I love these days

I love the days when I get up early enough to be writing by 8am. I just feel so much more focused and capable. 3300 words in 3 hours this morning, and I’m going to go write some more in a few minutes here. Chanti and I went for a walk, and I think I’m going to go biking later this afternoon. I somehow suspect I may end up being obliged to do another weights work out this evening, too, just because I’ve already gotten so much done today and…

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booteeful

Booteeful day out. I was obliged to walk 4.5 miles, which was very nice, and to write 1400 words, which felt kind of like being a piker, but I got the next chapter started and ought to write the rest of it tomorrow. If I do 2 chapters every 3 days I’ll be sassisfied. 3 every 3 would be better, but 2 is good. That’s about it. :) ytd wordcount: 78,700 miles to Rauros Falls: 142.5

acts of desperation

One of the problems with the days getting so long (compounded by stupid, *stupid* daylight savings) is that there’s all this bright evening (it’s 9:34 as I type this sentence, and the sky is twilighty but not dark yet) and I feel like I should be out *doing* things. But I’d already walked 3 miles and written 2300 words and it’d gotten pretty windy so I didn’t really want to go biking, and besides I’ve got a crampy knot in my calf already so it seemed like biking would be…

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the best laid plans

The best laid plans o’ mice an’ men gang aft a-gley. So we are not going to Europe in May, because doing so was contingent on the retention bonus. Nor will I be going to any conferences this summer, for precisely the same reason. If anyone I know would like to go to Writer’s Weekend, I’ve got a registration paid for and there are no refunds, so I’ll either sell it to you (there’s already a break in the price, as I’m a WW alumni) or if you can make…

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*drool*

I want this. It isn’t rational; for one, I have no idea where I’d ever wear it, and for two, it wouldn’t fit. I don’t even think it’d fit if I was 20 pounds lighter, because I’ve always had big boobs and while it’d probably (almost certainly) fit in waist and hip (it almost would now), the boobs, they get in the way. But *augh*, because it’s *beautiful*! I *wants* it! O.O I got my retention bonus check from Caremark today. This is a check that I expected to be…

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