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03/16/2008
Luck o' the Irish!
Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day, and consequently I spent the entire afternoon at a dress rehearsal for a big dance show our school is doing to celebrate the occasion tomorrow. That was OK, except there was a lot of 'hurry up and wait' happening, and it's actually a lot trickier trying to stay lined up where we're supposed to be when we're in the middle of dancing. I'm sure the show will be fine anyway though, especially since there are a lot of the really showy girls who will be participating.
It's an interesting experience to be part of this, but on the other hand, I'm going to be really glad when it's all over and I can go to bed at a reasonable time on Wednesday nights, rather than stay up for a dance rehearsal that goes til 10 pm. A friend of mine recently sent me a list of tips for getting a good night's sleep, and one of the tips was to avoid exercising in the 3 to 4 hours before you go to bed. So I guess 10 pm doesn't quite fit in that category. Oh well. I'm looking forward to having some sleep time back!
Yesterday was actually a really good day for that - I've had a cough and a cold all week and have been dragging myself out of bed to get to work at the usual times, even though I felt zombie-like. Saturday was the first day I got to sleep in, and I stayed in bed until almost 11 am. It was bliss! It was my lucky day too, apparently, since I then went to the library, and on the shelves of used books for sale, I found The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin, a book I've been wanting to buy for a while because it is so relevant to the novel I'm writing. It was in perfect condition (but minus its dustjacket), hardcover, for $2. I was originally going to buy a copy off eBay, but that would have been around $15 for an OK-condition copy. I'm glad I took the time to scour the racks at the library yesterday! I also spotted a book on Wildflowers of Great Britain and Europe, which was neat, since my story is set in the Faroes, so I bought that for another $2. I also found a book on Shakers of Pleasant Hill and one on healthy(-ier) cookie recipes that minimize use of refined sugars and bleached flour, and a lot of the recipes looked good, so I bought that. I can't wait to try some of those recipes! So all in all, I feel like I hit the jackpot at the library.
So now all I have to do is continue synthesizing that information and get going on finishing that novel I started. I started re-reading it last weekend. It's not the greatest by any stretch of the imagination, and needs a lot of editing, but it didn't make me cringe anywhere near as much as re-reading my work normally does, so maybe this one actually has potential! Basically I just need to be able to "see" where this plot is going a little bit better, and I hope that will get me out of my rut. Here's to finishing the novel this year!!
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