Strictly Frivolous

[liz_marcs]

I feel guilty. No links to anything. Just me with my brains leaking out of my ears.

After posting my last link update, I attempted to clean the house, which turned into a much bigger project than I anticipated.

That's when I realized: I've basically lost three or four days. *headdesk*

Ahhhh, why I'm no longer a reporter. I get too obsesseive for my own good. My 8-hour days always turned into 16-hour days. Which kind of happened again.

So, no work was done (at all) on fixing up the next part of Water Hold Me Down.

I'm five days behind on the Acme Heartbreak Repair Kit for booster17, which took a disturbing left turn into some territory I'm not pleased with. I'm so displeased that I'm almost tempted to start from scratch. Sadly, I'm debating whether I'd be better off trying something completely different with a weaker idea, or fixing what I've got, which has a stronger idea, but is being poorly executed.

Gah. I can't even look at it until Monday since I've got a mega busy weekend coming up. Thank god I have Monday off. I'm hoping that my head is on straighter come Monday.

Also, thanks to everyone who's commented and read my obsessive news posts for the past few days. I've been very poor about responding (apologies) but I got caught up in chasing down links. This blogging thing is much harder than it looks, especially when you're trying to double-check everything and track it back to a source that most people — regardless of personal or political beliefs — would consider reasonable sources.

Some of those dudes out there make it look easy.

The posts are staying up if you want to click on any of the links or hunt down blogs that are doing a much better job reporting on the situation as it unfolds or are collecting information from people who are still in the hurricane ravaged areas.

And thanks for putting up with me. :-)

This LJ will now return to it's usual frivolous reason for existing.

Comments

[bigsciencybrain.livejournal.com]

{hugs} No worries, your posts have been most appreciated and informative. Get some rest!

[(Anonymous)]

I read your stuff, not only because you're a good fiction writer, but also because you are much more in touch with the real world than I am. Your obsessions are my information superhighway. Thanks.

Nocturnalista.

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

((hugs)) No putting-up-with necessary, you did good. And I totally understand about getting obsessive -- I need to take a break from it, myself, and I've been just watching tv and reading online, not gathering news.

[sunnyd-lite.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing your obsessive info gathering....it was very insightful and helpful.

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for your hard and useful work in getting the links up; the National Geographic article alone was worth its weight in propaganda.

I heard Dr. John on "The World" this afternoon, talking about how the deprivation of silt from the bayou made this week's disaster inevitable, and thought how much we owe to the little stuff in life.

Julia, avoiding writing, myself.