30/9/14

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Re: my suspicions that I'm on the wrong size bike: just measured myself and the calculator says I should probably be on a 58 cm. My bike is a 54 cm. That's less than 2" of difference so I don't even know if it's a big deal? And measuring myself at home with a tape measure is not super accurate?

But, yeah, might make a difference to get myself on a bike that fits better.
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I am on vacation!

Scene : my therapist's waiting room.
Stranger on phone: Hi, I was wondering if you had this book? Oh, you're not open yet? When do you open?

Me : Hi, I'm a librarian? Can I check the library catalog for you?

Stranger :YES THANK YOU.

Hopefully that's all the librarianship I'll do for the next 12 days? Though I might try to show my mom how to download audio books.
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I am writing the Current WIP longhand.

There are a few advantages to this (now that I have a good fountain pen, and won't give myself tendinitis like I did in Japan -- hooray for ergonomics!)

-I can treat every word as something provisional, something I'm going to have to toss away anyway, if only to retype it.

-I get to give myself little milestones along the way, of filling up a notebook, of running out of ink in my pen and changing the ink.

-I don't have to get quite so hung up over numbers and word count -- 'About two pages, almost every day' is comfortingly vague. (I'm not sure it's going to be good for my own sense of pacing -- hopefully I won't find out that it's way under or over the page count I was looking for, once I type it up!)

There is one big disadvantage.

I had forgotten, for a time, about the notebooks that I lost in transit when I moved back from Japan. But longhand makes it very hard to follow the principle of 'if you don't have three copies, you don't have any.' There's fire and floods and my own scatter-brained-ness to contend with.

I wonder how much trouble it would be to scan in every page and email it to myself. I wonder if the copies would be clear enough to retype from. I wonder if I'm worrying too much about this.

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