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Miscellany
Oct. 9th, 2023 07:58 pm1. I had a mammogram today and it turns out that if you do a mammogram during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, at least at this particular center, you get a door prize! Delivered to me by the extremely peppy front desk person, who was like "I have a present for you!!" and brought me a basket filled with pink items. I picked out a really very nice pink and gold pen.
I'm getting them annually now due to age, and I think I'm doing my next one in October as well, to find out if this is a repeatable occurrence or a one-year-only thing.
(Also, having had a hysterectomy certainly does simplify the "could you be pregnant" part of a medical questionnaire.)
2. There are some fun little "hacks" in FB writer's groups (and similar) for giving yourself a sense of progress as you work on a draft, and I encountered one recently that I'm trying with the current book and having fun with. The original idea was to fill a small container with glass marbles or beads (like the ones that go in flower vases) and take one out and put it into a new container every time you hit your word count increment. The original poster did 100 words at a time; I'm doing 1000, and using dice. I don't know WHY it's turning out to be so motivational to reach into a pile of assorted dice and pull out a random one and drop it into the "done" box, but for some reason it is.
I'm getting them annually now due to age, and I think I'm doing my next one in October as well, to find out if this is a repeatable occurrence or a one-year-only thing.
(Also, having had a hysterectomy certainly does simplify the "could you be pregnant" part of a medical questionnaire.)
2. There are some fun little "hacks" in FB writer's groups (and similar) for giving yourself a sense of progress as you work on a draft, and I encountered one recently that I'm trying with the current book and having fun with. The original idea was to fill a small container with glass marbles or beads (like the ones that go in flower vases) and take one out and put it into a new container every time you hit your word count increment. The original poster did 100 words at a time; I'm doing 1000, and using dice. I don't know WHY it's turning out to be so motivational to reach into a pile of assorted dice and pull out a random one and drop it into the "done" box, but for some reason it is.