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Obviously I’m using this week to catch up on the blog. I’ve been bottling up a lot over the past few months, and filing things away in my brain when my emotional state made it difficult to know what would actually come out once I started writing. And then there was November and a 50,000 word novel that took up all my writing energy, which I completed to the satisfaction of NaNoWriMo, but not my own. I don’t think I was even halfway through the story when I hit the finish line, and if I’m going to finish it for real, it needs some reworking from the beginning.I find lately though that I have a lot to say. I always ... more

This is one of those days I should have stayed home.We were supposed to start on a new sequence last week. Layout doesn’t have their work done yet so we have barely anything to set up. Set up is my job. I can’t do my job. So my boss bought us another week and you know what’s changed? Not much. Still can’t do my job.Last night a cold front started to move in. The wind picked up dramatically. I sneezed for 2 hours. So I took a Claritin before bed and then woke up feeling like I’d taken an entire bottle of Sudafed. Totally dried out, feverish but with no actual fever. I hadn’t taken Sudafed; I save that for ... more