I saw a tweet on FB from someone attending that showing, so it’s my impression that all went well. Thank goodness.<\/p>\n
I’ve reached the stage of the crud in which I pile pillows into a huge mass, with the two new heavy ones as the core of the mound, and sleep semi-upright, like a shipwrecked sailor clinging to a rock. It at least prevents the coughing fits. And we both went to bed early last night: about 9. And got up at 7-7:30. That’s how tired and run down we are. Jane’s on her second round of antibiotic, which makes you slow, and I’m on the tail end of the crud, so I don’t feel too spiff either; we both got soaked to the skin in ice water, then had to go to dinner and a social function, and I just said to hell with the diet and ordered pizza—but Pizza Hut got my order wrong and gave me half pepperoni and half black olive on mine. Waa. I wanted them mixed. But I’ll live, she says, coughing.<\/p>\n
Weather’s grey and heavy; it’ll be twilight by 3pm, this season, with the clouds thick up there.<\/p>\n
The good news is I’m making slow progress on the writing—not the slow part. The progress part. That’s good. If I can get through the section where I have to handle moving everybody about the map, and get to the people interacting part, that will go much faster. It’s a law of nature that you have to work the hardest on the scenes that just aren’t by their nature exciting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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