Not having a language in common means that occasionally my characters go through bouts of playing charades, except with no “4 syllables” or “sounds like”. My goal is to keep the reader from being bored or confused yet not make it seem too easy for the characters. Piece of cake. (Ha ha ha argh.)
Writing accomplishment: Made it through a rough draft of Fred explaining what Ash has done and why it might bring on the end of the world. I need to read it through again for coherence when I don’t have a headache.
Day job accomplishment: Got most of the framework going for the new website, including the LDAP calls to authenticate the user. My boss keeps bringing up the outdated logo on the old website, so I will add the new logo at some point and that will be his sign that I am making progress.
And a snippet of silliness, from a conversation involving a bunch of greens floating in water:
“I think,” John murmured, “we’re the spinach of the universe and the original roc color morphs were coming from whatever the other green stuff is.”
“You can identify hundreds of things at a microscopic level. How do you not know what chard is?”
“You wouldn’t know what it was either if Antonia didn’t stock your refrigerator.”
I couldn’t argue with that bit of truth.
