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Just One Resolution

Just One Resolution

I don’t usually do New Year’s Resolutions. They don’t tend to stick, according to the science. And they annoy me. I don’t like to do things everyone else is doing, especially not when everyone else is doing them. But I gotta figure something out. I’m tired of spinning my wheels. So I prepped yesterday and […]

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Someone Touched My Copier

Someone Touched My Copier

I’ve worked in schools for seventeen years. I’ve worked with a lot of copiers in that time. The one we have at work right now? Is the worst. It won’t change drawers if it runs out of paper! It has four drawers, and if it “auto-selects” drawer three for a document and drawer three runs

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MnotIA

Yeah, I kind of vanished there. I got annoyed by the hot water heater issue, couldn’t get it solved, got stuck on EVERYTHING because of that one thing, and now here we are, with a book edit due tomorrow and the roomie coming home Tuesday, and everything is half-done or not even begun. Blargh. So

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Editing Flail

Editing Flail

It takes time to find your way into an edit–or at least it does me–and that “time” seems to be relative. Do I have a month until the story is due? It will take me two weeks to get past the flail. Do I have six months till deadline? It’ll take five months to get

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A New Chair

A New Chair

So you may remember I KonMari’d my room (some.) One of the things that I moved out was my office chair. With (a) high arm(s,) it didn’t go under the desk, and the mat that I used to protect the floor got in the way, and the chair was old and missing an arm and…

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Always RTFM

Over at TDP last week, I was talking about a collision of gentle hints that it might be a good time for me to get my room in order. TL;DR version: after having my room painted, I didn’t want to put stuff back in it. I liked it nearly empty. Never one to turn down

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Bloggy Bloggy Blog Post…

Bloggy Bloggy Blog Post…

Is it that time of year again? Where I pick my head up, look around, and go “oh crap, where’d that whole year go?” I don’t think I do it anywhere as regular as “Every January 13th” or even “every January,” but I do it fairly regularly, I think. I wake up, it feels like.

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