h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

the peking soup was NOT good for me - sore throat today
wednesday, on the SF&F meeting, my newest publisher approached me about the short story translation he'd assured me there is no hurry... I got less than half done before the move, and it's DIFFICULT. actually more of an ill-researched article than a story, and once it's finished it will look more like an annotation/critique rather than a translation. and it requires COMPLETE concentration.
so I asked peri not to come up today (she likes to talk to mom for an hour and then keeps interrupting about what to do and where to put stuff and....) and started re-reading and editing the finished part... only that today both the electrician AND the installers for the stair-chair decided to show up. Good news: if I manage to translate another 1000 words, i can send the first half for the preliminary editing round. Bad news: i won't have the time (and constitution) much less the quiet i need to do that before going to kish. and my computer there isn't set up yet, just a dinosour laptop without word program maybe i can do the research for the annotations by dial-up. mom's non-surgery messed up my work plan badly.

rec:
not fanfic, though I might do related fanfics soon
anyone here who hasn't read the webcomic SCHLOCK MERCENARY, go do it RIGHT NOW. all 10+ years of it! it's worth the time.

overall health: 3 - just not in bed yet. YET
headache: -2 - but with the fever and sore throat...
mood: 5... I'm SICK OF BEING SICK
sport: 3
sleep: 6 and only because mom slept in for an hour. can't wait for the bedroom upstairs to be finished.
accomplishments: 15 for 3 hours of reading and editing, and nothing else

total: 30
average: 5
... see what happens with just a few hours of work...