Author: Don

• 08:16 Just the song I need for Monday morning. ♫ blip.fm/~2345s #
• 08:17 Writing on a skool day as payback for the time I had to spend over the weekend. #
• 09:25 Easily wrote 2x as many new words as I cut out of the WIP yesterday. Trouble is, 65 words already have a strikeout thru them :(. #
• 09:29 Gonna call it an early writing morning and slowly wander my way to work. God, I hate Mondays. #
• 11:17 Stretching out for my speed-walk to skool. #
• 11:37 This says I’m one of the "Strange, deluded mutants…who enjoy the [short story] form for its own sake…" O, rly? tinyurl.com/djpf66 #
• 11:42 Links of cliche lists tinyurl.com/cu4evp #
• 13:28 Enjoyed sunny walk to skool today, despite almost breaking my neck on icy patches. Luckily, my mad kung-fu skillz haven’t completely faded. #
• 13:32 Probably won’t enjoy sunny walk back to work because, well, you know–work. #
• 16:21 RT @NewsHour Art Beat: Singer Blossom Dearie Dies at Age 82 #
• 16:22 The nice thing about most hellish workdays – they go fast! #
• 16:23 Not fast enough, tho :(. 2 hrs. until next writing window. #
• 16:32 No Blossom Dearie CDs on me at the moment. Guess Cassandra Wilson will "have to do" instead :). #
• 17:54 Dunno why it took me this long to figure out that I could be catching up on podcasts while at my desk, batting cleanup. #
• 18:19 Just gonna sit in my chair with the 1,000-yard stare for the rest of my time at work. #

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• 08:21 So I drank on Fri and felt fine Sat morning. No drinking last nite, but now I feel hung over–wtf?? #
• 08:22 Oh no he di’int…Stephen King disses Stephanie Meyers. tinyurl.com/bg4sho #
• 08:26 I know I shouldn’t change horses in the middle of the stream, but I’m thinking of switching this month’s novel tinyurl.com/b4teec #
• 09:03 twitpic.com/1e106 – I’m working, see! (Sorta.) #
• 10:33 Why am I cutting words from Draft 0.1 of the WIP??? Nnnng!! #
• 11:29 @jdfreivald My fave was: "They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along & spoil it." #
• 11:30 I think I’m gonna pack in the writing for now, head out, & do some skoolwork with some stronger coffee. #
• 12:40 Skoolwork playlist: random mix of stuff from the Daptone Records catalog. #
• 17:59 I think all these microecon graphs and formulae made me black out for awhile. I think I just need to be done w/this for a bit. #
• 18:06 Ah, L&O:CI reruns…just what the doctor ordered! #
• 18:40 Forgot about THE LAST DETECTIVE Series 3 DVDs I got from the library. Something other than microecon and writing just for a lil’ bit. #

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• 08:04 twitpic.com/1dcq4 – This was responsible for the last nite’s tweets. Well, this, the 3 I had after, and multiple Jameson’s shots. #
• 08:09 @noells Yes, that was VIII. Decent songs on that album, but it didn’t have much of a direction. #
• 08:10 "the last nite’s tweets???" Oh yes, I write, by the way! *headdesk* #
• 08:43 Today’s agenda: breakfast, comic show, writing (x10). #
• 13:38 Comic show was a bust, plus I forgot my allergy meds. Out in the fresh air, watching the crowds walk by and listening to the Dylan wannabes. #
• 13:40 Dylan wannabe making blood trickle out of my ears. Where’s last nite’s King Crimson-playing according player when you need him? #
• 14:25 twitpic.com/1djv8 – It was a CRIME for this to be languishing on an outdoor $1 rack, so I rescued it! #
• 14:30 @GigiVernon Woohoo! Enjoy the weather–it’s *gorgeous*! #
• 14:46 Scenes from a temporary February thaw tinyurl.com/bjvye8 #
• 17:22 Wow, I really have just dicked around the entire day. I should do something pronto, before I get used to this. #

