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Nov. 3rd, 2023 06:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
landingtree1. I have glasses for shortsightedness. Each time I put them on, I spend a while going, 'Gosh, distant things are beautiful,' and then I adjust and start thinking wistfully about being able to see like an eagle. Having regained the ability to read the names of shops across the street, it's easy to imagine being able to read the names of boats across the harbor.
2. I am finishing my writing-course novel by Monday. When I say 'finishing', I mean 'slapping the wishy-washiest, most dream logic-y ending I can onto about the first two thirds of a novel.' The material in the unwritten third includes all the events I thought would be in the novel when I started it. To the amazement of all who know me, I turn out to be bad at plans.
However, since I got covid two weeks ago, which completely knocked me down for what was meant to be a period of intensive writing, I am happy just to have made wordcount. Also happy that covid appears to be departing gracefully. I can already smell things again.
3. I have a part-time job in a bookshop. This is the same one I did a day at a while back, now ongoing. I have been asked to recommend books to order, and given a budget to draft an order of boardgames, since the shop owner knows nothing of them. (The sad part of this job is that I've got it because the co-owners, who were a couple, split up; it's the departing one who handled the board game side of the shop).
Today my bookshop job also involved helping carry the masses of plywood left over from the renovations out to a surprisingly small car with a surprisingly small trailer parked (surprisingly) in the middle of the main street with its hazard lights on, since there had been nowhere else for it to park. (Why was there so much spare plywood? Did a shelving plan change? Must ask).
2. I am finishing my writing-course novel by Monday. When I say 'finishing', I mean 'slapping the wishy-washiest, most dream logic-y ending I can onto about the first two thirds of a novel.' The material in the unwritten third includes all the events I thought would be in the novel when I started it. To the amazement of all who know me, I turn out to be bad at plans.
However, since I got covid two weeks ago, which completely knocked me down for what was meant to be a period of intensive writing, I am happy just to have made wordcount. Also happy that covid appears to be departing gracefully. I can already smell things again.
3. I have a part-time job in a bookshop. This is the same one I did a day at a while back, now ongoing. I have been asked to recommend books to order, and given a budget to draft an order of boardgames, since the shop owner knows nothing of them. (The sad part of this job is that I've got it because the co-owners, who were a couple, split up; it's the departing one who handled the board game side of the shop).
Today my bookshop job also involved helping carry the masses of plywood left over from the renovations out to a surprisingly small car with a surprisingly small trailer parked (surprisingly) in the middle of the main street with its hazard lights on, since there had been nowhere else for it to park. (Why was there so much spare plywood? Did a shelving plan change? Must ask).
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Date: 2023-11-03 05:17 pm (UTC)And yay for the bookstore job!