awake

“Couldn’t sleep?” “How could you tell?” “You’re up.” I have been awake since two fucking fifteen, when Ted’s fucking work called to tell him the server was down. For an hour I was too pissed to get back to sleep, and then the airport, which is less than two miles away, started doing I don’t know what the fuck, testing engines or something, which involves a pervasive, ear-aching, bone deep whine which may or may not be generally audible under the ambient noise of day to day life but which…

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net!

I have NET. *Man*! *God*, this is so much better! My connection’s been getting slower and slower and slower over the last two weeks, and I’ve been able to do less and less and less work, but the cable guy came today and fixed up the stupid cables and now I have NET. Also, my desk is now entirely clean, because I literally couldn’t log on to my work network at all today, and so I spent the entire day cleaning my desk so the cable guy could get to…

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C IS FOR COOKIE

At 4pm, Chanti came running over to me and started poking me and going “Rrwff! Rrrrwwf! Rwuf!” Clearly, it was time to go for a walk. :) miles to Rivendell: 178.5

school & walking

Spanish class last night wasn’t wildly inspiring. The prof seems nervous about talking in front of twenty-five people, so it was a little slow. He’ll probably relax a little as the semester goes on. I have homework. I have to learn the names and capitals of the 21 (officially) Spanish-speaking countries in the world, and also find out what Balboa discovered. :) Chanti and I went on a walk last night. 3 miles is a lot more fun to walk with Jai and Chanti than just with Chanti by herself.…

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fantasy flight games

Oop. Fantasy Flight Games turned me down, but they did say they’d like to keep my submission on file in case they have additional assignments available in the future. So that’s not *too* bad. :) They’re only publishing 2 trilogies next year, and there were lots of submissions, so I’m not too crushed. Plus he invited me to send in new writing samples as my work continues, so, hey! Not too bad! In other news, I got a wonderful letter from Jessie Wulf at the RMFW contest (ok, it was…

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