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• 08:14 Oooh, today’s gonna hurt! I say: Bring it! #
• 08:17 Writing playlist: Chicago’s catalog, set to random. #
• 08:17 …which means I could potentially hear the same songs 5 times over. #
• 09:14 Bad news: net addition of 50 words of prose to WIP. Good news: After 200 wds of notes, I know *EXACTLY* what this story’s going to be about! #
• 09:29 Distracted from story plotting by the sight of kids playing soccer in the snow-covered quad at 9:30 in the morning. #
• 10:52 Like I’ve got the $ to spend, and no studying or writing to do: www.comicbookclub.org/Ithacon.html #
• 11:49 Gearing up for my skool/lunch/speed-walking time. #
• 13:29 Food scarfed down. Got 10, maybe 15 minutes before the power-walk back to work. Who needs muay Thai workouts when I’ve got this routine? #
• 14:26 @noells Funny how their worst albums (and I’m saying this as a *huge* fan) make the best background working music :). #
• 15:25 Of course when I’m at my busiest between writing projects, work, & school, I get pages and pages of random ideas for my notebook. #
• 16:06 @noells In decreasing order of craptitude: XIV, 13, Twenty-1, Hot Streets, and all 60 of their greatest hits compilations after Chicago XX. #
• 16:33 The idea of getting so mindnumbingly plastered into temporary amnesia just seems so, so appealing. #
• 16:35 Ironically, that would require energy I just don’t have. #
• 17:49 @noells Some of my favorite Champlin songs are on Twenty-1! #
• 17:52 Right now, on office CD player: Menahan Street Band to chill me out. Last hour was hell. 45 min left–plenty of time for more! #
• 19:01 Writing at a pub, beer in hand. I’m sure it’ll all be junked as soon as I sober up. Pics to follow (maybe) :). #
• 19:04 @noells I forgot to put Chicago VIII at the tail end of that list. Not *that* crappy, but it’s not exactly CTA, either :). #
• 21:19 I know I was drunk, but listening to an accordion player playing King Crimson…did they spike the beer with LSD?? #
• 21:20 Still feeling comfortably numb… #
• 21:27 Now I’ve seen it all…Krav Maga and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu moves on STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS. #
• 21:33 Now we’re breaking out the Jameson’s. As if GHOST ADVENTURES isn’t funny enough. #
• 21:59 @warrenellis Hello again. Prolly don’t remember, but I used to hang out on the Engine way back when. Big DESOLATION JONES fan. #
• 22:30 I… I think I’m actually starting to get into BSG 🙂 #
• 22:47 RT @mightymur I just got a hardon for Roslin. [Amen to that!] #

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• 08:45 How is it that prose that seems plain uses writing techniques that really are fucking amazing? tinyurl.com/bowrg6 #
• 10:43 Ah, how fast problem sets can go wrong when you forget one square-root sign *headdesk* *headdesk* #
• 11:08 Today, though–writing at lunch, dammit! #
• 12:23 Did I say writing at lunch? Maybe I should be sleeping. Nah. #
• 12:30 Who’d have thought my process was similar to Nancy Kress’ (even if my writing’s light-years behind)? tinyurl.com/b65yfe #
• 14:20 Lunchtime writing progress was (drum roll, please)…40 words. Four, zero. 🙁 #
• 16:38 Give me strength…! #
• 17:06 Sole control of office CD player again. Right now: Steely Dan! #
• 19:06 Couple of friends were dismayed to learn this song happens to be their ringtone on my cell. It’s nothing person… ♫ blip.fm/~20jcl #
• 19:15 Procrastinating from finishing tomorrow’s problem set for skool. Book’s open, pen’s in hand, and…um…yeah. #
• 19:46 Studying playlist: mix by The Bad Plus #
• 21:19 I…I…what the…346 unread Google Reader items???? #

