Silk painting has crashed headfirst into my interest in early Industrial Revolution technology and social/manufacturing/trade patterns. In other words, instead of writing the damn ficlet, I spent two hours figuring out an integrated business model of how Darei's family runs a textile business, and what sort of technology they use, and how they're trying to use more (and why they don't use it on some things), and while this is fascinating to me, it doesn't do me any good with actual story-type stuff.
*slaps self upside the head*
On the bright side, I did get my child psych article summary and reaction written and turned in, despite mad printer problems. (My computer has retreated to safe mode again and is not speaking to my printer. My parents' printer is busted. The public library printers charge 15 cents a page. And my mom's printer at work is busted too, so she has to print via network; it comes out in the next office over. *sigh* I decided to hassle my mom, because I'm a cheapskate.)
*slaps self upside the head*
On the bright side, I did get my child psych article summary and reaction written and turned in, despite mad printer problems. (My computer has retreated to safe mode again and is not speaking to my printer. My parents' printer is busted. The public library printers charge 15 cents a page. And my mom's printer at work is busted too, so she has to print via network; it comes out in the next office over. *sigh* I decided to hassle my mom, because I'm a cheapskate.)