November 25th
2:30pm
Hi, I'm still here. ;) I just don't seem to have the need to write so much
when I'm here with Jevim. At least not to write in my journal... I've been
working on a new short story since last Thursday, and that's been taking up some of my time.
Except for a little go-nowhere something I started a few weeks ago
at home, this is the first time I've written a short story in ages. The idea
just hit me out of the blue, after I'd been reading the misc.writing newsgroup
for a week or so, and it's taking off. I've been doing some research online
while Jevim is off at work, writing some in the evenings while he plays on
the computer, and then typing in my hand-written stuff the next day, and editing
some along the way.
So far it's really going well, and I'm hoping that when I'm done, I'll have
something that I finally feel is good enough to submit. I've found a few
resources online of different magazines to submit to, and I finally broke down
and bought the book on writing Fantasy & Sci Fi that I've been looking at for
the past 9 months. That also has a long list of publishers, as well as quite
a few essays on the craft itself, and I read a bit of that last night, once I
had finished hand writing about 9 pages of story. (Talk about a sore hand
afterward!!
Anyway, things with Jevim and I are going well... we went to the Air and
Space museum at the Smithsonian this past Saturday, looked around for a couple hours, and went to see one of the Imax movies that was playing. Sunday, we were lazy bums for the most part, but Jevim did go out and buy a new CD ROM drive because his old one has been choking on him more and more lately, especially when he went and tried to play Riven.
Tomorrow afternoon, we'll be heading out for a 7 hour drive to West Virginia
to spend Thanksgiving with his parents. I'm not too sure how long we'll stay, but when I talked to my mom on the phone Sunday night, she kept saying, "You're not going to share a bedroom while you're there, are you?" and going on and on about it. I told her I had no idea what the sleeping arrangements were going to be, but she kept harassing me about it, and it really spoiled my mood for the rest of the evening. I didn't really say anything to Jevim, since we'd not exactly had the best of evenings anyway, but I'm sure he could tell.
Yesterday morning, I was standing behind Jevim's chair while he was here at the computer, and when he went to turn around (it's a swivel chair, on casters),
the legs moved, and one of the casters rolled over my foot. OUCH! It hurt, and at first I wasn't sure if anything had been damaged. Jevim picked me up and carried me to the chair, and I felt my toes... no broken bones as far as I could tell, and after the initial smashing, it really didn't hurt too terribly. Jevim was beside himself, and asked if I wanted him to stay home and take care of me (although I think jokingly, since by then he was more or less convinced that I'd be okay). I took an ibuprofen after he left, and it hasn't bothered me since, so I guess no real harm was done.
I haven't been too terribly lazy today... admittedly, I'm still sitting here
in my nightgown, but I did get the dishes done up and put the chicken for dinner
to marinate earlier, and even cleaned up my pile of clothes in the bedroom. I
figure I'll go get dressed soon and go out and get the mail, then get to work on
dinner. I may get dressed sooner than I had planned, since the neighbor kitty
just came to the sliding glass doors and sat and listened to me babble for a
minute or two (once I finally figured out how to open the darn door!). I would
have opened the screen as well, so I could see if he'd let me pet him this time,
but there was a rather large spider right by where I was going to stick my hand
out. I don't *think* so.
My tummy's grumbling, so I guess I will go get dressed and find something to munch, and see if the kitty will come around to the front door. I miss my Munchie, and though I have the Catz Jevim gave me to play with (and now Dogz too, and I just hatched a Win95 Tamagotchi yesterday), it's just not the same as a real, live cat. I miss my brat. TTYL...
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