Finally, some manageable weather here in New York. The wind still has a bit of a nip to it, but otherwise today is nicely sunny. People have emerged from their hibernation chambers (apartments) and are now frolicking through the park, using up their sun quota for the year. Oh, you didn’t know there was a sun quota? Yeah, all of you healthy people have got to make it up for me, though. Want to know how much I’ve been strolling in the light lately? Let me put it this way. I got up the other morning to head to work and strapped my watch to my wrist before heading out the door. Then I realize the watch display is dead. My solar-powered watch had expired for want of a single ray of sunshiney happiness. Between taking the subway, being in the office, and then my apartment and bedroom not getting much in the way of natural lighting (plus lots of gray skies in the past couple weeks) I now have to set my watch on a windowsill like some potted plant in order for it to survive.
Aside from all that…
Writing status. I sent my lastly revised manuscript to a few folks who have been wonderful enough to agree to read it over for me. Then of course they’ll set in on it like a psychotic surgeon doing a full-body transplant with rusty chainsaws. Should be fun. Just stay behind the plastic curtains and you won’t get wet. I’ll let you know how those reviews turn out and whether they send me weeping to a cliff’s edge. Otherwise, I am once more sticking my proboscis to the grindstone and have selected yet another manuscript I feel has languished too long in my electronic dust bin. I’m about a third of the way through polishing it, though I keep spotting things I’d forgotten I needed to fix or work on, and so it will probably at least take a couple passes before it
doesn’t pass for something I dug up from the backyard.
So, I am on to my daily avoidance of sunshine. You, on the other hand, should go fulfill your quota.
I see that smile.