Weekend update
Apr. 4th, 2011 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randy_byersI mowed half the lawn yesterday, and it was the back half at that, so the neighbors still have to look at a jungle out front. I'd already spent an hour pruning the raspberries and rebuilding the raspberry frame, so just half a yard of mowing heavy, wet grass was enough for me. It feels as though this was pretty late for raspberry pruning, and I'm not sure if that's because I've been so busy doing other things or because it really has been unseasonably chilly this year. I just have not felt like getting out into the yard this year, whatever the reason. On the other hand, this is not at all late for the first mowing of the year. I think it almost always happens in April, because it's too wet before then.
I also got a lot of writing done this weekend, both on my blog, on LiveJournal, and on the trip report, which I finally got back to after two weekends off. It has been very interesting working on a longer-form piece (circa 15,000 words at this point), which is not something I've done much of. I've been making notes in the manuscript of places where I want to expand or add more detail, and indeed yesterday was spent expanding on what I'd written the day before. It feels like I'm composing both forward and backward -- that as I move forward I'm changing my idea of what I've already written. There's lots of anxiety around the process, but there's also a lot of feeling of discovery, which is the fun part of writing. I've also got a lot of thoughts about the blog-so-far, but I think I'm going to resist analyzing for a bit longer. Perhaps needless to say, my thoughts about why I'm doing it are changing.
I went to Vanguard Saturday night. I hadn't been planning on it, but Craig Smith asked if I could give him a ride, so I thought what the hell. Turned out to be a relatively big Vanguard, perhaps because it was also Andy & Carrie's 25th wedding anniversary party and Julie & Luke's 5th wedding anniversary party. It was fun, even with the traditional ritual where Victor tries to talk me into buying an Apple product. Even Jane showed up, which was good to see. I drank a series of beers from Russian River Brewing tracing my spiritual path: Redemption, Damnation, Salvation. Out of order, but that's the story of my life.
I also got a lot of writing done this weekend, both on my blog, on LiveJournal, and on the trip report, which I finally got back to after two weekends off. It has been very interesting working on a longer-form piece (circa 15,000 words at this point), which is not something I've done much of. I've been making notes in the manuscript of places where I want to expand or add more detail, and indeed yesterday was spent expanding on what I'd written the day before. It feels like I'm composing both forward and backward -- that as I move forward I'm changing my idea of what I've already written. There's lots of anxiety around the process, but there's also a lot of feeling of discovery, which is the fun part of writing. I've also got a lot of thoughts about the blog-so-far, but I think I'm going to resist analyzing for a bit longer. Perhaps needless to say, my thoughts about why I'm doing it are changing.
I went to Vanguard Saturday night. I hadn't been planning on it, but Craig Smith asked if I could give him a ride, so I thought what the hell. Turned out to be a relatively big Vanguard, perhaps because it was also Andy & Carrie's 25th wedding anniversary party and Julie & Luke's 5th wedding anniversary party. It was fun, even with the traditional ritual where Victor tries to talk me into buying an Apple product. Even Jane showed up, which was good to see. I drank a series of beers from Russian River Brewing tracing my spiritual path: Redemption, Damnation, Salvation. Out of order, but that's the story of my life.
