Author: Don

• 08:21 A 1.5 hr drive back & forth always feels like wasted time. HATE that. But the pull of friends & grilled meat is too strong. #
• 09:07 Trying to get stuff done before the drive. But thinking of the drive always gets in the way! Grr! #
• 10:04 "Heart–where we want it to be/ Love–like it’s a miracle/ Power to be like we need to be." #lyrics ♫ blip.fm/~6xqz2 #
• 11:12 Think I’ve got tomorrow’s Memorial Day writing plans worked out. Watching BookTV until the drive to the cookout! #
• 14:32 I’m #reading Black Glass: Short Fictions by Karen Joy Fowler – tinyurl.com/pnuw5h #
• 14:42 Found that copy of BLACK GLASS in a used bookstore on the way to the cookout! Been looking for it for *years*! #
• 20:20 Up from an after-cookout nap. Ate *waaay* too much!! Now, to enjoy some of that Fowler story collection it’s taken me years to find. #
• 22:14 The newest TV trainwreck I can’t keep my eyes off of–DEADLIEST WARRIOR on Spike. #

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• 07:54 Only things I *have* to do today: Farmer’s Market, grocery shopping, & haircut. Will be lackadaisical about everything else, even writing 🙂 #
• 08:04 Migrating from one email address to another is such a pain in the ass! Then again, if my folks could migrate from one country to another…. #
• 10:40 Got 2 out of 3 to-do list items done for today. I’m in the mood to just put off the 3rd this weekend :). #
• 11:06 twitpic.com/5robm – This is the *fraking* life! 🙂 #
• 11:32 #blog Can’t remember the last time I was so glad to see the start of summer. bit.ly/Ah6NI #
• 13:13 I want to read: Fast Fiction: Creating Fiction in Fiv… by Roberta Allen – tinyurl.com/oa733l #
• 13:14 I want to read: Science Fiction Writer’s Workshop-I: … by Barry B. Longyear – tinyurl.com/p2u2qf #
• 13:19 I want to read: Writing Incredibly Short Plays, Poems… by James H. Norton – tinyurl.com/pb58lu #
• 13:20 I want to read: True Facts by Larry Young – tinyurl.com/rddev2 #
• 13:20 I want to read: The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other S… by Susanna Clarke – tinyurl.com/q9ju2e #
• 13:31 As you can see, I went apeshit at the Booksale once again. www.booksale.org #
• 14:56 Getting freaked out watching SECOND COMING, written by Russel T. Davies, starring Christopher Eccleston. #
• 17:32 3.5* for THE SECOND COMING. Christopher Eccleston & the other actors, awesome. Russell T. Davies’s writing, same as usual. #
• 18:53 "Miss a beat, you lose the rhythm/ And nothin’ falls into place" #lyrics ♫ blip.fm/~6wlhg #

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• 07:50 On page 113 of 256 of Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories by Steven Millhauser. "History of a Disturbance" read exactly like a long hist… #
• 07:52 This is the last day of early AM writing hours for the skool year! Yup, summer’s almost here!! #
• 07:54 Revenge of the Writer, Phase 2, cont.: Gonna copyedit past the pg that badly needs rewrites to see what can be salvaged. #wip #rotw #
• 07:58 Writing playlist: Chicago’s 1982 performance on the radio show STAR SESSIONS. #
• 09:14 The #wip I’m revising has the best ending I’ve ever written thus far. The middle, not so much. 🙁 #
• 10:30 RT @GrantaMag Jonathan Lethem has a thought or two about the meaning of proximity these days bit.ly/nt2j1 #
• 10:34 Seems my contest entry was at least accepted :). Should know result by next week. *fingerscrossed* #
• 11:11 Phoning it in at the day job. Mind’s on my #wip revision…. #
• 11:55 I think I’ve finally got my OOs templates to play nice w/MSWord!! #
• 13:24 RT @clarkesworld Who are the best new writers publishing fiction in #semiprozines ? bit.ly/13WmN7 #sff #hugo #
• 17:14 Ah, my last "late nite" at work. Next week, I get to work human business hours!! 🙂 #
• 18:45 Getting reacquainted with my summertime after-work writing spot. Feeling the Friday nite laziness setting in, tho :(. #

