Kitty missing 36 hours.

Junior is still missing. He's not an outdoor cat and we could hear him meowing late last night.

We will find him. He's here somewhere. Skinny, adventurous cat so he could be in places we can't picture a cat being.


ETA: He was outside, under a neighbor's deck. Had to have been there since Saturday morning. He most likely got out when I was leaving for work Saturday. Which means that not only did I manage to lock Calli and Taffy in the bathroom Saturday am, but I lost Junior as well.

SGA/Pern progress. Or lack thereof.

Atlantis Big Bang Fic is in trouble.

I slogged through twenty scenes of my Pern fic, beta reading it myself.

I have a list of changes, but the editing has thrown me into a different mindset. Instead of "feeling" my way through the story, I'm "thinking" my way through it. Which results in bad writing. I've had to put it aside.

I've contacted three betas who looked at it early on. In 36 hours not a single one got back to me.

Finally reached sarka. She's just had a busy weekend, unexpectedly. ETA: just heard from 2nd beta. She's been without internet and just got back online. ETA2: heard from 3rd beta last night. She'd turned off her computer and it had been off all weekend. All present and accounted for.

My Labor Day weekend just got taken by a friend visiting from Bhutan. So I have this weekend and the weekend it's due to write. There is little time for me to write during the week.

If I'm both beta-reading and writing ... well, that's just not happening. It's derailed the writing and soaked up the writing time.

I'll tell you this much: if the story progress keeps at this snail's pace, I will not participate in the Big Bang. I will not post the story as it is. It would be a waste of a good story idea. enname and mad_maudlin tell me that end of the story is rushed and "draft-like" but the beginning is solid. I started beta-reading from the end so it looked worse than it was.