Author: Don

• 07:49 Fried myself last nite & slept in this morning. Will get to skoolwork later today. T-minus 5 days to the Final. #
• 08:10 I don’t seem to know which way is up this AM. 🙁 #
• 08:49 Actually eating breakfast (yes, w/a red-eye) and jamming to new Tower of Power, El Michels Affair, and old Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra. #
• 09:11 #followfriday Odd mix of celebs I follow: @chicagotheband @diablocody @amber_benson @moonfrye @DaveSFoley #
• 11:15 No, no, no, no, NO! www.booksale.org/ #
• 11:37 RT @victoriastrauss Life is what I do to escape from writing…. #
• 12:00 "You didn’t have to love me like you did/ But you did, but you did/ And I thank you." #lyrics #
• 12:00 Body working only by sheer willpower and the rhythm of old school R&B tunes in my head. Hands shaking, tho. Not good. #
• 12:23 Just heard coworker refer to Fritos as "Satan’s hors d’oeuvres." #
• 12:58 Not gonna study at lunch. Gonna eat and slack, and hit it tonight and over the weekend. #
• 13:37 Enlisted coworkers to help me monitor @GrassRootsFest website for date of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings show. #
• 13:40 RT @PasteMagazine Daptone Excavates Vault, Releases The Budos Band EP tr.im/kG3X #
• 14:09 @GrassRootsFest I feel bad that they’re obsessing for me, so a DM certainly wouldn’t go unappreciated :). We can keep it under our hats! #
• 15:02 @GrassRootsFest Thanks!! I’ll be there with at least 3-5 of my closest friends :). #
• 15:04 Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings @GrassRootsFest on July 17. Sometime in the later evening. Campbell Bros. likely playing right before or after. #
• 19:30 Home alone, having refused to see STAR TREK on opening weekend. I learned my lesson at STAR TREK VI w/noisy Klingons sitting behind me. #
• 19:48 @AWDawno Not to be left Trek-less, I’m flipping back & forth between ST:FIRST CONTACT & ST:NEMESIS on TV ;). #
• 22:19 @WannabeRSwriter That’s what I’d call a party :). #
• 22:20 @jeffreyeford You, M. Rickert, & Ray Vukcevich would be three reasons enough to get INTERFICTIONS 2! #
• 22:43 @Cbarzak I don’t doubt it for a second, especially with @adeniro to boot! #

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• 07:49 Would rather be sitting with writer’s block than reviewing skool problem sets. T-minus 6 days to the Final. #
• 08:32 "It’s a big enough umbrella/ But it’s always me that ends up getting wet." #lyrics #
• 08:32 Studying isn’t going very well this morning. 🙁 #
• 08:55 Took 10 minutes to do a problem that should’ve taken 2. Time to quit for the morning. Gonna slack before the dayjob. #
• 08:57 Nah, you know what? I’m good for one more problem. #
• 10:36 Where’s my notebook? "The Top Ten Rules of Space Opera" bit.ly/45DMb #
• 11:46 Index of Bruce Holland Rogers’ "Short-Short-Sighted" columns bit.ly/rryGi #
• 11:59 RT @Catrambo Jeremy Tolbert’s 5 lies writers believe about editors – bit.ly/16BIwr #
• 12:02 @Catrambo I like the drinking water/sewer pipe analogy, myself. #
• 14:30 Probably just now killed off some of the hopes of his classmates about the final exam. (*snicker*) #
• 16:16 RT @gtdguy Paying attention to paying attention to what has my attention. #
• 19:25 I’m going to get my second wind, if I have to siphon it from someone else’s lungs! #
• 21:12 Hate, hate, *hate* having to interrupt my study groove just to frakking eat! #

