Carolyn

Tomorrow finishes up my initial two weeks at the law firm, filling in for someone who is dealing with cancer. I'll be back there to jump in when she starts radiation, unless I find something ahead of time. I love the law firm, but omg that is the most boring desk EVER.

I am continually caught up, despite having three lawyers to 'care' for. I really like one of them especially--I would work for him full-time! He cracks me up, a little gnome of a man who was in law school when I was in elementary school. He is funny and has expressed impatience with his current legal secretary's inability to handle Word (they use Wordperfect and Word there, but the older secretaries favor Wordperfect which is more along the lines of Word 2003). I've fixed a few things for him because I do know Word well, and he is ecstatic--tomorrow, he will write a personal letter and, whee, I will print it out on small stationery, and print off envelopes. LOL. Such excitement! The other two attorneys--one is in securities and such, and is very easy to deal with, and the third, an associate, does all his own work.

That is, I can see, the wave of the future...I think the days of new attorneys dictating everything rather than writing it all out themselves is near-over. Legal secretaries do other things now, but at this desk? Not enough. OMG yawn. LOL.

Unless I find another job in the meantime, in four weeks when she begins radiation, I will go back and fill in again. It'll be unpredictable though--depends on how she handles the radiation. :*(

But! Happily thanks to the quiet this week, I had printed my ms out at home and brought parts of it up every day, and over the last four days during the minutes/hours I had nothing (eek!) to do, I worked on it. Finished up the last of the first pass tonight! YAY!

Gameplan--Saturday, get up, get ready and head for Panera, which is bright and roomy and has fooods, and big tables. It is the go-to place for TCU students to study, but they are out now so there should be no problem in finding a good spot.

Not much else going on. Kid graduated last weekend, did family stuff all weekend. Worked on ms, brushed the dogs a lot (coat blowing season). Once this ms is turned in, I'll be attacking my big bang project full-on, and cannot WAIT to just have some fun with writing first draft stuff again.

I also need to get back into the swing of the fantasy, and wrap up the planning stages. I just want to get started writing the damn thing, you know? I would like to have a good start before school starts in the fall. ARGH.

And that is all I know for now.

So, I am still plugging away at the Nano. Today was the best day I'd had yet--just about 5k words (give or take, as some tweaking was kinda hard to judge).

These are my stats so far:


( more yacking under the cut )

Everyone who knows me knows I wanted (yes, past tense) some of blue_fjords's Famous Blue Cupcakes. Red Velvet, vegan, lovingly hand-crafted, oh yeah. She auctioned them on the auction for Haiti and I was outbid gloriously by several people. I cried into my hanky, then decided to make an offer myself for dog biscuits, which happily went for a very-generous $30.00. They will soon be winging their way to the winner.

Just a little while ago, Tony, the mail guy, brought me a box. I said, "What is that? I didn't order anything." Wracked my brain--did I do some late-night online shopping I'd forgotten about? Kick self if I had as I am watching every dime at the moment (house tax time, bah). Then he said, "It's from DC!"

"BLUE!" I screamed, and sure enough, to my excited and yeah, misty-eyes, it was indeed from her.

He waited to see what it was (smart man, turns out) though I suspected and, heart racing madly, with 'oh well, who cares about the diet today' going through my mind, I opened the box and sure enough! These gorgeous delicious hand-made beautiful cupcakes were tucked inside, lovingly wrapped in brown wax paper. That's some fancy wax paper there.



Taken with camera phone, so apologies for that.

To top it all off, it appears some wonderful, generous, kind and awesome soul named Anonymous donated to Haiti with the request these go to me. That was the kindest, sweetest thing in the world to do, and as I ate mine, my heart went out to all the Haitians who, to hold such a thing now in their hands, would be the most miraculous thing in the world. I am very fortunate to have what I do, to have friends like Blue, like you, Anonymous, and everyone here. I truly am. Thank you, so very much.

(I shared the cupcakes with the boys--they all went for the chocolate peanut butter ones, leaving the red velvets for me. Whee! Two of the peanut butter ones left that I will give to my son, and there are two little mystery ones, too.)