Wednesday...
Feb. 11th, 2009 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fajrdrakoAn interesting day.
Odds and ends from today:
- I walked in the rain for the first time since... November, I guess. Not heavy rain. Just... rain. Drizzle at lunchtime, more rain later, after supper. I suppose it will all be frozen again tomorrow. This weather is so much easier to cope with than temperatures of minus thirty.
- I took a bus for the first time since ... before Christmas. My bus pass is good until yjr end of March. Yay! (Well, it's the least they can do, after abandoning us for two months.)
- The bus I took was a new one - the #12. Which I suppose replaces the #2 east of the Rideau Centre. I Do Not Approve, but they don't care about that.
- After mI went to the Sony store and looked at their e-readers. Specifically, the PRS505 and the PRS700. I love them both, but only need one. The PRS700 is spiffier, but costs more. Decisions, decisions.
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maaseru suggests I should study French at Algonquin rather than Alliance Française. Lisa liked Alliance Française. Alliance Française is easier to get to. Self-study would cost easier and I see ways to do it, if I'm disciplined enough. - Dinner was at the Bento Sushi place on Rideau, which we love. Me, maaseru, maaboroshi, and Yolande, who's leaving Ottawa tomorrow. We shared the Tempura rolls, the Fantasy rolls, and the Rocky Mountain rolls. And salmon. Ate every scrap and wanted more, so we went to the Elgin Street Diner for dessert.
- Over dinner, maaboroshi drew aprons. Afterwards, I looked apron patterns up online. Found some gorgeous fabric in my closet. Not sure how much I feel like sewing, though. I really like the cobbler's aprons, including the one here with a little skirt on it. But what I really want is one of those gorgeous old full long aprons like nurses used to wear. I have white fabric, too.
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Date: 2009-02-12 04:21 am (UTC)Full, long nurse apron? Say, were you in France during the Great War? Did you meet my grandfather, the American medic...?
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Date: 2009-02-12 04:37 am (UTC)Yeah. Me too. The day it ended (Feb. 2, though buses didn't actually start running for a while), the mayor went to ceremonially open the O-train. Some of our mutual friends (like
They've been phasing the buses in slowly.
were you in France during the Great War?
Makes me think of Passchendaele (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1092082/) and the sexiest scene I've seen in movies in ages. (The heroine is a WWI nurse. The hero is Paul Gross.)
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Date: 2009-02-12 07:44 pm (UTC)Yes. Even though it's been slippery, walking has been so delightfully easy for that past 48 hours.
You know, we're almost at mid-February. I'm getting impatient for spring. Bring it on, dammit! Soon!
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Date: 2009-02-12 10:53 pm (UTC)Absolutely. The proof of the pudding is in the writing, but if Steven Moffat and his friends are up to it, I think Matt Smith will be.
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Date: 2009-02-13 01:33 am (UTC)I thought the desire to write Eden would kick in soon as I was done with school, but it hasn't happened yet. I try to think of why it was so easy to write at the one point where I wrote a lot, but I'm not sure what it was, really. Part of me wants to be inspired; another part thinks I just need to do it, like work.
But I'm not sure I could ever treat it like work.
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Date: 2009-02-13 01:43 am (UTC)What do you think Dorothy Dunnett did?
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Date: 2009-02-13 02:01 am (UTC)Good question. I'm not sure but I would guess:
- went back to original sources and worked on the history a bit
- thought of something new and startling to introduce
I know she didn't edit and go over old chapter a lot, as I tend to do rather too much.
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Date: 2009-02-13 02:12 am (UTC)And though one can (sometimes) push oneself to write for the sake of writing, it's awfully hard to force quality writing.
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Date: 2009-02-13 02:36 am (UTC)I think all writers relate to not liking earlier writing. This is always true and probably always will be true of my writing.
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Date: 2009-02-13 02:53 am (UTC)While I am writing something, I always think it's terrific. It has to be written. That's why I'm writing.
Soon as it's done, I think it's terrible and I might as well burn it.
Soon as I do an edit, I think there might possibly be some faint hope for it.
Two days and another edit later, it looks okay.
Months after it's posted or published or whatever, it looks brilliant, and I'm asking myself, "Did I write that?" because it vanishes from my memory somehow. Even though at the time I was writing it every word is etched in my brain.
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