Going to try and pound out a couple more paragraphs for the Casualty Draft so that I can finally say thank-you-and-good-bye to it, start from scratch. I have a far better idea of the environment I'm writing about, and the characters are starting to form to a certain extent, but I think the perspective and narrative thrust of the piece is all completely wrong. "Gazelle" is a better working title, but even that may not last out the drafting process. I'm going to switch it to another character's perspective and I think I'll keep it in past tense but I need to figure that out once I've gotten a paragraph or two of Draft #3 finished.
Anyway: Christian's back in town, Michael and I took him to Koto last night and drank too much sake will consuming too each sushi and then we wandered through James Bay and bought him cleaning supplies. It's good to see him looking happy again, and he's got less than a month before he starts teaching classes.