33.4k; state of the me

There are a lot of house things I haven't taken pictures of, but between the frustration with the communications breaking down between us and the contractors (mostly them getting a bit scattered because they're off doing other stuff that they scheduled before the whole too much rain nonsense) and trying to NaNo I haven't done most of it. Actually, there are some pictures that haven't made it off my camera, but more I should take, too, and a sad lack of care on the part of me doing it. Last night we sent them our pre-walk-through list, and then came up with three more things to add to it today.

I borrowed an auger bit for the cordless drill from my father, who is the go-to for all strange tools that live in basements, and drilled holes in the dirt of the back yard until the drill ran out of battery. I might have covered about 1/5 of the area I want to aerate, in hopes of saving the oak tree, but the process of drilling large holes in wet mud & clay is strenuous enough I didn't drag out something with a cord on it. Doing this over the course of a week will probably make little enough difference to the poor suffocating oak, and it might be significant for my wrists. Tomorrow is supposed to be even more lovely out than today was, so that's something, and I go from madly overcommitted (and skipping things right and left) to almost normal for next week; we'll see how much the construction throws a wrench in my writing plans.

I'm scraping by a day ahead at nano, but despite going back and dropping about 2k of another chapter in the middle of the document, I'm running out of chronology, and going back to put other bits back in is going to slow me down even further. (This would be fine if I weren't trying to keep pace, and track of how many words I've actually written.)

My list of related (in my head, at least) things to re-read when I'm done with the first pass here include:

*the Gospel of the Child (re: pitfalls of being a young deity)
*NK Jemisin's Inheritance trilogy (or rather, reread book 1 re: mortal woman becoming a goddess, & read book 3, see above about child gods-- also because I haven't got it yet!)
*Bujold's Sharing Knife #3 (re: how to make a journey down a river into a captivating plot; my plotline actually resembles The Spellcoats more closely, but the Bujold is better structure-wise)
*Gillian Bradshaw's Island of Ghosts, or at least the scene with Ariantes catching the horse in the middle of a bunch of incompetent Britons. (since I just reread the book a couple months ago... re: expression of "WTH are they doing?")
*Saki's "The Storyteller" (re: children interrupting stories being told)

Suggestions of similar themes welcome, if anything comes to mind. Also good orangutans besides Pratchett's.

33.4k; state of the me

There are a lot of house things I haven't taken pictures of, but between the frustration with the communications breaking down between us and the contractors (mostly them getting a bit scattered because they're off doing other stuff that they scheduled before the whole too much rain nonsense) and trying to NaNo I haven't done most of it. Actually, there are some pictures that haven't made it off my camera, but more I should take, too, and a sad lack of care on the part of me doing it. Last night we sent them our pre-walk-through list, and then came up with three more things to add to it today.

I borrowed an auger bit for the cordless drill from my father, who is the go-to for all strange tools that live in basements, and drilled holes in the dirt of the back yard until the drill ran out of battery. I might have covered about 1/5 of the area I want to aerate, in hopes of saving the oak tree, but the process of drilling large holes in wet mud & clay is strenuous enough I didn't drag out something with a cord on it. Doing this over the course of a week will probably make little enough difference to the poor suffocating oak, and it might be significant for my wrists. Tomorrow is supposed to be even more lovely out than today was, so that's something, and I go from madly overcommitted (and skipping things right and left) to almost normal for next week; we'll see how much the construction throws a wrench in my writing plans.

I'm scraping by a day ahead at nano, but despite going back and dropping about 2k of another chapter in the middle of the document, I'm running out of chronology, and going back to put other bits back in is going to slow me down even further. (This would be fine if I weren't trying to keep pace, and track of how many words I've actually written.)

My list of related (in my head, at least) things to re-read when I'm done with the first pass here include:

*the Gospel of the Child (re: pitfalls of being a young deity)
*NK Jemisin's Inheritance trilogy (or rather, reread book 1 re: mortal woman becoming a goddess, & read book 3, see above about child gods-- also because I haven't got it yet!)
*Bujold's Sharing Knife #3 (re: how to make a journey down a river into a captivating plot; my plotline actually resembles The Spellcoats more closely, but the Bujold is better structure-wise)
*Gillian Bradshaw's Island of Ghosts, or at least the scene with Ariantes catching the horse in the middle of a bunch of incompetent Britons. (since I just reread the book a couple months ago... re: expression of "WTH are they doing?")
*Saki's "The Storyteller" (re: children interrupting stories being told)

Suggestions of similar themes welcome, if anything comes to mind. Also good orangutans besides Pratchett's.

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