This was a productive week but it left me feeling off-kilter. When writing goes very well, it’s easy for me to get caught up in it, not take breaks, and then feel wiped at the end of the day. While stopping the work feels counter-intuitive, it’s better in the long run.
Also there are one or two paperwork tasks I needed to do this week and I didn’t get to them. That’s not good either. I did get to several but one of them is big and complicated and it’s hard to carve out time when, like I said, the writing is going smoothly.
Two more things going smoothly. First Sage, a Persian vegetarian restaurant that’s a favorite of ours, reopened after a couple of years closed. Bigger place, co-owned — if I’m understanding it right — by a successful Indian restaurateur so I’m guessing more money. The start-up menu has a smaller selection than of old, but the food is still great.
Second, we’ve been concerned about Trixie’s weight gain. Slight, but she’s a small dog so even a little matters a lot. The big problem is that the added meds both dogs are on get wrapped up in food or pill pockets. I’m now setting her total soft food for the day in a small container in the fridge to give me some idea how to ration it. It’s obvious I was giving her way more than that so this is a win.
As to work, I spent more time on The Local Reporter than I’d planned, as often happens. Though in fairness, it was fun time: I was interviewing a local filmmaker about the Sick Chicks Film Festival (specfic films made by women) so I watched one of her films streaming on Amazon (review tomorrow). That added to the time. I also wrote about Carrboro’s plans to renovate its town hall.
My own writing is going to be Jekyll and Hyde for the rest of the year, I think. This week I rewrote the Nutty Professor chapter, which includes other films where Hyde is a womanizing party animal. I also wrote the first draft of the Monster Mash-Up chapter. I watched a couple of movies and several episodes of Monster High in various incarnations.
I also got some feedback from TYG and a couple of other people I trust on the tentative cover design for Southern Discomfort. More about that soon.
That was a good week’s work. I’ll end the post with a shot of the blue tower opposite the Carolina Theater. Not that we were there this week, but just because.
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