Yes, I’m up at 0517. I’ve been awake since 0254, I just finally decided to get the hell up, it was pretty clear I wasn’t getting back to sleep. I want that house. Want, want, want. Please, please, please. So much I’m afraid to think about it. Don’t want to talk about it. Praying with […]
Did I just create a new word? I think so. Gee, aren’t I awesome. 31,199 words. Geez, did I complain about yesterday’s total? At least I have reason. I spent the day calling on houses, mostly leaving messages. Honestly, you’d think people who want calls would have someone near the phone or use their cell
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A long day of frustration today. All interruptions carefully timed to provide maximum annoyance. My total for the day is 30,907 words, so about 1700 done today. That’s pretty good for this summer, sigh. The frustrating thing is 1300 of those words happened in the, I’m guessing, twelve hours of a typical workday. I say
July 8th. Time is ticking by. We don’t have a house. We looked at a mobile home today that had a park not six feet from the back door, but we just can’t cope with the house and the location (small and cramped, way the flip from my work) even for the park and the
Hope is stuck. She crawled under Bly’s stuff stored on the porch–where she knows she isn’t allowed–and now she can’t get out. We’re calling it an object lesson. And we’re not helping. Object lesson is also what you might call the housing situation. We went and looked at a house today. We’d really like to
It’s satisfying. It clears the air. And damn it–it feels good. No, I don’t have a reason. Okay, yeah, I do, but it’s not a good one (is there a good reason to throw a tantrum?) and it’s not something anyone but me can do anything about. So I kept it a fairly mild fit.
Today, you may remember (if I mentioned it, did I?) was The Day. D-Day. The day I sent Semantics to the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. I only needed a little help to get it done. Yeah, right. I put it off all day long. My friend Phoenix in Illinois came home from work