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Wrote this post yesterday, but it just never got posted, so you get it today with some additions.
Only four pages today, but I’m exhausted. I just don’t seem to have the energy I normally have this week. I guess it’s no surprise, really. It’s been a hell of a week. But I’ve reached my minimum page count, and I’m tired. So, I’m calling it for the day.
Jon and I have the very rare experience of a day alone, just us. You’d think in a house this big that it wouldn’t matter so much if we had people in it with us, but it does. You can somehow feel them, even rooms away. But, also, they interrupt. They need questions answered. They want to know if you want to have lunch now, or later. Those hundred little interactions that you do when you work together. Today, there was none of that. No matter how much I enjoy my staff, or how good they are at their jobs, it’s still our house they work out of, and sometimes it’s nice to have just us and the dogs and the house and no one else.
We got to go out and have lunch just the two of us. We did a quick stop at our favorite metaphysical store. It really was quick, because Jon helped me pick out what I said I needed, candles (Wiccans use a lot of candles), and then he sent me out to the car. Why? Because I tend to get distracted by the stones, the jewelery, the books, etc . . . We all have the things we geek over. For me, it’s my religion, and all the stuff that goes with it. Okay, I geeked over rocks long before I was Wiccan, and I’ve always been a sucker for shiny stuff you wear. And books, well, Jon and I both have a weakness for books. But I was really good today, with Jon’s help. It got me back to the house in time to finish up my pages, and be done with a clear conscience.
Jon is playing a new Xbox 360 game (Bioshock) in another part of the house. It’s a totally inappropriate game for Trinity to see, so he hasn’t been able to use it until today. It’s too creepy. She’s with her father this weekend.
Jon and I are getting a rare chance to do what we want to do, instead of what we have to do. He’s playing and I’m working. Normally, I find work very refreshing, but this week has taken it’s toil. Truthfully, a little time on the tread mill sounds good. Get those endorphins pumping and see if it helps clear my head. This has been one of those writing sessions where I feel more muzzy headed now then when I started. Again, writing usually helps clear my head, but not today. My mood was good earlier, but now I’m sad again. I guess until the whole issue with Phouka is cleared up next week I’ll be doing that. It’s only been seven days, to the day, since we lost Jimmy. Like I said, a hell of a week. (I did forty-five minutes on the treadmill and it did help.)
We also went out and saw a movie that early evening: STARDUST. We both liked it a great deal. Some of the adds are making it seem more epic movie, and there is a slice of LORD OF THE RINGS in there, but there is a bigger slice, if I had ot pick a movie it felt like of THE PRINCESS BRIDE. But, of course, it’s based on a Niel Gaiman book so it is most certainly it’s own unique creation. Niel’s having a heck of a year with this movie and BEOWULF, which he co-wrote the screen play to, and either later this year or early next is CORALINE based on the book of the same name. He was a very busy boy at comcicon in San Diego with all the promotional stuff. We finally got to sit down and talk for a few minutes over food at comicon. Seems like we’ve spent years being at the same conventions, or events, and always saying, wouldn’t it be nice if we could talk, or have dinner, but we always seem to be scheduled opposite each other. It was nice to finally carve some time out.