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• 08:13 Resolved, to be better about focusing on skoolwork on skool days, even though I’d rather work on yesterday’s writing :(. #
• 08:14 Skoolwork playlist: pre-SPORTS Huey Lewis & the News. #
• 10:30 Don’t wanna go to the useless work meeting :(. Already know the space is too small to inconspicuously net.surf on the netbook :(. #
• 10:56 Will be bringing my Feb. novel selection to the meeting, Octavia Butler’s WILD SEED tinyurl.com/dg5o55 #
• 11:22 Ooh, I *can* netsurf from the meeting! Shhh. #
• 12:15 Today’s agenda, it seems: "Run around & sit. Repeat." Time for some o’ that fancy book-learnin’. #
• 14:22 Please God, can I just sit for awhile? "Chicken w/my head cut off" is a massive fucking understatement." #
• 16:19 Ozzy’s "Crazy Train" is on the radio at work. How very apropos. #
• 17:30 Office CD player to myself. Nice relaxing El Michels Affair music on. Trying to stay in my happy place. #
• 18:20 Not sure how I’m gonna study or write in the condition I’m in right now. #
• 20:24 Two after-work accomplishments: "jack" and "crap." #
• 22:21 Can’t study while LIFE ON MARS is on. It’s gonna be another late nite. #
• 22:34 RT @mightymur I tweet, therefore people either misunderstand or look for deep meaning in my 140 characters. #

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• 07:18 Um…some tweets disappeared, including my writing progress from last night (200 wds)!! WTF? #
• 08:15 Writing motivation at near-zero this morning. I’d really rather just screw off, but I’ve got the file open, trying to be a good boy 🙂 #
• 08:17 Writing playlist: a Robert Lamm mix #
• 09:14 200+ more words this AM. I’ve already reached the "marking time" point of the 1st draft. Time to stop rambling and make something happen!! #
• 09:21 Holy crap–I think I just brainstormed a title! Titles are usually the last things I come up with. #
• 09:33 +150 words of notes. I really need to stop and take a break before work. Funny what you can get done w/7 hrs. of sleep 🙂 #
• 11:29 Can’t believe how many people are cracking up on the *3rd week of classes*!!! #
• 12:49 Thinking of just reading for lunch today. Better yet, how ’bout just eating lunch and relaxing for once? Naaahh. #
• 13:36 Not writing or studying right now. So this is what it used to feel like… 🙂 #
• 15:56 I’m so tired, I think I might possibly be dead in my office chair & it’s just the last bits of electical energy in my brain letting me type. #
• 17:39 test–they say betwittered works again…? #
• 17:39 Woohoo! #
• 19:32 Car is repaired. Have a maxed-out credit card and a redundant key to show for it :(. #
• 19:55 I was gonna focus on skoolwork, honest. But I got some story crits emailed to me…can’t…resist! #
• 22:30 DOCTOR WHO namecheck on LEVERAGE again!! #
• 22:45 @GailSimone I have a dream, True Believers! #

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• 08:18 Let myself sleep in just a little bit. At the backup AM writing location processing yesterday’s crit group (kind) evisceration. #
• 08:19 Writing playlist: The Blue Nile, Beckley-Lamm-Wilson, Steve Winwood #
• 08:36 Stopping to record in my notebook the way this chick strutted into the bagel shop in what’re obviously her daughter’s clothes. #
• 08:47 Summary of my bi-weekly evisceration posted: tinyurl.com/d2kods #
• 11:47 Getting ready for the long trudge to skool. Uphill. In the snow. Both ways. #
• 13:27 Came up with my next story hook in class; totally non-class related. And I wonder why I’m behind. #
• 13:32 Wondering if the benefit gained by restarting MMA workouts outweighs potential 14-hour days? Plus, can I keep up with the youngins? #
• 13:34 @LaterOn1969 I used to live near CSU, so I feel you! #
• 13:41 People ask me how I’ve been. This video sums it up (except for the end of it) 😉 tinyurl.com/bb5yv9 #
• 13:43 Um, wait…I guess the lyrics really don’t apply. The title does, tho! Plus, who can’t smile when Huey sings? #
• 14:34 @LaterOn1969 Upstate NY, in a town that sees as much, if not more, snow than C-town sees 🙁 #
• 16:48 Work’s making my head spin faster and Linda Blair’s in THE EXORCIST. Welcome to Monday, I guess! #
• 17:12 Yeah, if I’m this tired tomorrow, muay Thai isn’t happening *again*. I’ll have to write or something… #
• 17:36 Sooo tempted to leave early. No one would know…but I can’t :(. #
• 17:40 @LaterOn1969 Near the Finger Lakes 🙂 #

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