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Do you have good Facebook manners? Timmy and Alice don't. Watch their bad behavior to learn the dos and don'ts of Facebook breakups.

A lovely sendup of the 50's "personal health" short movies....

warmth

Tonight I came home from work and headed out to a quick-n-dirty workout at the gym. I came home as the sun was starting to set; took a shower and played the towel game afterward with Kateydog; When I had a bigger house I'd chase her room to room with a wet towel - and she'd turn and leap at the towel suddenly trying to bring it down. I put on some classical music; Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit performed by Ivo Pogorelich. Because of its technical difficulty and profound musical structure, it is popularly considered to be one of the most difficult solo piano pieces in the standard repertoire. (and Pogorelich isn't content there - he then goes on and plays Prokfiev's Piano Sonata #6) and I just kept rotating the same playlist of Ravel pieces. and worked on my writing.

Miss Kate curled up in the sunshine as it burst into the apartment. Then I turned up the thermostat and had the most delightful quiet evening. I find that 'right' music is an important part to setting the mood for my writing. I'm working on a tone-of-voice exercise with one of my characters. Ravel, talking about this work, said, "I wanted to make a caricature of romanticism. Perhaps it got the better of me." and that fits my creative mood a great deal.

It has made for a warm, lovely evening getting to know someone new. My cast is coming together really nicely. and I have overarching plot - which is my intellectual que to start writing. no more outlines, no more sketches. this is the "i have the recipe in my head" moment where I can start leaping forward with abandon... knowing that there will always be rewrites. I mean, geeze! - I've been rewriting just the first chapter getting the first step off right for six or seven months. It's creating with a much harder tone than House of Wolves had - this will be a much grittier story - well as gritty as I can be - being that I'm a big old pansy. (chortle)

The working title of the new work is "The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Getting Over Yourself". (DIYGTGOY!) I know where it's headed - and now its the couple of years of 'getting there.' :) I am going to work on the final rough of chapter one over the weekend before breaking ground on chapter two.

The beau-friend Dave is out of town on business so I can really 'work' on it. :)