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Thurs. May 14, 2026: A Balanced Workday
image courtesy of Pexels via Pixabay.comThursday, May 14, 2026
Day Before Dark Moon
Pluto Retrograde
Rainy and cool
You can read the latest on the garden on Gratitude and Growth. I actually have a decent-sized post up this week!
Yesterday morning, I worked my way through the draft of BETTING MAN, adding in the layers and the red herrings I needed in order to move forward. One wouldn’t think that could take all morning, but it did. Those fourteen chapters hold together better than I thought, which is a relief, and now there’s enough foundation to move forward.
The tension builds better now around the attacks that have happened since before the book opens. The first death is at the beginning of Chapter Five – again, farther in than I usually like to put it, but that’s where it needs to be for this book. I’m about to drop another body when I move forward, and then two more in pretty rapid succession after that. There’s enough detail and differentiation in the thoroughbred racing scenes and the polo match scenes to give readers a sense of each without being overly expositional (I hope).
The Nina books are more category length than standard length – usually between 60-70K.
I did the day’s marketing. I wrote the blurb for BETTING MAN and created the page for the book on the Nina Bell website. I haven’t put the cover art up yet. I’ll do that when the edited version of the book goes through production. I did a bit of housework, in case the friend I’m taking to Lenox today comes up to the apartment. It’s not ready for a photo shoot, but I will vacuum and do a little more tidying up this morning, and it will be what it is, in transition between winter and spring.
I did a nice chunk of work on the ghostwriting, although I don’t have a deadline for this assignment yet. I’m waiting on notes from the assignment I turned in Tuesday last week.
It was a solid, balanced workday, which gave me a sense of satisfaction. I got the scripts for Monday night’s session with Athena, and will probably read them over the weekend.
I’m pondering an LOI to a local organization doing a restructuring. I may work on that a bit tomorrow and next week, and then see if it’s worth sending.
I dropped off/picked up books at the library, ran into Big Y for a big batch of cilantro that I need for today’s crockpot meal, and then picked up my CSA box at Savvy Hive. It was raining, so I did all the errands by car instead of on foot. There were too many books to lug around on foot anyway, and I wanted to get those errands out of the way yesterday to free up some time today.
I’m skipping online meditation this morning, because I want to get my errands out of the way and get some work done before my friend and I head down to Lenox for the Clark Art Institute’s event down at Shakespeare & Co.
I hope the rain lets up while we drive there and back. Driving through Pittsfield is always a nightmare because the drivers are so careless. Driving through Pittsfield in bad weather is even worse. But it will work out. If I need to drive like the little old lady from Pasadena, that’s what I will do.
I will miss the library meeting and the library cohort meeting tonight, but that’s the way it goes sometimes. I’ve been there quite steadily, so missing a meeting here and there isn’t a tragedy for any of us. I always let them know ahead of time.
I hope you have a lovely Thursday!
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Artemis II Crew on Capitol Hill 🌑🧑🚀
#Artemis #ArtemisII #ArtemisIIPostflight #CSA(CanadianSpaceAgency) #CannonHouseOfficeBuilding #CapitolHill #ChristinaKoch #DC
⏩ 39 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=39&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20260514011059
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John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave!
Crossposted from https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2059700/john-brown-s-body-lies-a-mouldering-in-the-grave
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John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave!
https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/2059747/john-brown-s-body-lies-a-mouldering-in-the-grave
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John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave!
Crossposted from https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2059700/john-brown-s-body-lies-a-mouldering-in-the-grave
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John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave!
https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/2059747/john-brown-s-body-lies-a-mouldering-in-the-grave
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John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave!
https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/2059747/john-brown-s-body-lies-a-mouldering-in-the-grave
