Author: Don

• 08:36 1,000th post!! What to tweet…okay, how about my favorite band playing live: tinyurl.com/7przyz #
• 08:42 It’s gonna be a slow start this morning. I’m OK with that. But I gotta get writing. Oh yeah, group tomorrow–crap! #
• 08:42 It’s like the day before finals all over again!! 😉 #
• 11:36 So many available writing spots around town, now that the students are gone :)!! #
• 16:13 Good news: some good writing done. Bad news: not all of it on what I was supposed to be working on. #
• 16:13 Worse news: spent time playing with our new Flip camera. Videos to follow (maybe). #
• 17:02 Experiencing one of those rare times when wine doesn’t appear to be helping me think past a plot problem. #
• 17:07 This is real, and I WANT IT! tinyurl.com/9wjebb #
• 17:55 Writing = marking time for the past hour. Gonna take a break by cleaning up a month’s worth of intarweb bookmarks. #
• 17:58 Have I tweeted this? Bruce Holland Rogers’ 3-6-9 flash fiction form: tinyurl.com/9345xb #
• 20:41 Spaghetti sauce all over my pants. The perfect end to my day. #

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• 07:40 Due to start work right when the 12" of snow is scheduled to drop today. Gonna hang out at home until the last possible second…. 😉 #
• 08:29 Goddammit, I guess I gotta go in. Hopefully, everything will be running for when I (hopefully!!) have to turn around and go back home. #
• 10:27 Forgot to bring a bag to haul my tribute…I mean, presents, from coworkers in appreciation for my mad admin skillz. #
• 10:36 Nancy Kress blogs the best piece of writing advice she ever got: tinyurl.com/3q94c9 #
• 11:33 With nothing to study, I’m not sure what to do with myself at work. Aside from work, that is. #
• 12:37 I have the sick feeling I’m going to be trapped at work and forced to resort to cannibalism like that soccer team. #
• 14:26 At least the buses are still running. May not turn into ALIVE yet, after all. ♫ blip.fm/~18bma #
• 16:46 Looks like I’ll be leaving early today, after all :D. #
• 16:51 Hm, maybe I’ll do some writing tonight, if I can remember how. #
• 18:46 Can’t believe this week is finally OVER! (Well, except for writing, rearranging my writing space, and group.) #
• 18:50 Can’t believe the buses were more or less running on time, either. #
• 18:52 Need tomorrow to relearn how to write. I forsee pain. #
• 19:55 LEVERAGE is my favorite new show (like I need more TV in my life). Co-creator/co-exec producer blogs about it: tinyurl.com/6b92gj #
• 21:32 Oh God, GHOST ADVENTURES never ceases to be entertaining. (N.B. didn’t say "good," I said "entertaining." #

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• 23:17 Tired brain was distracted by new LAW & ORDER. #
• 07:55 Let myself sleep in a little bit today. Realized that I have not one, but two exams today. No jokes about how I’m going to get it both ways! #
• 07:55 (i.e. because one’s a physical) #
• 08:33 Last minute prep, followed by physical, then more prep, then the final! Then I’m (sorta) free for the semester!! #
• 08:33 "Stand up and fight/ This is it" ♫ blip.fm/~17kgd #
• 11:35 One exam done. This one involved a heart monitor. Everything seems good, tho. More tests to follow. Now, where’s my coffee? #
• 16:58 Might’ve missed one damn point! But the only way I blow it is by missing 10, and I’m damn sure that didn’t happen :D!! #
• 16:59 MORE importantly, I’ve secured (as much as you can w/out having something in writing) a place in the class I want to take next semester! #
• 17:00 I’m quite content with a B, tho ;). #

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• 07:26 T-minus 30 hours to the first final I’ve taken in a decade. #
• 11:44 I am so not happy. #
• 11:53 How can I kiss ass if the ass in question isn’t where it’s scheduled to be?? #
• 12:40 Reviewing on the d/l at the desk, making out my (approved) cheat-sheats. #
• 12:46 Back to a state of relative calm, now. #
• 14:48 Today’s distraction: Fembots! (More or less SFW.) tinyurl.com/6fkaeu #
• 14:51 What an almost-finished novel (not mine) looks like: tinyurl.com/3guby2 #
• 17:37 Home stretch. Just gotta put all the pieces together, and I’ll be as prepared as I’ll ever be. #
• 18:05 Most everyone’s left early. No reason for me to stay, then, is there? =D #
• 20:57 Oh noes! Tired brain is being distracted by GHOST HUNTERS! #

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• 07:27 Did I say 10-hour day? I meant a 12-hour day, from the look of it. And that’s before I hit the books. Do I really need CPR that bad? #
• 12:15 Bored during CPR training videos – until they inspired me to write 1st drafts of 3 flash pieces. #
• 12:18 And, just when I was bemoaning the fact that I hadn’t written one in awhile, too! #
• 12:19 Probably the only writing I’ll get done before Thursday. Might edit them, though – we’ll see. #
• 14:41 Did more pleasure-reading than studying at lunch. Not too bothered. #
• 17:31 Clinging to life, barely. Nothing more coffee can’t fix. Just got a little bit more to brush up on before the final. #
• 17:32 I will not edit the flashes I started. I will not edit the flashes I started. I will not edit the flashes I started. No, no, no. #
• 18:11 Now to brave the cold and hopefully find some place in this town that isn’t overrun by all these damn students studying for…wait…. #

