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I have been insane errand-running person today. Got my hair cut, so that I look somewhat less like I'm wearing a badly groomed poodle on my head. Got a birthday present for a friend, a just-'cause present for another friend, and two books, one on the labyrinth as a meditation tool, one on the Tarot, both research, as it happens, for The Project. Went to the bank. Picked up a prescription (which represents a small triumph over the many-headed monster Bureaucracie, as Spenser would probably have called it) and other assorted nostrums. Lobbed another turnip *ba-crunk-thunk-WHOP!*. And bought more stamps. Bought necessary articles of clothing. Bought milk. Did a load of laundry.

Net words, Proj2.3: 45

The gross was probably more like 200, but 155 of those were a false scent. *sigh*

Yoga tonight, after which hopefully some of the knotted-up tension in my shoulders will have dissipated. That, anyway, is the plan. And then maybe I'll be able to figure out why my plot-hounds are running in circles, whining piteously, unable to tell me which way the fox of the story has gone. (I really don't like letting go of metaphors until I'm sure they're dead.) Tomorrow I must have converse with my dissertation, so I would really very much like to at least get INTO this damn scene tonight. *put-upon sigh*

[ETA: Dude, I am so frazzled. I split an infinitive. Ack. Thpbbbt.]

Date: 2003-04-02 06:37 pm (UTC)
vass: Small turtle with green leaf in its mouth (Default)
From: [personal profile] vass
I really don't like letting go of metaphors until I'm sure they're dead

That's sound. Otherwise they might sneak up behind you.

Date: 2003-04-02 08:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com
Oh, by the time I'm done with them, they wouldn't dare.
*sinister laugh*

Plott hounds

Date: 2003-04-02 06:49 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Dorothea here --

You know, there is such a thing as a Plott hound. It's the state dog of North Carolina. No, really. I'm not kidding. Google for yourself.

Re: Plott hounds

Date: 2003-04-02 07:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com
And my metaphor turns into a pun! How perfect is that?

Thank you. My cup runneth over. (And I'm giggling like a fiend.)

Date: 2003-04-02 07:09 pm (UTC)
pameladean: (Default)
From: [personal profile] pameladean
Oh oh oh! Want for sigline!

"I really don't like letting go of metaphors until I'm sure they're dead."

Oooo.

Pamela

Date: 2003-04-02 07:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com
You are very welcome to use it.

(And now I feel all cool and, you know, wow. Thanks!)

Date: 2003-04-03 01:46 pm (UTC)
pameladean: (Default)
From: [personal profile] pameladean
How, if at all, ought I to attribute it?

I should warn you that it takes me forever to change my sigline. It's just that now I'm really launched on the Liavek novel, I figure I can retire that poor tattered JMF thing for a bit.

And yours is very apposite.

Pamela

Date: 2003-04-06 07:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com
Gah. Sorry, Pamela, I spaced on actually ANSWERING this. (Can't you just, you know, read my mind? It'd be so much easier. *g*)

I don't really care which name you use. Whichever one seems most appropriate to you.

Date: 2003-04-03 06:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oracne.livejournal.com
Mmm, turnips.

Date: 2003-04-03 10:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] space-parasite.livejournal.com
The importance of keeping one's cranial poodles well groomed cannot be overstated.

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