August 2019

It’s Almost Ten

It's Almost Ten

It’s almost bedtime, and I categorically deny having spent at least an hour tonight on YouTube videos, trying to figure out what forest animal gets rescued in this scene I’m editing. I also didn’t spend an hour making ramen that honestly wasn’t much better than what you get in the ten-cent packages. (It also wasn’t […]

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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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I’m Tired

I'm Tired

Every year. I make big but reasonable plans to get this year off to a good start. I’ll make healthy breakfast and lunch, I’ll get enough sleep, I’ll plan it all and it will be fine. Yeah. Meal-planning is much like novel research. It’s just so easy to wander off and find yourself an hour

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