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• 07:32 On page 160 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. Does "What an Old Woman Will Wear" show a subtle acceptance of aging or a su… #
• 07:35 On page 165 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. "The Sock" is a realistic portrayal of how folks in broken relationships get… #
• 07:39 On page 177 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. "Five Signs of Disturbance" is disturbing. I felt how close the protag is to… #
• 07:41 Finished with Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis #
• 07:46 Revenge of the Writer, Phase 2 continues. 2nd out of 4 stories up for rewrite today. Playlist: Bill Champlin mix. #rotw #
• 08:55 This #wip rewrite is kicking my ass this morning. :(. #rotw #
• 09:20 twitpic.com/5mbc5 – The cause of this morning’s pain. #rotw #
• 11:01 I want to read: The Complete Butcher’s Tales by Rikki Ducornet – tinyurl.com/pwov8x #
• 11:02 I want to read: The One Marvelous Thing by Rikki Ducornet – tinyurl.com/pl9wv2 #
• 11:04 I will not upload/edit my #wip on Google Docs on work time. I will not upload/edit my #wip on Google Docs on work time. I will not… #rotw #
• 13:46 Avoided uploading/editing #wip on Google Docs. Discovering at lunch how badly one pg needs to be rewritten :(. #rotw #
• 15:53 Substituted 50% of my coffee intake, *not* with Folgers crystals but w/plain water! Almost forgot what the stuff tasted like :). #
• 15:58 Some good responses to common personalized rejections of short stories (which I’ve gotten lately). bit.ly/iH0F0 #
• 17:56 Skool grades in. No B for me. I’ll have to "settle" for an A- !! 😀 #
• 17:58 Listening to @totn podcast taking place at the Cols., OH NPR affiliate I used to listen to. You can take the boy out of OH, &c…. #
• 18:08 Official permission to leave work early. No sneaking required! 🙂 #
• 21:11 @AWDawno Thanks a bunch!! #

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• 07:50 On page 153 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. Long sentences in "The Cottages" might’ve been better from inhabitant’s POV. 3* #
• 07:53 On page 154 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. "Safe Love" succinctly tells an unfinished story. 4* #
• 07:54 On page 155 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. Solving "The Problem" clearly isn’t the point. I didn’t even try. 5* #
• 07:58 Revenge of the Writer: Still on Phase 2 (catching up on rewrites), with Brit Blue-eyed Soul on Pandora. #rotw #
• 09:09 Revenge of the Writer, Phase 2b complete: One more story ready for submission! Two more to go! #rotw #
• 10:46 Trying everything I can think of to seamlessly switch back & forth between permutations of .rtf/.doc & MSWord/OO, and it’s just not working! #
• 11:05 3 questions of eternal storytelling by @jonrog1 bit.ly/zfOq8 (My 1st drafts will henceforth also be known as "puke drafts.") #
• 12:44 I can’t just adjust a damn format template for indents and line spacing; I gotta worry about character spacing, too? Really? #
• 13:36 twitpic.com/5kd78 – Lunch with a view today. Decreased my aggravation a bit. But will it hold? 🙂 #
• 14:51 Inadvertently cheesed off a coworker. Outpourings of luv have been ineffective :(. #
• 17:58 1 out of the 3 pieces of good news I’ve been wishing for has come to pass!! Crossing fingers on the other two! #
• 20:23 @AbsoluteWrite Thanks so much!! #
• 20:26 Trying to harness the energy tonite to continue Revenge of the Writer, Phase 2. #rotw #
• 20:35 @AWDawno Just don’t mix up your recipes :). #

