The Fragility of Life
Sep. 29th, 2009 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vdanskJoy has pneumonia.
She's fine, recovering well with rest, antibiotics, and nebulizer twice a day, but it's still throwing me a little. Partially because she in many ways looks so frail--skin impossibly pale, eyes big, too slender for age as well as height. Partly, because this physical appearance is so at odds with her personality, which is forceful and vibrant and strong. Mostly, of course, because she's mine.
I have a working title for my NaNoWriMo novel-- Last Road Home--which replaces a few prior ones that didn't really work for me. "Edge of Green" probably the best of them, but the under-meanings don't support the story as well. Research is going well; I'm learning tons about Kentucky, the Ohio river, the 1940's.... Still need to research mountain lions, catholic schools, airplanes, radios.
Last night it rained torrentially, and I lay awake incorporating the rain into a scene...a clear case of "How could things be worse?". It's a little frustrating, waiting to write, but nice to be getting alot of the "scut work" over with.
Charles' Mom has a Cardiologist appt today, so we'll likely talk more about replacing her pacemaker. I'm going up to VT with the girls in 2 weeks (assuming everyone's healthy), then almost immediately going into Boston for the AAFP conference. Even though I'll be in classes 10+ hours a day, it really does count as vacation. Have to look into train schedules to avoid the high cost of parking.
November has the Oz LARP, which is going to steal serious amounts of time from NaNoWriMo. I'd better try to be ahead of the game by then! Then December is real VACATION. I feel like Tarzan, swinging from vine to vine, vacation to vacation....
She's fine, recovering well with rest, antibiotics, and nebulizer twice a day, but it's still throwing me a little. Partially because she in many ways looks so frail--skin impossibly pale, eyes big, too slender for age as well as height. Partly, because this physical appearance is so at odds with her personality, which is forceful and vibrant and strong. Mostly, of course, because she's mine.
I have a working title for my NaNoWriMo novel-- Last Road Home--which replaces a few prior ones that didn't really work for me. "Edge of Green" probably the best of them, but the under-meanings don't support the story as well. Research is going well; I'm learning tons about Kentucky, the Ohio river, the 1940's.... Still need to research mountain lions, catholic schools, airplanes, radios.
Last night it rained torrentially, and I lay awake incorporating the rain into a scene...a clear case of "How could things be worse?". It's a little frustrating, waiting to write, but nice to be getting alot of the "scut work" over with.
Charles' Mom has a Cardiologist appt today, so we'll likely talk more about replacing her pacemaker. I'm going up to VT with the girls in 2 weeks (assuming everyone's healthy), then almost immediately going into Boston for the AAFP conference. Even though I'll be in classes 10+ hours a day, it really does count as vacation. Have to look into train schedules to avoid the high cost of parking.
November has the Oz LARP, which is going to steal serious amounts of time from NaNoWriMo. I'd better try to be ahead of the game by then! Then December is real VACATION. I feel like Tarzan, swinging from vine to vine, vacation to vacation....
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Date: 2009-10-01 12:19 am (UTC)OK, yes, I'm registered for a conference and don't actually know where it is, or what hotel I'm staying at. I'm sure I have that information somewhere....
OK, Thursday October 15th! We'll figure everything else out!
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Date: 2009-09-30 10:39 am (UTC)Maass kept chanting "Make it worse." You seem to be the poster child for this mantra. May you hit the end of the novel, get your "and they lived happily ever after" where the creator can stop messing with your life.
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Date: 2009-10-01 12:11 am (UTC)Charles and I both write using the "how can this possibly get worse?" philosophy. I'm very glad that neither of us is writing the plot of our own lives. It would be much more dramatic, possibly even more chaotic, funnier, but also scarier. I'll take what we've got over that any day.
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Date: 2009-11-01 06:48 am (UTC)We have our fifth case of pneumonia in our family this year: the poodle is ill. She's doing quite well on antibiotics and we expect a full recovery.