another Victoria told me she had to be a Vicky, because she wasn't cool enough to be a Tori

Q: is the WIP smutty

A: no, but Benny gets mad at Cora and uses his words to talk about his feelings like an adult instead of yelling, which is pretty damn hot tbh

will I ever be free from the hell that is editing and revising this WIP into a real draft????

Remembering that time I joined a company skeeball team and met the Tori B. I sometimes got mistaken Skype messages and emails for, and it turned out we're both named Victoria Elizabeth and our birthdays are three days apart.

Considering how rarely I meet another Tori, that was pretty weird.

Saw the potential bookshop. It's cute! Should I do it?!?!??? augghhhhhhh

“Everyone has literally been saying that since we stepped foot in here,” said Elliot. “Yes,” Marwood replied. “But did you believe it?” “Crisse de câlice de tabarnak de ostie de sacrament fuck, yes! Jesus Christ.” Cora flinched. Benny didn’t, which said something about how used to Elliot’s strings of sacres he’d become. At some point, Elliot’s outbursts had ceased to register as profanity and become more like weather–loud and occasionally impressive in severity, but not inherently alarming. Benny kept his eyes on Marwood, as though Elliot had not just invoked half the Catholic Church in under three seconds. Marwood sighed. “You are an utter poet when it comes to blasphemes, Dr. Wexler."

Hi, have I mentioned recently that Cora and Benny may be the main characters of the #WIP but the star is, in fact, Québécois disaster Elliot Wexler, PhD? #amWriting #writingCommunity

Like most shepherd mixes, Enzo's favorite game is Ball.

His preferred method of playing Ball is for you to throw the ball without the ball leaving his mouth.

We're working on it.

fond memories of the time my bff and I went to Waffle House the morning after my ex got arrested and I was still partially drunk and xanaxed to hell, and the waitress was like "oh it's okay honey, my boyfriend's in jail, too!"

(horrifying casual lore drop from my 20's, you're welcome)

"Who the hell wrote this drivel?" -me, opening my own damn WIP for the first time in over a week

I have not done Book in over a week but hot damn have I done a heckin' spreadsheet for Bookstore

Overstimulated! In the Costco

I'd say at least this bookstore conundrum is keeping me from stressing about the WIP, but then I remember an agent already asked for the query when it was ready and oh noes

If Phil ever encountered a thought, he wouldn't know what to do with it 😹

black and white cat sitting on top of a fish tank on front of a bookshelf

This is Phil. There is nary a single thought in Phil's head.

Got mom and my federal 1040s done, and mom's OH-1040. RITA (regional tax agency) can wait, my brain is fried.

V. v. v. silly that I had to fill out a large packet of paper and do lots of arithmetic just to get my $22.64 back from the federal goverment

(I am a last-minute, best-minute kinda tax filing girly)

having A Day™️ because while I am excited about the potential for the one thing I am so aware it is likely a fever dream and also today has just been Rough©️

Going to look at the empty retail space next week???

The best is that he's figured out he gets ALL my attention when he chucks a chew toy onto the keyboard and fucks up the whole document 😭

I feel this on a spiritual level tbh

Literally pulled my car over today and took photos of an empty retail space like a creepy weirdo

Good morning from Enzo, the silliest of billies

Maybe I'll feel better if I make a cuppa and then only drink half of it before forgetting it someplace in my house

30 seconds from quitting software and opening a bookstore tbh

I went down a rabbit hole awhile ago on crazy fundie Christians with too many kids, but I had to stop because it got WAY too depressing. Especially lately.

I was about to ask if this was Ballerina Farm, but I don't think she sells beef tallow. But Ballerina Farm's money comes from her father-in-law owning JetBlue and and bunch of other airlines, lol.

I hate that I know this, btw.

Fun fact: as a kid, I was briefly obsessed with the Apollo program.

I held my breath through the entire Artemis II launch and just held it again through the comms blackout to splashdown. Wow.

cats are a liquid 😻

I don't need a $1500 fish purse but boy howdy it sure is a want

The docs I've opened while looking for this one bit I knew I'd written & scrapped awhile ago:

The Archivists - deleted scenes
Maybe?????
TMA - Cora & Benny
The Archivists - scene drafts
The Archivists - draftingasfasdfasdff

...anyway, I finally found it in the third Untitled Document I opened.