Seriously, progress! or else!

[laylah]

The day after my last post I woke up at 3am with a miserable earache, so I spent Saturday morning in urgent care getting a prescription for antibiotics and cough syrup with codeine. People say that's "the good stuff," but eh. It made me a little dizzy, is all. But I am at least sleeping a little better and no longer having terrifying coughing fits on a regular basis.

I'm now coming right down to the wire on one of the submission calls I wanted to meet this fall, and also coming up on the date when I'm supposed to hear back on a story I have out right now. Here's hoping for good luck on both fronts in the next few days! My plans for the weekend are fairly low-key, so I really just need to get my act together and focus on turning the rest of this outline into prose.

Any minute now.

ETA: I also keep stalling on things like "How hungry would you have to be before you were willing to try dog food?" QUESTIONS MY CHARACTERS WISH I DIDN'T NEED ANSWERS TO.

Comments

[julian_griffith]

I know some folks who suggest Gainesburgers as survival rations in a go-bag. Nourishing, if you're stuck in snow or hiking in adverse weather conditions in order to reach safety, but not APPEALING, like chocolate-covered energy bars, so you won't snarf them down in the first ten minutes. I have considered this for a car emergency kit, though mostly I keep a single-serving tuna-and-crackers kit in the glove box, which is much better for my ACTUAL emergencies, which are "forgot to eat lunch and won't get through my 6-9pm class without some protein."

[laylah]

I have gotten such great responses from people on the dog food question. On plurk a couple of my friends got into a discussion about which flavor of milk bones was the tastiest. XD

...I can't blame you for going the tuna-and-crackers route instead, though. Seems much more appealing for the everyday small emergencies.

[julian_griffith]

Tuna for the glove box, Luna bars for the purse. *g*