…is that you can catch up on movies you’ve been meaning to watch for a long time. Last Christmas, my sister bought us a copy of the BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South. She’s a HUGE Pride and Prejudice fan like John and I are, and she has been after us for months to finally take the time to watch N&S.
What a treasure! I’ve read parts of the book, and now I’m going to have to read the whole thing. The clip below is from the end of the first of four episodes.
I wish I could tell you, Edith, how lonely I am, how cold
and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and
unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place.
I believe I’ve seen hell. And it’s white. It’s snow white.
Y’know, if the HGTV people are coming over to shoot a bunch of footage in that kitchen you refer to as your pride and joy, you may want to wipe the enormous streaks off your stainless steel fridge. Stuff like that is particularly glaring in high def. :-) I thought it was a trick of the light at first, but that merciless ol’ camera just kept panning by this woman’s fridge in all its streaky glory.
In other words, I’ve gotten addicted to HGTV, particularly House Hunters International. It started when I hurt my back the other week and all I could do for several days was lie flat on the bed and watch HGTV. Until I got an overdose of it, I never realized how addictive those shows can be, and now I’m hooked, drat it!
It’s much easier to watch someone else tear out walls than to do it myself. Maybe that’s it. :-)
I think all writers have this problem to some degree. You scribble a reminder to yourself to research burial customs in Regency England. You come up with a great scene while you’re eating breakfast in a restaurant and jot down as much as you can on the back of envelopes and scraps of paper. You find yourself with a stack of a dozen spiral bound notebooks, with notes about different stories in each.
And later, when you’re sitting down at your computer to, oh, actually write, you can’t find any of it, or at least not that one thing you really need right now.
I am much, much more organized than this in my day job. I have to be, considering the mountains of code and documentation that flow past my eyeballs on any given week. If I can’t find stuff easily, I end up in a world of trouble.
So I needed a tool that met these requirements:
Readily accessible from almost anywhere
Full text searchable
Regularly backed up so nothing gets lost
Duh. WordPress.
I set myself up a private, password-protected blog, buried way down in a subdirectory on one of my domains. It isn’t visible on the Internet unless you know exactly where to look, and you have to enter the password to read anything.
I can even post from my cell phone, so no more envelope scribbles. (The Centro has a keyboard built in, which makes typing notes a lot easier.)
I’ve been using WordPress for more than three years now, and I can’t believe it has taken me this long to realize how handy it is for managing notes.
