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*is shamefaced* I didn't go to the gym, yesterday. Well, strictly speaking I went. I drove down there, went in, walked around, didn't see Phoebe, and I left again. I wanted to go buy some ice-cream. Which I haven't eaten any of, yet.

Maybe I will, now, though, as reward for getting some work done on Chapter Eight. :) Not sure if I got enough mileage out of the fever, yet. I hope it's a little better than Seven, which Eor said lost a lot of vitality when I rewrote it to make it longer.

I guess the lack of comment on that excerpty thing I wrote seems to indicate it really should stay on the cutting room floor. I wonder if my attempt at giving some background for 'ethnicity' as understood in their society was so bad as to be thought offensive?

Phone...

Uh, Eor? You know how we decided we won't buy a house until March? That guy from Court Street Realty just called, and I sort of went ahead and said we'll see that place in Brunswick at 2pm on Saturday. I would at least like to see it. Okay, I'm just a wuss and didn't want to say that we'd changed our minds, but ALSO I kind of think that looking at houses is fun, and probably educational. But if you want me to phone him back tomorrow and withdraw I'll be glad to.

Everyone else - you know how the pictures of the last place we looked at were scary? This place may be even scarier.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9865453@N03/2001820187/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9865453@N03/2002617774/

PS ETA: How do I link back to a Flickr photo so that it appears on my LJ?

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my lack of commenting on that excerpt came mostly from the fact that i didn't have time to read it. things are busy for me, so i've unfortunately had to do some LJ skimming to get a big picture of what's happening with people as opposed to details.

as for direct flickr link, try opening up one of those links, right-clicking the picture to get the pop up menu (apple-click if you're on a mac), say "copy image location" or something similar, and then paste that into an img tag. For example, the first second lovely picture would be:

I didn't comment on that little bit because firstly I haven't got around reading up to date on your story yet, though I'm looking forward to it, and so wasn't sure how well it would fit in, and secondly (and I'm not exaggerating in the least here) I almightily suck to point of sounding illiterate at critique or even just plain speaking about fiction. I like the stuff, sure, but I cannot write it or comment on the crafting of it.

So basically put it in there if you like it. I liked it, it's just that for the reasons above I don't have an opinion on including it

Okay - if you read it and you liked it okay, I'll probably use it. Mainly I was afraid someone would go "Whaaah? Why does the black guy have to have dredlocks??!! This is stereotyping!" Whereas in fact it's just me thinking it sounds cute to have a boy in Victorian clothes with dreds, and that it would be easier for him than trying to keep his hair short when they're trekking through the wilderness.

Oh, thanks - I guess I didn't try that. *thwaps self on head*

I certainly don't expect everyone to read my silly little story, no need to even worry about that. :)

There's a url on "properties" on a PC.