Sickly ramblings
Oct. 1st, 2006 06:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katiefooleryOh, 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,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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”...
*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”...
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on 2006-10-01 08:27 am (UTC)And could you tell me wot DeviantArt is about?
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on 2006-10-01 08:33 am (UTC)DeviantArt (http://www.deviantart.com) is a place which is a little like LiveJournal, only people share their artwork, fanart, fanfics and fiction with others. I'm becoming quite addicted to it, really, and I need some more people to
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on 2006-10-01 08:31 am (UTC)Welcome back, you poor sick person!
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on 2006-10-01 08:34 am (UTC)*sniffles*
Stupid virus, ruining the rest of my holidays...
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on 2006-10-01 09:03 am (UTC)Maybe Pickle can warm you up during your hour of need? Although, knowing kitties, that's not always the case with them...
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on 2006-10-01 09:27 am (UTC)Pickle is curled up beside me, right next to the modem/router, keeping me company.
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on 2006-10-01 09:34 am (UTC)no subject
on 2006-10-01 11:47 am (UTC)*loves Ikvar*
he's even better than Daniel Jackson :D
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on 2006-10-02 01:29 am (UTC)That is high praise indeed.
I just hope it doesn't go to Ikvar's head...
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on 2006-10-01 02:30 pm (UTC)DEVIANTART!! *muchlove* I am so horribly addicted to that site :D I only just registered an account ^_^ http://berryllium.deviantart.com/
I shall
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on 2006-10-02 01:28 am (UTC)As for Beechy, it was a pleasant and relaxing couple of days.
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on 2006-10-01 03:10 pm (UTC)I'm looking forward to being able to read your stories ^_^
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on 2006-10-02 01:26 am (UTC)Thank-you for your encouragement with my stories. I'll try and get some up soon. :)
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on 2006-10-02 01:28 am (UTC)you're welcome! I'll be on the look out for them
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on 2006-10-01 04:48 pm (UTC)I will now sit here at my computer and stare at it until Postcards appears. I want, want, want to read that story.
In the meantime, I am still pondering Lizzie's letter to Jane. And Cassandra's mental state. And my evil, evil grad school application that calls to me with the voice of responsibility when I would far rather be writing.
Also, I highly recommend The Ghost Writer by John Harwood. I just finished it, and it is wonderfully Gothic and spooky. *shivers delightedly*
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on 2006-10-02 01:27 am (UTC)*accepts fuzzy blanket and confused cat*
I shall make Postcards the first story to be posted, if you are so interested in reading it. :D
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on 2006-10-02 03:15 pm (UTC)I was brutally forced to leave my computer by an SCA business meeting. But I'm back now. Soon, I shall be forced away by school. But I shall continue checking!
HUZZAH for Postcards! Postcards intrigued me from the first snippet. Besides that, I love stories told through letters and diaries.
Speaking of which, I hope to have Lizzie's letter done this afternoon. I have to go about requesting transcripts for grad school, but that shouldn't take me horribly long. Plenty of time for thinking and writing.
*snugs and hopes you feel better soon*
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on 2006-10-01 04:58 pm (UTC)no subject
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on 2006-10-02 01:39 am (UTC)Most. Unweildy. Sentence. Ever.
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on 2006-10-02 10:36 am (UTC)I can't wait to read your stories :) :)
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on 2006-10-02 10:41 am (UTC)*stalks*
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on 2006-10-02 10:54 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2006-10-03 12:23 am (UTC)I'll be posting something soon, hopefully.