Target points: 22 Points used: 25 Activity points earned/used: 8/5 WPA used/remaining: 0/6 I am unlikely to come out of this week with a loss, barring a miracle in the next forty-eight hours, but it’s looking like I won’t come out with a gain. You take what you can get, I guess.

ARGH. Tor just turned down Angles. After two years. ARGH. For the same reason the last person turned it down: characters need more development. ARGH. *stomps around* ARGH. (I’m not crushed. I’m not even surprised or much disappointed. There was about a five second heart pang, but mostly, ARGH. This is more a noise of annoyance at a two year process ending in rejection than anything else, I think. ARGH.) Well. I see rewrites in my future. ARGH. *ARGH*. **ARGH**!

Blast. Got my copy into the editor too late for certain on CARDINAL RULE, and debateably on-time for THUNDERBIRD FALLS. *sigh* Well, that’ll teach me to be more diligent in the future. I made salmon chowder last night and it was .extremely. good, but I burned my tongue on it. Ow, ow ow ow. And that’s really about it for today so far. Oh! Except my sister now has a blog! :)

Target points: 22 Points used: 24.5 Activity points swapped: 2.5 WPA used/remaining: 0/6 So my downfall Saturday night was sitting down to watch Ever After and eating a very, very large bowl of popcorn and drinking some pineapple juice. I wasn’t hungry, so it was sheer raving stupidity on my part, but it did taste good. Yesterday was better.

I didn’t get a great deal done today, but I *did* finally get my comments (or more accurately, rewrites) on cover copy for THUNDERBIRD FALLS and THE CARDINAL RULE off to my editor. Hopefully they’ll be timely enough to be of some use still, though I was woefully late in responding to emails. I also got my 200+ inbox down to 70 or so messages, and must perform the same triage on my cemurphy account soon. But not tomorrow. Tomorrow I’m housecleaning, because I really know how to have a…

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