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Think I'm getting the hang of this whole verbs thing but oh dear god I do need to conjugate endless Irish verbs now. Like, all of them. I might print out the list of verbs I currently have on Memrise and use that as a list and just keep conjugating because fucking irregular verbs and weirdass conjugation mutations and let's not even get into the initial consonant mutations and how they change with particles and argh. Later. After the next irregular verbs chapter, one big verb review.

I really love James Spader. I will watch a lot of mediocre television to see him Spadering all over my screen. I actually think I enjoy Red more than Alan Shore, or at least I think I can watch more seasons of him than I could of Alan Shore, by the end of Boston Legal I get Shore-why-are-you-such-a-fucking-moron-about-some-things fatigue. Red tends to be more aware of his deficiencies and work to accommodate or avoid them. Also he's a very entertaining psycho.

Note to self: allocate money out of next month for this Kickstarter

Oogh. Right! I got either another light day that will involve writing and faffing about with picking stuff up, which, yes, looks like the case. In which case, dime novels and edits on this one story. I'm about a third of the way through, maybe I can finish the other two thirds today. If I'm very lucky I can finish the other two thirds worth of line edits and .... no, self, we are finishing line edits today and adding in the extra scene tomorrow and Friday. Heh, currently one of the editors of the anthology is looking at finishing his current draft on Saturday. If this keeps up I might have my current draft done even before that. Amazing.

At some point today I should also list and calendar all my current projects. Maybe around lunch after Russian.

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Okay. I'm midway down page 30 and Russian is hard, yo. No, the most frustrating part of this is how I'm reading along, picking up words, but I still only know words in the sense that most of these are familiar or I can pick up fragments of words and link them to other words etymologically. Frustrating. Bit by bit, I know, marathon not a sprint, but still.

I might try to get to the bottom of page 31 anyway just because that last paragraph was a huge chunk of the page.

Did manage to finish both a chapter in Graves and the line edits for the Deli Counter story at least up to the point where I need to throw a whole other scene in, so I guess I'll put those in tonight and then work on the other scene tomorrow. Tonight I really, really need to work on writing something. Anything. Argh. I need to get a USB keyboard because while my ... I'm an idiot. I can move my USB keyboard to my netbook while I'm on that. The thing is, my netbook keyboard is okay, but it's getting harder and harder to register the pressing of the keys presumably just from hard use (I'm very hard on my keyboards) and while that's okay for chat where I'm not trying to get out 10k words in a hurry, that's immensely frustrating for writing. So, okay. Tonight I take the USB kb off my desktop and onto my netbook for the moment, since if I'm on the netbook I'm not using my desktop, am I. What I really need is one of those laser keyboards.

I even remembered to finish and post that damn blog post today. Though no doubt it was incoherent. Ugh. My brain feels a bit like I'm swimming in molasses or something. I have a sense of the things I should do, I just can't bring myself to do them.

Okay, so. Wednesday reads! Because the only media I've consumed lately is TV and I have nothing in particular to say about that at the moment. Except that I still want to write more Ruby/Gold and I still refuse to watch any more Once Upon A Time than I already have. No, fuck no, you can't make me, not even for Robert Carlyle.

Read
Urban Shaman by CE Murphy has done the thing that some series do to me, where I read it and instantly I must have ALL THE BOOKS RIGHT THE HELL NOW. It's the Female Detective Protagonist In Urban Fantasy's less common variant; the heroine is Celtic-Cherokee drawing power from both sides, a shaman more or less by cosmic manipulation and how nice, you saw a problem, go fix. She has a hilarious cabbie sidekick named Gary who reminds me a bit of my Nameless, a police captain who shares her dubiousness about whether or not she's an actual cop (officially she is, but) and with whom I SHIP HER LIKE BURNING AUGH. And a number of other friends. Also she kicked Cernunnos in the balls. Twice. The author somehow manages to write somewhat florid pulp prose, which is impressive if not quite I think what she was going for. And I want all of the books right the hell now. Also I have decided that the one way I can tolerate doge meme is if it's filtered through the lens of Coyote. Because fucking Coyote.

Inside Straight I really enjoy the Wild Cards books. I don't know that many people who have read them, and the one person I know off the top of my head who has only like the first three, but I like most of them. There are a couple in the back half of the series I can do without. Inside Straight was everything that I liked abut the Wild Cards series, people being people, prejudiced, kind, terrible, faithful, fervent, goofy, flawed people who get stuck with a power or a mutation or both because of a virus, who have to deal with the way the world reacts to the virus first, before the world stops to see them as people. People who make bad choices. Who make up for those bad choices. I never get tired of reading these books. (Though between Inside Straight and Fort Freak I think I like Fort Freak better.)

Swallowing Darkness, Divine Misdemeanors So, yeah, the week kind of sucked in a massive way and I ended up spending the entire weekend curled up with one book or another. Fairy porn is my decompress. It's mindless, it's pretty, and it goes by quick and leaves me fairly relaxed.

Reading
Still plugging away at The White Goddess. Oh Graves. You are so tedious sometimes. And pretentious.

Up next
As it turns out, Suicide Kings was NOT the first Wild Cards book of the second (third?) series, Inside Straight was. So, um. Up next, more Wild Cards? Which makes it ... Busted Flush. Possibly more Walker Papers series if I pick them up. Possibly something else I have MANY books I haven't yet read. I do actually need to read the Book of the Courtier. At least the cheap copy I got at first, possibly followed by the copy Anna got from the library.