Or a time-turner, or something.  Because this is my list today:

1.  Finish editing HERO.  I only have three chapters left, but these are the chapters that need the most revision, and I'm just now arriving at them.

2.  Do all my PT exercises, especially the hip/leg/ab ones.  I haven't been, and I'm starting to pay.

3. Write up some information I said I would get out to someone today.

4.  As Joan would say, CLEAN UP THIS MESS!!!!


Only number two is a necessity, but I really want the other three, especially number one.  I want to keep my word on #3, but I am really thinking it's going to get bumped to Monday.  If it weren't the Fourth of July tomorrow, I could do it then, but it is, and Ames is full of parades and picnics and fireworks, so it will not happen tomorrow.  And I feel horrible about the house.  But it really isn't going to happen, either.  Sigh.

I guess the most important thing is that I get HERO off my desk.  I am very serious about shopping that one, and I can't do it until it's edited.  Well, until it's edited, checked again, and some submission materials are created for it.  But at any other part I could do it while I was working on another story.  And that's the bottom line for me right now.  I want to move on to SOMETHING ELSE.  Either TEMPLE BOY or SMALL TOWN BOY, probably the latter.  But I want to move forward.  Desperately.

So I'm going to go downstairs, eat, and do two exercises, then come up and write.  Except I think I may have to extricate someone's bike from the garage first.  And something else will probably happen, too.  That's okay.  I'm a tree, I can bend.

So, I won't get ANYTHING done on that list today, not completely. Well, if I included "get stuff for neighborhood potluck" on there, I did that. I did SOME exercises. Not enough. I also worked on HERO. And in doing so, I am listening to "Gimme More" by Britney Spears, over and over again.

I understand that there's a lot of retching going on as I say that, but I have a few things to say in reply.  First of all, grow up.  Second of all, you don't fuck with the muses.  When they want it, they want it, and you give it to them.  And they want this song for the chapter of HERO which is, so far, called "The Dangerous Human."  I think the beat is a lot of it, but the lyrics (so complex!  so deep and full of meaning!) are part of it as well.  The spirit of Britney probably has a lot to do with it, too.  People pretty much treat Morgan like they treat Britney.  And yet, like her, he's pretty down with his sexuality.  Oh, and for everyone but the hero in this scene, he looks like a girl.  So, a lot in common.

I found two videos for "Gimme More," both on Youtube and both without embedding, which is frankly dumb as hell.  I like the deluxe better than the official version, though the official is more set like the scene.  I like the dancing in the deluxe, though.  Anyway, you can check these out, if you're inclined.  Or not.  Whatever you do, I'll be off listening to the song over and over and over while a male shapeshifter lap dances and makes out with his lover, a very shy Catholic boy who, at this moment, looks like a satyr.  

Good times.