Write Every Day: Day #17

[auroracloud]

It occurred to me I could be nice to my followers and LJ-cut everything but the ongoing week of the tally.

Thanks to staying up so damn late last night with the Yuletide fic, I got just 4-5 hours of sleep because I had to get up pretty early. I'm really not so good at sleep deprivation. What was making it harder to go to sleep was that my brain suddenly was hitting me with tons of fic ideas and I couldn't stop thinking about them. But, going out in the morning was lovely. Around 8 am, the sun isn't anywhere near up yet (it gets up close to 9.30), so the moon was pretty bright and high in the sky, and there was the slightest cloud cover, so there was this beautiful shimmering rainbow-ish/reddish halo around the moon. At the same time, parts of the sky were clear enough that I could see Jupiter, as well as some of the bright stars like Vega that could still be seen against the lightening dark of the sky.

Anyway, was out and about around the clock today, nearly all of that time in company of a friend and we talked a lot. I had fun, but with all that and the lack of sleep, I'm very very tired now. Might be smart to go to bed early tonight!

Today's writing

Despite the exhaustion, I managed to get over 270 words on a Doctor Who fic just now, which is more than I expected now. Maybe the tiredness helped, because my brain could just run away with me. *g* Originally I thought this could be a Public Call treat (it started from one of the requests), but there's no way I'm finishing it by deadline, and goodness knows when. Well, maybe I'll find a way to gift it at some point if I finish it.

Tally

Day #1: auroracloud, avon, cornerofmadness, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #2: auroracloud, avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #3: auroracloud, avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #4: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, trobadora, ysilme
Day #5: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, trobadora, ysilme
Day #6: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, trobadora, ysilme
Day #7: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #8: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #9: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #10: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #11: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #12: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #13: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #14: auroracloud,cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #15: auroracloud, avon, cornerofmadness, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #16: auroracloud, avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, trobadora, ysilme

Let me know if I missed anyone! You can join in or drop out any time.

Comments

[auroracloud.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear you were unwell yesterday! But nice that you got some writing done in the morning. Just to check, did you mean yesterday morning (17th)?

Glad if the description managed to convey anything at all, it was pretty hard to come up with words for it especially seeing how tired I was. Yeah, the sunrise/sunset times here... I mean, this is the south of the country, in the north the day is shorter yet. In the most northern parts of the country there is a time period when the sun doesn't come up at all. I've never lived that far up north (though I've lived further north than this), but I've spent a Christmas once in a place that would have no sunrise for a few weeks. It was fascinating going out at noon, seeing an indigo sky and the sort of golden-red glow on the horizon that you'd have well after a sunrise or before the sunset, but no sun.

I remember, when I was a kid, reading the sunset/sunrise times every day in the newspaper for different Finnish towns. In midwinter or midsummer, it was fascinating to compare them, because Finland is a long country in the north-south direction. So, near Christmas, down south you'd have e.g. sunrise at 9.20 and sunset at 15.10, somewhere much further north you might have sunrise at 11 and sunset at 13, and then there'd be things like "In Utsjoki, the sun will next rise on January 17".

In Finland it never gets fully dark in the summer, it's just some degree of twilight. August is the first time you begin to have properly dark nights again. It's a bit of a problem for me sleep-wise, keeps me awake unless I use a sleep mask to cover my eyes. Pretty, though.

[ysilme]

Just a quick answer for the moment: yes, this was for the 17th.