November 5: Writing and Cat

[rowyn]

 This morning, I got up a little early, made breakfast, and let Lyric inside before I sat down at my computer to eat breakfast. Lyric had a few bites of her breakfast sitting next to me, while I tried to get Apothecaria posted. (I accidentally saved a few Apothecarias as png instead of jpg, and the png is like 5 times as large so I want to replace those with jpg before I post them. And I have failed to get ahead of this problem by fixing all of them at once.)

Then Lyric decided it was time to sprawl on top of my chest for most of the next two hours. 

After thirty minutes, she moved enough to one side that I could eat my breakfast before it'd gone completely cold. It wasn't feasible to type around her, so mostly I browsed the web and played a little with my phone. I did not pet her very much because she generally only wants a few minutes of petting at a time. Then she gets overstimulated and her tail lashes and if you keep petting her she bites. She doesn't want to leave, tho. 

When she got up, I waffled over whether to write or immediately take a nap. (Tragically, I cannot nap with a cat lying atop me). I settled for writing a few hundred words and then napping.

Post-nap, I made a sandwich for lunch and did some more writing. At around 1k, I decided it was time for a break and went for a walk while listening to another Murderbot novella, Fugitive Telemetry. While I was out, I discovered my new polling place this was the school I got past on my usual neighborhood walk route. I didn't realize it until I saw the gajillion "vote for/against [thing/person]" signs posted 100 yards from the entrance. I voted early, on October 29,  so I didn't go in. I cut the walk shorter than I'd planned because it was overcast and a few drops of rain hit me, and I didn't want to end up soaked if it started to actually rain. It didn't actually rain, though, so I could've stayed out longer. But I was tired.

At home, it took awhile to work myself up to writing again. I am trying not to worry about the election because there's nothing more I can do about it now, and while the voting will be over soon, the outcome will probably take much longer to be certain.  I know some polling stations were jammed. 

I poked my way to 1500 words of Be That Way by the time CoffeeQuills' stream started. I've been getting into their multiplayer rooms for the last week or so, because 4thewords's multiplayer mode is one ways to get myself to crank out words. The only words I have been cranking out are for this post, but that's okay. Sometimes watching the line go up is motivational, and helps me get back to writing the thing I actually want to work on.