and that was Friday. The 13th, even.
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lagilmanWorking, working, working. Slightly manic, in fact, but that's more yay than uh-oh.
Unfortunately, one of the prime indicators that I'm in a massive manic word-creating mode is that I have an utter disinclination - nay, an actual aversion - to doing any kind of meal-prep. Which, since I abhor most prepackaged frozen dinner things, means a lot of meals this week were of the "stick a spoon in a jar of peanut butter" type. Oh well. Nobody ever died of peanut butter, right?
Started writing a ghost story on-request yesterday, realized this morning that it had not only skipped into Dark but made a full slide into horror's home base, pulled it back on track, and have it ready for revisions.
Then I went to have lunch with a friend, a lovely long lunch filled with industry gossip and actual business-type talk, and the stuff that friends of 20-years-standing talk about (oh lord, yeah it HAS been that long) and the mac-and-cheese with prosciutto and chopped truffles was OMG to die for and I had the leftovers for dinner, so there's the actual eating today sorted, yeah?
And then I came home to a) stepping on my glasses and making one lens pop out, so that's tomorrow's errand to run, getting it fixed, and b) a gift from the USPS:
Containing, among others, my story "Crossroads."
Baby's first Year's Best inclusion!
So overall, despite a blister and busted glasses, I'm calling this F13th a win. Unless of course a masked serial killer breaks in before midnight....
Unfortunately, one of the prime indicators that I'm in a massive manic word-creating mode is that I have an utter disinclination - nay, an actual aversion - to doing any kind of meal-prep. Which, since I abhor most prepackaged frozen dinner things, means a lot of meals this week were of the "stick a spoon in a jar of peanut butter" type. Oh well. Nobody ever died of peanut butter, right?
Started writing a ghost story on-request yesterday, realized this morning that it had not only skipped into Dark but made a full slide into horror's home base, pulled it back on track, and have it ready for revisions.
Then I went to have lunch with a friend, a lovely long lunch filled with industry gossip and actual business-type talk, and the stuff that friends of 20-years-standing talk about (oh lord, yeah it HAS been that long) and the mac-and-cheese with prosciutto and chopped truffles was OMG to die for and I had the leftovers for dinner, so there's the actual eating today sorted, yeah?
And then I came home to a) stepping on my glasses and making one lens pop out, so that's tomorrow's errand to run, getting it fixed, and b) a gift from the USPS:
Containing, among others, my story "Crossroads."
Baby's first Year's Best inclusion!
So overall, despite a blister and busted glasses, I'm calling this F13th a win. Unless of course a masked serial killer breaks in before midnight....
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Death from peanut butter
Date: 2012-07-14 02:41 am (UTC)And, sadly, someone has indeed died from eating peanut butter. Her name was Katherine Brodsky, and she was a student at Brown University, and she knew she was allergic to peanuts ... but she didn't know that the chili she ordered at a restaurant was thickened with peanut butter. http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/02/us/prize-winning-chili-altered-after-athlete-s-death.html
*daha*
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Date: 2012-07-14 10:41 am (UTC)And I am very pleased about the proper eating, too. I will nag you to continue doing so over the weekend, I warn you. (I'm on my own, and I hate to cook, so I will have similar temptations just to do my equivalent of the peanut butter -- houmous on pitta. So we can remind each other to eat properly.)
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Date: 2012-07-14 12:42 pm (UTC)And doing that every day would seriously screw with my budget. You can eat cheap-ish in NYC, but it adds up fast, and writers get paid weakly, not weekly.
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Date: 2012-07-14 11:29 pm (UTC)(I totally deny the presence of a jar of the stuff downstairs. What you think you see there is actually pureed peanut, you understand, for making satay.)
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Date: 2012-07-15 02:36 am (UTC)Need to cook rice, but the natives are watching a very loud, violent movie. Not conducive to good cooking vibes....
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