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• 07:32 On page 160 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. Does "What an Old Woman Will Wear" show a subtle acceptance of aging or a su… #
• 07:35 On page 165 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. "The Sock" is a realistic portrayal of how folks in broken relationships get… #
• 07:39 On page 177 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. "Five Signs of Disturbance" is disturbing. I felt how close the protag is to… #
• 07:41 Finished with Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis #
• 07:46 Revenge of the Writer, Phase 2 continues. 2nd out of 4 stories up for rewrite today. Playlist: Bill Champlin mix. #rotw #
• 08:55 This #wip rewrite is kicking my ass this morning. :(. #rotw #
• 09:20 twitpic.com/5mbc5 – The cause of this morning’s pain. #rotw #
• 11:01 I want to read: The Complete Butcher’s Tales by Rikki Ducornet – tinyurl.com/pwov8x #
• 11:02 I want to read: The One Marvelous Thing by Rikki Ducornet – tinyurl.com/pl9wv2 #
• 11:04 I will not upload/edit my #wip on Google Docs on work time. I will not upload/edit my #wip on Google Docs on work time. I will not… #rotw #
• 13:46 Avoided uploading/editing #wip on Google Docs. Discovering at lunch how badly one pg needs to be rewritten :(. #rotw #
• 15:53 Substituted 50% of my coffee intake, *not* with Folgers crystals but w/plain water! Almost forgot what the stuff tasted like :). #
• 15:58 Some good responses to common personalized rejections of short stories (which I’ve gotten lately). bit.ly/iH0F0 #
• 17:56 Skool grades in. No B for me. I’ll have to "settle" for an A- !! 😀 #
• 17:58 Listening to @totn podcast taking place at the Cols., OH NPR affiliate I used to listen to. You can take the boy out of OH, &c…. #
• 18:08 Official permission to leave work early. No sneaking required! 🙂 #
• 21:11 @AWDawno Thanks a bunch!! #

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• 07:50 On page 153 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. Long sentences in "The Cottages" might’ve been better from inhabitant’s POV. 3* #
• 07:53 On page 154 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. "Safe Love" succinctly tells an unfinished story. 4* #
• 07:54 On page 155 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. Solving "The Problem" clearly isn’t the point. I didn’t even try. 5* #
• 07:58 Revenge of the Writer: Still on Phase 2 (catching up on rewrites), with Brit Blue-eyed Soul on Pandora. #rotw #
• 09:09 Revenge of the Writer, Phase 2b complete: One more story ready for submission! Two more to go! #rotw #
• 10:46 Trying everything I can think of to seamlessly switch back & forth between permutations of .rtf/.doc & MSWord/OO, and it’s just not working! #
• 11:05 3 questions of eternal storytelling by @jonrog1 bit.ly/zfOq8 (My 1st drafts will henceforth also be known as "puke drafts.") #
• 12:44 I can’t just adjust a damn format template for indents and line spacing; I gotta worry about character spacing, too? Really? #
• 13:36 twitpic.com/5kd78 – Lunch with a view today. Decreased my aggravation a bit. But will it hold? 🙂 #
• 14:51 Inadvertently cheesed off a coworker. Outpourings of luv have been ineffective :(. #
• 17:58 1 out of the 3 pieces of good news I’ve been wishing for has come to pass!! Crossing fingers on the other two! #
• 20:23 @AbsoluteWrite Thanks so much!! #
• 20:26 Trying to harness the energy tonite to continue Revenge of the Writer, Phase 2. #rotw #
• 20:35 @AWDawno Just don’t mix up your recipes :). #

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• 08:07 On page 149 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. "The Housemaid" is 7 pgs of multiple layers. 5* #
• 08:08 I’m #reading Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories by Steven Millhauser – tinyurl.com/rxwbbn #
• 08:11 Revenge of the Writer, Phase 2 this AM: Go backward thru my backlog of 3 stories that need rewrites & prep for submission. #rotw #wip #
• 08:13 Today’s Revenge of the Writer playlist: British Blue-Eyed Soul list on Pandora (i.e. music that’s made folks ? my sexual orientation.) #rotw #
• 08:52 @jdfreivald Love BREAK IT DOWN almost as much as SAMUEL JOHNSON…. I’d seriously consider selling my soul to write like Lydia Davis. #
• 09:23 Revenge of the Writer Phase 2 progress: 1 story almost done w/line edits & will be the next one out of the gate. #rotw #
• 10:37 Listened to 2 of my more boring coworkers having a conversation. Talk about the whole being > the sum of its parts! #observations #
• 11:14 *sigh* Looks like I’ll need to spend my lunch hour hashing out a difference of opinion between me & my student-loan shark. #
• 11:23 Could be the lingering vestiges of PTSD from last week, ‘cos my hategasm for student-loan sharks seems a bit disproportionate. Or is it? #
• 11:50 I want to read: McSweeney’s Issue 31 by Dave Eggers – tinyurl.com/qp4pxo #
• 13:14 To student-loan shark customer service: Ur doin’ it wrong!! HATEgasm!! #
• 14:29 12 oz of blueberry yogurt: filling and comforting (as I ate at my desk while forcing myself to get a grip). #
• 15:59 Using Google Calendar to track which markets are open for submission–I didn’t think of this years ago, why?? #
• 16:21 Grr! Someone’s been hanging around Tina Fey too long, thinking he can be as funny as she is. bit.ly/y1slG #
• 16:23 Then again, I gotta be honest–I’d LMAO if Tina Fey had said it. #
• 17:10 Just wanna leave work & get back to my Brit Blue-eyed Soul playlist on Pandora (aka the music that’s made folks ? my sexual orientation). #

