Half past the day, making hay

[sovay]

I have an ear infection! I thought it was weather-changing headaches from the not-an-easter, but no. It got to the point where it hurt too much to sleep on my left side and I saw a doctor. I really could have sworn this model was supposed to come with an immune system.

In better news, greygirlbeast linked me the Decemberists' latest drowning song: "Rusalka, Rusalka/Wild Rushes." Salt marsh, sirens, and wedding the sea. Yes, all right.

I may revise my plans for this evening to collapse.

Comments

[selkie]

Please make sure it's not something more exotic, like phossy jaw, but up really high.

I am trying to write about BOY PEOPLE and the AFAB PEOPLE keep TAKING OVER THE BOOK. *throws a quiet tantrum*

[asakiyume]

*reads in growing horror about phossy jaw*


yiiiiiiiikes

[sovay]

Please make sure it's not something more exotic, like phossy jaw, but up really high.

The doctor was looking into my ear when she made the diagnosis, which gives me hope.

I am trying to write about BOY PEOPLE and the AFAB PEOPLE keep TAKING OVER THE BOOK.

SO SHERBOURNE GETS A B-PLOT HE'LL SURVIVE.

(Was he supposed to be the A-plot? I thought the A-plot was surprise baby is the worst anniversary present and everything else was happening around that.)

*hugs*

[selkie]

Everybody From the First Volume's Various Voyages of Emotional Discovery, Good, Bad, Indifferent, or Involving Criminal Conversation AND OR Surprise Baby Being the Worst &c., was the A plot, and I've Brought My Observant Jewish Um Fiancee Maybe Something We Didn't Cover This on the Way Here to Your Burns Supper is the B plot.

And I am glad antibiotics exist in this day and age.

[sovay]

Everybody From the First Volume's Various Voyages of Emotional Discovery, Good, Bad, Indifferent, or Involving Criminal Conversation AND OR Surprise Baby Being the Worst &c., was the A plot, and I've Brought My Observant Jewish Um Fiancee Maybe Something We Didn't Cover This on the Way Here to Your Burns Supper is the B plot.

Gotcha. Well, that sounds like he was always sharing the A-plot, then. I trust you. This book may just be more complex than the last.

And I am glad antibiotics exist in this day and age.

Me too. I'm pretty sure without them I'd be actually dead.

[selkie]

Or it could all go completely bonkers haywire, as I haven't written from outline since high school when it involved grades. *deep breaths*

You're a delicate gilled flower and I very very much prefer you alive!

[sovay]

Or it could all go completely bonkers haywire, as I haven't written from outline since high school when it involved grades.

It might. Then you'll revise it. I'm looking forward.

*hugs*

You're a delicate gilled flower and I very very much prefer you alive!

I don't think of myself as fragile! If I were fragile, I think I'd also be dead. But I'll take the gills.

[selkie]

I didn't say fragile, I said delicate. Hmf.

I am literally prodding a delicate pile of words around right now. They're sort of doing what I want.

[sovay]

I didn't say fragile, I said delicate. Hmf.

Okay, words matter. Lightning, lighting bug. That's fair.

I am literally prodding a delicate pile of words around right now. They're sort of doing what I want.

Want me to look at them?

[selkie]

As soon as there are more than 200, I'm counting on it. (There are more than 200 in general, but still mostly ellipsis and semaphore. And panic, anxiety, and agonized drymouth.)