thinks to do

thinks to do over the next few days…. – buy postcards – get presents wrapped – get presents SENT – firebird deception edits – sweep (thanks, shaun) – buy cat food – buy a pooper scooper – finish unpacking the living room – find 8.5×11″ paper in this country – fax mail off excerpt agreement for tbf & fd :p – cemurphy newsletter – set up maria’s newsletter – gym (today) – find padded envelopes for shipping books in – catch up on some email – hotel room for i-con…

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stats, feb 9

Target points: 22 Points used: 23 Activity points earned/swapped: 3/1 WPA used/remaining: 35/35 It is hard to keep track of points without the online points tracker, which they so-helpfully told me is only available if you live in the US, Canada, or bleeding England. I came in somewhere around 23-25, though, so even if I’m counting low I still didn’t go outside my APs. That’s something. Interesting (in a good way) news on the writing front that puts me in a chipper mood this evening, but I can say no…

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wow. tired.

Despite everything I did yesterday, I did not sleep well and I am very very tired today. I’ve just finished the last chapter of COYOTE DREAMS. I seem to have started doing this thing where I get almost to the end of a book, get really grumpy at it, write the last chapter, usually skipping the antepenultimate and penultimate chapters (Henry will never forgive himself for teaching me the word ‘antepenultimate’, which I like to use at every possible opportunity) and sometimes one or two more than that. Then I…

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other things i forgot to mention

Other good things I forgot to mention yesterday: A swell Gallery developer fixed my art and photo galleries for only a small fee, which makes me very happy. I need to fix the skins, but at least they’re functional again. Yay! :) And…there was something else, but I’m forgetting it. The weather is not as nice as it was suggested it would be, so no going out to take pictures this morning, which is fine. Going to go work on this book, I am. Oh, I remember the other thing.…

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weigh-in

This morning’s weigh-in was one of those extra-frustrating ones where I felt thinner and was the same weight or up a half pound or so. This is made worse by feeling thinner DESPITE having done nothing like eating right the last week, so there I was hoping for a drop I didn’t deserve and then I didn’t get it and *grump*. Oh well. Onward and, er, downward, we hope.