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• 07:54 T-minus 7 days to Final. Time to "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" again. bit.ly/2YPDzr #
• 09:08 Isn’t it funny how I’ll write ’til the last second before I leave for dayjob, but need at least a 30 min. buffer after skoolwork? #
• 10:51 Finally did online class evaluation at the last minute. I was just too darn busy *studying*–hello!! 😉 #
• 11:29 LOVE it: "Their long arm of the law has stretched all the way around the internet to spank themselves in the ass." tinyurl.com/dn3ncl #
• 12:23 Dizziness is not conducive to effectively dealing with the mad rush of work/skool/writing stuff to do. Just sayin’. #
• 14:51 Definitely paying for the days I spent away from skoolwork. Dismayed by how much has leaked out of my brain. #
• 16:33 I think my nervous system short-circuited for a little while today. Rebooted after lunch, tho. #
• 17:20 Had to turn off today’s @totn podcast. Too fried at work right now & not in the headspace to listen to an angry guest bash Neal Conan :(. #
• 17:24 Ah, a BookExpoCast…much better. #
• 17:55 RT @gretchenrubin From Psychology Today: to make yourself like something more, nod while looking at it; to be more negative, shake your head #
• 18:01 There will be family discord for the next two nites. Tribe vs. Red Sox. #indians #
• 20:29 I come home and what do I find? Cleveland down 1-2 to Boston :(. #indians #
• 20:57 How am I supposed to study, between Tribe/Red Sox and GHOST HUNTERS?? #
• 22:06 Doncha love double plays? Tribe: 9, Red Sox: 2 #indians #
• 22:28 RT @diablocody My life won’t be complete until I’ve reimagined the entire cinematic canon as a Fox Thursday night lineup. #

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• 07:51 On page 88 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. "Cockroaches in Autumn" is a little too cryptic for me. 3* #
• 07:51 On page 91 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. "The Bone" shows the stuff lasting memories are made of. 5* #
• 07:52 On page 99 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. 1st 2 pgs of "A Few Things Wrong with Me" hit close to home. 5* #
• 08:10 Momentarily sidetracked by teh intrawebs. Will focus on fiction sub, now–my first in how long?? #submissions #
• 09:00 Preparing incense and a small sacrifice to the critique group hive-mind for help with my contest sub. #submissions #
• 11:46 "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)" by Squeeze & "Mighty Love" by the Spinners in my brain simultaneously. Dichotomy is giving me a headache. #
• 12:37 "Time just crawls here behind my eyes…" #lyrics #
• 12:41 That was the first song in my head all day that wasn’t 80s New Wave or 70s R&B. I blame caffeine. #
• 13:23 Forgot my skoolbooks at my desk. Maybe it’s my subconscious telling me to have lunch in relative peace again? 🙂 #
• 14:40 Okay, tonight I’ve *got* to get the study-ball rolling. T-minus 8 days to final! #
• 16:44 *sigh* I can see the last-minute work emergency coming a mile away… #
• 16:53 "Failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine," huh? Oh, if only… if only… #
• 17:27 Work emergency buck passed to the appropriate person. I can resume end-of-day exhaustion in peace ;). #
• 19:44 Forcing myself to sit with the skoolbooks open. Nothing, yet. I’ll be breaking out the Red Bull shortly. #
• 21:10 zomg! Meat Loaf concert doco on TV. The haircut I get. Going without the disheveled tux/cloak…? Just not the same. #
• 21:42 OMG again! Apparently, a key part of this Meat Loaf doco is on how he purposely goes back to the tux shirt look. This is surreal…. #
• 21:47 Meat is in the tux! He’s in the tux!!! And the scarves are tied to the mike stand, too. #

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• 07:46 On page 82 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. "In a House Besieged" is 7 dense sentences that begs 2-3 rereads. 5* #
• 07:47 On page 84 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. "A Visit to Her Husband" is Carver-esque in its subject matter. 5* #
• 07:49 It’s not even 8 AM–can’t I go anywhere in this town before 8 AM and *not* run into a coworker?? #
• 07:51 Critique processing playlist: CHICAGO XXXII: STONE OF SISYPHUS #
• 07:52 "A dream is make believe until/ Blood, sweat & tears turn faith to will/ It’s gonna take some miracle, man/ To show there’s a way" #lyrics #
• 08:12 Hm. I wrote flashes last week. Just heard about this contest w/@fantasymagazine. Fate? tinyurl.com/cueqja (via @charlesatan) #
• 08:39 Sunday’s crit-group crucifixion session summary posted: tinyurl.com/d4gv78 #
• 09:12 On my camera-meat debut last nite: tinyurl.com/c5ccas (I should use my blog more often, no?) #
• 10:58 No class this week, so I get full lunch hours! I’m almost tempted to *eat* rather than study for the final. T-minus 9 days. #
• 11:43 RT @warrenellis @menianoon Advice on breaking into comics? 1) Google is your friend. 2) Don’t do it. You will die angry and colostomised. #
• 12:06 Might go back here for lunch since there’s no drunken-student-zombie apocalypse to navigate thru. www.nygreencafe.com/main/index.php #
• 12:10 "I used to cry/ For the lost/ Until I had to turn away/ Then I looked inside/ Past the fool/ And found some deeper words to say." #lyrics #
• 12:13 "What Is Microfiction" debate at FRiGG www.friggmagazine.com/issuetwentyfour/poemsstories/fiction/whatismicro/whatismicro.htm #
• 13:38 RT @ strikethru The White House Flickr stream is really fascinating: tinyurl.com/cxdksz #
• 13:39 No, I’m not studying right now. Decided to enjoy my first Monday lunch hour in God knows how long :). #
• 13:42 Any place that plays the song "Sticks" by Cannonball Adderley while I eat lunch is a cool place. www.nygreencafe.com/main/index.php #
• 16:26 Work CD player is apparently a hole in time between the present and 1985. #
• 16:45 I like AOR as much as anyone, but I just don’t need Air Supply on the work CD player right now. Now, where’s my copy of CHICAGO 17…? #
• 17:21 Not a rough day, really–certainly nothing like Friday. Feels like the weekend never happened, tho :(. #
• 18:25 If I was smart, I’d head straight home, directly to my desk where my skoolbooks are waiting. But motivation & energy are soooo < 0. #
• 19:53 Clearly, I’m not smart. #
• 20:44 Poring thru Creative Commons images for flash fic contest entry. Counts as "writing," right? #wip #

