Quiet weekend...

[annathepiper]

I haven't written a word this weekend so far. Ordinarily I'd be annoyed about this, but I think that I actually needed the mental break. I've spent a good chunk of both this afternoon and yesterday afternoon just lying around snoozing, and not thinking of anything in particular. I was pretty stressed Friday night and yesterday, but just having my brain in neutral for a while seems to have made me feel rather better.

Instead, I've been reading. I went through a Dorothy Sayers anthology, In the Teeth of the Evidence, which turned out to have disappointingly little Lord Peter Wimsey in it. There were a couple of stories featuring him, and a couple featuring another recurring character of Sayers', Montague Egg; I didn't find him nearly so interesting. Some of the other stories in it were standalones, some of which had a decidedly paranormal turn, which was unexpected. And oddly Gothic. I've also started on Lord Peter Views the Body, another anthology, but this one at least seems to be all about Wimsey. Lots more satisfying, and Wimsey is in good form, even though I think I still prefer him in novels.

Friday night mamishka came over to join us for viewing "Valley of Darkness", the second Battlestar Galactica episode of this season (commentary on this later).

Yesterday was quiet; solarbird and I walked down into downtown Kenmore, which I hadn't done before. We stopped by Corner Books, the other local bookstore. It reminded me a lot of lyricae's and tinlail's old store, mostly because the place was swimming in romance novels. I didn't buy anything, though Dara got a small paperback with some Native American folk tales of the Pacific Northwest. And last night, I watched Finding Neverland so's we could clear it off the Netflix queue; good movie, in a gentle, subtle kind of way. Mr. Depp was excellent as he has been in everything I've seen him in to date.

Today, also quiet; Dara and I walked down to the Farmer's Market and got nummy groceries and bubble bath and shave ice. And I snoozed on the couch quite a bit. And Meems has come over again tonight, for the taping and watching of BSG and Dead Zone. I've also tweaked my journal layout a bit; the only things I don't like about the Tranquility II layout are that a title that's too long wraps really weirdly, overlapping words on top of other words, and it also doesn't prettily handle tags. So I tweaked my journal width to 900px to fix the title problem, and scarfed a bit of tag code out of the public code for the Nebula layout. Plugging that into the proper place in the function for printing entries, and adding in a variable to make the layout tags-aware, got me what I wanted: tags prettily displayed up by the date and time rather than just stuck on the end of the entry.

Tomorrow, perhaps, I will have my words back.

Saturday miles: 1.8
Sunday miles: 2.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 256.81
Miles to Rivendell: 201.19

Comments

[cats-haven.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. After running in burn out mode for a while, a week long vacation of doing nothing but relaxing I'm ready to go back to writing again as well as hitting the books to finish up the degree I've been working on for the last nine months or so. Still a lot of revising and editing to do on the first of the potential stories but at elast their getting close.

[annathepiper]

I'd take longer with this little furlough of mine, but I figure once I have my surgery I'll have plenty of time to zonk out then!

Good luck with your revisions!

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[lyricae.livejournal.com]

Honestly, given the love and attention that I gave to our store it makes me very very sad that the most memorable thing about it was the number of romance novels we had. I've been to corner books and I found it disorganised, dusty, and the staff was rude. Perhaps I just had a bad experience there though, it make be a totally great store.

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[annathepiper]

Um... no offense intended, sweetie; remember, the vast majority of the time I spent in your store was spent dealing with the stock upstairs, so the romance novels were what I saw. I only occasionally was downstairs dealing with customers and stuff like that.

If it helps, the fact that a lot of their stock was romance was the only thing that reminded me of your all's store at all. Your store was way better organized. It wasn't dusty that I noticed, so perhaps they've cleaned it up since you were there. And I only briefly dealt with the one staffer, not enough really to make an impact.

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[lyricae.livejournal.com]

Don't mind me :-P I still do miss my store very much and I may be a tad sensitive on the subject. I do recall that the most memorable Anna quote came out of the Romance section. "If anyone needs me, I'm listening to music so I may not hear you. Just poke me in the Romance section". LOL, that still gives me a chuckle. Sorry if I came off abrupt. No offense taken and none, I hope, given. At the very least, none intended here.

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[annathepiper]

*hugs a bunch* No problem at all hon, and I can totally understand why you might be sensitive about it. I would be in your position as well. I miss your store too!

[kissare.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a very nice and peaceful weekend. You definitely have earned one of those... or a bunch of 'em! Everyone needs some down-time.

I heard that Finding Neverland was good. I was disappointed that I never did seem to find anyone who wanted to see it too when it was out - and I never got around to going by myself. One of these days I'll have to put it on my queue and watch it at home. I think Johnny Depp is just brilliant and I love to watch him at work.

[annathepiper]

I've seen rather less of Mr. Depp's work than I should, but everything I've seen him in I've liked. I highly recommend this movie, too. :)