Week of October 30-November 5 (very belated)

[mrissa]

Six rejections, two requests for further material, one "no longer at this establishment." This is what we call motion. Activity. Progress, maybe, but definitely activity. (Some weeks I'm very good at the philosophical position that finding out where a story does not belong is also progress. This week so far I am not much good for most philosophical positions.)

Last night we went out so that I could eat an entire restaurant. Okay, not quite that, since we hope to go back there, but we had a big meal, especially by my standards. I desperately needed it, after the weekend. I'm not drive-capable yet this morning -- still very shaky -- but I hope to be soon.

I put half of the third panel of this on my monitor with yhlee's battle spork and "SMITE: There had better be smiting before book's end or I will be Very Cranky" and sculpin's, "You don't have to be a hero. Heroic behavior is optional; that's why it's called 'heroism' and not 'good manners.'"

I think I should look at sculpin's line several times this week. We all work within our limitations. There's no sense whining after what I'd be able to do if I was feeling well, because I'm not, so if I need to lie down between paying the mortgage and the gas bill, that's what I'll do.

If that last bit sounds cheerful, you're reading it wrong.

Comments

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Lying down between paying bills should not be a necessary sort of thing.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

That...really, really does not sound cheerful.

The quote is a very good quote. I shall have to think about it some. In the mean time, I'm glad you were better enough to eat well, and that you were able to eat well since you were feeling enough better to want to.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Ah, but I also posted to livejournal and wrote in my cousin's birthday card.

I have the feeling you're not sitting there thinking, "Well, in that case."

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, it was The Good. Walleye cakes, and tomato basil soup, and spaghetti squash, and sauteed garlic-spinach, and organic salmon done up in a Meyer lemon piccata sauce, and bread pudding with apples and hard sauce. And I have Leftovers.

Also we had the kind of silly conversation the three of us tend to have.

So there are cheerful things. Just not a general cheerfulness.

Sometimes when I am being Stubborn (that is to say, most of the time), people take it as cheerful. This is alarming.

[cadithial.livejournal.com]

Let me know if you need any help with anything. I'm in the Eagan area most every weekday.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

That sounds marvelous, both the conversation and the food, except that I don't know what walleye cakes are. Still, it's lucky I don't know where you live, or I'd be plotting a way to come and steal your leftovers. And considering how I was just being solicitous and congratulatory regarding your return to the world of voluntary eating, that would just be Wrong.

I understand your problematic Stobborn/Cheerful conflation. I do something similar. The difference is that I /do/ sound cheerful, so I can't really blame anyone else for hearing it that way. I think I'm trying to convince myself. Straightforward stubbornness sounds better.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Walleye cakes: imagine a crab cake. Now imagine that instead of chunks/shreds of crab, they've used a lovely fresh northern lake fish. Voila, walleye cakes.

[redbird]

The last bit doesn't sound cheerful--but it may help you stay sane.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Stoic, is what it sounds.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Appreciated.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you're still sick. LJ seems very unhealthy of late. I feel like smiting fate or germs or something.

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

Lying down between stationery-related activities of *any kind* should not be necessary.

Exceptions shall be stipulated for extremely large values of stationery.