Dispatches
Mar. 5th, 2008 11:55 amI suppose it's that time between winter and spring (though it looks exceedingly spring-like around here) where nothing much happens. Other than the soap opera of the elections not much is going on, leaving me to detail minutia.
* They've now poured the footings for my sister's new house. There's still lots of grading to be done to the site and Sis is frustrated at the pace of building (even though there's nothing to complain about there. Sis and B.I.L. always think that things in construction are done far more quickly than they actually can be done). But, as the architect, thus far I think things are moving along nicely.
* Have finished the revamping of my study at home, laying the hardwood flooring, repainting the room, moving the book cases, moving the cable to my wi-fi to the closet so that the wires aren't everywhere. I still have a garage full of soon-to-be discarded books but have managed to get the thousand or so "keepers" back into the book case. And I got a new comfy chair for tv watching and vegging out.
* Saw "Children of Men" this past weekend. Interesting movie, but quite depressing. Still, glad I finally got to see it.
* Saw "300" last night for the first time and that movie is amazingly surreal. Sort of liked it though, and the abs were not hard on the eyes.
* Have experienced an excruciating case of writer's block recently. (I'm sorry Kelly!) It's been especially frustrating because it makes no sense. I have a 99% completed chapter. It's even been through editing twice and I'm still dissatisfied. How does one unstick what is stuck? I did manage to work on it last night (first time in ages I've managed to do anything substantial to it. It's been a bear). I'm about ready to scream 'enough' and simply post the chapter as is. Then, perhaps, I can move on with the story.
* Current audible book that I'm listening too - Stephen King's "Duma Key". Damn, how in the hell does that man write so fast? Seriously, this 8 part audio book was written post Katrina (there are references to Katrina). How can he be this prolific?
* Saw the BtVS comic spoiler that
* Am looking forward to the John Adams mini-series that's due out on HBO. It looks quite interesting. And the history is quite interesting. There's the John and Abigail Adams love story, who appear to have been genuinely devoted to one another. There's the fact that John Adams disliked Benjamin Franklin and frequently railed against him. There's the fact that Thomas Jefferson stabbed Adams in the back in truly appalling fashion. And there's the dichotomy that Adams was to all appearances a very principled man... who was quite unpopular with his contemporaries. Plenty of fodder for a mini-series.
* For bad (professional) fic funnies, I link you to an excerpt from the upcoming LKH novel Mermaids like it missionary. Who knew?
* Project Runway finale tonight, whee!
* Spring break vacation to the beach in 2 weeks. Double whee!
And, now, lunch is over and I'm back to work changing the structure of a school addition for the umpteenth time. Damn engineers.