housekeeping post

[desayunoencama]

Yesterday was one of those post-trip groggy days, even though I couldn't have true jet-lag since Slovenia and Spain are in the same time zone. But I was on half gas or something all day.

I did do a load of laundry in the morning, which was gorgeous and sunny, but then it rained in the afternoon after I'd hung it out to dry. Sigh.

I went for a massage, since my shoulder has been hurting the past few days, I think from the uncomfortable bed(s). Still aching today. Will probably go back again on Monday, before heading off to NYC.

Today I went shopping. There has been a strike of truckers since I went away, and I was not quite prepared for how decimated the supermarket shelves were. People are stockpiling in fear of shortages, obviously.

I generally stock up on certain staples myself, mostly because the supermarket is not close to home so as long as I'm schlepping I like to make it last for a while.

I like that Mercadona labels many of its products as gluten-free. Because, as I've been learning, many things which you don't expect to have wheat actually contain it.

On the flight home I read HARRIET THE SPY, which was nothing like I had thought it would be.

I also wound up writing 1700 words on a new (gay) short story. I need to see what uncollected stories I have, and figure out what to maybe write next to try and have a 4th collection. Probably easiest for me to sell another gay short story collection. The one complication is that what is uncollected differs from country to country, since I kept adding new stories to TWO BOYS IN LOVE in each new edition. So the English edition has maybe 6 or 7 stories that don't appear in the Spanish version. Which means I'm much closer to having enough for a 4th collection in Spanish, even though I wouldn't be able to sell it everywhere else since it would overlap too much with existing collection. So I'm probably better off to continue to write new stories and then just add some or all of the uncollected-in-Spanish ones to that edition...

But we'll see. (If I keep writing, if I decide on a thematic umbrella for a new collection, what do I have on hand or want to write that will fit under that rubric, if any publisher(s) are interested in it, etc.)

In any case, not going to get back to the story today, since I have a website to translate into English waiting for my attention...

Comments

[jillbertini.livejournal.com]

I remember loving Harriet the Spy as a kid. What were you expecting?

[desayunoencama.livejournal.com]

I don't know so much that it's what I was expecting, as that I was a bit...mystified that so many people I know so loved it. I guess I just didn't quite warm to Harriet, I guess. I expected her to be a bit more self-aware, so it all seemed a bit...flat to me.

[jillbertini.livejournal.com]

I remember loving it as a kid; I re-read it more recently and was surprised to find out she had a nanny! I just hadn't thought of the adult woman that way. So ... she turned out to be more of an indulged, spoiled kid than I had thought. But my first impression still remains, and I liked that she was so curious about everything!

[desayunoencama.livejournal.com]

I didn't expect her to be so spoiled, either.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

I think her lack of self-awareness drives the story. She is too young to understand what she sees and writes about, but the reader, even the non-adult reader, usually is not.

[desayunoencama.livejournal.com]

I can understand that, but I didn't LIKE her.