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*clings to the outside world*
Jul. 11th, 2011 03:23 pmYay! This is the first time since Wednesday night that I've had Internet and phone.
We had a big rainstorm Wednesday night, when we got about an inch of rain in about half an hour. All that moisture tripped the fail-safe on the outlet into which my Internet/Phone is connected.
Audrey reset it on Friday, but the Internet never came back, and I had to wait until she returned today so I could borrow her cell and call Verizon service. Luckily, they were able to fix the fault remotely, but it took a while...
In the meantime, four and a half days where I have no one to talk with but myself? Not a pretty mental space.
I need a burn phone.
In the meantime, in order to keep sane, I gave myself 2 24-hour writing challenges, and successfully met the first:
( 'Monster Teddy' as a short story, with a single conflict and resolution -- 2,297 words )
This second one, I did not meet [Points to the bad mental space, and not really being in a good condition to think about a story with tragic undertones], but at least I got something down, and the first bones of world-building]:
( 'Eloise, the Joyful Troll' as a short story, with a single conflict, and resolution )
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Oh, and there were things I wanted to rant and/or cheer about over the last five days, but I have a migraine now, and want to take a break from this screen for a bit...
We had a big rainstorm Wednesday night, when we got about an inch of rain in about half an hour. All that moisture tripped the fail-safe on the outlet into which my Internet/Phone is connected.
Audrey reset it on Friday, but the Internet never came back, and I had to wait until she returned today so I could borrow her cell and call Verizon service. Luckily, they were able to fix the fault remotely, but it took a while...
In the meantime, four and a half days where I have no one to talk with but myself? Not a pretty mental space.
I need a burn phone.
In the meantime, in order to keep sane, I gave myself 2 24-hour writing challenges, and successfully met the first:
( 'Monster Teddy' as a short story, with a single conflict and resolution -- 2,297 words )
This second one, I did not meet [Points to the bad mental space, and not really being in a good condition to think about a story with tragic undertones], but at least I got something down, and the first bones of world-building]:
( 'Eloise, the Joyful Troll' as a short story, with a single conflict, and resolution )
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Oh, and there were things I wanted to rant and/or cheer about over the last five days, but I have a migraine now, and want to take a break from this screen for a bit...
