Today was my first day of training for the new part-time job. I very much doubt it’s going to be a very hard or stressful situation, which is very good. I like easy and low-stress. Tomorrow is going to be incredibly boring… I’ve learned most of the essentials for the job, and […]
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Because sometimes it’s nice to see the list:
Laundry, including the tablecloth
Cleaned the house
Two bike rides, and got the bike tuned
Paid all sorts of bills, both monthly and annual (mmm car insurance)
Returned a pair of pants that pulled an important seam after 2 wearings
Bought new clothes for the upcoming new job
Sold Pampered Chef (woo!)
Made doctor and […]
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I’ve come to the conclusion that the scene I’ve tried to get through or, perhaps more aptly, get past all month just isn’t going to cooperate. I’ve been reluctant to declare it a temporary lost cause because it’s an important scene, and it needs to be shown. I haven’t changed my mind about that, but […]
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I read Elizabeth Moon’s The Deed of Paksenarrion all day. At least it’s a required book, and the longest for this term, coming in at 1,014 trade paperback pages, but I feel a little guilty because the only other thing I did was make a fruit salad and work on the laundry. No bike ride; […]
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I know I sort of dropped off the face of the blogging planet for a while there, but I apologize and I blame visiting parents (two sets of them).
I also realize that it’s been many weeks since I stuck to my once-a-week Name That Novel challenge, and in the end I must confess that there’s […]
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In perusing my Documents folder today, I came across a file with my thoughts from the middle of the night after a particularly horrible day last fall. I’d almost forgotten about the incident(s) that this writing responded to - it was something too personal and interconnected with everything in my life to have been posted […]
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I really enjoy getting the emails from my critique partners and my mentor every month with their thoughts about my writing. No really. I do. Maybe it’s because the SHU program is geared so that we encourage one another rather than poking holes in perfectly good balloons, but I get excited about constructive feedback from […]
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Apologies for going dark here for quite a while without much explanation, but we’ve got family from the east coast visiting this week and next week, so there’s been a lot of tourist-type things in the agenda, and that doesn’t generally involve laptops and internet access.
I’ve also been trying to actively work out the next […]
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