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KJ ([personal profile] owlmoose) wrote2008-08-04 08:51 am

The system is down

Poof!

I didn't really mean to vanish. Time just got away from me, and then I looked up and realized I hadn't posted for a week. Mostly it's that my mental energy is being consumed by a work thing that's been dragging on forever, and annoying me to my last nerve, and too complicated and boring for me to want to talk about here really. Maybe once it's all resolved I can tell the sordid story.

[livejournal.com profile] amybang is in town for work, and I lured her out here a day early by promising otters. We went yesterday, and they were, as always, awesome. Best cure for a stressful week/month/year/whatever: going down to Monterey to watch the otters play. Pictures soon.

After a bunch of false starts, both mental and actual, I made some progress on one of the "out of the comfort zone" meme stories. It was fun to write once I actually was able to get going on it. I need to rethink the ending, but with a little luck I might be able to post it tonight. This meme seems like it will be good exercise, but writing exercises only work if you can motivate yourself to sit down and, you know, actually write.

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[identity profile] kunstarniki.livejournal.com 2008-08-04 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I shall be fascinated to see what you have come up with and hope it is within a fandom I am familiar with. ;)

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[identity profile] owlmoose.livejournal.com 2008-08-04 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I only got prompts for X-2 and FFXII, so you are safe on that account. This one... hmm. I am both really curious to know what you think of it and sort of convinced that you will hate it. ;) Unfortunately the only other librarian who works today called in sick, so my dreams of finishing it today have likely vanished. Maybe tomorrow morning.
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[identity profile] auronlu.livejournal.com 2008-08-05 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Otters!

No, really, having disappeared from time to time myself, I know so well there are times when your energy is just... elsewhere.

As long as you come back, so the bridge of words doesn't burn through (paraphrase from an odd Alice in Wonderland story I can't remember now combining Lewis Carroll with Emily Dickinson, how's that for non sequitur), we don't mind!