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day 5

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Saturday, November 5th, 2011 08:44 am
This might get boring for other people but it is the original purpose of me getting a journal in the first place.

Anyway: 1800+ words. Chapter total:3600+. Novel total: 9200.

Accomplished today: the ponies got named, and the scope of Yanek's hurt over the ponies much better done, and Yanek's day running around being anywhere but where the ponies are when the riding tutor comes, and the handyman's search for him.

Yanek has not got a pony yet. He might not, the way things are shaping up. But the little Duke has named his pony after Yanek -- in honor of Yanek, though Yanek thinks it's anything but an honor.

Also, indicated the ethnic diversity of the villages.

Tomorrow: finish up the pony thing. Monday: Ludmilla's microscope.


Also, I have a sore throat and no voice and I'm supposed to go to a training that starts in twenty minutes. I wonder if it will be okay to be late.
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day 4

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Friday, November 4th, 2011 08:36 am
1750+ words

Accomplished: Sasha gets a pony! Yanek, being ten, is jealous. Also, Sasha rats Yanek out for jumping out o a hayloft, but there's no consequence because the ponies have arrived.

I don't know anything about ponies, it appears, despite the fact that I did some research. In 1900 would the ponies have walked ten miles from where they were bought or would hey have been brought in a trailer, given that (1) the Duke is a tentative modernizer and likes automobiles and (2)this is not a well-paved or advanced country?

I will figure that out later. I will also have to gloss over details in pony care and children's riding lessons though these will be plot points. How did I fail to do that research in the last two months when I knew this was coming up?

How did it get to be eight-thirty? I had to take a nap, yes, but it was seven-forty-five a moment ago before I started browsing for scrubs to wear to work.

I'm going to the doctor today! I am an insured woman! Soon I will have a referral for my leg pain! And answers for my skin things!

Tomorrow: Yanek also gets a pony. It's an afterthought, but it's a pony.

And after that, Yanek goes to the Duchal palace and is mistaken for a serving boy, which is not the part of being there that is the most traumatic.
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