Former Ramblings of an Insane, Lesbian, Book Writing Crip
I’ve had some slow load times for all of my sites. Except for the one that is WordPress enabled. I doubt it is a WP thing though. I dumped the browser’s cache and they finally loaded, although it was taking a long time.
In the world we have made, this worship of now-ism, waiting ten seconds longer than usual is painful.
I got some editing done today and yesterday. Not much, just enough that I feel like I accomplished something. I’m about to enter it all in now (I was mucking with the hard copies).
I want to get this thing finished. I love it and I think its my best work so far. But I am about to chuck it out the window.
Today was more of a fix-it day than a cleaning day. We took off the cover from the front door and put up new screening. Lorna also put a piece of lattice on the front bedroom window.
Years ago, when we had a dog on the porch on a long cable for her to run on. She was attached to the cable via a heavy chain. One day that chain swung and cracked the glass on the window. A few months later, Lorna and I were leaving the house and she shut the door behind us. The glass shattered and fell literally on her head. She was fine but the glass was officially beyond duct tape.
We replaced the glass but less than a month later, it broke again, but I can’t remember what broke it. It was summer so we just covered it with screening. We had to add lattice to keep the cats from shedding it when they jumped up on the door as a way to ‘knock’. Come winter we covered the inside of the door with that solid pink insulation. That was, oh, five years ago? A front door was on our ‘get’ list but it just never happens.
Anyway, it was the annual ‘Taking Down of the Pink’ day. We’ll need to put up a blind that fits in well with our ‘white trash’ motif.
Procrastination techniques from someone else. Yes, I am stealing again.
Paperback Writer’s Relief Ten: Ten Things for the Bored
These I found on my own:
Pure Procrastination
The Joy of Procrastination
And then, to help pull ourselves out of it and get back to whatever:
Zaadz Quotes by Topic – Procrastination
bellybuttons.
Why come up with my own witty post when I can steal from someone else’s??
Georganna Hancock, who I steal quote from often, mentions a ‘Twenty Five Sites for Writers‘ list by Bryon Quertermous. Went there, read it, cool ideas.
She mentions another feller’s opinionated post (Tod Goldberg) which is no where near as polite as the first.
Have I mentioned I just joined/subscribed to a bunch of different writer stuff? And that Writer’s Digest is one of them? Maybe subscribing to them is like a rite of passage or something.
In addition to Writer’s Digest, I also joined/subscribed to/applied for:
Gay/Lesbian Caucus of the Modern Language Association (which includes a subscription to GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies published by Duke Press who I would send all of my nonfiction books to, if I ever get around to finishing a fiction one)
Lamda Literary Foundation (which includes a subscription to the Lamda Book Report). LLF is the one that produces the prestigious Lamda Literay Awards, the award that some day will include my name as a recipient. (it will! You just watch!)
The Golden Crown Literary Association – “a literary and educational organization for the study, discussion, enjoyment, and enhancement of lesbian literature.”
There are others, but I thought I’d spread ’em out over a few weeks or so.
The Writer’s Workshop of Asheville
and several magazines I may someday submit an article or short story to.
“Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.â€
— Mark Twain (1835-1910)
(mucho thankso to Winston over at Nobody Asked (but he’ll tell you anyway)
Got diddly squat done today. We slept until noon, waking up every few hours or so, saying we ought to get up, but we’d go right back to sleep.
I did, however, get the music CDs dusted off and stacked up. Made sure they all were in the right case. Also made a stack of DVDs. Went through the one bookshelf in the livingroom corner and moved all the office type stuff over to the other side of the room. Finished cleaning up from our mess yesterday. Lorna moved some boxes around, that was about it.
We just got finished watching about seven episodes of Firefly. Cool.
Check out the hair! Man, that must be a bitch to wash and dry! Hon? Get the shaver and meet me on the back porch.