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Wed 11 Sep 2019 09:17:23 AM EDT
Slept from ten to six-thirty.
Woke several times in the night.
High of eighty-seven today, with thunderstorms some time after noon.
Work:
- Sign circuit order for landscaping building
Done.
- Email Yardi about demo
Done.
- DKIM
Not much.
Twenty-minute walk at lunch.
Hot and humid.
Heard crickets.
Saw a morning dove, a blue jay, and a little white butterfly.
Coworkers in the lunch room talking about where they were on September 11.
Told the anecdote about that night, driving home from work, I saw a girl sitting by the side of the road with a sign reading "give peace a chance" and how it made me angry.
Somewhat embarrassed, or at least ambivalent, about my anger in retrospect.
Home:
- Book hotel for U-Con
Done. (Confirmation #98197992)
- Buy bonds
Done. BNDX.
Thinking about short format stuff, like short stories.
There isn't really time for the classic progression: status quo → disruption → inadequate or misapprehending fix effort → failure worsens disruption → major fix "solves" disruption → characters settle into new status quo.
Short forms have to frame out — what? — two or maybe three of those?
Probably: failure worsens disruption → major fix "solves" disruption, with hints of the proceeding and subsequent events.
So, the writer probably has to outline the whole chain, then just write the Worse → Fix part.
Status quo → disruption → inadequate or misapprehending fix effort → failure worsens disruption → major fix "solves" disruption → characters settle into new status quo.
Interesting to consider this in terms of a police procedural.
The police follow the progression as they try to solve the murder, but, before then, the murderer had followed his own progression.
For the murderer, the murder isn't a goal in itself — it's an attempt to fix a disruption to his status quo.
Finished reading The Housekeeper and The Profession.
Sweet.
Servings: grains 4/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 5/4, dairy 3/2, meat 4/3, nuts 0/0.5
Breakfast: egg sandwich, carrots
Brunch: banana, cucumber, coffee
Lunch: yogurt, celery, tomato, grapfruit
Afternoon snack: coffee
Dinner: Italian sub, fries
127/82
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