Writerly Stuff for 9/22/05
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raefinlayProgress: More Elisa's Belly.
Made-up words: smooshed, torchlit, handspan. Compounding words really pisses Word off.
Barely avoided clichés: A ghost of a smile...
The words I'll hate most to cut: Be smarter than Alodia, my nurse had warned.
"No, thank you, Ximena. I'd prefer the freesia."
Thank God an editor didn't see this: I didn't realize they were already mobilizing already.
Black widows killed: Twenty. At least. Wearing rubber gloves, I took apart Cali Jane's doghouse. Found two large ones, complete with egg sacks. Widdle babies! Then I learned a neat trick. The unused pool area is edged in loose rock and covered in the shapeless cobwebs typical of BW's. So, I sprayed. Waited about fifteen seconds. Sure enough, Ms. BW comes a-crawling out from under her rock, feeling poorly. And Oualá: DIRECT HIT. Lather, rinse, repeat, aalll around the pool.
What Elisa ate today: Still queasy from the previous evening's immoderation, she found herself relegated to fresh fruit and unadorned bread slices.
General thoughts: Gah. I hate meetings. I hate them in real life, and I hate them in fiction. In fiction, at least, they can serve a purpose (information dump, character building, etc.). In real life, they're an excuse for people to get hot under the collar and wave their arms around frantically without having to really *do* anything. Yes, I'm freshly out of a corporate job. Why do you ask?
Made-up words: smooshed, torchlit, handspan. Compounding words really pisses Word off.
Barely avoided clichés: A ghost of a smile...
The words I'll hate most to cut: Be smarter than Alodia, my nurse had warned.
"No, thank you, Ximena. I'd prefer the freesia."
Thank God an editor didn't see this: I didn't realize they were already mobilizing already.
Black widows killed: Twenty. At least. Wearing rubber gloves, I took apart Cali Jane's doghouse. Found two large ones, complete with egg sacks. Widdle babies! Then I learned a neat trick. The unused pool area is edged in loose rock and covered in the shapeless cobwebs typical of BW's. So, I sprayed. Waited about fifteen seconds. Sure enough, Ms. BW comes a-crawling out from under her rock, feeling poorly. And Oualá: DIRECT HIT. Lather, rinse, repeat, aalll around the pool.
What Elisa ate today: Still queasy from the previous evening's immoderation, she found herself relegated to fresh fruit and unadorned bread slices.
General thoughts: Gah. I hate meetings. I hate them in real life, and I hate them in fiction. In fiction, at least, they can serve a purpose (information dump, character building, etc.). In real life, they're an excuse for people to get hot under the collar and wave their arms around frantically without having to really *do* anything. Yes, I'm freshly out of a corporate job. Why do you ask?
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Date: 2005-09-23 06:34 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-09-23 07:36 pm (UTC)What's interesting about this article is that, unlike another I read, it doesn't say that spiders will be suffocated by the dust in the vaccum bag. Also, it seemed to take for granted that reducing the population is desirable.
I suspect that Rae's efforts will never completely eradicate them, just decrease the number in her immediate vicinity, and I have to say I would choose to do that myself even if I felt horrible about it. .. I used to make my parents laugh because at any hour of the day or night they might hear me thud down the stairs very fast, the back door swing open and shut, and after a short moment I'd walk back in, having safely deposited the unwanted spider (carried in a cardboard box) somewhere outside. Those, of course, were not venomous, just creepy. :)
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Date: 2005-09-23 08:16 pm (UTC)But an infestation like I'm dealing with could kill my one year old cousin.
That's a great pic, by the way. Very typical of what I'm seeing. I'm also seeing a lot of males and adolescents. They're spooky looking, with their white strips.
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Date: 2005-09-23 08:38 pm (UTC)I still do this with the benign ones. I have an upended glass and cardboard slipped beneath method myself.
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Date: 2005-09-23 06:36 pm (UTC)It's so cool to listen to you talk about your writing now that you can stay home with it. I mean, it was cool before, but there's just something different about being a fulltime, writer, huh?
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Date: 2005-09-23 07:32 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-09-23 07:27 pm (UTC)I mean, I can understand the poetry: *I* read Charlotte's Web. . . ;)
(Sorry, Kibble, couldn't resist. :g:
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Date: 2005-09-23 07:33 pm (UTC)She wanted to eat Rae and bite her...
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Date: 2005-09-23 08:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-23 08:50 pm (UTC)Pissing Word off makes me happy. :-D
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Date: 2005-09-23 09:15 pm (UTC)It's a beautiful thing, isn't it? *g*
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Date: 2005-09-24 02:40 am (UTC)