Random comments before bed
Oct. 5th, 2006 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperThe second draft of Lament of the Dove is officially FINISHED. I've thrown more details about that out over ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
annathewriter, but suffice to say here that I'm relieved to be finally done with that. Now I need to swing right back around to the third full draft--and the fourth draft versions of Chapters 1, 2, and 3, so I can get a new partial ready for Tor.
Meanwhile, work's been quiet enough this week, enough that I've spent long stretches of time hitting Refresh on news sites a lot in between actually reading a bunch of the articles up on the Times site--partly because I need to check 'em for any issues, and partly because I just want to know what's going on and stuff. I could say something about the various interesting news stories, but I think that a lot of you folks out there on my Friends list have already beaten me to it. This is what I get for trying not to play with LJ from work, and getting eaten by the books as soon as I get home.
I was going to post about Susanna Kearsley's Mariana, and I'm still going to do that, but that's going to have to wait until the weekend when I have more brain. I've also now finished Victoria Thompson's Murder on Lenox Hill, about which I feel a trifle ambivalent. More on this later, too.
I am continuing my cheery jaunt through the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea DVDs; last night's episode was a preliminary taste of the goofy goodness to come in later seasons. Two words: "giant plankton". And apparently carnivorous plankton at that, 'cause that stuff ate at least four people in between totally destroying an Arctic research station and trying to destroy the Seaview. And didn't leave a trace of a single victim. Well done, plankton!
In less goofy TV land, the Murkworks watched the season three premiere of Lost tonight, and yeah, that was fun then. Tomorrow night: BATTLESTAR!
spazzkat and I ate at Westlake Center for lunch today. I mention this because I wanted to have something to eat there that I hadn't had before, and that led me to choose a little bubble tea stand that also sold sandwiches. The bubble tea was surprisingly tasty, and the sandwich was Asian Chicken BBQ. Which tasted nothing like what I as an American eater of sandwiches would have expected of something labelled BBQ. ;) It had peppers on it and was definitely spicy, just not BBQ.
And oh yes, the antibiotics seem to be starting to help Polly. She's been a bit perkier and hasn't had any accidents around the house the last couple of days. Here's hoping she continues to improve.
Now, off to bed!
Tuesday miles: 3.5
Wednesday miles: 3.4
Thursday miles: 4.2
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1428.05
Miles out of Rauros Falls: 119.05
Miles to Isengard: 364.95
annathewriter, but suffice to say here that I'm relieved to be finally done with that. Now I need to swing right back around to the third full draft--and the fourth draft versions of Chapters 1, 2, and 3, so I can get a new partial ready for Tor.Meanwhile, work's been quiet enough this week, enough that I've spent long stretches of time hitting Refresh on news sites a lot in between actually reading a bunch of the articles up on the Times site--partly because I need to check 'em for any issues, and partly because I just want to know what's going on and stuff. I could say something about the various interesting news stories, but I think that a lot of you folks out there on my Friends list have already beaten me to it. This is what I get for trying not to play with LJ from work, and getting eaten by the books as soon as I get home.
I was going to post about Susanna Kearsley's Mariana, and I'm still going to do that, but that's going to have to wait until the weekend when I have more brain. I've also now finished Victoria Thompson's Murder on Lenox Hill, about which I feel a trifle ambivalent. More on this later, too.
I am continuing my cheery jaunt through the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea DVDs; last night's episode was a preliminary taste of the goofy goodness to come in later seasons. Two words: "giant plankton". And apparently carnivorous plankton at that, 'cause that stuff ate at least four people in between totally destroying an Arctic research station and trying to destroy the Seaview. And didn't leave a trace of a single victim. Well done, plankton!
In less goofy TV land, the Murkworks watched the season three premiere of Lost tonight, and yeah, that was fun then. Tomorrow night: BATTLESTAR!
spazzkat and I ate at Westlake Center for lunch today. I mention this because I wanted to have something to eat there that I hadn't had before, and that led me to choose a little bubble tea stand that also sold sandwiches. The bubble tea was surprisingly tasty, and the sandwich was Asian Chicken BBQ. Which tasted nothing like what I as an American eater of sandwiches would have expected of something labelled BBQ. ;) It had peppers on it and was definitely spicy, just not BBQ.And oh yes, the antibiotics seem to be starting to help Polly. She's been a bit perkier and hasn't had any accidents around the house the last couple of days. Here's hoping she continues to improve.
Now, off to bed!
Tuesday miles: 3.5
Wednesday miles: 3.4
Thursday miles: 4.2
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1428.05
Miles out of Rauros Falls: 119.05
Miles to Isengard: 364.95