My Creatively Busy Sea Days

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The last few days have been hectic. I had a lot of work to get done, guest posts to write, studying sessions to organize, short stories to get back on track. I’m glad that my planning is resulting in more time for book reading, though. I’m currently into a work by Julia Llewellyn titled “Love Nest“. I bought it a week ago, during a bookshop visit in Rome with my boyfriend, whilst we were waiting for cinema to open (Cars 2, yep! ^^). The back-cover presentation of the book completely fascinated me: a four women’s story, each one getting in the life of the other for a strange plan by destiny, all apparently caring for weight, fame and outfits only, but really just as complicated inside as every other human being. They admit their own faults, recognizing that their frivolous side is often misleading and that attention to others’ feelings must be given in order to live on this planet and build relationships. A great book in my opinion, but I’m not yet half through it, so I will post a proper review on my Writing Journal as soon as I’m done with it.

Switching subjects now, do you believe in psychic powers? I don’t, unless it’s dead family members appearing in dreams or Saints apparitions that take messages to the person. Anyway, I thought it’d be interesting a peculiarity to apply to one of my Robocity Characters. I visited an online psychic experts’ website this morning to collect information to use on my Character; I also read an article that says human beings possess verified psychic abilities, which I’m going to use that as a model for my Character, which most probably will be a robot or alie woman in her thirties with a kid and a mysterious past. Have you ever talked to an online psychic? Just curious. I’d find it funny.

Right now, I’m typing from my aunt’s house at the sea. I’m spending a few days here with my dad, to relax and focus on writing (other than studying of course). Aunt was so nice to let us stay (she’s one of dad’s sisters). I’m on a crappy USB Internet Flash Drive connection though, so I can’t chat, but I can reply to a few comments or emails when I get online for work.

Just for sake of completeness, here’s my To-Do-List for these beautiful sea days:

• Complete short story Evergreen and get started on Caretaker (for my collection “Lights of Metal and Sky”)
• Color my already drawn Blogging Characters profile pictures in Photoshop and get others sketched
• Finish inking a few old art commissions
• Write summaries and exercise procedures from my Linear Algebra book
• Summarize chapters from university library book “Networks and Algorithms – And Introductory Approach“
• Read Love Nest
• Read Scrivere (a book that collects thoughts on writing from various authors; in Italian)
• Start reading my new HTML 5 book
• Write reviews, articles and guest posts (work)
• Plan work on new (and old) Characters’ Blogs.

I’ll be back home on Saturday, July 2nd. Good night.