Author: Don

• 09:51 Productive morning of breakfast out and grocery-shopping. What to do next, what to do? (As if I didn’t know.) #
• 11:11 Instincts pushed me into a used bookstore while doing more errands. Found 2 Joy Williams short-story collections that I’ve wanted for ages. #
• 15:13 This AM I was scraping frost off the car. Now I’m writing outside in a t-shirt and sunglasses!! #
• 15:29 Okay, maybe I need to put my sweater back on. Still beautiful out here, watching folks milling about. #
• 15:52 Netbook low on power so I had to move indoors. Hoping music by Clannad will help me resolve plot points. #
• 16:34 Isn’t buying 3 used books enough? Don’t I have enough reading backlog? Do I need to take out a library book, too? #
• 18:10 Gonna keep my eye out for this film tinyurl.com/bwfyvg//www.google.com/reader/view/user%2F02123373233520796283%2Flabel%2Fdailies& … #
• 18:35 "So close / But so far away" best sums up my readiness for crit group tomorrow. ♫ blip.fm/~2zo1l #

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• 08:10 Hardly got any writing done yesterday. Will have to try to get back into the WIP today. Yes, on a skool day. #
• 09:26 Wrote 400 new words–a 1st draft of a *new* story. WTF? How does that happen?? Still have crit group to prep for, too! Arrrgggh! #
• 11:52 Gearing up for walk to skool. Hopefully it’s warmed up a bit since this morning. #
• 13:31 Students heading out for spring break makes for a quieter life. Temporarily ;). #
• 13:40 Gonna spend the rest of my lunch walking in the sun & not berating myself for writing 400 wds of new WIP instead of current WIP. #
• 16:02 I fraking *knew* the quiet was too good to be true, even for the Friday before Spring Break! Fail!! #
• 16:49 So far, potential emergencies have been diffused or redirected, thank Christ! Means I might have the energy to write a bit tonite (b4 #BSG). #
• 19:10 Struggled to stifle a hategasm at work; glad I left when I did. Will try to sublimate the anger into the WIP. #
• 19:35 If I was going to get a writer’s planner, it’d definitely be this one. lcrw.net/wordpress/?p=890 #
• 19:42 PLANET OF THE APES is now! "Assembling ammunition in advance reveals ape’s unsuspected ability to plan for future" tinyurl.com/b7d8ya #

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• 10:20 All right, this DST fight to get out of bed every morning is getting pretty damn old, pretty damn quick! #
• 11:48 I *so* don’t feel like writing at lunch; almost can’t bear the thought. But can I bear the guilt of not writing? Bleh. #
• 17:28 Listening to podcast of Diablo Cody interview on KCRW’s THE TREATMENT tinyurl.com/bbnb9h #
• 19:21 Must…write…something. Anything. #

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• 08:14 Sooo hard to get out of bed when your body still thinks it’s 5:45 am. #
• 08:18 Just remembered a dream last night in which I was holding a $15 bill…as in cash. #
• 08:28 Writing playlist: Chris Botti, the Budos Band. An experiment on the effects of smooth jazz followed by afrofunk on my brain. #
• 09:00 Good news: coming up w/awesome rewrite ideas for current WIP. Bad news: I’m not coming up with any NEW WORDS for Sunday’s crit group. Yet. #
• 11:33 Something funny’s going on with my neck for no apparent reason, and I don’t like it :(. #
• 12:13 Skool marching band drumline playing during my walk to class. Fought *hard* not to march in time. Old habits, and all. #
• 13:40 All of my main email addys are at Inbox Zero again! But for how long? #
• 17:59 Mother of Pearl, today was suckstastic. #
• 19:23 After dinner, there will be blood. I mean, writing! Same thing. #
• 19:25 @strikethru My gut answer is no! 🙂 #
• 22:02 @strikethru BeTwittered lets me Twitter from my iGoogle page–it’s the ultimate combination of multitasking and time-wasting! #

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• 08:15 At the bagel place, scribbling down WIP notes but distracted by thoughts of the 1/2-finished problem set due tomorrow. #
• 08:16 Playlist: CHALLENGERS by The New Pornographers. #
• 08:26 I can’t take it–I’m gonna take another crack at this problem set, otherwise I’ll never write. #
• 08:32 RT @Colleen_Lindsay Chico Writer’s Group has just uploaded an RTF file of the entire #queryfail tweet stream: tinyurl.com/b835nx #
• 09:05 Finished the problem set; will review it later. Already drained. Doesn’t bode well for my "Monday" today. #
• 11:05 Given a hero’s welcome at work–just for showing up today. It’s that bad (or, it was). #
• 13:04 Going to lunch and I’m gonna frakin’ *write*! No skoolwork, no nothing else. Well, except eating…but after that!! #
• 14:22 245 words of notes at lunch–enough to get me back into the WIP and that much closer to done! #
• 16:38 Ol’ Blue Eyes on the work CD player. Feel like drinking Manhattans after work, now. #
• 19:50 RT @Catrambo Realms of Fantasy resurfaces! tinyurl.com/df97zk #
• 19:53 Gonna scarf down some Chinese food and look over this morning’s problem set. So wanted to write more…waaaah!! #

