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Aug. 19th, 2021 01:00 pmDaily life: Thanks in part to magic sticky eucalyptus plaster things, I am feeling better than I was but still a bit odd here and there. The weather is bizarre. August here is usually bright and sunny and very hot, in the 30s/90s; this year it has been raining heavily and constantly and it’s so cool I have the airconditioner off and the window open right now. This is fine for me, a summer-sufferer; a big nuisance for the national high school baseball tournament; and a terrible disaster for people living in places prone to flooding and landslides. :(
Music: If music, like fic, can be iddy, here are two different versions of it: the Moszkowski E major piano concerto, which is Romantic id at its finest, and Liu Chang singing "Five More Minutes’ Sleep" (a song by his friend the talented Wang Leda), in which he manages to make quite mundane “I’m gonna get up, I won’t be late, I just want another five minutes’ snooze” lyrics sound incredibly NSFW. A delight.
Books: Rereading Hermione Ranfurly’s WWII diaries, which she mostly spent as an aide/secretary to high-ranking British army officers in the Middle East; she seems to have been one of those people who can charm their way into absolutely anything, but fortunately morally good. ( Ranfurly in the bag )
Chinese: ( The Rebel through ep. 28 or so )
Writing: I think I now have a working outline for book 2, enough to get started writing (if I have about 1.5 outline items per number of projected chapters, and a general arc, that’s a working framework). There are still a number of open questions which I hope will come out as I actually write. Also I suddenly feel like I’m juggling a huge cast, even though the POV is the three main characters only. Lots of lovely moral dilemmas for everyone.
Photos: A day trip to some waterfalls (on a day when it wasn’t raining).
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Be safe and well.
Music: If music, like fic, can be iddy, here are two different versions of it: the Moszkowski E major piano concerto, which is Romantic id at its finest, and Liu Chang singing "Five More Minutes’ Sleep" (a song by his friend the talented Wang Leda), in which he manages to make quite mundane “I’m gonna get up, I won’t be late, I just want another five minutes’ snooze” lyrics sound incredibly NSFW. A delight.
Books: Rereading Hermione Ranfurly’s WWII diaries, which she mostly spent as an aide/secretary to high-ranking British army officers in the Middle East; she seems to have been one of those people who can charm their way into absolutely anything, but fortunately morally good. ( Ranfurly in the bag )
Chinese: ( The Rebel through ep. 28 or so )
Writing: I think I now have a working outline for book 2, enough to get started writing (if I have about 1.5 outline items per number of projected chapters, and a general arc, that’s a working framework). There are still a number of open questions which I hope will come out as I actually write. Also I suddenly feel like I’m juggling a huge cast, even though the POV is the three main characters only. Lots of lovely moral dilemmas for everyone.
Photos: A day trip to some waterfalls (on a day when it wasn’t raining).
( Read more... )
Be safe and well.
