NaNo starts tomorrow. Would you believe I’d almost managed to forget? Life goes on, and sometimes it chases me down and worries me like a large and vicious dog, but you know. Anyway. Now I remember. The internet reminded me, as it can be trusted to do. I saw it in my emails and I […]
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Yum, fall. Time for the annual celebration of October by the child coming up with improbable plans for Halloween then blaming me when they don’t work. Mom, I don’t have the patience to sew ten stitches before I quit for days at a time, I’ve never sewn anything but punk patches on my clothes and
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So remember how I was doing that list the other day of things I should do before NaNo? Yeah, that’s going well. It’s been a busy week, what with people not at work and lots of kids having crises including my own and all that other life stuff that always pounces me when I’m trying
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So I have a new habit. When I’m driving home from work, it tends to take me a while. When I’m driving back from appointments, I tend to get lost. And when I’m driving back from dinner and don’t have to be anywhere until bedtime… Tonight we were tired, and there were coupons, so we
I’m in my third semester of Spanish. Homework is due at 9 p.m. on Monday nights. No late work is accepted. Ever. That said, plenty of times in these three semesters I’ve been racing to get my homework submitted on time. I even installed StayFocusd on my favorite browser, Chrome, to make sure I didn’t do
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Once for NaNo I wrote a story about a redheaded mage chasing after the man he loved. It wasn’t quite that simple, of course. I tossed in demons and broken magic and a mad mage and a llama, just to mix things up. Also to go with my long fascination with marine life, this was
Yeah, I put the timer on. Sue me. 😉 Seriously, been having a tough time getting ANYTHING done lately. I’ve been working late a lot, and by the time I get home, get dinner dealt with, get dishes done, get to my desk, at least poke at homework…well, by the time I could possibly turn
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