Author: Don

• 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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• 09:13 Oooh, why did I have to stay up ’til 3:00 watching THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY? But at least I got my latest story done while doing it!! #
• 09:15 Of course, I shudder to read it. Who knows what kind of jibberish I ended up writing? I probably wrote a scene with a 3-way standoff in it. #
• 10:58 Story’s as good as it’s gonna get for crit group. I’m gonna take the only break I’ll get today. After group: a metric crapload of skoolwork! #
• 17:40 Got a fresh cup of coffee after crit group; prolly not gonna put off the inevitable caffeine crash for long. Gotta get some skoolwork done! #
• 17:47 …and then I’ll be able to consider myself back in the frakkin’ saddle! #
• 18:45 One day’s worth of notes processed. Will see if I can do another set after dinner, or if I’ll fall unconscious. #
• 20:20 I’m a little bit more caught up with skoolwork–panic has subsided (for now). #

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• 08:16 Gonna take Blood, Sweat and Tears to get my stuff done today. The band, I mean. And caffeine. Lots of caffeine. ♫ blip.fm/~1wk6g #
• 08:26 Recently abandoned but still interesting: Words I Learned From Reading David Foster Wallace dfwwords.wordpress.com/ #
• 09:17 Wrote another paragraph but every time I looked away, I saw my skoolwork. It’s calling to me. #
• 10:37 Don’t feel good about the current WIP. Feels like I’m writing like an Etgar Keret wannabe. #
• 10:52 Got coffee and a table near an outlet. Need writing music: El Michels Affair, Air, Huey Lewis & the News #
• 11:45 twitpic.com/19n5l – Not sure where to go with this at this point. #
• 15:26 Gonna tackle the wreck that is the home office, desperate to procrastinate from the current WIP. Or as some might call it: "taking a break." #
• 16:01 Frak! Of all the times to be without a car!! JCVD (the film, not the person) is finally in town! www.imdb.com/title/tt1130988/ #
• 16:42 twitpic.com/19t59 – Biggest accomplishment in the home office: getting these books off the floor. #
• 18:30 Evening writing playlist: Chick Corea, Jacky Terrasson, Eliane Elias #
• 18:45 One of the reasons I still bother with a LiveJournal account: tinyurl.com/cvs5f #
• 22:38 Am >this close< to wrapping up Draft 1.0 of the latest WIP! #

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