la_marquise: (Marquise)
la_marquise ([personal profile] la_marquise) wrote2010-11-07 11:23 pm

As of tomorrow

As of tomorrow, I am going to be good.
I will get to my desk earlier, go to the gym and get on with Teh Writing.
I will spend less time playing stupid games and looking to see if anything interesting is happening on the internet.

In preparation for this I have:
deleted Bookworm
stayed up far later than I intended looking to see if there is anything interesting happening on the internet...

Pigs may be sighted flying over my house, I but I intend to try, at least, because I want to finish The Drowning Kings, do the rewrites on Grass King and get to a point where I can start Gracielis no. 2 (which needs a title. But I have Ideas!).

The f'list is invited to throw brickbats at me if I seem to be loitering too much online.

Skirt of the day: green maxi-dress, in fact.

[identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com 2010-11-07 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I did start making a heap of brickbats, just to have them ready; only then I realised that I don't actually know what a brickbat is. So I tried making a heap of cats instead, but they, y'know. Won't stay heaped.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2010-11-07 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you sure? Mine (well Horus and Ish) stay heaped very well in this cold weather. Or you could try spreading one or the other with something sticky (mayonnaise, treacle, pureed mushroom...).

[identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com 2010-11-07 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Gracielis! Woo!

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2010-11-08 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
He has Notions about what he wants to do, so I am in thrall.

[identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com 2010-11-08 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahhhhhhhhhh . . . .

[identity profile] dorispossum.livejournal.com 2010-11-08 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
being good tomorrow - i know all about that sadly! :(

if you're down to trawling the internet, suggest maybe another push for Sakineh and Sajjad? (Lots of developments while you were away - see http://dorispossum.livejournal.com/8806.html and other posts for details. I know this is a case you've been committed to in the past)

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2010-11-08 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I've sent more mails on this: I didn't phone because I was too tired to talk sense.

[identity profile] dorispossum.livejournal.com 2010-11-08 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
the emails still help enormously (am just about to post again on this). As for the phone calls, after 3 attempts I didn't get to talk to anybody, as they'd set their switchboard to autoreject calls. paradoxically, i thought that positive, as it indicated they'd given up on trying to field calls after last weeks development.

anyway, like i said - thanks for doing the emails! And i hope the sleep blah improves soon.

[identity profile] birdsedge.livejournal.com 2010-11-08 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
I've never been sure whether a brickbat is a bat made from a brick or a bat for batting bricks (in which case it would need to be very heavy duty). Failing that can we send virtual bouquets instead?

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2010-11-08 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Bouquets would be nice, though only if I'm good.

[identity profile] birdsedge.livejournal.com 2010-11-08 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
No problem then. Bouquets it is!
:-)

[identity profile] miintikwa.livejournal.com 2010-11-08 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Yay books and writing! I will gleefully encourage you. I'm trying to do 1K a day. What is your goal?

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2010-11-08 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
1000 a day. We should definitely do it.

[identity profile] miintikwa.livejournal.com 2010-11-08 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Huzzah! :D

[identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com 2010-11-08 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
I'll use a brickbat on you if you promise to reciprocate!

[identity profile] klwilliams.livejournal.com 2010-11-08 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
I want you to write for entirely selfish reasons: I want to read the results.

[identity profile] mojave-wolf.livejournal.com 2010-11-08 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
Seconding this, tho also for your sake, of course.
=)

[identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com 2010-11-08 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Good luck with the new regime!

[identity profile] stina-leicht.livejournal.com 2010-11-08 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
i'm crossing my fingers for you!

[identity profile] ex-triciasu.livejournal.com 2010-11-08 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Can I come? I've been absolutely useless the last couple of days. I've been contemplating a post on the different varieties of slacking and what they mean...but too lazy to actually write it.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2010-11-08 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, absolutely. Maybe we should start a UK time zone in the War Room, if Catie and Laura Anne don't mind.

[identity profile] aberwyn.livejournal.com 2010-11-08 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
A brickbat is the flat thing you use to put bricks in the kiln when you're going to bake them. Kind of like a cricket bat or a pizza bat.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2010-11-08 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I wonder if I can find a picture to use as an icon.

[identity profile] msagara.livejournal.com 2010-11-08 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
As of tomorrow, I am going to be good.
I will get to my desk earlier, go to the gym and get on with Teh Writing.


Me, too. After I set up the ancient mac to replace the ancient mac at the store which appears to have had a severe head crash and died. This took six hours of today =/.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2010-11-08 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
COmputers are out to get us. Along with cats.

[identity profile] kateelliott.livejournal.com 2010-11-08 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
We can be strong together!

I have a whole envisioned way of organizing my life but I haven't been able to manage implementing it yet.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2010-11-08 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)

Definitely. We shall forge a new way...

[identity profile] mizkit.livejournal.com 2010-11-08 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
This was my plan, too. We all need a 12 step program or something, don't we?

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2010-11-08 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
We do.
May I join the war room, please?

[identity profile] mizkit.livejournal.com 2010-11-08 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, absolutely. It's at http://tinychat.com/vjp2m daily, and everybody is always welcome!