Sickly ramblings

Oh, I am sick.  Indeed I am.

*cough*

*cough*

*sniffle*

How awful, for this means I am given an extra two days off, meaning my first week back at work will consist of Wednesday and Thursday and my regular Friday off.  Pity me.

Mind you, I’d be enjoying it a lot more if I could actually do things such as breathe through my nose or swallow without feeling as though someone has stuffed a bushel of razors down my throat.  But, on the up side, I get two days off work!  Huzzah!

*cough*

I think this could be revenge for my forgetting I was supposed to be a rain magnet.  These duties completely slipped my mind when I went up to Beechy and the weather remained warm and blue-skied the whole time I was there.  In revenge for this lack of inclemency, I have been gifted with this virusy thing.

But did I mention the two days off?

*snuggles medical certificate*

In non-sickly news, I managed to cope for almost two days without internet in Beechworth.  Of course, I was on it right up until I had to leave and I may have responded to comments on my LJ when I got home last night at, oh, say, around eleven thirty at night.  While I was up there, though, I managed to have a couple of revelations and they are as follows.

The internet seems to have affected me to the point where I hardly ever open WordPerfect any more.  That word-processor used to be one of my greatest loves.  I clung to it when Word tried to overwhelm it and I considered myself one of its greatest fangirls.  And now?  Now, I don’t care what programme I use to write.  Well, as long as it’s not MS Word.  I don’t bother with prettying things up the way I used to.  In fact, it now seems wrong to put only one space after a paragraph and to indent the next line; I'm more accustomed to leaving out indents altogether and double-spacing after paragraphs.

In related news, I think I’ve made a decision of sorts regarding my writing.  I’m going to take some of my favourite stories of recent years - Apple Pye, Postcards, Why I Ran Away and Joined the Nunnery and an as yet unfinished and un-named story - do a final edit (or in one case, a first complete draft) and just post them on my LJ or DeviantART for people to read.  Because I’ve realised that’s really my main aim in writing - for people to read what I’ve written.  My biggest disappointment in not being able to get Postcards published so far isn’t that I won’t get paid for it or get a publication credit.  No, it’s that people won't be able to read it.  And I really want people to read it.  I love this story and I simply want to share it.

So I shall.  Along with others.  And if I get the re-draft of Nunnery right, crazedturkey might actually be able to start a club of Ikvar fangirls.

*loves Ikvar*

Speaking of DeviantART - who out there has an account?  Let me know so I can watch you.

Hehe - “watch you”.  I love it.  It sounds so stalkerish.  Which is probably the reason I’ve set my status to “lurker”...