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• 06:58 As if I wasn’t going to lose sleep already because of my caffeine overdose, I set my alarm an hour too early and couldn’t get back to sleep. #
• 07:35 Blowing off the morning routine for today. #
• 11:04 Studying for final at my desk. Still feeling yesterday’s caffeine in my system. Yesterday’s productivity, not so much. #
• 11:15 Brain wants to crash…. #
• 14:23 From here ’til the final, it’s just review of old concepts. T-minus 3 days!! #
• 14:25 Nice and warm today. Betcha I get bronchitis by this time next week. #
• 14:31 Oh look, it’s Mr. Caffeine Withdrawal c-c-come to pay me a v-v-v-visit… #
• 16:27 Found a detox tea bag in my desk, thank God. #
• 16:31 Who needs fine motor skills, anyway? All I need is the ability to write numbers semi-clearly. And even then, only through Thursday. #
• 19:19 Just remembered I’ve got a 10-hour day tomorrow. That’s *before* I start studying. #

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• 08:33 Promised myself some time to be outside in the (eventual) nice weather, despite the studying. #
• 08:33 God, I’m just not feeling the studying, though. #
• 08:41 "I want to be violated by insight." -Aimee Bender. This is my new reading credo. #
• 10:41 Skoolbooks all laid out. Will get to them as soon as my breakfast sandwich gets here! Now, where’s that MS…? #
• 10:43 Stared down the head of a family of five who probably doesn’t like that I’m taking up a whole booth. Screw him. #
• 11:59 Well of *course* when you try to study, you get fucking rewrite ideas. My own fault for not leaving the WIP behind. #
• 13:05 Studying going smoothly so far. Brain not bleeding yet. Just have to keep it all straight, is all. #
• 14:03 Okay, now my ears are bleeding. Probably the red-eye/Red Bull combination in my system, moreso than the studying. #
• 14:19 Breaktime’s over. Back to hitting the books like Chow Yun-Fat with glocks in both hands. tinyurl.com/55ourk #
• 15:39 I can has break, now? #
• 17:00 Back home. Visitors on their way; place is going to be a temporary refuge for weary final preppers. #
• 18:55 Chinese food for dinner! Company ate and ran. Back to work, for me. #
• 18:57 "I feel like Im falling flat to the floor. No one can catch me from falling" ♫ blip.fm/~15of3 #
• 19:24 Didn’t get right back to work. Printed out some MS edits. No more writing until the final, I’ve decided (maybe)!! #
• 21:15 I surrender. For now. #

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• 07:54 Plan for the day: edit my WIP to see what I can salvage, and maybe start studying for my final. At least 1 of those will be done w/beer. #
• 07:55 Or do I feel like browsing an artists market? #
• 07:56 The way J.M. McDermott uses Excel to outline and brainstorm: tinyurl.com/69j6qd #
• 08:08 Plotting basics from J.A. Konrath: tinyurl.com/6x6spe #
• 10:40 New jacket holding up very, very well in today’s cold. #
• 10:44 Forgot this was gonna be another Home Alone weekend. It’s okay–always have a hard time writing at home anyway. ♫ blip.fm/~151pu #
• 10:50 Staring at 8 pgs of transcribed WIP. Stomach’s churning at the thought of reading past pg 1. #
• 12:46 WIP review not as brutal as I expected. Will allow myself to eat, now. Maybe wander the town like Caine in KUNG FU. #
• 16:36 Back from torturing myself at an Artists Market. Might’ve come home with a good piece if I hadn’t bought my new jacket. #
• 16:37 Taking a time-out for wine and STAR TREK. Then out for another drink. Don’t know yet if it’s gonna be with my writing or with my skoolbooks. #
• 16:57 Feeling lazy now. "My get up and go must’ve got up and went." ♫ blip.fm/~156zd #
• 19:52 Edits haven’t gone too badly. WIP still not close to finished, though. Not by a long shot. #
• 20:20 Now, I’m staring at my skoolbooks…. #

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• 07:15 Has it really been that long? ♫ blip.fm/~14f6a #
• 07:16 And now, the trek into work begins. #
• 10:13 No clue what to write this morning. Spent it typing 5 handwritten pgs into the AlphaSmart. #
• 10:14 You know the snow is bad when you see someone on freakin’ CROSS-COUNTRY SKIS making their way across the quad. #
• 13:43 Weak from hunger and caffeine crash. Too crazy for lunch just this second…. #
• 15:11 Had lunch and time to finish typing out my WIP. Now to print and edit this weekend while studying for my final. Priorities, you know. #
• 16:14 NnnnNNGGGG! #
• 17:25 I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar. I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar…. #
• 17:25 Quiet, at last. Now, to bat cleanup and maybe sneak out early. #
• 17:48 Because I needed a Friday song that wasn’t "Friday I’m in Love." ♫ blip.fm/~14rq9 #
• 17:52 Oh, what the hell…. ♫ blip.fm/~14rsk #

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