What Are You Doing?

Feeling like I'm 300 years old today! Whoo!

 

Atm: Listening to a twitch panel stream. Was an ...interesting day..

 

Celebrating! I may be American but my mother is British and I've been a Liverpool fan my ENTIRE life. I have a baby-size 1991-1992 kit to prove it. I was born in July 1990 (2 months after their last title) and this feels so, so good. Don't wake me tomorrow.

 

Rejoicing in the return of my internet connection! I was without internet for a couple of days because the contractor doing our renovations had to remove our antenna (we get internet through a microwave connection), and the internet company couldn't get it replaced until today. Now, WOOHOO!

In the meantime, I was doing unimportant stuff, like writing...

 

What's writing?

 

It does help stop you from wandering into the other room and watching reruns of Anpanman:



Couldn't find the old-style animation version, sorry.

 

That's quite all right. I wouldn't watch tryna of it anyway. Bit uhh... Bit unnerving.

 

Imagine some modern day Hunter S Thompson setting up writing in your local Starbucks.

Probably would get thrown out before he lights his cigarette to be honest. I'm reading Fear and Loathing and it's great.

 

That image made me happy. Before even reading the English letters I managed to read Anpanman's title out loud in hiragana AND katakana.
My Japanese is improving!

 

Enjoying the sound of a thunderstorm while the humidity curls my hair into a mess.

 

Watching Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. I can't make my mind up if the performances are awful or genius. It's Sandy Dennis's delivery in particular that's fascinating. She's either constantly fluffing her lines, sloshed, or doing it on purpose as a character trait.

 

Wow. I don't think I've ever seen Kathy Bates as young as that on screen.

 

Are you talking about the film in general, or this clip? Kathy Bates isn't in this clip, but she is in the film, and is very young, which is either the spookiest coincidence ever, or you know the film and are referring to her from that.

 

In general.

I IMDB'd the film (never saw it - not really my cuppa) and saw Kathy Bates' name so tracked down a scene she's in.

 

Watching a live-broadcast, on-line wedding of a couple of cat rescuers. Meow!

 

I'm amazed my mother makes it places. She just spent about forty five minutes trying to unscrew some curtain rod hardware and it wasn't going anywhere.

She was turning the screwdriver the wrong way. For forty five minutes.

 

Lefty loosy righty tighty
And for bathtub faucets I always use the phrase "shut up" to remember how to close the drain.

 

I have just finished a chapter of my book. It's coming in at 5085 words so I'm going to spend tomorrow morning editing and improving on what I have where I can. The chapter hasn't ended exactly the way I hoped it would but it has ended in a very natural way so I'm happy with that. It just means I can save the material for my original idea for later. Hopefully after editing the word count will drop a little bit as 5k+ is a little much for my liking.

Now about to clean up my kitchen and call it a night.

 

I honestly thought it was left to tighten over there. Or was someone extracting the urine?

 

She spent most of that time telling me how it wasn't working and I told her to move when she asked me for a hammer.

 

I've always abided by that rule and it's always done right by me.

 

I'm putting together a small collection of short stories for my MFA application. I originally was going to do a collection of both short fiction and poetry, but I've decided to go all in on short fiction. I have 30 pages of wiggle room for standard submission format length, so I think I've got five stories in mind that will work. Two are certainly flash fiction, two are pretty short stories, and one is a longer short story. I know they may grow a bit in length through more edits before the submission, but I'm pretty hopeful of this set. Exciting to finally be at this point in education that I thought I would never get to.

 

Just finished chapter 1, I knocked the word count down to 5 thousand on the button. Have to admit, the count sitting at 4999 was goading me. So I made it a clean 5k.

If all goes well I hope to have chapter 2 completely finished by tomorrow before I need to take a break. I'm thinking 3 or 4k for each chapter moving forward I just feel that the first chapter needed to set the groundwork without lecturing.

 

That's super cool