Real Life

Things related to that reality thing people are always going on about.

Registration–We Hates It!

and the absolute worst part of registration is telling a woman who is only trying to do right by her 11-year-old great-granddaughter who was dumped on her when the child’s mom took off, that she can’t register the girl for school until she goes to court to become the girl’s guardian. grrr. *snore*ย 

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Just Surviving

I have nothing to say.ย  I’m just getting by. I hate August. But.ย  Got the kid a haircut, bought her shoes, read a bit, wrote a bit, cooked a bit…I’m maintaining.ย  So far so good.ย  I can do this. I have to.ย  Since I’m still not published. Sigh.

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Adding Insult to Injury

Because my week has not yet been joyous enough: Dear Author: Thank you for giving us the opportunity to read your submission. We are sorry to say that it’s not right for us at this time. Due to the volume of material we receive, we are unable to reply individually to each author. However, please

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Waah.

Waah.

Just…waah. I don’t care into details. But I really would like to go curl up and cry somewhere. Or have a cigarette. It’s been over eight months, but I really, really want a cigarette. I got reprimanded at work. I think what bugs me most is how flat it’s knocked me. She didn’t tell me

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That’s Odd

A couple days ago my blog had forty-seven hits. I was delighted. The old blog continues to average two hundred hits a day, but this one has not caught up. The next day it had one hundred ten. I was thrilled. The day after that, it had two. Huh. Ah well. Big news! I finished

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One-Pass Done!

I pushed on to the end, and got all the revisions in the computer. I’m very happy. There’s still one chapter I need to fix (it’s about three pages long, it needs to be at least five) but then I’m DONE!! wOOt!!! On looking back, I see I did pretty well this summer. I finished

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Zombified

What do you mean? Of course that’s a word. Meh. I’m giddy with exhaustion, yet over-caffeinated. All I did today was start to get the Flame-edit changes into the document, because I certainly don’t have brain enough to edit the last six pages. Why am I so tired? Because I was up till 0338 dealing

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