The tattoo, now with color

The tattoo, now with color
Originally uploaded by Amanda Downum

Today I went back to Atomic and got my skull colored. This only took 45 minutes, and hurt much less. In fact, it cured my PMS crankiness. Scott continues to be awesome.

The picture is pretty blurry, but it shows off the lovely spectral glow of it. And it matches elisem's Circus Angel II so well that I may have to write another story for it.

With that out of the way, I guess I should go back to the STET mines...

Girl vs. wall, girl vs. manuscript

Top-roping was laid-back; I sent two new routes, but they were easy ones. But! I also sent another V1! This is my second V1 ever, and about six months since I sent the first, so about damn time.

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I finished the first slog through my CEM today. It was a very light edit, and a very nice one, even if I did have a couple moments of How DARE you change MY prepositions?! Many commas were rearranged, and a stupid amount of tiny typos caught. How do these things survive so many drafts?

Tomorrow I'll look through it again for infelicitous sentences to change, or any extra details I want to add. And I'll sit down and sort out these ranks and titles that are giving me so much grief.

Now I have to decide if I'm eating stuffed jalapenos for dinner, or leaving the house again.

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In case you ever wondered, jalapenos stuffed with chipotle cream cheese make a very nice dinner indeed.

Don't worry--I made corn to go with them, so it's healthy.