I can tell that I'll be one of the later posters every day to Holidailies. But I'll still do it! It's one thing for me to write something and post it every day, and it would be quite another to try to do it any earlier than nine or ten at night (or eleven....). But again, at least I'm doing it.
The most productive thing I did today was to finish and turn in my writing portfolio for my fiction class. I had written three stories during the semester, and we had to significantly revise one of them, and write revision strategies for the other two. I wrote the revision strategies first; this was sort of arduous, but really helpful because I plan to work on these two stories ("Lovely" and "Smokestack") as part of my independent study next semester. Doing the actual revisions to my third story was even more difficult. The story was somewhat (well, more than somewhat) based on some things that happened with my family over the past 10 years or so, and I was really surprised at the positive feedback everyone gave me. I guess it's pretty common knowledge that people like to read about somewhat train-wreck type situations, but it never really occured to me that my own situations could be that interesting. I can admit that I know my strength in writing often lies in capturing the nuances and details of people, and kind of honing in on their thoughts and psychology, and the things I was writing about lend themselves to that pretty easily. If that makes any sense AT ALL. Anyway, I wrote a few more vignettes to add to the story I already had, and removed a whole huge sub-plot which I like as maybe its own story but which was really distracting as part of this one. So, there is another project. Lots of stuff to get done in the next few months if I am really going to make the SLS thing happen in July.
There is a lot to get done in a lot of areas - I still have two final exams, one test, and one project to do next week; a myriad of doctor's appointments; holiday travel plans still need to be confirmed; and I really, really, really need to just calm down a little bit in certain areas and take care of myself.
Work tonight was good - there is this really nice couple that comes in who, in the time that I have worked there (about 1 1/2 years), have dated, become engaged, and gotten married. I used to wait on them all the time when they were "courting" (and yes, that's how it was - a true courtship), and I waited on them the night they were engaged. They spent a few months in England, and tonight was the first time I had seen them since August or so. It wasn't the busiest night, but it also wasn't the slowest, and I was able to talk to my mom and brother both on the drive home. Now I'm going to curl up in my little fleece wonderland, watch The Colbert Report, and go to bed. I'm taking a break from schoolwork tomorrow and will probably do a little shopping with D before going to work. I'm very very low on the holiday spririt meter so far this year, so maybe some exposure to a mall and decorations and screaming children will help. Or not.
The most productive thing I did today was to finish and turn in my writing portfolio for my fiction class. I had written three stories during the semester, and we had to significantly revise one of them, and write revision strategies for the other two. I wrote the revision strategies first; this was sort of arduous, but really helpful because I plan to work on these two stories ("Lovely" and "Smokestack") as part of my independent study next semester. Doing the actual revisions to my third story was even more difficult. The story was somewhat (well, more than somewhat) based on some things that happened with my family over the past 10 years or so, and I was really surprised at the positive feedback everyone gave me. I guess it's pretty common knowledge that people like to read about somewhat train-wreck type situations, but it never really occured to me that my own situations could be that interesting. I can admit that I know my strength in writing often lies in capturing the nuances and details of people, and kind of honing in on their thoughts and psychology, and the things I was writing about lend themselves to that pretty easily. If that makes any sense AT ALL. Anyway, I wrote a few more vignettes to add to the story I already had, and removed a whole huge sub-plot which I like as maybe its own story but which was really distracting as part of this one. So, there is another project. Lots of stuff to get done in the next few months if I am really going to make the SLS thing happen in July.
There is a lot to get done in a lot of areas - I still have two final exams, one test, and one project to do next week; a myriad of doctor's appointments; holiday travel plans still need to be confirmed; and I really, really, really need to just calm down a little bit in certain areas and take care of myself.
Work tonight was good - there is this really nice couple that comes in who, in the time that I have worked there (about 1 1/2 years), have dated, become engaged, and gotten married. I used to wait on them all the time when they were "courting" (and yes, that's how it was - a true courtship), and I waited on them the night they were engaged. They spent a few months in England, and tonight was the first time I had seen them since August or so. It wasn't the busiest night, but it also wasn't the slowest, and I was able to talk to my mom and brother both on the drive home. Now I'm going to curl up in my little fleece wonderland, watch The Colbert Report, and go to bed. I'm taking a break from schoolwork tomorrow and will probably do a little shopping with D before going to work. I'm very very low on the holiday spririt meter so far this year, so maybe some exposure to a mall and decorations and screaming children will help. Or not.
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