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• 07:53 On page 142 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. "Once a Very Stupid Man" is a very recursive tale. 4* #
• 08:00 With no skool to distract me, this week, it’s Revenge of the Writer! 1st project up is to send off a contest entry. #rotw #wip #
• 08:02 This morning’s Revenge of the Writer playlist: The Blue Nile #rotw #
• 09:20 Revenge of the Writer, Phase 1 complete: Contest entry submitted!! #rotw #
• 10:24 Google Gears installed on my USB. This is gonna enhance my writing productivity somehow. Not sure how yet, tho. #gtd #
• 10:27 Trying to figure out which #wip gets to be Phase 2 of Revenge of the Writer. #rotw #
• 11:46 RT @melvingibbs Chicago Street Gang Calling Cards from the 70’s & 80’s ff.im/-2ZjnQ #
• 12:08 "You have a sense that you were born with/ You’ll find a way to make things right." #lyrics #charsketch #
• 12:10 Part of me is still physically and psychically detoxing from last week’s skool final zombie apocalypse. #
• 13:00 Going back through (outdated) story submissions logs & firing off query emails to anyone whose rejection I’ve missed ;). #
• 13:53 Just got some *possible* good news in response to a story submission query–will wait to squee ’til I’m sure, but I’m excited anyway!!! #
• 14:40 Second piece of yet-to-be confirmed good news: Looks like I managed to skate thru my class w/a solid B! #
• 16:01 @charlesatan If my contest entry makes it anywhere, it’ll be 3 😉 #
• 16:50 Everyone seems sorta melancholy at work today for no real reason. Even me, despite the good news I’ve had today. #
• 18:11 You know that feeling that had me sleep for 12+ hours last Friday nite? I’m feeling it again. 🙁 #
• 19:39 Need to caffeine myself up to get some last minute groceries. I was trying so hard to taper off. Well, not really… 🙂 #

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• 00:09 Because of the excessive amount of sleep I got today, I sense some insomnia tonite. What to do, what to do…? #
• 04:09 "Four in the morning/ Came without a warning…" #lyrics #
• 08:54 Forced myself to get out of bed, lest I sleep for 7 more hours like I did yesterday. ‘Course, I still haven’t ruled out that option zzzzzzz. #
• 09:09 Up, but definitely not at ’em. Crit group today… but I’ve nothing to be critted… *yawn* #
• 16:39 Crit group done. Now I can go back to being pleasantly lackadaisical :D. #
• 17:38 Okay, maybe, *maybe* before new L&O:CI comes on, I might take the time to polish and send that contest entry. Or nap. Either one :). #wip #
• 18:32 twitpic.com/5e402 – Scene from breakfast this morn–um, afternoon 🙂 #
• 18:33 twitpic.com/5e42x – Wrote a brief #charsketch on these innocent folks. #
• 19:23 Casually getting around to my neglected inbaskets. It’s not pretty. #
• 19:25 On page 136 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. "French Lesson I: Le Meurtre" was a little gimmicky for me. 3* #

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• 08:04 Home Alone this weekend. I think I’m gonna sit and be lazy thru most of it, after the week I’ve had! #
• 08:06 twitpic.com/5a3s2 – Still reeling from the Regie Cabico show last night. #
• 08:27 #blog Thoughts about last nite’s show. bit.ly/Bp3fz I think it’s time for some breakfast, now. #
• 13:31 OMG, how sleep-deprived was I?? Went back to bed, closed my eyes, and now it’s 5 hours later?? #
• 14:19 Still in my PJs, finding it incredibly easy to ignore the voice in my head that’s reciting my todo list. Haven’t even had coffee yet. #
• 14:37 Couldn’t stand it anymore. Showered and changed and stir crazy enough to ignore the severe t-storm warning. #
• 16:10 Just as I thought I was going to escape before the t-storm hits, guess what happens? #
• 17:01 I want to read: Booklife: Strategies and Survival Tip… by Jeff VanderMeer – tinyurl.com/qjlrhq #
• 20:01 Wow, I got absolutely *nothing* done all day. Felt good, except for my caffeine detox headache. Think I’m gonna rectify that, now. #

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