Roving holidays
Jul. 5th, 2005 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ksmithToday is a company holiday. We get one roving holiday a year that the company tacks on to either Christmas, New Years, or the 4th, and this year the 4th won out. I like days off that don't coincide with the usual holidays. Traffic and store volumes are at normal workday levels, that undercurrent of gotta-get-there-yesterday stress is gone, and I feel like I'm getting away with something because most other folks are at work.
You folks who get time off for MLK or Presidents or Columbus Day--you'll get your own back soon enough.
So here we are at Day 4 of the 4-day weekend, and all I want for Christmas is 89 more. 189 more. The rest of my life more. *mutter*
It's been a low-key day so far. Errands were run--groceries, post office, returned a book to the library. Considered asking for an extension on said book, which was a loaner from another library, and decided against. I think there might have been valuable information in there, but I couldn't find it. I fear that I do not possess the type of brain that can wrap itself around literary criticism. I try and try and try, and all I can do after a page or two is stare and wonder, 'is there a point here somewhere? Something I can put on a 3x5 card. The back of my hand. Something that switches the lightbulb on.'
How can I ever enjoy myself at a litcon if I don't get litcrit? I'll be left on the sidelines, rolling bandages while the intellectual wars be waged around me and the bon mots whizz overhead. I muddled through two courses in quantum mechanics, dammit--I should be able to get this stuff.
Answered a few emails. Pondered an issue with Jani 5, which is going to take more pondering before I can decide what to do. The thing is, I had what I thought was a pretty nice subplot that takes Jani to Acadia for a time. Much happened there. We got to see the folks, learned a little more about Declan's Celtic gloominess, saw a few plot twists. Unfortunately, the realization has hit that I am running out of book and this Acadian segue could take at least 3-4 chapters that I really don't have. I would be taking Jani out of the worst of the tension during that time--the really narsty stuff would be taking place somewhere else, and where has Jani been up to this point but in the midst of the narsty?
The points that need to be made--I think I can make them some other way. Ditto the plot revelations. Some of the backstory and stuff about the folks can be revealed via *limited* flashback--a paragraph here, a page there, taking care that those bits continue the same mood as the present action stuff they interrupt.
I need more time. Why in hell is it 3pm already?
You folks who get time off for MLK or Presidents or Columbus Day--you'll get your own back soon enough.
So here we are at Day 4 of the 4-day weekend, and all I want for Christmas is 89 more. 189 more. The rest of my life more. *mutter*
It's been a low-key day so far. Errands were run--groceries, post office, returned a book to the library. Considered asking for an extension on said book, which was a loaner from another library, and decided against. I think there might have been valuable information in there, but I couldn't find it. I fear that I do not possess the type of brain that can wrap itself around literary criticism. I try and try and try, and all I can do after a page or two is stare and wonder, 'is there a point here somewhere? Something I can put on a 3x5 card. The back of my hand. Something that switches the lightbulb on.'
How can I ever enjoy myself at a litcon if I don't get litcrit? I'll be left on the sidelines, rolling bandages while the intellectual wars be waged around me and the bon mots whizz overhead. I muddled through two courses in quantum mechanics, dammit--I should be able to get this stuff.
Answered a few emails. Pondered an issue with Jani 5, which is going to take more pondering before I can decide what to do. The thing is, I had what I thought was a pretty nice subplot that takes Jani to Acadia for a time. Much happened there. We got to see the folks, learned a little more about Declan's Celtic gloominess, saw a few plot twists. Unfortunately, the realization has hit that I am running out of book and this Acadian segue could take at least 3-4 chapters that I really don't have. I would be taking Jani out of the worst of the tension during that time--the really narsty stuff would be taking place somewhere else, and where has Jani been up to this point but in the midst of the narsty?
The points that need to be made--I think I can make them some other way. Ditto the plot revelations. Some of the backstory and stuff about the folks can be revealed via *limited* flashback--a paragraph here, a page there, taking care that those bits continue the same mood as the present action stuff they interrupt.
I need more time. Why in hell is it 3pm already?
