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edenfalling1. It turns out the reason PM overstaffed the smoke shop on Friday had nothing to do with shoppers. (We don't get Black Friday rushes anyway; we are not that kind of store and we don't do sales.) She overstaffed us because the day after Thanksgiving is when all the holiday decorations go up. So poor MS spent all afternoon working on that, and poor BW spent three hours of the evening continuing the job, and then watching the counter while I counted the Gesty inventory which nobody had gotten around to doing earlier on account of having to put up the decorations. *sigh*
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2. Today I did laundry and bought groceries. Said groceries mostly consisted of tissue boxes, since Vicky went through a box and a half during my family's visit. Being sick is never any fun, but it's worse on holidays when you're meant to be happy and to participate in family activities instead of hiding and taking long naps.
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3. On the writing front, I have been scattered as usual -- a hundred words here, a hundred words there, nothing anywhere near finished. The only thing of any length I managed was about 800 words of "Five Things That Never Happened to Rex and Ana Lewis (And One That Still Might)," my GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra fic. Basically I changed my mind about Ana's MOS (she is now doing chemical warfare instead of helicopter maintenance), got her through basic training and most of advanced individual training, and had Ripcord break the news that Duke's been kidnapped. Because in section two? Ana and Duke are essentially switching their movie roles, so she is the proactive military heroine and he is the brainwashed love interest. *evil grin*
I think I can get section two wrapped up in another thousand words or so -- I can pretty much skim everything until the nanomite warhead mission and cut off after Ana gets to punch Duke. Then it's on to part three, wherein Rex wakes up in MARS's custody after the airstrike, but things then go notably askew to canon. *eviller grin*
I have also been figuring out section/chapter titles for this story. At the moment, each one is a random quote, because I fail at creativity. Part one, wherein Rex gets Duke to delay the airstrike, is called 'The Best of All Possible Worlds' (Voltaire, Candide). Part two, wherein Ana joins the army, is 'Be All That You Can Be' (US Army recruitment slogan). Part three is tentatively called 'At the Thought of His Immolation' (Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado"). Part four is 'The Line Dividing Good and Evil' (Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago). Part five is 'All for One, One for All' (Dumas, The Three Musketeers). And part six is tentatively called 'Toward Some Overwhelming Question' (Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock).
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2. Today I did laundry and bought groceries. Said groceries mostly consisted of tissue boxes, since Vicky went through a box and a half during my family's visit. Being sick is never any fun, but it's worse on holidays when you're meant to be happy and to participate in family activities instead of hiding and taking long naps.
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3. On the writing front, I have been scattered as usual -- a hundred words here, a hundred words there, nothing anywhere near finished. The only thing of any length I managed was about 800 words of "Five Things That Never Happened to Rex and Ana Lewis (And One That Still Might)," my GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra fic. Basically I changed my mind about Ana's MOS (she is now doing chemical warfare instead of helicopter maintenance), got her through basic training and most of advanced individual training, and had Ripcord break the news that Duke's been kidnapped. Because in section two? Ana and Duke are essentially switching their movie roles, so she is the proactive military heroine and he is the brainwashed love interest. *evil grin*
I think I can get section two wrapped up in another thousand words or so -- I can pretty much skim everything until the nanomite warhead mission and cut off after Ana gets to punch Duke. Then it's on to part three, wherein Rex wakes up in MARS's custody after the airstrike, but things then go notably askew to canon. *eviller grin*
I have also been figuring out section/chapter titles for this story. At the moment, each one is a random quote, because I fail at creativity. Part one, wherein Rex gets Duke to delay the airstrike, is called 'The Best of All Possible Worlds' (Voltaire, Candide). Part two, wherein Ana joins the army, is 'Be All That You Can Be' (US Army recruitment slogan). Part three is tentatively called 'At the Thought of His Immolation' (Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado"). Part four is 'The Line Dividing Good and Evil' (Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago). Part five is 'All for One, One for All' (Dumas, The Three Musketeers). And part six is tentatively called 'Toward Some Overwhelming Question' (Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock).
