Meetings
Today was a day of meetings. A sales rep at 9:00, an alpha review for our new CRM package from 10:30 to 1:00 and another meeting from 3 to 4:30. I had a few minutes to heat up a little bowl of soup in the microwave for lunch. Ah, I remember fondly the days–were they only a month or two ago–when if I had two meetings in a given week it was a lot. Once our CRM package is launched I’ll have far fewer meetings again. Oh yay.
The Mentalist was pretty odd last night. Was there anyone among the cast who didn’t end up hypnotized? They made it seem like you could hypnotize someone deeply with a few pats on the shoulder and a low-spoken voice. Since I don’t believe in hypnotism at all, I found it all quite ridiculous. Oh, and a note to the Without a Trace people–when your episode has only one truly surprising and effective moment, don’t ruin it by showing it on the previews for a week in advance.
I got back to a short story I was working on at the end of December before my book project came up. That’s the one that started out at 6200 words that I managed to edit back to a more reasonable length. As of this morning, it’s at 3100 words, which gives me about 900 words to play with.
I haven’t read the manuscript in nearly three months, so I was able to approach it with a fresh persepective, but I didn’t change all that much. I rewrote one paragraph extensively, though, to bring in a literary allusion that occurred to me during the interim and I’m going to go back and reread the inspiring story again to see if I can pluck out a couple of other details to drop into the text. I think the ending still needs work, but the first 2/3 of the story please me.
I posted my review for Eclipse by James North Patterson. An ambitious novel.
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