kitchen update, revision update

So, last night ended being about red wine risotto with beef and pignoli, with parmesan shavings, since I had everything to-hand aready.

In the future I'd probably toast the pignoli before adding it, but otherwise...yeah, this one worked well.

The 1998 Barolo served with probably helped.

Nice dinner. Now I get to take my entire printed manuscript of BLOOD FROM STONE off into a corner and tear through it with red pencil and blue highligher and a lot, I say a LOT of caffeine. Expect me when you see me.

( here be the dinner-details )

scarlettina asks... what do you have today?

The meme seems to be for three things, so...

1. Felines at hip and foot, stretched out and content like the cosseted pride they are.

2. A hand-tied bouquet of irisis and daffodils on the table.

3. An all-day marathon of X-Files on SciFi, including "Beyond the Sea!"

And back to work...

doin' the flat cat flop

I am now officially tired of everything. Politics, weather, people, this damn book...

My brain is so focused, I forgot what day of the week it is. Seriously (if this were a sitcom, it might have been funny. It was just embarassing).

I also just realized that I've only had bagels and a lot of diet coke all day (not good when one is hypoglycemic). *pauses to go into the kitchen* There is now a piscean filet [with butter, lemon slices, dill, and fresh ginger] baking in the oven, yay protein.

A good day of work, but there's still more than half the book to go. If I didn't occasionally come across sections that please me, I'd be tempted to roundfile the entire thing and run off to become a yak-herder. I know it's a damn good book and people will be very happy with What Happens. I'm just so tired of it at this point. By the time I see the proofs, hopefully I'll have recovered.

On the plus side, on March 8th, the SciFi channel's Saturday monster movie is "Ogre." Two tons of peevy man-eater terrorizing what looks like Basic Pacific Northwest Town #3, starring John "Bo Duke" Schneider. I am like a cat presented with a box I know is filled with the China White of catnip....