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• 07:27 On page 77 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. "The Brother-in-Law" paints an archetypal picture in such broad strokes. 5* #
• 07:34 On page 79 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. "How W.H. Auden Spends the Night in a Friend’s House" is a riff, but it’s abo… #
• 07:36 On page 81 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. "Mothers" is even more archetypal than "The Brother-in-Law." 5* #
• 07:49 I’m in the mood for 80s power ballads–performed live! tinyurl.com/djqv9l #
• 08:12 Comic store only had Jonathan Lethem’s OMEGA THE UNKNOWN #2-6 (Already had #1). Gotta track down the #7-10 somehow. #
• 08:53 Also picked up John Woo’s LAST HURRAH FOR CHIVALRY on the cheap. Just what I need, a Sun morning kung-fu flick! #
• 18:10 Back from crit group! Flash pieces had longer Win columns than Fail columns 🙂 #
• 18:11 What to do before new L&O:CI–process group crits or continue prep for final in T-minus 10 days? #
• 18:26 OMFG! Student film I acted in is getting screened tonite!! Guess I’m missing L&O:CI. #
• 21:58 Looks like my camera meat debut is second to last. Gonna make for a late nite but hey, I was up way later during filming 😉 #

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• 08:16 On page 73 of 912 of Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrat… by Ray Bradbury. Was surprised "The Beggar on O’Connell Bridge" was in… #
• 08:17 On page 77 of 912 of Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrat… by Ray Bradbury. "The Flying Machine" is an incredible example of how … #
• 08:24 Not as hungover as I should be, having dipped into my own personal pool of debauchery last nite. Off to the Farmer’s Market. #
• 08:24 After the Farmer’s Market–#freecomicbookday! #
• 09:47 Decided it was too chilly for Farmer’s Market. Breakfast at diner instead, which soaked up any last traces of last nite :). #
• 09:52 In corporate coffee shop w/writing & some skoolwork. Will get to it after I post yesterday’s #slopeday preparation pics. #
• 09:54 twitpic.com/4ehq8 – Rehydration & cleanup supplies. #
• 09:56 twitpic.com/4ehtm – Triage stuff. #
• 09:57 twitpic.com/4ehvj – All this for "harm reduction" during the yearly drunken-student-zombie apocalypse. #
• 10:14 RT @ArachneJericho "Marching band 2, thugs 0" www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30493653/ [Was in marching band for 8 yrs; not surprised 1 bit.] #
• 10:51 I don’t seem to be getting a lot done. Maybe it’s post-binge ennui? Man, I can’t be like this, I’ve got crit group tomorrow, dammit!! #
• 11:00 #freecomicbookday RT @warrenellis It’s Free Comic Book Day, so have a free copy of FELL #1, online: bit.ly/gKgRy #
• 11:35 Banging my head against this flash fic piece. It’s getting away from me and acting all out of hand. #wip #
• 11:44 @AWDawno Yes. Not only that, smudges on the screen is my version of "bleeding on the page." 😉 #
• 11:45 Time to break out the big guns. If a Cassandra Wilson mix doesn’t help me write today, I should just pack it in. #wip #
• 11:55 "All the energy we spend on motion, all the circuitry and time / Is there any way to feel a body through fiber optic lines?" #lyrics #
• 12:02 Basking in the joy of all the RTs! Thanks, @jdfreivald @AWDawno & @PBreaze! #
• 12:03 @PBreaze Small world! That’s awesome & so is she. I catch her writing whenever I can! #
• 12:15 @AWDawno Agreed. It’d be like putting a mirror in front of another mirror ;). #
• 13:40 @AWDawno Haven’t read Pratchett in years, unfortunately :(. Mirror thing is just one of many strange things I spent time doing as a kid ;). #
• 13:40 1st draft of new flash piece done, 38 words over budget. Need to shave them for an even 1,000. Will take a break first. #wip #
• 16:27 twitpic.com/4ffca – Got my surprise from @cspan. Thanks!! #
• 16:28 twitpic.com/4fffp – Who says Twitter’s a waste of time? Fools, that’s who! #
• 16:39 @AWDawno Does Twitter help write flash? Not sure. Tweeting and writing prose feel like different animals to me. #
• 16:48 @AWDawno You may very well be right! I’m still a n00b at writing so I could be totally wrong ;). #
• 17:02 Staring at today’s #wip, but it’s all a blur. Plus, I’d wanted to have a 3rd flash piece drafted for crit group tomorrow, too. Too much? #
• 17:29 Searching desperately for my 2nd wind. Would rather not have to resort to mainlining Red Bull. Gotta get this writing done! #wip #
• 18:34 I’ve seen VACATION by @JeremyCShipp at my local indie bookshop and if by chance I don’t win his contest, I just might get it anyway :). #
• 20:04 Got 2 out of 3 flash pieces DONE for crit group tomorrow, pared to the target word counts! Obviously, I had to mainline the Red Bull. #wip #
• 20:30 Done writing for the day. All I need do now is read my #freecomicbookday swag and cheap back issues of Jonathan Lethem’s OMEGA THE UNKNOWN. #

