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Distillation of today
Dec. 1st, 2009 10:45 pm71,000 words! Only 39,000 to go, and we're starting to reach the tipping point where instead of thinking, oh my god it's like building the Great Wall of China with a spoon, I start thinking uneasily, There sure is a lot of STUFF left to cram into this book. This is a good sign.
Lost a big chunk of the day to the ophthalmologist--they always dilate my eyes, so that's an hour and a half actually in the doctor's office* and then another three or four hours afterwards where I'm as useful as a screen door on a submarine--so those approximately 2,000 words of progress are particularly gratifying.
Heard a thing on NPR this afternoon about the first Jamaican dog musher, Newton Marshall; he's already completed the Yukon Quest and is training for the Iditarod. This is a completely awesome kind of craziness, and I salute him for it.
And I am taking my tired and much abusèd eyes to bed.
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*My favorite comment from today: "Your nerves look great."
Lost a big chunk of the day to the ophthalmologist--they always dilate my eyes, so that's an hour and a half actually in the doctor's office* and then another three or four hours afterwards where I'm as useful as a screen door on a submarine--so those approximately 2,000 words of progress are particularly gratifying.
Heard a thing on NPR this afternoon about the first Jamaican dog musher, Newton Marshall; he's already completed the Yukon Quest and is training for the Iditarod. This is a completely awesome kind of craziness, and I salute him for it.
And I am taking my tired and much abusèd eyes to bed.
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*My favorite comment from today: "Your nerves look great."
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