that was the saturday that was

[lagilman]

advice for survival: step away from the computer. go outside. have a soothing drink. watch kids playing. play a little yourself. get some sunlight. take a nap.

the world will still be here when you get back.
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Meanwhile, countersigned contract and on-signing monies have arrived for "Dreamcatcher," which I finished up last week. Next week my editor will have the manuscript itself, and then I will have the on-delivery monies, and in August y'all will be able to download it for your very selves, if so inclined. The circle of life, publishing-style.

A lot of working is the plan this weekend, a lot of movie watching, and a lot of power napping. I seem to be focusing in three hour bursts, then needing an hour of down-time. Combined with my very odd sleeping patterns the past week, and it's probably a good thing I haven't had to deal with the local-time 9-5 world much recently. That will change on Monday. Urk.

As an aside: how much do I love being able to walk to my gym? A lot. How much do I love having a Starbucks next door to my gym where I can work after working out, and then take a bus home, door to door? A lot, lot. A latte lot. Mmm, mocha....


Today's darling, to steal a phrase:

An hour later, I was thinking that maybe I was going to have to redefine my idea of kinky. Tying someone up and covering them with butterscotch and strawberries was totally normal. This? This was a little weird. And uncomfortable. And I really wasn’t sure I did trust Sharon enough to let it happen.

Not that she would hurt me; I trusted all my co-workers with my back. I even trusted them with my front. It was the insides I was still sorta protective about.

Comments

[debg.livejournal.com]

OK, suggestion.

I thought - from the lead in ('today's darling') - that this was from someone's else's pen. Not from yours.

Is this Bonnie?

[lagilman]

the phrase "darling d'jour" is shorthand for "something I wrote today I loved" as lifted from various other much-more-widely-read-than-mine LJs.

And yeah, that's Bonnie, bless the girl.

[debg.livejournal.com]

Well, there you go. I haven't come across the phrase before (or if I have, I didn't retain it; my own short-term memory is disintegrating, probably courtesy of this miserable disease), so I didn't register this is yours. Hence, no comment.

Comment: she's fun, but I suspect I'm going to find her a lot more fun when I'm not taking her out of context. She's a very definite part of whole gestalt, your girl is, albeit an ideosyncratic one.

[lagilman]

*frown* If I were posting someone else's words, I'd have credited them....

Ah well.

And yeah, some day this book will be done, and y'all will be able to laugh (or not) at the places I hope you'll laugh (or not).

[debg.livejournal.com]

If I were posting someone else's words, I'd have credited them....

That's exactly what I thought you *were* doing. I thought "darling d'jour" was a website or something I'd missed the original link to, somewhere in an earlier post. Now I know where it comes from, I can readjust my brain.