{"id":646,"date":"2010-03-05T11:27:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T17:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=646"},"modified":"2010-03-05T11:27:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T17:27:26","slug":"10-days-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"10 Days in March"},"content":{"rendered":"

Could not resist.\u00a0 Could. Not. Resist.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So what do the next ten days have in them, besides waiting for Oath of Fealty<\/em>‘s release?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not an orgy of anticipation, because Lifestuff rolls on, ignoring a writer’s desire to wallow for even one day in the joys of\u00a0 authorship.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Here’s a sample:<\/p>\n

Today is a good friend’s birthday, someone I’ve known for over forty years.\u00a0\u00a0 I write her a poem every year for her birthday.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s not written yet, because when I turned on the computer, up popped some email that drove rhyming words out of my head.\u00a0 That’s dealt with now.\u00a0 After the poem, I’ve got to work on revisions.\u00a0 I also need to make bread (one dry crust of homemade bread is left.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Also need to get horses’ hooves trimmed.\u00a0 Also need to schedule spring vet visit, which means guessing which day the land will be dry enough for the vet’s truck to get near the barn (hollow laugh about that, this year.)<\/p>\n

Whatever day the farrier comes will eat up an hour or so because I have to get the horses fed and at least rough-groomed before he arrives and then hold horses while he trims.\u00a0\u00a0 Whatever day the vet comes will eat up at least\u00a0 a couple of hours, because at least one of them will need to be floated (teeth worked on) and that means the horse gets a tranquilizer shot, we wait for it to take effect, and then they start grinding away on the teeth.\u00a0\u00a0 Each horse gets spring immunizations, dental checkup and floating if required,\u00a0 and worming with a different set of drugs than I use for feed-through wormer.<\/p>\n

And I need to do a blog post at the other blogs, not just this one.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, friend and her husband are coming up here to celebrate our birthdays (hers is the 5th, mine is the 7th)\u00a0 so before they arrive it would be nice to have stuff off all the kitchen chairs and the kitchen table, and stuff ready.\u00a0\u00a0 Which means today should include laundry, including tablecloth and all dish towels.\u00a0\u00a0 Also today or tomorrow, I need to work on the music for this Sunday.\u00a0 (And revisions.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May do blog post.<\/p>\n

Sunday,\u00a0 my birthday, I must head for church at 7 am, because we’re singing the 9 am service this week…which is good, because in the afternoon another friend is coming up (maybe, weather permitting) to celebrate my birthday, someone who couldn’t come on Saturday.\u00a0\u00a0 Reminder to self not to put stuff back on the chairs that I took stuff off of before the first visit.\u00a0\u00a0 May do blog post.<\/p>\n

Monday, revisions much of the day, and a meeting with the focus group on regional transportation in the late afternoon\/evening.\u00a0 Inevitably I’ll also need to answer business email.\u00a0\u00a0 Depending on how revisions go, I may get an hour or two to work on Book III.\u00a0\u00a0 There will be post-party laundry to do, too.\u00a0 Tax work is underway but not finished.\u00a0\u00a0 Blog post here.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, up at five to drive M- 20 miles to the bus so he can go to class.\u00a0 Revisions and Book III (must not neglect it too many days in a row) and whatever other business stuff comes up.\u00a0\u00a0 If I get hold of farrier today or Monday, trimming of horses’ hooves could happen any day after that.\u00a0 About 5:30, drive to the bus terminus to pick up M- from classes.\u00a0 Blog post here.<\/p>\n

Wednesday,\u00a0 revisions, Book III, email,\u00a0 blog post here, plus laundry, etc.\u00a0 Cooking happens most days, and that means dishwashing (by hand) but at least one day a week I do a big cook thing, so I don’t have to every day.\u00a0 (I may add that to today’s, too.)\u00a0\u00a0 Drive to city for choir practice Wed. evening, come home and fall into bed because….<\/p>\n

Thursday, up at five to drive M- 20 miles to bus for classes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Choir practice usually wakes me up so it’s hard to go to sleep when I should, and I start Thursdays in a braindead state…often now napping when I get home from the morning trip.\u00a0\u00a0 Work on revisions later, then go all the way to the city in the afternoon to take M- his ice skates so he can skate at a rink there until 8 pm, when I pick him up and we head back to our place.<\/p>\n

Friday,\u00a0 pushing on revisions to get them done before the launch, unless of course the vet’s here or I spend the day on tax prep.\u00a0 Plus laundry and the other household stuff.<\/p>\n

Saturday before launch, same old same old.<\/p>\n

Sunday before launch.\u00a0 Our choir doesn’t sing, so I’m off the hook there.\u00a0\u00a0 OTOH, I’m having a voice lesson that Monday, so I need to have been doing vocal exercises (oops, forgot to put that in) every day and working on my “pieces.”\u00a0\u00a0 My instructor comes back from vacation Sunday.<\/p>\n

Monday, day before launch.\u00a0 Voice lesson in afternoon.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, launch day.\u00a0\u00a0 Up at five to take M- 20 miles to the bus for classes.\u00a0\u00a0 Afternoon, clean up and dress for evening event.\u00a0\u00a0 At 4, online chat with Editor and another writer, John Hemry (writes as Jack Campbell, as well).\u00a0\u00a0 At 5, dash away from that to the city.\u00a0\u00a0 Meet up with M- at place he finds easy to reach by bus at about 6, take him to eat and eat a snack.\u00a0\u00a0 Rush-rush-rush, because at 7 I should be at Book People, ready to read, answer questions, and sign books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Could not resist.\u00a0 Could. Not. Resist.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So what do the next ten days have in them, besides waiting for Oath of Fealty‘s release?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not an orgy of anticipation, because Lifestuff rolls on, ignoring a writer’s desire to wallow for even one day in the joys of\u00a0 authorship.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Here’s a sample:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,5],"tags":[112,107],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-the-writing-life","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}