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Tomorrow I will have the very important (and mind-numbing) job of inventorying all the tobacco products in the store, so PM can figure the floor tax on Wednesday. :-(
My consolation is that I am not scheduled to work on Wednesday, so somebody else will be tasked with changing the price stickers on all the cigars and rolling tobacco and pipe tobacco and cigarettes and so on and so forth. :-)
The tricky part, though, is that somewhere in all the counting, I must find time to clean the two upstairs humidifiers, because I didn't get around to it earlier this month and they're almost certainly slimy-scummy-disgusting by now. I will not try to descale them (stupid hard water deposits, boo hiss), but they need a decent scrubbing and a complete water change at the very least. Also, the lefthand one may need more lubricant on its gears; lately I've had to spray it every three weeks or so, to prevent it from overheating and making horrible noises, which is slightly worrying. I keep wondering what might happen if it caught fire in the middle of the night...
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I attempted to start scene 3 of ch. 14 (which I suppose is now scene 4, but I will continue to call it scene 3 and the interlude with the twins will be called 'the interlude with the twins,' because I fail at naming as well as outlines) and ran into a slight problem, i.e., I don't remember how much Xanthe knows about Ginny's possession. I know Ginny told her slightly more than she told anyone else (partly by accident, partly because she needed to give Xanthe some information in order to get useful advice), but the details escape me, and until I know said details, I can't figure out how Xanthe would combine her limited knowledge with Dumbledore's announcement and the rumors circulating around the castle.
So I am hunting back through chapters 10, 11, and 12 for every time the two girls talked. Argh.
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ETA: Um. I kind of closed the files and wrote 500 words of "Guardian" instead. *headdesk* (Why do I have no focus? I don't care that ending "Secrets" will mean the characters won't be so active in my head. I won't lose them; I can always wake them again. I must stop being so avoidant!)
My consolation is that I am not scheduled to work on Wednesday, so somebody else will be tasked with changing the price stickers on all the cigars and rolling tobacco and pipe tobacco and cigarettes and so on and so forth. :-)
The tricky part, though, is that somewhere in all the counting, I must find time to clean the two upstairs humidifiers, because I didn't get around to it earlier this month and they're almost certainly slimy-scummy-disgusting by now. I will not try to descale them (stupid hard water deposits, boo hiss), but they need a decent scrubbing and a complete water change at the very least. Also, the lefthand one may need more lubricant on its gears; lately I've had to spray it every three weeks or so, to prevent it from overheating and making horrible noises, which is slightly worrying. I keep wondering what might happen if it caught fire in the middle of the night...
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I attempted to start scene 3 of ch. 14 (which I suppose is now scene 4, but I will continue to call it scene 3 and the interlude with the twins will be called 'the interlude with the twins,' because I fail at naming as well as outlines) and ran into a slight problem, i.e., I don't remember how much Xanthe knows about Ginny's possession. I know Ginny told her slightly more than she told anyone else (partly by accident, partly because she needed to give Xanthe some information in order to get useful advice), but the details escape me, and until I know said details, I can't figure out how Xanthe would combine her limited knowledge with Dumbledore's announcement and the rumors circulating around the castle.
So I am hunting back through chapters 10, 11, and 12 for every time the two girls talked. Argh.
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ETA: Um. I kind of closed the files and wrote 500 words of "Guardian" instead. *headdesk* (Why do I have no focus? I don't care that ending "Secrets" will mean the characters won't be so active in my head. I won't lose them; I can always wake them again. I must stop being so avoidant!)
