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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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• 08:16 Writing playlist this morning: Sons of Champlin, Menahan St. Band, dZihan & Kamien. #
• 08:26 twitpic.com/192f4 – The morning working space, where not a whole hell of a lot of work has been done so far. #
• 09:07 Holy crap! Am I…done?? 🙂 #
• 09:34 I’ll give this last story a few hours to cool off. In the meantime, let’s see how far we can get with the next story. #
• 10:47 Would’ve treated this advice (from Thelonius Monk to Charlie Rouse(?)) like Gospel during my jazz-playing years tinyurl.com/dma8wf #
• 11:39 Life imitates a Raymond Carver story community.livejournal.com/abandonedplaces/1616826.html #
• 13:27 Starting to resent having to cram my lunch down my throat on skool days. Yet, I still find time to check email…? #
• 14:46 $350 for the lock cylinder. Motherfrakker! #
• 15:54 Y’know, I don’t care if I’m stuck here for another 2.5 hours. My weekend starts now. #
• 17:14 Gonna pull a John Henry tonight and see how many words I can write tonite before I drop dead from exhaustion. #
• 18:56 I will not procrastinate by looking over new books. I will not procrastinate by looking over new books. I will not procrastinate by looking #
• 19:30 Gah! I’m supposed to be adding words, not cutting them!! #

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• 08:23 "Feelin’ stronger every day (you know I’m all right now)…" ♫ blip.fm/~1v30d #
• 08:24 Wish I could be writing instead of going to my study section :(. But at least I’ll have my lunchtime (I hope). #
• 08:55 I had a few minutes before section. *Four lines left* to fix on the WIP. Now, on to skoolwork. #
• 10:55 Pondering my own discount Flip cam tinyurl.com/cgsoh3 #
• 13:33 Shrewd Writing Advice From Some of Science Fiction’s & Fantasy’s Best Writers tinyurl.com/ahqusl #
• 13:42 Two lines. I just need to rewrite two more goddamn lines, and I can put this beast to bed. #
• 17:33 Wiped out. Tomorrow’s Friday, but it’s gonna feel like Wednesday to me 🙁 #
• 20:26 Evening routine derailed by the starter failing on the car :(. Knew I should’ve just went straight home after work! #
• 20:26 Oh well…I got 2 sentences to rewrite. Will worry about the towing costs, etc. later. #

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• 08:13 A little Do As Infinity piping thru the headphones to get me going on my 1st day back in the saddle. ♫ blip.fm/~1uaex #
• 08:50 The writing’s finally coming along again. Almost done with Draft 1.99! #
• 09:38 2 lousy paragraphs left! Oh well, something to do at lunch, I suppose. #
• 11:51 Gah! Almost forgot–no lunch for writing today, ‘cos of skool 🙁 #
• 13:30 Current weather condition: A big wintry mix of suck. #
• 17:41 1st day back could’ve gone worse. Not by much, tho ;). #
• 18:08 Anticipating my slipping and sliding on the way home. #
• 19:21 Staring at the 2 paragraphs from this morning, waiting for the Chinese food to arrive. #
• 19:37 RED DWARF is back! There is a God! news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7851989.stm #

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• 08:20 Today’s agenda: breakfast, write, get my back cracked, write, write, skoolwork, write, sort out office full of bequeathed stuff, write, etc. #
• 09:02 My two writing children have formed a connection tinyurl.com/b4uagh #
• 11:50 Got distracted by email, feed reader, bookmark, MonkeyGTD cleanup. I think I’m back on track. #
• 12:08 twitpic.com/17uto – Desperately attempting to get work done. #
• 14:02 Just had my back adjusted. Feels soooo good. Didn’t realize my neck was in such bad shape, either. #
• 14:10 @strikethru From working w/someone who’s been using voice recognition software for awhile, I shudder to think how my drafts would look. #
• 14:15 RT @NewsHour Author John Updike has died of lung cancer. He was 76. #
• 16:00 RT @AletheaKontis Wow. Realms of Fantasy bites the dust: tinyurl.com/c2wesw #
• 16:02 The two major things I’ve accomplished today, other than getting my spine adjusted, are "jack" and "crap." #

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• 08:17 In-laws gone. Place to ourselves, at last. Two more days off work…time for my "weekend." #
• 08:22 D’oh! Almost forgot I have skool today!! #
• 08:25 The no-nos that "geeks" make when writing fiction tinyurl.com/8ecwac #
• 08:27 Need a god? "Browse the pantheons of the world" at www.godchecker.com #
• 15:32 Sometime, in the week since I checked the mail last, my textbook finally arrived! Now I can attempt some skoolwork. #
• 17:02 Okay, that’s enough skoolwork for now. Gonna have some dinner and hit the writing hard! Maybe. #
• 17:23 Hooking my new monitor up to my old laptop is like putting spinning rims on an ’88 Toyota Corolla. #

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