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• 08:07 On page 149 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. "The Housemaid" is 7 pgs of multiple layers. 5* #
• 08:08 I’m #reading Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories by Steven Millhauser – tinyurl.com/rxwbbn #
• 08:11 Revenge of the Writer, Phase 2 this AM: Go backward thru my backlog of 3 stories that need rewrites & prep for submission. #rotw #wip #
• 08:13 Today’s Revenge of the Writer playlist: British Blue-Eyed Soul list on Pandora (i.e. music that’s made folks ? my sexual orientation.) #rotw #
• 08:52 @jdfreivald Love BREAK IT DOWN almost as much as SAMUEL JOHNSON…. I’d seriously consider selling my soul to write like Lydia Davis. #
• 09:23 Revenge of the Writer Phase 2 progress: 1 story almost done w/line edits & will be the next one out of the gate. #rotw #
• 10:37 Listened to 2 of my more boring coworkers having a conversation. Talk about the whole being > the sum of its parts! #observations #
• 11:14 *sigh* Looks like I’ll need to spend my lunch hour hashing out a difference of opinion between me & my student-loan shark. #
• 11:23 Could be the lingering vestiges of PTSD from last week, ‘cos my hategasm for student-loan sharks seems a bit disproportionate. Or is it? #
• 11:50 I want to read: McSweeney’s Issue 31 by Dave Eggers – tinyurl.com/qp4pxo #
• 13:14 To student-loan shark customer service: Ur doin’ it wrong!! HATEgasm!! #
• 14:29 12 oz of blueberry yogurt: filling and comforting (as I ate at my desk while forcing myself to get a grip). #
• 15:59 Using Google Calendar to track which markets are open for submission–I didn’t think of this years ago, why?? #
• 16:21 Grr! Someone’s been hanging around Tina Fey too long, thinking he can be as funny as she is. bit.ly/y1slG #
• 16:23 Then again, I gotta be honest–I’d LMAO if Tina Fey had said it. #
• 17:10 Just wanna leave work & get back to my Brit Blue-eyed Soul playlist on Pandora (aka the music that’s made folks ? my sexual orientation). #

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• 07:53 On page 142 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. "Once a Very Stupid Man" is a very recursive tale. 4* #
• 08:00 With no skool to distract me, this week, it’s Revenge of the Writer! 1st project up is to send off a contest entry. #rotw #wip #
• 08:02 This morning’s Revenge of the Writer playlist: The Blue Nile #rotw #
• 09:20 Revenge of the Writer, Phase 1 complete: Contest entry submitted!! #rotw #
• 10:24 Google Gears installed on my USB. This is gonna enhance my writing productivity somehow. Not sure how yet, tho. #gtd #
• 10:27 Trying to figure out which #wip gets to be Phase 2 of Revenge of the Writer. #rotw #
• 11:46 RT @melvingibbs Chicago Street Gang Calling Cards from the 70’s & 80’s ff.im/-2ZjnQ #
• 12:08 "You have a sense that you were born with/ You’ll find a way to make things right." #lyrics #charsketch #
• 12:10 Part of me is still physically and psychically detoxing from last week’s skool final zombie apocalypse. #
• 13:00 Going back through (outdated) story submissions logs & firing off query emails to anyone whose rejection I’ve missed ;). #
• 13:53 Just got some *possible* good news in response to a story submission query–will wait to squee ’til I’m sure, but I’m excited anyway!!! #
• 14:40 Second piece of yet-to-be confirmed good news: Looks like I managed to skate thru my class w/a solid B! #
• 16:01 @charlesatan If my contest entry makes it anywhere, it’ll be 3 😉 #
• 16:50 Everyone seems sorta melancholy at work today for no real reason. Even me, despite the good news I’ve had today. #
• 18:11 You know that feeling that had me sleep for 12+ hours last Friday nite? I’m feeling it again. 🙁 #
• 19:39 Need to caffeine myself up to get some last minute groceries. I was trying so hard to taper off. Well, not really… 🙂 #

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• 00:09 Because of the excessive amount of sleep I got today, I sense some insomnia tonite. What to do, what to do…? #
• 04:09 "Four in the morning/ Came without a warning…" #lyrics #
• 08:54 Forced myself to get out of bed, lest I sleep for 7 more hours like I did yesterday. ‘Course, I still haven’t ruled out that option zzzzzzz. #
• 09:09 Up, but definitely not at ’em. Crit group today… but I’ve nothing to be critted… *yawn* #
• 16:39 Crit group done. Now I can go back to being pleasantly lackadaisical :D. #
• 17:38 Okay, maybe, *maybe* before new L&O:CI comes on, I might take the time to polish and send that contest entry. Or nap. Either one :). #wip #
• 18:32 twitpic.com/5e402 – Scene from breakfast this morn–um, afternoon 🙂 #
• 18:33 twitpic.com/5e42x – Wrote a brief #charsketch on these innocent folks. #
• 19:23 Casually getting around to my neglected inbaskets. It’s not pretty. #
• 19:25 On page 136 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. "French Lesson I: Le Meurtre" was a little gimmicky for me. 3* #

