The weekend in review
Mar. 7th, 2004 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperNot much writing over the last few days except for today, but well hey, stuff happens. Among the things that have happened:
+0: Finally getting caught up on Angel, since![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mamishka got a hold of the two episodes we'd missed--so we've chugged through six episodes this weekend, two on Friday, two yesterday, and two tonight. WHOOT! Lots of intense goodness all over these plotlines.
+1: The second of the two chiropractor appointments I'd scheduled with Dr. Dowell, yesterday morning. Went quite well, a couple of quick, deep cracks to my hips and one to my neck. The interesting side effects of these have been my shoulder feeling a lot more normal than it has ever since I broke my arm, and my ankles having these odd little pings of pain every so often that I've been wondering about; I've been trying to figure out whether the deep cracks to my hips were deep enough that I'm carrying my weight differently enough that my ankles have to adjust.
+2: Had a pleasant lunch down in the U Village after said appointment, taking the time to read while I had a burger and fries, and beginning to put a dent into Cape Random. Bit of an odd read, so far. Most of it is in first person present tense, with periodic jaunts into third person past when the story talks about past history of the main cast. It's starting to get interesting, though there's also sort of this feel to the prose of 'This is lit-ra-cher!' rather than 'this is a story'. I'm thinking maybe once we get past 'cast is stuck in a tiny port in a Newfoundland winter and starving and OH LOOK there's seals maybe we don't have to starve after all', we might get some more character development here.
+3: Poking about the web looking for data on handhelds, as per my earlier post. So far the Sony Clie UX50 and the Zaurus SL-5600 seem to be the front contenders, just from what I've seen from folks' answer to my previous post and from the reviews on CNet.
+4: Actually roleplayed a little, though that was more like Thursday night. I was going to RP Ynderra some more on Friday, but got distracted by Angel... and the guy on TM I was going to RP with was late anyway, so we didn't wind up RPing.
+5: Read about half of The Blue Sword again, and sighed happily. I had, indeed, forgotten about Robin McKinley's gift with language.
+6: Watched Eddie Izzard's Circle while balancing the checkbooks, and it was fun, and funny. Circle, that is. Not balancing the checkbooks. But at least the checkbooks balanced without errors, so yay!
-7: Lamed out about going to get replacement strings from Trading Musician so that I can get another A string for my guitar. Oh well.
-8: Tried to go deposit my paycheck today, but the bank had no deposit envelopes by their ATMs for the second week in a row. Bah.
+9: Also watched some Kim Possible Saturday night, and giggled at an episode we hadn't seen yet as well as one we had. I (heart) Shego.
+10: Played quite a bit of Nethack and Slashem, and got farther than I have in Slashem before. Yay!
+11: Did finally wake my muse up again today to beat on Chapter 3 of Lament of the Dove some more. I'd actually gotten in about 100 or so words on Friday night but didn't bother to record them, thanks to being distracted by Angel, but got in a lot more words today. To wit...
Written over the last three days: 1,274
Chapter 3 total: 3,292
Story total: 19,743
+0: Finally getting caught up on Angel, since
mamishka got a hold of the two episodes we'd missed--so we've chugged through six episodes this weekend, two on Friday, two yesterday, and two tonight. WHOOT! Lots of intense goodness all over these plotlines.+1: The second of the two chiropractor appointments I'd scheduled with Dr. Dowell, yesterday morning. Went quite well, a couple of quick, deep cracks to my hips and one to my neck. The interesting side effects of these have been my shoulder feeling a lot more normal than it has ever since I broke my arm, and my ankles having these odd little pings of pain every so often that I've been wondering about; I've been trying to figure out whether the deep cracks to my hips were deep enough that I'm carrying my weight differently enough that my ankles have to adjust.
+2: Had a pleasant lunch down in the U Village after said appointment, taking the time to read while I had a burger and fries, and beginning to put a dent into Cape Random. Bit of an odd read, so far. Most of it is in first person present tense, with periodic jaunts into third person past when the story talks about past history of the main cast. It's starting to get interesting, though there's also sort of this feel to the prose of 'This is lit-ra-cher!' rather than 'this is a story'. I'm thinking maybe once we get past 'cast is stuck in a tiny port in a Newfoundland winter and starving and OH LOOK there's seals maybe we don't have to starve after all', we might get some more character development here.
+3: Poking about the web looking for data on handhelds, as per my earlier post. So far the Sony Clie UX50 and the Zaurus SL-5600 seem to be the front contenders, just from what I've seen from folks' answer to my previous post and from the reviews on CNet.
+4: Actually roleplayed a little, though that was more like Thursday night. I was going to RP Ynderra some more on Friday, but got distracted by Angel... and the guy on TM I was going to RP with was late anyway, so we didn't wind up RPing.
+5: Read about half of The Blue Sword again, and sighed happily. I had, indeed, forgotten about Robin McKinley's gift with language.
+6: Watched Eddie Izzard's Circle while balancing the checkbooks, and it was fun, and funny. Circle, that is. Not balancing the checkbooks. But at least the checkbooks balanced without errors, so yay!
-7: Lamed out about going to get replacement strings from Trading Musician so that I can get another A string for my guitar. Oh well.
-8: Tried to go deposit my paycheck today, but the bank had no deposit envelopes by their ATMs for the second week in a row. Bah.
+9: Also watched some Kim Possible Saturday night, and giggled at an episode we hadn't seen yet as well as one we had. I (heart) Shego.
+10: Played quite a bit of Nethack and Slashem, and got farther than I have in Slashem before. Yay!
+11: Did finally wake my muse up again today to beat on Chapter 3 of Lament of the Dove some more. I'd actually gotten in about 100 or so words on Friday night but didn't bother to record them, thanks to being distracted by Angel, but got in a lot more words today. To wit...
Written over the last three days: 1,274
Chapter 3 total: 3,292
Story total: 19,743