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tarotgalHope everyone had a good 4th of July! It's not my favorite of holidays, but I did watch a few fireworks on tv in-between looking out the window to make sure the idiots lighting them in the street weren't too close to my finally-paid-off car.
Didn't get much sleep last night. Couldn't fall asleep. Dunno why, but ever since I last washed my sheets the pillows and blankets just don't sit right any more. Very annoying.
Anyway... went to work and had a good day. I love my work *hugs my work* After work I went to Walmart and bought some things (under $10, I'm a real big spender) and then I walked over the Burger King. I eat fast food maybe four times a year. Usually it's Wendy's but Burger King has Morning Star Farms veggie burgers. So I treated myself to a meal for dinner. Then I drove over to the library and learned how their computers with internet usage system works (it's pretty impressive- in Iowa you just signed a piece of paper, here you scan in your own library car and it assigns you a terminal and (if it's already being used) it has a display you can watch with the minutes counting down until your terminal is ready) Hmm. I just layered parentheses badly... ugh, I got little sleep last night and I don't care about syntax right now. LOL I checked out the next hockey romance novel in the series (I still have to read #1 but I've read #2 and #3 and #5&6 haven't been published yet! ARG! Can't wait!) so I'm dying to start that even though I SHOULD be finishing Wicked or doing work for one of my old jobs.
The whole reason for going to the library was the monthly writer's group, though. A nice turnout for a rainy day- 9 people including me. It was lead by the woman of a girl I went to high school with. She was kind of a... I dunno how to describe her, but social outcase is being nice. She was in my girl scout troop for a number of years, too. Her whole family's a little... again, wierd isn't going far enough. I really don't know how to describe them, honestly. ANYWAY, it was nice. Four people read their works and we all gave feedback. I brought a story I'm having trouble with but didn't read it. I didn't feel comfortable jumping in like that my first time. But I hope I gave a little good feedback. And maybe next time I'll read. You totally can't walk into a group of strangers in conservative red state Virginia and start reading a story set in a gay club, you know? Of course, the story I'm working on now is all about a het relationship and doesn't take place much in the club, but the boys are there and I didn't want to throw that in people's faces the first time before I sized them up, obviously. As two of the people were very military, I'm glad I didn't read. Though one of the women is clearly a pagan and has a dog named Winter Solstice so, really, I think the whole group is pretty open minded.
So, yeah, it was good. I look forward to it next month. Not sure my story can wait that long... but I'm having such a hard time with it, who knows? It's just REALLY nice right now, surrounding myself with writers. Now if I could just get an intelligent, caring, artistic boyfriend with a propensity to catch colds, I'd be all set ;-)
All righty. I'm playing with a Strokes story about Robert right now. It's close to being done, which I'm happy about. Then I can get back to Julia's story and figure out what the hell to do about it. Grrr. Why won't it cooperate with me?
EDIT: OH! I almost forgot to mention! On the way home on the radio I heard 'Hips Don't Lie' by Shakira which has been my absolute favorite song since the end of May. It's the song I equate with my Strokes story 'Okay' (not yet posted) and I'm totally in love with it. And Shakira isn't too bad either... But, yeah, quite a coincidence it being my current favorite writing-related song coming on the radio as I was driving home from a writing workshop! I cranked it up, naturally. So happy :-)
Didn't get much sleep last night. Couldn't fall asleep. Dunno why, but ever since I last washed my sheets the pillows and blankets just don't sit right any more. Very annoying.
Anyway... went to work and had a good day. I love my work *hugs my work* After work I went to Walmart and bought some things (under $10, I'm a real big spender) and then I walked over the Burger King. I eat fast food maybe four times a year. Usually it's Wendy's but Burger King has Morning Star Farms veggie burgers. So I treated myself to a meal for dinner. Then I drove over to the library and learned how their computers with internet usage system works (it's pretty impressive- in Iowa you just signed a piece of paper, here you scan in your own library car and it assigns you a terminal and (if it's already being used) it has a display you can watch with the minutes counting down until your terminal is ready) Hmm. I just layered parentheses badly... ugh, I got little sleep last night and I don't care about syntax right now. LOL I checked out the next hockey romance novel in the series (I still have to read #1 but I've read #2 and #3 and #5&6 haven't been published yet! ARG! Can't wait!) so I'm dying to start that even though I SHOULD be finishing Wicked or doing work for one of my old jobs.
The whole reason for going to the library was the monthly writer's group, though. A nice turnout for a rainy day- 9 people including me. It was lead by the woman of a girl I went to high school with. She was kind of a... I dunno how to describe her, but social outcase is being nice. She was in my girl scout troop for a number of years, too. Her whole family's a little... again, wierd isn't going far enough. I really don't know how to describe them, honestly. ANYWAY, it was nice. Four people read their works and we all gave feedback. I brought a story I'm having trouble with but didn't read it. I didn't feel comfortable jumping in like that my first time. But I hope I gave a little good feedback. And maybe next time I'll read. You totally can't walk into a group of strangers in conservative red state Virginia and start reading a story set in a gay club, you know? Of course, the story I'm working on now is all about a het relationship and doesn't take place much in the club, but the boys are there and I didn't want to throw that in people's faces the first time before I sized them up, obviously. As two of the people were very military, I'm glad I didn't read. Though one of the women is clearly a pagan and has a dog named Winter Solstice so, really, I think the whole group is pretty open minded.
So, yeah, it was good. I look forward to it next month. Not sure my story can wait that long... but I'm having such a hard time with it, who knows? It's just REALLY nice right now, surrounding myself with writers. Now if I could just get an intelligent, caring, artistic boyfriend with a propensity to catch colds, I'd be all set ;-)
All righty. I'm playing with a Strokes story about Robert right now. It's close to being done, which I'm happy about. Then I can get back to Julia's story and figure out what the hell to do about it. Grrr. Why won't it cooperate with me?
EDIT: OH! I almost forgot to mention! On the way home on the radio I heard 'Hips Don't Lie' by Shakira which has been my absolute favorite song since the end of May. It's the song I equate with my Strokes story 'Okay' (not yet posted) and I'm totally in love with it. And Shakira isn't too bad either... But, yeah, quite a coincidence it being my current favorite writing-related song coming on the radio as I was driving home from a writing workshop! I cranked it up, naturally. So happy :-)
