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Yetzirah

Did YOU Save Your Daylight?
Mon Oct 27 2003

Daylight Savings Time

What the heck does that mean?

I’ll tell you what it means. Tonight it’s going to be dark at 5:30 that’s what. And it means I don’t know what time it REALLY is. Although to be fair, we have now entered Daylight Time, but that doesn’t help me much. I’m still confused. I ate lunch at 10:30 because my stomach KNOWS it’s 11:30 and “feed me” was all it could articulate, not being in sync with the higher powers of time management. It’s going to take me weeks to get used to this. It’s just so typically “modern” to think we can fool around with the clock without repercussions, however subtle they may look on the surface.
And I am completely sure that I did NOT save any daylight since last April thank you very much !

I DID go out and clean out one of the raised beds this afternoon.
Yanked up volunteer blackberry vines and overgrown basil and pernicious crabgrass, plus some large healthy looking weed that the top part looked for all the world like a giant carrot plant. It was hiding just under the blackberry vine and just above the pernicious crab grass.

I brought in a pile of basil leaves and made Pesto. Dinner! Yum!

And for better or worse, I signed up for the NaNoWriMo write a novel in a month challenge. I must be stark raving mad, but I did it anyway. I have had an idea for a story for quite some time, and I figure, what the heck, let’s get something down on paper. I liked the idea of just writing like a crazed person and then worry about cleaning the mess up later. It’s so totally contrary to my usual careful step by step way of doing things, that I figure it might shock my inner critic into going on an extended vacation to some intense place like Hong Kong or something where she will have lots of other things to direct and criticize. “Good riddance, Bon Voyage, forget to write !”

And if I have a nervous breakdown, I am telling them to air freight me directly to Bookworm. I fully expect her to nurse me back to health, for I continue to assert…… “It’s all HER fault!”

(Love ya Booky dear)



10 Comments
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Oct 27 2003
    Yeah, exactly WHAT have we been saving, and what for?

    Now I have to be home by 4:00 pm to get online to chat with my sister in Arizona, whose population very sensibly has said NO to the biannual clock re-setting. Ahwell, she's worth it.

    Shalom
  • From:
    Sezrah (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Oct 27 2003
    hehe well all the best
    at least you have bookworm here to keep you accountable and urge you onward!

    sez
  • From:
    Bookworm (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Oct 27 2003
    You're making me laugh out loud here. No worries, I take full responsibility for letting you know about the NaNoWriMo challenge. You'll love it. I'm sure. ;-)
  • From:
    Rainee (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Oct 27 2003
    I'll be joining you in the NaNoWriMo challenge. I signed up last week, and I'm sure I have no idea what I've gotten myself into! I saw your message about fonts over in the forums and, since I recognized your name from deardiary, I wanted to stop by and say hi. I hope your writing goes well. Good luck!

    Rainee (I'm Calimero in the NaNo forums)
  • From:
    LifeOFLouise (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Oct 27 2003
    Ooh good luck, it's not something i would relish doing, you know me, i can spend four hours on one short paragraph!
    Daylight saving malarky makes no difference to me in the bat cave, it's always dark in my dungeon.
  • From:
    Rainee (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Oct 27 2003
    Font? Auggghhh! **runs away screaming and flailing arms**

    Seriously, I have no idea. I'll probably use the default, whatever that happens to be. (I'll be using Microsoft Works, and I'm not very familiar with it).

    Actually, I'm considering just shutting the screen off while I type. I'm a perfectionist when it comes to writing, so maybe if I can't see the mistakes, I won't feel like I can't go on until they're fixed. (Does that make any sense?) I've got to do something to make myself write first, edit later. That's going to be difficult for me, but I guess that's what the NaNoWriMo challenge is all about!

    Rainee
  • From:
    Rainee (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Oct 27 2003
    I'm a college English instructor -- well, I am when I'm working! LOL Anyway, every time I gave my students an assignment, I always encouraged them to do a ten-minute freewrite as a way of getting their minds moving around the subject. I insisted that they not worry about grammar or punctuation but just let their thoughts emerge. Isn't it ironic then, that although I use this method in my own writing, I just can't keep my editor from editing?!

    Good luck with your story idea. I think I'm finally happy with mine. What genre will yours be?

    Rainee
  • From:
    Rainee (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Oct 27 2003
    Tension? Do I ever.

    I'm starting to think that I shouldn't think. :)

    Not about the novel, anyway. I'm afraid I'm going to once again trick myself into thinking it won't work out.

    So, yes. There's some tension on my end too. And fear. And nervousness. And stale crackers ... which I'm eating right now although I don't know why.

    Writer's brain, maybe?

    Rainee
  • From:
    Parett (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Oct 28 2003
    Have lots of fun Yetzi! I'll be looking forward to the finished product. Will we be able to read it when you're through? Take care, God Bless! P~~~
  • From:
    AQuietEvening (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Oct 28 2003
    That bookworm, she makes it sounds so fun that I keep finding myself thinking about it. I haven't taken the plunge yet...I have a few more days to decide.

    ~QE