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Oct. 20th, 2011
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Oct. 20th, 2011 02:49 pmI had a doctor's appointment this morning, so it's a good thing I chose today to fall backwards down an up escalator.
The mental image you all have is probably awesome, a sort of eternal fall-down-stairs-going up. Really I just lost my balance, skidded off the step, tumbled back, grabbed the rail, overbalanced, and knocked my knee against the step. Fortunately nobody was behind me to witness my Charlie Chaplin moment.
My doctor, who doesn't like my blood pressure despite the fact the reason is so high is that blood pressure cuffs are painful, has me continuing on medication but says I'm otherwise healthy, so there's that.
I finished reading Jorge Luis Borges' "Labyrinths" this morning on the way to the doctor's office. It's a collection of short stories, essays, and "parables" (aka more short stories) with the short stories themed on the idea of the labyrinth in different iterations, and it's quite enjoyable for the most part. His short stories tend to read like extremely interesting essays, which is especially funny in light of the fact that his essays are utterly dire. I don't think I finished a single one. Mind-numbingly dull.
His short stories are well worth a go, though, and an especial few stand out; The House Of Asterion was especially good. Flee the essays. :D
The mental image you all have is probably awesome, a sort of eternal fall-down-stairs-going up. Really I just lost my balance, skidded off the step, tumbled back, grabbed the rail, overbalanced, and knocked my knee against the step. Fortunately nobody was behind me to witness my Charlie Chaplin moment.
My doctor, who doesn't like my blood pressure despite the fact the reason is so high is that blood pressure cuffs are painful, has me continuing on medication but says I'm otherwise healthy, so there's that.
I finished reading Jorge Luis Borges' "Labyrinths" this morning on the way to the doctor's office. It's a collection of short stories, essays, and "parables" (aka more short stories) with the short stories themed on the idea of the labyrinth in different iterations, and it's quite enjoyable for the most part. His short stories tend to read like extremely interesting essays, which is especially funny in light of the fact that his essays are utterly dire. I don't think I finished a single one. Mind-numbingly dull.
His short stories are well worth a go, though, and an especial few stand out; The House Of Asterion was especially good. Flee the essays. :D
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Oct. 20th, 2011 07:52 pmYesterday, I don't think I mentioned this, I fixed my electric blanket with the power of my mind.
Okay, technically it was the power of the Sunbeam Corporation's website, which taught me how to reset the blanket, but it felt like I just wished it would start working again after it stopped working last winter, and lo. It works!
And yes, "reset the blanket" is pretty funny. BLANKET FAILURE: RESET Y/N?
I feel like I'm finally getting my feet under me at work, even though I'm still absent/ignorant often enough that I'm constantly lagging behind. I'm not quite as wearied as I have been, though, and things take less time now that I know how to do them properly. My to-do list is growing steadily shorter.
Technically I have thirteen to-do lists: seven personal ones, for each day of the week, and six professional ones, for each day of the working week plus one for "running projects" that never go away. But the point is that all of them are slowly whittling down.
One of the entries in the personal to-do list, which keeps getting shifted around, is "White Collar Marathon / Exq", which of course means "Rewatch S3 of White Collar and write Exquisite" because, I'll be honest, I haven't even started it yet. But the thing is, I realised tonight while watching old episodes on DVD because Matt Bomer gives awesome DVD commentary, I have no god damned clue how to deal with season three in a literary sense. I don't know what the hell to do with it.
( Cut for nattering about White Collar, D/s relationships, and archetypes, for those not interested. )
All of which is a long way round to say that I think to take the pressure off myself and make a better story, I'm going to wait until S3 finishes airing to write the Exquisite alternate timeline for it. It feels like the wise thing to do. I know it sucks because part of the charm of Exquisite was that it filled in the hiatuses, but in this case -- better to serve the art than the demand, I think. It loosens me up to work on other White Collar stories as they may emerge, as well as my own writing and maybe some Suits or Sherlock on the side.
Okay, technically it was the power of the Sunbeam Corporation's website, which taught me how to reset the blanket, but it felt like I just wished it would start working again after it stopped working last winter, and lo. It works!
And yes, "reset the blanket" is pretty funny. BLANKET FAILURE: RESET Y/N?
I feel like I'm finally getting my feet under me at work, even though I'm still absent/ignorant often enough that I'm constantly lagging behind. I'm not quite as wearied as I have been, though, and things take less time now that I know how to do them properly. My to-do list is growing steadily shorter.
Technically I have thirteen to-do lists: seven personal ones, for each day of the week, and six professional ones, for each day of the working week plus one for "running projects" that never go away. But the point is that all of them are slowly whittling down.
One of the entries in the personal to-do list, which keeps getting shifted around, is "White Collar Marathon / Exq", which of course means "Rewatch S3 of White Collar and write Exquisite" because, I'll be honest, I haven't even started it yet. But the thing is, I realised tonight while watching old episodes on DVD because Matt Bomer gives awesome DVD commentary, I have no god damned clue how to deal with season three in a literary sense. I don't know what the hell to do with it.
( Cut for nattering about White Collar, D/s relationships, and archetypes, for those not interested. )
All of which is a long way round to say that I think to take the pressure off myself and make a better story, I'm going to wait until S3 finishes airing to write the Exquisite alternate timeline for it. It feels like the wise thing to do. I know it sucks because part of the charm of Exquisite was that it filled in the hiatuses, but in this case -- better to serve the art than the demand, I think. It loosens me up to work on other White Collar stories as they may emerge, as well as my own writing and maybe some Suits or Sherlock on the side.