time’s-a-wastin

Procrastination methods, as well as complaints about how I’ve been procrastinating. Read at your own risk.

Weekend of ACCOMPLISHING STUFF

Weekend of ACCOMPLISHING STUFF

Weekend, yay! I’ve been needing it all week! When you start on Monday afternoon going “it really needs to be Friday,” you can guess the rest of the week is not going to be peachy. I spent much of it going “I’ll get that this weekend” and then fretting that my weekend would be miserable. […]

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Life: A Continuance

Life: A Continuance

Haven’t heard from the financial aid guys yet. I don’t know what’s taking so long. I turned the paperwork in Friday afternoon, and here it’s Monday night already with no word! Sheesh. Don’t they know I have a life? In other news, yesterday in a great fit of energy that I should have put into

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That Went Well…Not

That Went Well...Not

So, remember the race? Yeah, okay, that didn’t go so well. Actually, it went great–right up till the shopping. See, we’re not in emergency mode over here at Casa de KD, but we’re cutting it close every month. Bills, in their sneaky nasty way, go up. And sometimes paychecks, in an especially sneaky nasty way,

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The Race is On!

The Race is On!

So. Another weekend, which means time to do things I want/need to do that are not “work for other people.” From my 750 words this morning: I have many, many things I should do today. I wonder if I’ll get to any of them. Actually, I will get to some, at least, or there will

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Coming Home to a Light Left On

Coming Home to a Light Left On

My first five books are set in the Dream’verse. In Eve’s book I met Donte and Taro and each got a book. In Taro’s book I met Rafe, in Rafe’s book I met Keen. First finished books, first published books, characters so firmly with me that I still see how they would react to situations

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The Plots Are Always Greener

The Plots Are Always Greener

I hear it happens to everyone. You get neck-deep in a story, you start getting desperate–and the muses start tempting you with something else. “Hey, so sorry that tournament scene is giving you fits. How about a nice contemporary mystery instead? Or this really cool scene in this other universe you haven’t even started building

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All the Forces of Chaos

All the Forces of Chaos

In one of the Chronicles of Amber books towards the end of the first series, Corwin fears the Pattern, the source of all order in the multiverse, has been destroyed. A Storm of Chaos is coming at him, and he decides the only thing to do is to create a new Pattern.† Because they don’t

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