Real Life

So do shitty days at work. I got my rejection from that agent today. Therefore I spent my evening working on my query and synopsis. Taro goes back out tom–okay, probably Thursday. Since it is now 10:30, and that happens to be my get-headed-toward-bed-because-it-will-take-half-an-hour-at-least-to-get-there time. Why the urgency, you ask? Well, maybe because after yesterday’s […]

Desk. I meant desk. We’re doing another WriMo on NaNoPubYe (Writing Month on National Novel Publishing Year), and I want to be ready for action. I’m going to finish Keen finally! 30k will do it, I figure. I can write 30k in a month, no problem. Except–pout–Bly says I have to finish editing Taro first.

Today as I sat at my desk at work, from under the old computer I use for extra functions, a spider came scurrying. No, charging. That spider charged at me. Desperately. Suicidally, it turns out. I squished him like a…well, like a bug. Then I felt bad. Why did he do it? What was he

Yeah, okay, so I didn’t. We didn’t. My whole school didn’t have the power today. Okay, query in the mail. Despite, or maybe because of, an absolutely horrendous day of work… Take 824 kids. Turn them loose for “Field Day” to wander the campus, supposedly with their teacher, but the teachers don’t go where they

Is that even a word? I can’t recall tonight. Whatever. I spent my day dealing with the common stuff of Real Life. Which, I believe I’ve mentioned, I’m not too fond of. However, the joy of discovery is one thing that rarely fails to wake me up. So I’m playing with putting photos on my

Today was a day of much accomplishment.  Unfortunately, none of it was writing related. I took my computer to Best Buy again.  The guy had no clue until I described the problem in detail (as I had for the first geek to help me) and then he was positive it was dust in the power

I’m telling you.  It’s true.  And I, my friends, am a grand master. Tonight I bashed a bit more at the synopsis.  Interspersed, of course, with wandering the internet, taking a MENSA test “workout ” (twenty-two out of thirty, and a recommendation to contact my local MENSA chapter), wandered this blog, changed things, changed most