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I'm going on another trip tomorrow, this one by car. First to Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA, and then the next day to Allentown to pick up P., and then to Massachusetts and New Hampshire to visit the folks. And then back, possibly all in one day, but if I am bushed I'll stay in A-town overnight and get back on Wednesday.
I was hoping to have this story ready at least for beta by now, but it's not; however, I am taking my laptop and will have some time, at least tomorrow night at the hotel, to work on it. I think it's going well.
It is the kind of story where I am really glad to have the Internet. How did we ever write without online thesauri and Wikipedia lists of English words with French origin, I ask you. It will also provoke one of those long entries about influences and process when I post it. But that is not now.
We watched "Endeavour" last night (the one about young Morse). It was great fun. Also watching "Person of Interest" which![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yunitsa assures me will come into its own in a few more episodes. I am actually very fond of Harold Finch (not his real name) already. Tonight we'll probably watch the new "Castle" episode since the new "Homeland" one isn't available yet. So many shows! I need to catch up on "Once Upon a Time" too. And I still haven't watched the O'Reilly-Stewart debate.
Okay! To bed early tonight, I should think, and I hope sleep happens.
I was hoping to have this story ready at least for beta by now, but it's not; however, I am taking my laptop and will have some time, at least tomorrow night at the hotel, to work on it. I think it's going well.
It is the kind of story where I am really glad to have the Internet. How did we ever write without online thesauri and Wikipedia lists of English words with French origin, I ask you. It will also provoke one of those long entries about influences and process when I post it. But that is not now.
We watched "Endeavour" last night (the one about young Morse). It was great fun. Also watching "Person of Interest" which
yunitsa assures me will come into its own in a few more episodes. I am actually very fond of Harold Finch (not his real name) already. Tonight we'll probably watch the new "Castle" episode since the new "Homeland" one isn't available yet. So many shows! I need to catch up on "Once Upon a Time" too. And I still haven't watched the O'Reilly-Stewart debate.Okay! To bed early tonight, I should think, and I hope sleep happens.
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Date: 2012-10-11 08:12 am (UTC)From:And it beats me how people wrote without the internet to answer all those awkward little questions. Though to be fair I could probably do a pretty good job of listing English words with French origins without it, since that's the sort of thing I tend to know anyway. But my default reaction these days when I don't know something is to stick it into Google and see what comes up, both for fictional and actual problems. You could probably learn a lot about my life and preoccupations from my Google search history ;-).
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Date: 2012-10-11 10:25 am (UTC)From:And my memory is shot for a lot of things, whether it's age or the influence of having information at my fingertips. It's not that I don't know that a particular English word comes from French, but if you asked me to list more than five at once I'd draw a blank. Hence Wikipedia, which allows me to have fun with Simon's brain with far less effort than otherwise possible.