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Odd day, but in a good way. I was at my desk by a quarter ’til eight this morning. By nine I had my Merry pages done. Jon and I took the dogs for their walk, then I came back from my second writing session. Not on Merry, but on anything I wanted to write.
I’ve just started in the last few days, giving myself permission to write on other things for a second go ’round. So far, what I’ve mostly worked on is Anita. Merry first thing in the morning, then a brief break, then Anita. Sometimes the break is lunch, but this morning I was back at my desk for the second session by ten. By noon I was done. As in; had done more than my minimum pages on Merry, and done with my min pages on Anita. I was also tired. The writing was over for the day, but it was like lunch time. Weird.
Even for me this was an insanely quick day. So what do you do when you’ve planned to work the entire day and you get done by noon? Beats the heck out of me. I’m a workaholic, I have no idea what to do with down time.
Charles was over helping put up the new network, and other computer things. So when I finished at noon, Jon was still very immersed in the computer stuff. He was more than willing to break for lunch with me, but Charles had to stay at the desk with the computer. Which meant they were far from done, and though Charles could handle it without him, I knew Jon was trying to learn how to do all the new stuff, and that would work better if he was on sight for it’s installation. Jon would have gone to lunch and talked to me, visited. But he was in high guy-mode, all you women out there know what I mean. You can drag them away from the job, but sometimes you only get part of their attention. I can’t bitch too much since I do the same thing about my own job sometimes. So what to do?
I called my friend, and fellow writer, Sharon Shinn. I wasn’t sure she’d have time on such short notice, but her computer went in the shop this week, so I took a chance. She was free to come out and play. Yea!
So Sharon and I sat at a restaurant and ate and visited face to face. We’ve seen each other at writing get togethers, but I can’t honestly remember how long it’s been since we were able to catch lunch together. I know that Tippin’s restaurants still existed because that’s where we ate the last time. Since they went out of business some years ago, it’s been awhile. But Sharon works as hard as I do, so our schedule is pretty full.
So a free afternoon that filled me with something close to panic, turned into a very pleasant visit with a good friend. Jon got to stay home and work on the computer stuff with Charles, and do that guy bonding over tech and mechanics. Sharon and I girl bonded, over food and conversation.
Jon and I also did some work on the comic. Made and took some phone calls from New York. A busy day that included some relaxing time, nice, weird, but nice.