Arrrrrrgggggggghhhhhh… Hot. Muggy. Work. Crazy people. Crazy amounts of work. No money. Fucking PNEUMONIA. (yes, it takes its own sweet time to go the hell away! A friend told me I can expect to have the cough for six to eight weeks. I’ve already had it too damned long!) Still no car. No frakkin’ money […]
Ahh, yes, here it is. My at-least-yearly, sometimes-more-often rant about sending a child to school. Please don’t tell me you forgot when the first day was. Don’t tell me you thought it would be better for whatever silly reason. Your actions tell him right from the first day that attendance doesn’t matter, and how the
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So. Car? Borked. It’ll start, but if I’m not revving the gas, it dies. Therefore it stays in the carport till I can figure out what to do. Fidelis? Not being written. Dunno why. I know what I want to do, can’t seem to get it done. Work? Not starting till two days after I
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Yesterday–well, Thursday–was the five year anniversary of Chris’ death. I wasn’t really expecting it to hurt. No, that’s not quite what I mean. The anniversary is always a sad time. I love and miss him still. But it’s…usually it’s bittersweet. I take the day off and just be very nice to myself and maybe go
There’s a letdown at the end of NaNo.ย At the end of any project, really, but with NaNo, it’s amplified by the stress and wonder and joy of a month of mad noveling with friends. I mostly avoided it this year, I thought.ย Jumped right from Hiro to Taro, with the plan to jump back.
This is why I don’t take writing breaks. I’m fading. I’m tired, I’m hot, I could care less. I don’t want to read, write, watch Doctor Who, go to bed, do the dishes, take a shower, lay in my room and curse the heat. None of it. Then again, maybe it’s this stupid boomerang cold.
Yes, I meant to take a few days off (maybe even longer, gasp!) when I got to the end of Taro. BUT. I did mean to do one last fly-through edit to smooth out all the stuff I added/changed first. I did not mean to drop it the instant I had all the dots connected.