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| Friday, January 8th, 2010 |
jim_and_pam
[ falltoosoon ]
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4:17p |
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| Thursday, January 7th, 2010 |
jim_and_pam
[ wackyjax2 ]
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10:05p |
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| Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 |
jim_and_pam
[ paddlicons ]
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5:12p |
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jim_and_pam
[ exp0se ]
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8:47a |
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| Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 |
elizawrites
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10:30a |
Can you change your process?
Last semester, in my Censorship class, we were talking about process. We do that a lot, actually, in the Story Workshop program, but this time my teacher asked us what we could do to actively change our process.
It sounds silly, I know, but I was kind of dumbfounded. You mean, I can just… change it? I don’t have to stumble upon the one true way for me to write, which incidentally only works for me so no one can give me any advice? Beyond butt in chair, I mean, which from what I understand is the only thing we all have in common. I don’t have to flap about and angst about it anymore? I have agency?
My process and I have been getting along a lot better lately. I’ve decided on a daily page goal and I’m drafting again, which feels really good. Like Keenan, I’m (hopefully) going to be done with the Fiction Writing program soon and all of my lovely weekly deadlines will be out the window. I have to figure out now a way to be productive so that I don’t lose all this momentum.
So have you ever actively changed your process? Have you added or thrown something out? What makes you productive?
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| Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 |
mortaine
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4:10p |
2009 Knitting
I finished 68 knitting and crochet projects in 2009. To say that the bulk of my blog has been posts of my knitting would not be an understatement. 68 FO’s means more than 1 a week throughout the year.
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| Friday, January 1st, 2010 |
mortaine
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4:49p |
Planned Yarn Purchase
Remember my resolution to not buy yarn in 2010? Remember my exceptions included “except yarn for gifts where I post in advance that I am going to buy yarn”?
My friend Florence took me up on my “donate $100 for a pair of socks” pledge in August, and she has sent me her measurements and preferences. So, tomorrow, I am off to a yarn shop to find baby-soft yarn in white, cream, or yellow, for the slipper-socks she wants. I could knit from stash, but I want baby-soft yarn, and I have none of that in my stash– I don’t generally knit with baby yarns.
This is me. Posting in advance. Yarn purchase imminent.
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mortaine
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4:38p |
Happy New Year and Thanksgiving!
Happy New Year, everyone! I know everyone is really glad to see the rear-end of 2009, but for me, it was a good year. New president (YAY!), new projects, new comic book, new job… Sure, there was a lot of world-wide suckage, not limited to the bizarre popularity (including here in my house) of Lady Gaga. John compared her to Madonna the other day, but I don’t think she has Madonna’s staying power. I suggested she’s more like Cindy Lauper– a few big hits, but she’ll be invisible in a year or so.
Anyway, I think Thanksgiving really should fall after New Years. I mean, this is the whole “time to reflect and move in new directions,” right? And, for me, it’s time to write thank you cards.
Which brings me to why I’m blogging today: I have now written thank you cards for the gifts I received from far-away loved ones this year. The task is done and complete, and they’ll be going out in today’s mail. Hooray! If you sent me a gift and you don’t get a thank you card, then you’ll know in a week or so (by the absence of a card in the mail) that I didn’t receive it. Except for Paul and Rachel– they already know I received the lovely flower, but I’m pretty sure their card will take more than a week to get from Las Vegas to Nottingham. I could be wrong, though.
Next step: making my New Years Resolutions!
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mortaine
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2:31p |
December Books
#43: Bound for the Holidays by Mckenzie McKade. Erotica with romance ending– light bondage and a threesome.
#44: The Lady Chosen by Stephanie Laurens. Regency romance, first in the Bastion Club series.
#45: The Little Lady Agency and the Prince by Hester Browne. Chick lit.
#46: Hotter After Midnight by Cynthia Eden. Erotic werewolf with murder mystery thriller thrown in.
#47: The Cold Ones by Elizabeth Donald. Absolutely chilling novella with a zombie theme.
#48: Scroogenomics by Joel Waldfogel. The only really accessible economics book I’ve ever read.
#49: Zombies v Robots – graphic novel about zombies, robots, and amazons. I read and forgot to log it earlier this year.
That’s it. I fell short of the 50 book challenge by 1 book this year. I would feel bad about that, but since I also wrote 2 comic books…. the sting is lessened.
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| Thursday, December 31st, 2009 |
jim_and_pam
[ wackyjax2 ]
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11:45p |
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jim_and_pam
[ _onebreath ]
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10:08p |
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elizawrites
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12:33p |
With neither a bang nor a whimper.
