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Yeppers, I'm formatting. In manuscript, doublespaced, I have 245 pages. Which I think is just about 200 in print, or a little less. I was a little worried. I'm running spell check in a few minutes, and then I'm not making any more changes until I hear from Z., or I get itchy, whichever comes first.
You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to get better about the job hunt, for one.
And then I'm going to start the Afterwar recovery. Yes I am, and I'm jazzed about it too. I sure am. If it only took me five and a half months to get a draft of The Conduit starting from scratch and having the thing mutate a bit as I went, it should not take much more than that to recreate a done deal which I actually know by heart, right? I expect it to take somewhat longer, for a couple-few reasons: it's a longer book; I have to get serious about getting a job; and I'll certainly take a break from it to do the revisions on The Conduit and hopefully I'll also have to take a break to attend to business on Esperanza Highway.
What I'm listening to: Sacred Harp
I do have to go buy Stuff for Thanksgiving, which I do not look forward to -- it's Wednesday night, for dog's sake, and the store I'm going to won't be open tomorrow, so it will be a madhouse.
One of the stores was selling turkeys buy one get one free -- what kind of a mad person buys two turkeys?
Crap. I just realized I should have bought them, and given them to the VFW Bill Monte post for their dinner. Next time.
You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to get better about the job hunt, for one.
And then I'm going to start the Afterwar recovery. Yes I am, and I'm jazzed about it too. I sure am. If it only took me five and a half months to get a draft of The Conduit starting from scratch and having the thing mutate a bit as I went, it should not take much more than that to recreate a done deal which I actually know by heart, right? I expect it to take somewhat longer, for a couple-few reasons: it's a longer book; I have to get serious about getting a job; and I'll certainly take a break from it to do the revisions on The Conduit and hopefully I'll also have to take a break to attend to business on Esperanza Highway.
What I'm listening to: Sacred Harp
I do have to go buy Stuff for Thanksgiving, which I do not look forward to -- it's Wednesday night, for dog's sake, and the store I'm going to won't be open tomorrow, so it will be a madhouse.
One of the stores was selling turkeys buy one get one free -- what kind of a mad person buys two turkeys?
Crap. I just realized I should have bought them, and given them to the VFW Bill Monte post for their dinner. Next time.
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But we have an open-house sort of Turkey spread on the weekend (if you would like to hit the beach on Saturday, you are more than welcome to drop by). This is also our family tradition -- we do it because the nice fellow likes leftover turkey, stuffing and gravy. I will not buy the turkey for that until Friday and just hope I can get a not-frozen one on that day.
As for freezing a turkey, there's no room, no room at all.