owlmoose | stuff from a morning

Boy, you people really don't like Civil War memorials, do you?

One of the more amusing things about working here is that, for one of their classes, medical assisting students need to practice taking vital signs. So they wander the building, looking for guniea pigs. I've had my temperature, pulse, and blood pressure taken half a dozen times in the last month. This morning, I had just drunk a mouthful of hot tea when the student took my temperature. She was rather alarmed at the high reading before I explained.

It does have its advantages, though. Yesterday I scraped my heel on the cart I use to haul books around (I make other people lift the boxes onto the cart, I promise). Within moments, my wound had been cleaned, dried, and carefully bandaged by one of the teachers. If you need first aid, surrounded by allied health students and professionals is not a bad place to be.

My head has been in my story all morning. I got up very early to add some bits to it, then went back to sleep for awhile. When I woke up again, I had this idea that I could complete the final edit, but I ran into trouble and then had to leave. I keep working through what's left in my head, and it's very frustrating that I can't make the corrections as they come to me.

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it's very frustrating that I can't make the corrections as they come to me.

Believe me, I do understand. That is why I carry a notepad everywhere I go. Then it is quick and easy to update the work when one is at the keyboard. Another thing that is maddening is to have the persistent feeling that one more run through will yield perfection. LOL

That's a good thought, but it doesn't work well with edits. I'd have to carry a print out around for this one. Really the problem is that the chapter is too long to be one and too short to break into two and I want to make a clean break at the end of it. Argh!

As the Victorians well knew, padding is the answer to almost every question.

Let me get this straight. You are telling me to make it *longer*? :) And here I was expecting all kinds of advice on merciless pruning...

Only suggesting the Victorian solution. They were notorious for padding everything from bosoms to novels. LOL

I have yet to read anything of yours in which every single word was not necessary. I think you will probably just have to bite your pen, so to speak, and let it be the length it wants to be. That is what you have said to me and been right.

I like the skeleton as a user-pic, too. It, for some reason, resonates with me.

but we do like Charlie!

It's true. I wonder who he is?

I wonder who he is
Charles Edward Stuart, who else?

Well, no need to explore our feelings for the Bonnie Prince -- we already know those fall somewhere into the category of rage. ;)

The skeleton makes an interesting userpic!

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