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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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• 07:05 "Runnin out of self-control/ Gettin’ close to an overload/ Up against a no win situation." Namely, day 3 of bei… ♫ blip.fm/~13u4q #
• 07:06 Namely, day 3 of being 2 people down at work. #
• 10:53 Hinting I might’ve screwed up, when it would’ve taken 2 seconds to find out I hadn’t, will not endear you to me. #
• 10:53 I am *not* the one, today. #
• 10:56 Only wrote 1/2 pg this morning, but I have a much better sense of my protag’s headspace! #
• 10:57 Figured out how to improve the story’s tone–which will require a rewrite, of course. #
• 16:25 I picked the wrong day not to have a red-eye first thing. #
• 17:08 Got permission to go home early to escape the blizzard "if things aren’t crazy." Unfortunately…. #
• 19:10 Survived work, and the trip home. Barely. ♫ blip.fm/~147m6 #

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• 07:25 The temp’s gonna drop 20 degrees in the next 10 hours? #
• 07:25 I really gotta work in some problem sets this week. Maybe tomorrow…. #
• 10:40 Walked in to a zoo this morning. A zoo with the cages open. #
• 10:40 At least I got another scene down (more or less). #
• 11:27 Good news, though: bigger monitor at work. The better to see the neverending pile. #
• 11:48 How do I use my one moment of dead time this morning? tweetstats.com/graphs/DonP #
• 12:19 In the eye of the hurricane, reading the most succinct primer on writing comics I’ve found yet. tinyurl.com/66cadx #
• 16:02 Truth stranger than fic: "The cartoonishly corrupt governor of Illinois might as well be writing dialogue for us." tinyurl.com/6n4tpo #
• 17:00 Writers’ daily routines, taken from interviews and such: Kafka, T.C. Boyle, Toni Morrison, among others. tinyurl.com/642rmz #
• 20:34 In the 90 min. before work: 1.5 pgs written. In the 60 min. after work: 1.5 sentences :(. #
• 20:58 Why, oh why can’t I log into my email? #

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• 07:26 Overslept this morning for no good reason :(. #
• 07:29 "Maybe tomorrow, the next letter, Or when the weather gets better, I gotta wait here for your moon to turn blue" ♫ blip.fm/~12o6m #
• 10:42 Reinserted a previously discarded scene into the WIP; much better fit this time. That counts as writing, right? #
• 10:43 Second scene’s still a little weak. Will try not to worry about it until the 1st draft is done. #
• 12:02 Have to temporarily put away the book I’m currently reading. Was screwing with my writing head. www.lcrw.net/rosenbaum/ #
• 12:14 Swapped that book for this one, which might not have been a smart move. tinyurl.com/572btp #
• 17:10 First second I’ve had to breathe all afternoon. And, oh look, there it goes… #
• 19:17 Why do they even bother showing movies like PULP FICTION on basic cable? #

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• 08:20 In a very chill mood. ♫ blip.fm/~11nzc #
• 08:27 Still chill, but I need a beat. ♫ blip.fm/~11o1d #
• 09:11 Feeling ambivalent this morning. Must be the cold. #
• 09:35 Soothing ♫ blip.fm/~11osn #
• 18:10 Was actually glad I didn’t read what I brought to crit group today, which was a good scene but not worth reading on its own. #

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• 08:37 "Shootin’ at the walls of heartache" that my writing’s giving me :). ♫ blip.fm/~1184t #
• 08:43 Think I’m going to take my writing show out on the road today. First though, coffee! #
• 08:45 Story o’ my writing life: "This could lead to excellence, Or serious injury, Only one way to know, Go, go, go." ♫ blip.fm/~11882 #
• 09:08 Sidetracked by 30 ROCK on Hulu. tinyurl.com/62ucod #
• 10:03 Sidetracked by BUCK ROGERS on Hulu. tinyurl.com/5o9h9n #
• 10:04 With this ep’s all-star lineup of Jack Palance, Roddy McDowell, and Buster Crabbe, how could I resist? #
• 11:22 2 hours of schlocky, pulpy sci-fi goodness! I gotta get outside, now. #
• 12:05 Victim of an inconveniently-placed outlet. As long as I can type, tho. 🙂 #
• 13:42 Making WIP progress! Unreadable progress, but progress nonetheless! #
• 13:59 Horrible realization that a secondary character in my WIP is *too* fleshed out. That’s it, I quit. #
• 13:59 Well, not really, but still… #
• 14:01 The cure, obviously, is more coffee. Maybe a new book…? #
• 14:35 Back to pulling my hair out about the WIP. Need a break. Or whiskey. Probably both :). #
• 14:48 Part of the problem: Inner Critic, usually my friend, won’t STFU today. #
• 17:42 Just remembered a dream about a coworker teaching me a silat lankha. Of course, this person knows nothing about S.E.Asian martial arts irl. #

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