does. That's the theory. Today Household and Things. --Roll coins as piggy bank is overflowing. (YES.) --Take out the trash. (Why does this always have to be such an ordeal? Just do it.) --Vacuum. --Go to PO. --Do something about bedroom closet before it falls on you and you die. --Go to the pool. --Do laundry. Need underwears. School and "Work." --Finish AT LEAST ONE of the four comps books in progress. --Write 1700 words. Before Saturday is out. --Finish another comps book. --Write 5000 words total. Heh. Final count for the week: 2523. For this week, I'll take it. --Go to bank. --Put photos in album or similar before they rise up and eat your face. --Write to Gram. Current Mood: busy Current Music: Mozart Piano Sonata #11 in A Tags: domestic, to do

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October 2nd, 2007

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September 1st, 2007

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10:36 am - It's an IJ. Because of Livejournal's recent and ongoing wankery, I've set up this here Insanejournal as a potential alternate home base. I'm still sort of psychologically attached to my LJ, so for now the IJ will serve basically as a mirror of what goes on at the LJ. I'll be putting my old fic in the memories here, and any new fic I write will (for now) be posted on both my LJ and my IJ. Tweak makes my head hurt. That is all. Current Mood: blah Current Music: Godsmack Tags: housekeeping

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