Where the road takes me
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ceitfiannaGEMINI (May 21-June 20): In Bill Moyers' DVD *The Language of Life,* poet Naomi Shihab Nye is shown giving advice to aspiring young poets. She urges them to keep an open mind about where their creative urges might take them. Sometimes when you start a poem, she says, you think you want to go to church, but where you end up is at the dog races. I'll make that same point to you, Gemini. As you tune in to the looming call to adventure, don't be too sure you know what destination it has in mind for you. You might be inclined to assume it'll lead you toward a local bar for drinks when in fact it's nudging you in the direction of a wild frontier for a divine brouhaha.
This feels very apt for me at the moment as I'm readying myself to go back into the job searching fray and considering my many works in progress. It also resonates with everything in Milliways as the move is at the point of providing fun opportunities to try something slightly new with my various characters.
Yesterday ended up being a hard start to the week as I had to go to an appointment with the woman who has my renter's and property insurance in Ann Arbor. They called me up last week and I couldn't think of how to get out of it. I went in knowing they'd probably try and sell me something but what caught me off guard was how she was not only prepared for that but really used hard tactics. At the beginning of the interview, she said this is just a review, I'm not selling you things. Then she brought up young death and your life being stolen and just uncomfortable and terribly personal ideas that bowled me over in a pretty horrible way. The only good thing is that I didn't end up buying anything and it was a lesson and definitely an introduction to being even more adult.
Today has been going better. I'm in the midst of rereading Gates of Sleep by Mercedes Lackey and it has much more of a fairy tale feel than I recalled and the plot just trips along. I still enjoy it because I love the world building of the Elemental Masters' series and Phoenix and Ashes worked for me. This one is enjoyable and I enjoy her details and some of the characters, her villains range from one note to surprisingly rounded but they're good books.
I'm making more connections as I look for a job and I know that something is out there, but it's good to remember that my first librarian job might not be exactly what I want. Instead it might be unexpected and lead me down a path I haven't figured out yet.
Now I'm in the mood for more writing as another writing meme has popped up and I'm making progress on a few things I'm working on. So you get a choice of memes:
Tell me about a story I haven't written, and I'll give you several sentences from that story.
or
Give me a pair of characters and an image as a prompt or even just one character.
Thank you.
This feels very apt for me at the moment as I'm readying myself to go back into the job searching fray and considering my many works in progress. It also resonates with everything in Milliways as the move is at the point of providing fun opportunities to try something slightly new with my various characters.
Yesterday ended up being a hard start to the week as I had to go to an appointment with the woman who has my renter's and property insurance in Ann Arbor. They called me up last week and I couldn't think of how to get out of it. I went in knowing they'd probably try and sell me something but what caught me off guard was how she was not only prepared for that but really used hard tactics. At the beginning of the interview, she said this is just a review, I'm not selling you things. Then she brought up young death and your life being stolen and just uncomfortable and terribly personal ideas that bowled me over in a pretty horrible way. The only good thing is that I didn't end up buying anything and it was a lesson and definitely an introduction to being even more adult.
Today has been going better. I'm in the midst of rereading Gates of Sleep by Mercedes Lackey and it has much more of a fairy tale feel than I recalled and the plot just trips along. I still enjoy it because I love the world building of the Elemental Masters' series and Phoenix and Ashes worked for me. This one is enjoyable and I enjoy her details and some of the characters, her villains range from one note to surprisingly rounded but they're good books.
I'm making more connections as I look for a job and I know that something is out there, but it's good to remember that my first librarian job might not be exactly what I want. Instead it might be unexpected and lead me down a path I haven't figured out yet.
Now I'm in the mood for more writing as another writing meme has popped up and I'm making progress on a few things I'm working on. So you get a choice of memes:
Tell me about a story I haven't written, and I'll give you several sentences from that story.
or
Give me a pair of characters and an image as a prompt or even just one character.
Thank you.
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Date: 2012-01-27 11:09 am (UTC)because canon is awful and making me want to throw things and I'll get Kait healthy and sane and happy again, I will. But I need some adorable.
A Smudge
Date: 2012-01-28 06:03 am (UTC)"I just gave her a bath and you should go have one, you have oil in your hair."
"I washed before I came here and she's awake and smiling. How can she look so happy all the time? I thought babies were meant to cry more," Kait laughed again and Arianna made a giggling, gurgling sound as Sam moved to hug them both.
"Stop that, Sam, you are still dirty and not allowed to be with us until you're fully clean," Then she kissed his nose and ended up with an odd bit of smudge on her nose, which made him laugh.
"Mm, no, I'll stay right here, there will be more baths later."
"If you wash her along with you then yes," Arianna made another happy sound and batted her mother's nose, moving the smudge to her hands as Sam and Kait laughed.