Sian

I just cut 25 pages of my novel.  All things that have to happen after I finish typing "the end" or don't happen at all.  And I cut out a whole character.  And let one extra victim survive.  (Just the way she fell on the time line.  Honest.  I don't love her more than any of the others.)

posted by: SianNorah at 19:07 | link | comments

Life and Such

I am working another weird schedule next week...  I don't know whether I can (or should) actually do anything about it.  But the bouncing back and forth is more or less resulting in my never, ever, getting any time to do anything.  Fine and dandy that I should work late... or early, but yesterday, I had to be up at 4 to get to work on time.  Today, I am working from six to midnight.   WTF?  And next week, they've given me exactly the same schedule, so I get to start all over again.  Not that it really matters all that much.  Never have any time or money to do anything, anyway.

I'm going in to work immediately after class today.  So, more or less, a sixteen hour day.  Woo hoo.

And that's really it.  My moment of entertainment today?  I've heard that a particular person on campus is especially morselly, so I'm going to go work on my translation there instead of here, and find out about that.

posted by: SianNorah at 17:40 | link | comments

I happen to like people-watching.  It's a lot like bird-watching, except instead of watching birds, you watch people.  This morning on my way to class, I spotted another dancer.  It reminds me that I'm not dancing nearly as much as I used to, and I should be.  It's funny how you can always tell someone who has the same hobbies as you do.  Dancers present themselves in a very specific and recognizable way.  I could get into details, but the short version is that as soon as I saw this guy, I thought to myself...  "He looks like a Latin dancer."  And he did.  Really.  From the top of his sleek little head to the bottom of his shoes, that's what he was.   It's sorta like you might say to yourself, "There goes a horse," and never doubt for a second that you were looking at a horse, and not a cow or a pig.  It's just what the guy is.

You just know.

And I plan on getting back into dancing as soon as I can.  Which, of course, means as soon as I have another day off that coincides with anything anyone's doing.

Which really could be quite a long time.

posted by: SianNorah at 19:13 | link | comments

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