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• 07:49 On page 75 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. "The House Plans" works on more levels than I can even count! 5* #
• 07:54 RT @Abyss_Apex: We’re open for the May submission period: send us your short fiction to 10,000 words and your flash fiction to 1,500 words. #
• 11:03 RT @Ideomancer Aaaand it is now May 1, and we are closed to submissions until June 1, when the next issue comes out. Whew. 🙂 [Darnit!] #
• 11:06 Work is prepped for annual skool orgy of Dionysian excess. As said in every STAR WARS movie & cartoon: "I have a bad feeling about this." #
• 11:07 Pics (that violate no HIPAA regs) to follow! #
• 12:44 Had to turn away infiltration by intoxicated students. Hah–not on my watch! 😉 #
• 13:40 Wondering if I made a mistake leaving the relative safety of my workplace to go to lunch. #
• 13:43 I will say though, the food here is totally worth navigating thru the drunken-student apocalypse today www.nygreencafe.com/main/i … #
• 13:48 @AbsoluteWrite Aw, shucks! 🙂 #
• 13:56 @AbsoluteWrite I blush–thanks! Can I use that as my Twitter blurb? 🙂 #
• 13:58 Must navigate thru the drunken-zombie-student apocalypse to get back to work. If I don’t make it back, remember…I’ve always loved you! #
• 14:33 Must pay it forward for #followfriday. Some good mags: @Abyss_Apex @clarkesworld @CoyoteWild @fantasymagazine @Ideomancer @strangehorizons #
• 16:14 Still a mystery as to why dayjob is still busy during the drunken-student-zombie apocalypse. #slopeday #
• 17:20 Work emergencies during drunken-student-zombie apocalypse = not fun #slopeday #
• 17:24 RT @jdfreivald RT @JeremiahTolbert 5 Books on Writing and Science Fiction That Made Me a Better Writer tinyurl.com/c29we2 #
• 17:40 *waves back* at today’s new followers: @AWDawno @hilarybeard @LostZombies #followfriday #
• 17:41 @AWDawno And, you’re too kind 🙂 #
• 19:22 About to have my own personal EtOH-fueled zombie apocalypse to cope with the day I’ve had #slopeday #
• 20:15 3 pints of ale, wings, cheese sticks, and now cheesecake. Evening’s definitely off to a good start! #
• 20:48 Just past my 4th pint, listening to a local bossa band. #
• 20:50 @AWDawno Drink one for me! #
• 21:39 At home now, doing 2 things to maintain my buzz: Sipping some Jameson while watching WITHNAIL & I. #

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