Well I gotta say the longer it goes on the more masked and gloved I see out there. It's like the night of the living dead, or something.
Last Christmas my work held a "Masquerade Christmas Holiday Party. The only rule was, you had to wear a mask.
I bet they don't do that this year. If they had any irony, they so, so would. But they don't. They are super serious at all times, and intermittently like, the admin is
threatening or motivational.
It's a really annoying combination if like you, ah, well.... I prefer things a bit less schizoid. One minute it's like "Sign this list of complaints or you're fired," the next it's "All you are doing the work of the ecclesiastical vaguely, because we don't want to be offensive, but yeah, the world depends on us all."
I believe neither of those things. I prefer to be a cog, ignored, in a set of cogs, that turn together, nicely oiled.
I have to say I have never been so exhausted from a trip to Walmart. I have figured out also, why I don't enjoy like, them masks and gloves at all. It's hard to breathe and they make you very hot. Sauna almost.
Also groceries have SHARPLY and I mean SHARPLY risen since I last ventured to the "W" place.
I believe the Walmart clothing "try on area" is shut, but I don't get why they still can sell clothes. It matters to me little, because the great thing about Walmart, is I know my normal "body size" in their clothing, and I also know my "Body shaming" size, so I don't need to try on anything, I grab from the lowest part of the pile, and well, that's that, if I am like NO LAUNDRY this evening.
But now I enter the recuperative period, and well, after that hopefully not the too feckless period.
I was reading my book and actually I have figured out what is wrong with it. Like, every editorial person was like at me to "not this" and you can't use adverbs, you gotta paint the picture with ACTION and whatever. I read it and I was like, now I know how it goes well, I could fix this plain and simple, and make it into a reasonable yarn that is sometimes funny.
That way may lie madness IDK. But I read it and I was like, "Yep this is improvable by 300%." At least the part I could find most of it's on some thumb drive squirrelled away and my old computer.
Still that way lies madness I think. Potentially. Maybe not. It was refreshing to see where I went horribly wrong and like, how easily it could be fixed with a bit of perspective. I don't know about the 300 pages part, although I could send it to Steven King's editor. I think I might have early on and they sent me a "We would not accept this submission even for 500 dollars a word, we have better crud to do with our time, this is formally PAINFUL to us" form letter. I think they may have blocked my email address. But that was uh, draft 2. LOL. It was still written in the 2nd person which only works in a "Choose your own adventure book."
That was the first thing the literary sibling sternly said. "No. You may not write this from this perspective. I spent the entire first 10 pages going, "No, I do NOT feel/think/act this way, then I set it on fire."
Anna
I have been criticized before, and harshly is what I'm saying. I'm probably feverish from Walmart.