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• 08:04 Home Alone this weekend. I think I’m gonna sit and be lazy thru most of it, after the week I’ve had! #
• 08:06 twitpic.com/5a3s2 – Still reeling from the Regie Cabico show last night. #
• 08:27 #blog Thoughts about last nite’s show. bit.ly/Bp3fz I think it’s time for some breakfast, now. #
• 13:31 OMG, how sleep-deprived was I?? Went back to bed, closed my eyes, and now it’s 5 hours later?? #
• 14:19 Still in my PJs, finding it incredibly easy to ignore the voice in my head that’s reciting my todo list. Haven’t even had coffee yet. #
• 14:37 Couldn’t stand it anymore. Showered and changed and stir crazy enough to ignore the severe t-storm warning. #
• 16:10 Just as I thought I was going to escape before the t-storm hits, guess what happens? #
• 17:01 I want to read: Booklife: Strategies and Survival Tip… by Jeff VanderMeer – tinyurl.com/qjlrhq #
• 20:01 Wow, I got absolutely *nothing* done all day. Felt good, except for my caffeine detox headache. Think I’m gonna rectify that, now. #

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• 08:23 Errands before work, work, then slam poet show in the evening. This is what happens when you plan a day under the influence of red-eyes :(. #
• 11:21 And the long day continues. When am I gonna have a chance to do that thing with plots, characters, & lots of typing–what’s it called again? #
• 11:47 #blog ‘Cos I know you’re all dying to know #whyitweet bit.ly/SnDrS #
• 12:14 #followfriday Some writers whose stuff I can’t match on my best day: @Danchaon @S___Elliott @tinytempest @susiebright #
• 13:04 Dumbfounded at just how deep I’ve let my vr and rl inbaskets get during finals week. *Still* processing. #gtd #
• 13:39 I really, really need the weekend to start for me. Like, right now. I feel a dissociative fugue coming on…. #
• 17:37 Pondering dinner options before tonite’s poetry show. #
• 17:42 My boss’s boss’s boss suggested I watch THE SIMPSONS on Hulu for the rest of my work day. Filed that away for future reference. #
• 19:28 Love how ubiquitous the intertubes are in this town. No need to be bored waiting for folks & for theatre box office to open. 🙂 #
• 22:40 Regie Cabico’s UNBUCKLED, UNCENSORED at the Kitchen Theatre was a fucking blast!! If you’re local, you need to see this! bit.ly/iZ5m6 #

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• 08:21 Trying to take it easy after the final despite unprocessed email boxes, overflowing inbaskets, and the 500+ RSS feed items I’ve ignored. #
• 08:27 RT @drmabuse Proof again that Oprah, as I’ve told many, is savvy but fairly gutless. bit.ly/dqQYz #
• 08:38 To busy studying to find out was #bookblockade was all about, until now. Jeezus, only in the PI…. bit.ly/1593pK #
• 09:19 On page 128 of 192 of Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis. "Therapy" in about life in therapy i.e. the life of a person in therapy. 5* #
• 09:22 Did a braindump this AM. Am utterly stunned by the list of things I’ve left undone because of the damn final. Gotta keep processing. #gtd #
• 11:28 Barely made a dent in the unprocessed 500+ RSS items I had stacked up, and I’m even doing a lot of skipping. Still, it beats studying :). #
• 12:20 It’s not often I find writing exercises interesting enough to attempt, anymore. fairmer.livejournal.com/499049.html #
• 14:58 Is it possible to feel pleasantly burned out? Or am I just burned out past the point of not caring? 🙂 #
• 16:50 I’ve decided that I am pleasantly burned out. Today’s attitude, to quote Lady Chablis: "Two tears in a bucket, motherf**k it." :). #
• 19:39 Going to see a slam poet tomorrow nite. bit.ly/iZ5m6 According to a coworker, "You’re a hipster." Couldn’t make her take it back :(. #
• 20:20 Still slogging through my RSS backlog. More painful than cramming for the final hehe. #
• 21:32 Filed under: thunderdome. A Boy Scouts affiliate is training kids in counter-terrorism and border security. bit.ly/161ANt #

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