Whew

I see that my last entry was made on Saturday. Later that day, Raphael pulled a back muscle. It is rapidly improving, though of course it has the effect of most back injuries, even minor ones, of making various movements painful long after it's started to improve. We did ice and ibuprofen and please-let-me-do-that-even-if-you-think-you-can, and really it went very nicely, very amiably with each party praising the other for patience and kindliness. I wouldn't mind its not happening again, however, and I am sure that the actual sufferer feels exactly the same.

When I was a small child I wanted to be a nurse; then I realized that fundamentally I did not like strangers, and sensibly changed my course. It was odd this weekend to feel the fundamental rightness of my decision. I didn't at all mind taking care of my sweetie; it made me feel better about the whole scary thing. But I am remarkably clumsy. And I still don't like strangers.

Reading

I'm still working on STEALING THE ELF-KING'S ROSES, whereby we see that it has not got the grabbing power of the Young Wizards books or the Door Into books, for me. I'm quite liking it, though. I also finally finished A PRIDE OF HEROES, which is remarkably crammed with incident for such a short book; and went back to ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE, which I abandoned when discovering that PRIDE takes place earlier in the career of the same protagonist. Peter Dickinson has such flair.

I usually read much more than this. I conceive that I must be reading a lot of web-logs. (YES! I have hyphenated that word! I hate "blog" as a short form of it! Bah! Blog is an alarmingly pink concoction drunk at Minicon.)

Whoops. There goes the rest of my yearly allotment of exclamation points.

Pamela

Pamela

Writing

I need to do some more. Chapter 3 is a monster. Not in size. Just in what it needs to have in it. I've been thinking about the characters a great deal, and also about the background. And it might help to clean up my office. I can just barely get into it at this point, and any cat who comes in knocks something over, not intentionally.

Pamela