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• 23:13 @Colleen_Lindsay An honor to be followed by you…especially since you like BLAKE’S 7. #
• 23:33 Carefully building up my "Yacht Rock" playlist on Pandora while catching up on 2 days’ worth of missed intarweb…instead of sleeping. #
• 08:34 Soooo far behind schedule this morning. Trying not to stress out about it and just focus on getting my ass in gear! #
• 08:42 I didn’t forget the time change, but I *did* forget how much it sucks at first. *Yawn* #
• 10:19 Updated the portableapps on my USB stick. Yeah, really productive morning so far. #
• 14:16 Survived skool and now I’m in the writing spot, still deciding on today’s playlist. #
• 14:18 Just caught wind that things are crazy at work w/me away. Not my problem today but I suspect it’ll very much be my problem tomorrow 🙁 #
• 14:34 Antibalas is probably the last thing that’ll get me back into a writing groove but it’s what I’m in the mood for. ♫ blip.fm/~2sv59 #
• 16:18 Feeling very drained, with the long weekend and all. Think I need a nap. #
• 19:51 Current problem set for skool is killing me! 🙁 #

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• 09:08 Thing I hate about travel: usually simple solutions to life’s little problems are never fraking simple! #
• 09:12 I either have to deal with crooked glasses or put up with a midwestern suburban shopping mall on a Saturday. Grrrr. #
• 12:41 Decided to forego the mall trip. Glasses aren’t that crooked ;). #
• 13:13 Pleased at the realization that I’ve been walking around outside in shorts for the past 2 days, despite the rainy gray. #
• 23:01 Back on the grid for a lil’ bit! #

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• 03:25 Just got home from Watching the #Watchmen! God, I’m tired. #
• 03:26 Was unable to tweet from the theater–not for lack of trying ;). #
• 03:29 Movie was well-done. Audience was more-or-less civilized. Didn’t see any fake Rorschachs or naked, out-of-shape Dr. Manhattans, thank krist. #
• 08:52 I can barely remember the last time I got 5 hours of sleep. Probably because I only got 5 hours of sleep. #
• 09:40 Gotta get on with my day. Things to do before the road trip. #
• 12:07 So far, my "long weekend" has not been restful or productive. And now, skool’s about to start… #
• 13:54 Road trip delayed a little bit–just long enough to catch my breath. #
• 19:26 Back in the midwest, making a pitstop in Erie, PA for a nite. #
• 22:20 Kinda, sorta interested in #BSG tonite. #

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• 07:54 Almost forgot that today is my Friday!!! #
• 08:41 Killing time before class discussion section. I can feel the weekend laziness setting in :D. #
• 10:43 Re: skool progress, the Sons of Champlin said it best–"I think I know what I’m doin’/But I haven’t been doin’ it right." #
• 12:10 50 min. left of torture, trying to decide whether to write at lunch or revel in the sun. Probably still too chilly to write in the sun :(. #
• 13:53 I was wrong-it’s not too chilly to write in the sun. Sans coat. With my luck, I’ll catch pneumonia over the long weekend :(. #
• 14:28 twitpic.com/1v7iz – Caught on camera writing outside. I’m the slug-like black dot, hunched over my netbook. #
• 17:17 Planning tomorrow’s agenda. Writing, skool, then road trip back to the midwest for a bit!! #
• 17:59 30 min until my "Friday" is over muah-hahahaha! #
• 19:39 Only have enough strength to get some reading in. Gonna see if I can’t polish off this Etgar Keret collection before Saturday. #
• 19:43 Officially in love with Pandora Radio. Created a playlist based on the Budos Band and the 1st tune it gave me was "Aynotchesh Yererfu." #
• 20:25 Who watches the #Watchmen? ME! Tonight!! Despite the risk of being surrounded by Rorschach wannabes and naked, out-of-shape Dr. Manhattans. #

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• 07:56 Dragging this morning. It’s a skool day. Still waiting for the coffee line to open up while I determine the morning’s study playlist. #
• 08:01 Wonder if I need to start using Twhirl or Tweetdeck to follow all these darn tweets. Or start pruning…? #
• 08:20 Filed under "WTF?": Several Mysterious Human Placentas Found in Illinois Sewer System tinyurl.com/cfd5mv #
• 10:15 Did 1/2 a problem set. Would’ve finished if I hadn’t putzed most of my time away ;). #
• 13:23 @GigiVernon Ack! Glad everything’s okay :)! #
• 14:36 Decided to forego the lunch netsurfing & take a walk in the sun, ashamed at being emotionally beaten by the upstate NY winter after 4 years. #
• 17:47 Gonna wrap up a problem set tonite, have a beer (not neceesarily in that order), then gear up for writing tomorrow! #
• 18:10 Re: choosing between Twhirl, Tweetdeck, or pruning? I chose pruning. 😉 #
• 20:05 I am feeling draaaaained as I sit in front of my unopened skoolbooks. #
• 22:13 Just getting my skoolwork groove on when #LIFEONMARS comes on. #

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