I made a yummy dinner with lots of vegetables in it tonight. “You are what you eat,” explains the rest of my evening. Well, it’s not that bad. I did send the first chapter of Flame to Race, and she’s very happy. (Yay!!) She asked for a bit more description, though, and I allowed that […]
Normally we have five monitors. Today and yesterday we had two. The total of new students for the week so far is thirteen. Three bathrooms suffered some sort of nasty back-up and the nurse’s office and two hallways had to be closed. One of the affected toilets was ours… Our office manager, who never misses
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And don’t go giving me a biology lesson, either. I know that part. I got about six kids today, and more starting tomorrow. I don’t get it. Why the rush? Is someone passing out free tuition coupons? No one has tried to redeem one. (no, we don’t charge tuition. We also don’t have an unlimited
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I’ve really about had it with editing. I want to write! But what I need to write now, needs heavy editing first. What I had of the first draft of Flame came to 15,366 words. I’ve already cut about 600. I love how that tightened up the first chapter! But it’s Joss that is beating
The Red Baron stopped by the other day. When this blog was my sanity and my refuge, he was one who stopped by regularly to let me know I was heard. It helped. It helped a lot. On May 14, 2004, my husband of not-quite seven years killed himself. I was afraid to fall apart
The admin in my favorite forum spiked the water. Suddenly all sorts of writers are hunched over their keyboards cackling as they spout purple prose. You know I had to join in, right? KD knew better. She did. She just…forgot. KD drank the water. She knew what had happened as soon as the pink swirly