got it in one :)

Deborah/ on the general proclivities of her friends: “Kit would grimly march forward, complaining in very short spurts about how she should not have set herself up for this, doing pretty much the absurdly impossible, take it on without much hesitation and not account whatsoever for the fact that she is also writing two to three times the volume of the average writer that year, and then when it is all done, accomplished handily, and she is literally on another continent, she will plunk herself down, blow out her breath…

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v. pleased with myself

I woke up at about 6:40 this morning and almost talked myself out of going to swim. But then I thought, “Self, you *always* feel better after exercising, and you know you won’t go later in the day.” So I got up and walked through the POURING RAIN and had a quite nice swim. I did 500 meters of just kicking, which loosened up my very, very, very sore legs (we walked about eight and a half miles on Wednesday, and then yesterday I did barre exercises. My legs huuuuuurt.),…

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thinks to do

– buy cat food & cocoa powder – upload pencils for chance #4 – do the )(*&)(# thumbnail sketch for page 1 of chance #4 before ardian flies from indonesia to kill me – do the dear reader letter – email the talent search woman – email lanny – go for a walk – write …for a woman who, for the first time since she started a writing schedule, only has the 3 actual deadlines that are contracted for this year on it, I seem to be putting a number…

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