Chop off one head, two grow back
Saturday, December 5th, 2009 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniI crossed six things off my to-do list today. Why is it longer now than when I started?
It's snowing.
In anticipation of this very event, Steve went out to the front yard earlier in the day and wrapped a deceased potted Christmas tree with a string of Halloween lights, sat it on the bench in the Cat Garden, and plugged it in. The result is rather cheery, and pleasant in the falling snow.
Spent some time reading Great Swathes of I Dare, Plan B, and Carpe Diem, which counts as writing -- or at least research -- and took care of a short edit letter (which also counts as writing, if only to keep me from wallowing in a Slough of Despond). Still sort of feeling my way, dernit (explosions! I need explosions!), and noting Odd Facts.
Such as:
*Miri left Surebleak as an apprentice soldier in a mercenary unit when she was fourteen years old.
*When Theo was fourteen, she was a minor child, subject to her mother's absolute authority.
Tomorrow is a writing day, to-do list or not. At the rate it's growing, it'll have opposable thumbs by Tuesday, anyway, and then it can clean the house.
Progress on Ghost Ship
It's snowing.
In anticipation of this very event, Steve went out to the front yard earlier in the day and wrapped a deceased potted Christmas tree with a string of Halloween lights, sat it on the bench in the Cat Garden, and plugged it in. The result is rather cheery, and pleasant in the falling snow.
Spent some time reading Great Swathes of I Dare, Plan B, and Carpe Diem, which counts as writing -- or at least research -- and took care of a short edit letter (which also counts as writing, if only to keep me from wallowing in a Slough of Despond). Still sort of feeling my way, dernit (explosions! I need explosions!), and noting Odd Facts.
Such as:
*Miri left Surebleak as an apprentice soldier in a mercenary unit when she was fourteen years old.
*When Theo was fourteen, she was a minor child, subject to her mother's absolute authority.
Tomorrow is a writing day, to-do list or not. At the rate it's growing, it'll have opposable thumbs by Tuesday, anyway, and then it can clean the house.
10355 / 100000
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Date: 2009-12-06 03:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-06 02:03 pm (UTC)Katy had to sign a paper, but that was a merc rule, not a Surebleak law.
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Date: 2009-12-06 02:10 pm (UTC)Also, 14 is not an unusual age to be independent enough to be married in many cultures, especially 'rough' ones (like the American West a couple of centuries ago), it made sense to me that Miri would be considered old enough to decide her own fate. Whereas Western society keeps increasing the age, often 18 years old; for many things it's 21 (like drinking alcohol in certain places). (Although the age of adulthood went down from 21 to 18 in my lifetime and is now drifting back up.)