I’ve never been a big fan of New Year’s Resolutions. My birthday is January first and I’m not keen on spending the day thinking about all the ways I’m an awful person and how to change immediately. I’d prefer my birthday to include opening presents, taking naps, and eating a lot of cake instead. That is also how I would describe Saturdays.
As I’ve mentioned here before, though, this year I’m turning thirty. Listen, I know I should stop whining about it. My older friends have done everything from tell me I’m being a jerk to threatening to squirt me with mustard if I didn’t stop squawking. The way I see it, though, I only have a few hours left. After that, I’ll be too busy being thirty to worry about it anymore.
I was going to do this decade round up thing, where I talked about how different I am since the day I turned twenty — Chicago, seriously? And married? Would not have guessed — and how I am trying to be a more proactive person rather than reactive and I think organizing my stuff might actually be fun! and blah blah boring blah. Instead, here are the things that I know, as an almost thirty-year-old.
Creativity is multiplicative. The more you work, the more you get out of it. You’re never going to run out of ideas.
Creative anxiety never goes away. The trick is learning to work around it, not giving in to it.
The internet was actually invented for the disbursement of cat pictures.
It’s never too late for a fresh start.
And finally, from my patron saint, Kurt Vonnegut: There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
Now I’m going to spend the day with P, eating delicious Middle Eastern food (another new thing I got this decade) and listening to The Postal Service, which is my favorite record of the last ten years. Later today, I have the promise of an adventure. Tomorrow I will have my traditional birthday dinner with my family — chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, black eyed peas (for luck!) and the fried okra my mom is trying to track down.
There will be presents and cake and it isn’t even Saturday.
I am so blessed. Happy new year.
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jim_and_pam
[ i_candream ]
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1:07a |
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| Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 |
mortaine
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1:56p |
Recent Movies
I’ve seen a a few current movies in theatres recently. Saw The Blind Side a couple of weeks ago. It’s a chick flick with football– how can you go wrong?!?
Saw Up in the Air on Christmas with John. I really enjoyed it, but it was a little bit sad. George Clooney is, as always, very pretty. So pretty that I suggested New Years Eve be an Ocean’s movie fest with John (I bought all 4 for Xmas for him in one of those 4-pack dealies).
And last night, because $20 for a 2-hour movie was much cheaper than spending 2 more hours at the cold craps tables, I saw Sherlock Holmes, which was an excellent movie. Lots of fighting– Robert Downey Jr gets beat up a lot, which is always a plus (c’mon– audiences love to see RDJ take one in the kisser! The man takes a punch like nobody else). Lots of clever little things going on. A little bit unsubtle for a Sherlock Holmes story, but overall, I enjoyed it a great deal.
There is no cuddling, however. I had read an article in one of the awful rags that suggested that there was some light cuddling and bed-sharing between Holmes and Watson. There is none in this movie, and I’m a little saddened by that (not terribly– the relationship between the two is strong enough to carry the movie without it). As portrayed in the film, they are definitely in the “homosocial” scale of male interactions, but the subtext is all subtext. Too bad– it would have been nice to have a really out portrayal of Victorian bisexuality (both Holmes and Watson in this movie have female love interests as well).
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| Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 |
jim_and_pam
[ wackyjax2 ]
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5:15p |
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| Monday, December 28th, 2009 |
mortaine
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10:28p |
Excellent News!
The Krismas presents (now arriving for birthdays) have been found! It turns out my sister lives on the West portion of her road, and they were delivered to East (they were addressed to just her road– no direction because I did not know there was an East/West). Sis left a note on Christmas Eve for the neighbor at East, and got a call today– they were out of town when she left her note, but they have the package.
Mind you, they didn’t return the package to sender. Apparently, they did not realize that you can, in fact, return packages that are misdelivered from FedEx. All you do is call the 1-800 number that’s on the package. I know, I know– too taxing.
Anyway, Sis can’t actually pick up the package yet because of the several feet of snow that landed on her street Christmas morning (which also meant my mother hasn’t been over for Christmas with the grandkids, either).
So, the good news is that the package of gifties has been located and will reach my sister at some time in the future.
In other excellent news, despite being so tired my eyelid is twitching, I hauled my sorry, cookie-laden butt out to workout this evening, and had an excellent, heart-pumping workout.
I also walked 7 miles yesterday (and 3 miles the day before) just going out and about with friends.
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| Sunday, December 27th, 2009 |
janowrimo
[ maliciastarling ]
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5:35a |
Just a few more days 'til JaNo 2010...
Who's with me?!
- Any ideas for JaNo '10?
- Are you itching to get back to writing since NaNo?
- Do you think you'll fail and thus don't want to try?
If you can answer yes to just one of those questions you should do JaNo '10 :) At the very least comment and tell me why you can't, thanks. Current Mood:  excited |
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