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1. Call doctor about prescription.
2. The Fix
3. Factions for Corsair
4. Narrow down some historical choices for The Long Road
5. Call home. If you can track down which bloody phone number home is at. (And if not, someone will tell Mom to call you back, so.)

Right. Russian!

Learn the conjugation of the verb хотеть (to want). It is one of only a handful of irregular verbs in Russian and must be memorized.

Я хочу, ты хочешь, он хочет, мы хотим, вы хотите, они хотят.

Заполните пропуски. Complete the dialogue with the appropriate forms of хотеть.
-- Алло, Лиза? Слушай, вы с Кристиной не хотите пойти сегодня на концерт?
-- Я хочу. А Кристина говорит, что она хочет смотреть телевизор.
-- Знаешь, у меня четыре билета. Если Кристина не хочет, давай пригласим Питера и Амаду.
-- Давай. Они у меня в комнате и говорят, что хотят пойти. (<-- reading comprehension! Pay attention! Or just ask if you can't get it.)
-- Прекрасно.

Сотавьте предложения. Make sentences by combining words from the columns. The question marks mean you may use a phrase of your own.

Я сейчас хочу смотреть телевизор.
Мы никогда не хотим ... (crap. I don't know how Russian feels about double negatives.) (Evidently double negative = negative. Now I know!)
Мы всегда хотим читать по-русски.
Ты хочешь слушать радио.
Сам хочет играть в футбол.
Боби хочет идти.

There. And, hopefully that check will clear today so I can pay a couple of bills. Duh. The 20th is tomorrow. And then... something. I don't know. But progress is being made!

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... well, that was by far not the worst news ever, although it is still kind of 'meh.'

So, the mental clinic appointment has been postponed in order to take care of thsis heart problem. He went in today to be hospitalized and medicated preparatory to 'rebooting' his heart, as Aunt E puts it. The only problem was that his blood was now too thin instead of ... too thick? I don't know. And his heart rate (resting, I guess) was down to 70 bpm (I also guess) rather than up at 140 where it was. So they've told him to take a lot of Vitamin K, and he is apparently feeling better than he has in months. Go figure.

And, you know. Being put on blood thinners isn't exactly a rest of your life solution, but it sounds like that if this is making him feel better, strengthening the heart muscle is the way to go about fixing it. Especially if it fixes the mental problems too, which are now starting to sound like more the absent-mindedness that comes from being overtired.

I feel better. I'm overtired myself, not sure why. I got the usual amount of sleep last night. At least work isn't terribly busy, and as far as writing goes, I actually don't have nearly as much on my plate as I usually do. Go me.

Still hoping to head back to DC after the Christmas retail lunacy is over. Till then, this is good ish news.

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... You know you're old when you're old enough to find textbooks that mention amazon.com (or in this case .de) funny.

( Deutsch )

ZOMFG why am I so sleepy.

Still. Writing schedule. Since somewhere over the weekend I managed to be a dumbass and start up two Big Bangs at once. Which does not count the fact that I signed up for one big bang twice. And on top of Nano. And on top of working TWO novels at once. Querying, that is not actually writing, so there's that.

End of the Week, Oct 23 - Finish The Fix: We Don't Need...
TM prompts #304, Pam and Maggie JMM prompts
Essays: Touchy Subjects (Sexism), Getting Through Plot, Derailed and Rerailed

Oct 24-25 Finish up essays
Astrid CT prompt, TM prompts #303 and 306
Dialect Sheet for Nameless, Guy

Oct 26-27
Make decisions about space technology in Corsair; do research
Take section notes for Nameless

Oct 28
Planetary notes for Corsair

End of October - Nano Prep Done. Really, on this, I don't have a choice. There would be more of a schedule here but I actually am not sure what I need to do for Nano prep, often until I actually get into it.

Novermber - Nanowrimo. Plus prompts on weekends.
Essays, filling in my section of the general subject ones.

Dec 1 - Start on apocabigbang
I shot a man...(DF ApocBigBang)
Flashback sections (Angel ApocBigBang)
Type up edits of Astrid

Dec 7 apocabigbang
I kept a close watch... (DF ApocBigBang)
5 scenes (Angel ApocBigBang)
Section 1 of Come Gather Round

Dec 12-13 Finish typing up edits of Astrid; anniversary

Dec 14 apocabigbang
I fell for you... (DF ApocBigBang)
5 scenes (Angel ApocBigBang)
Section 2-3 of Come Gather Round

Dec 19-20 Go over Astrid. Flip right the hell out.

Dec 21-31 apocabigbang
I may be right... (DF ApocBigBang)
last 5 scenes, hopefully (Angel ApocBigBang)
Section 4 of Come Gather Round

Jan 2-8 apocabigbang
I'd love to wear... (DF ApocBigBang)
Section 5 of Come Gather Round

Jan 9-10 Re-read BigBangs
Make lists of small press companies for Pen
Make lists of agents for Astrid

Jan 11-15 Edit BigBangs
Query Letters

... that's probably enough for one day. Oogh.