i've been working on the railroad (and other publications) ~

crazy dreams last night:

polar bears
ponies with no brakes
sesame crackers.
crazy stuff.

in school and life:

i have a research paper due on sunday and yesterday i finally came up with a topic. so now that Jack no. 1 is finished and off to the printer, i can actually do my homework. i don't think Eleison no, 4 will be done until next week, but i can't work on it now because i'm waiting on paintings from my brother. so for the next day or so, my time is my own ~ yay!

in other non-writing reading:

just to show that i'm not a totally obsessed human being, i'm reading behren's The Law of Dreams, which was recommended by inkidink. i don't think i love it as much as moo moo loves it, but i'm enjoying the journey so far (only about 50 pages in).

in pursuance:

in the evenings i've been scanning Poore (just the relevant sections). i'm so sick of looking at it, i figure i better make a copy since i have to send it back to its library home and i'm sure i won't be finished needing it before its july due date.

i purposely have not been writing. read parts of Between the Lines: Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After, which was hilarious on some levels (oh betty, where you get your ideas!), and parts of Come Retribution, which finally cleared up for me a question i'd had forever and a day about how they knew who had done it so quickly. it was the horse! the one-eyed horse that Chammy left wandering. the stabler knew who he had loaned it to. that pretty much makes it the Chammy's fault that all of them went to the gallows (how's that for irony). so, betty, how clever was he anyway? i really should stop snarking on betty ~ but i don't know how she can claim "trauma" or "ruse" when his stupidity is so well documented outside of that prison and when it causes so much havoc where a smart agent would have been, well, smart.

but that's the extent of any sort of research i've done. like i said, i'm not writing. i'm just letting everything settle in like gumbo in the hopes that if it simmers a while, it'll be all cooked up and ready to serve when i get back to it. (which will prolly be this weekend). i've already designated july 4th a total writing day, so i'm looking forward to that. doubt i'll manage to squeeze whole book out by the 7th, but i'd be happy with a thin start-to-finish of about 25-30k to get things rolling. i said "draft", didn't say how breezy!

and oh what the hoo, i'll attempt the week's writers_five it in the spirit of the challenge.

( answering for Poppet )

in conclusion:

i'll prolly upload a picture of the day later this afternoon. happy thursday all!

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