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The images, each moved from their numbered folders into new folders named for the organizational scheme that moved me at the moment, have a new home. \u00a0I’ve checked the prior machine for missing images, found a few and they’ll get added in tomorrow, but in essence the big image reorganization, self-inflicted, is over.<\/p>\n
(Valkyrie (1908) by Stephan Sinding located in Churchill Park, Copenhagen, Denmark)<\/p>\n
On March 1st I’m going to hit Missing with my third revision. \u00a0I’m hoping this one puts me close to finished that I can begin shopping it to agents. \u00a0I think it will, but until it’s done, I won’t know. \u00a0Research for Loki’s Children goes well, too. I’m almost done with all the Eddas, then I’ll go back over them again, looking at my notes and underlining, taking pieces here and there that I’ll use.<\/p>\n
With the image reorganization I’ve felt a bit off my game this last week, but I’m back now. \u00a0Time to step up again.<\/p>\n
Each day, though, I have (for the most part) finished a sentence of Jason and Medea. \u00a0That doesn’t sound like a very ambitious rate, but by the time a sentence is done, which can be between 2 and 14 lines long, I’m ready to put away the Lewis and Short, the Wheeler and the Anderson, close Perseus and go upstairs. \u00a0It’s a pace that, for now, allows me to work at an intense level, get work done steadily and yet allows enough time to do a quality job.<\/p>\n
Been reading Civil Servant’s Notebook<\/span>\u00a0by\u00a0Wang Xiaofang. \u00a0Author of 13 novels, all about Chinese bureaucracy, this is his first translated into English. \u00a0Published by Penguin. \u00a0Of all the material I’ve read on China of late this one seems to have the most insight into contemporary China. \u00a0Wang gives a satirical perspective on life inside municipal government, but he also strips the veins of a culture deep with history and short on ethical guidance. \u00a0I’ve read elsewhere of a moral aimlessness that inflicts contemporary China, but I was never able to put my finger on it until reading Civil Servant’s Notebook. \u00a0I don’t have it down here with me now, but tomorrow I’ll quote a few lines from it to show you what I mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Imbolc \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 New (Valentine) Moon The images, each moved from their numbered folders into new folders … Continue reading Just Stuff<\/span>